Problem-Solving Contracts in Northamptonshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 57 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 24.57% 12.98% 17.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.15% 14.72% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 35
10th Percentile £217 £325 £262
25th Percentile £308 £410 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £440 £600 £370
90th Percentile £525 £622 £473
East Midlands median daily rate £368 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £13.50 £20.60
% change year-on-year +58.44% -34.47% +111.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 231 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 93.97% 88.17% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 175 165
10th Percentile £262 £310 £205
25th Percentile £338 £357 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +11.25% -13.98%
75th Percentile £450 £544 £538
90th Percentile £525 £616 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £422 £475
% change year-on-year +0.71% -11.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 14
10th Percentile £17.57 £10.90 £15.60
25th Percentile - £12.45 £22.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +68.93%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £54.79 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £17.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +5.12% -27.66% +17.50%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton +3 56 £363 -34.68% 264
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) GCP
3 9 (15.79%) Azure
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.53%) Serverless
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.02%) SaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.75%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) HTTP
1 3 (5.26%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) DHCP
2 1 (1.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) LAN
2 1 (1.75%) WAN
2 1 (1.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.51%) Big Data
2 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.51%) MySQL
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.75%) HBase
3 1 (1.75%) Impala
3 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
2 7 (12.28%) Selenium
3 3 (5.26%) Git
General
1 36 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.81%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Finance
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Automotive
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.04%) Architect
2 6 (10.53%) Automation Tester
2 6 (10.53%) Tester
3 5 (8.77%) Analyst
3 5 (8.77%) Developer
3 5 (8.77%) IT Support
3 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (7.02%) Product Owner
4 4 (7.02%) Support Officer
5 3 (5.26%) Consultant
5 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Identity Management Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Junior
5 3 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (3.51%) Java Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Junior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) LDAP
2 11 (19.30%) HTML
3 10 (17.54%) Spring
4 8 (14.04%) REST
5 7 (12.28%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.28%) jQuery
5 7 (12.28%) OAuth
5 7 (12.28%) OpenID
5 7 (12.28%) RESTful
5 7 (12.28%) SAML
6 6 (10.53%) DOM
6 6 (10.53%) Kafka
7 5 (8.77%) CSS
8 4 (7.02%) Web Services
9 3 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.26%) JPA
9 3 (5.26%) React
9 3 (5.26%) Spring Batch
9 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.26%) EPoS
4 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.26%) State Machine
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Agile
2 13 (22.81%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
3 12 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (19.30%) Project Management
5 9 (15.79%) SDLC
6 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.04%) Scrum
7 7 (12.28%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.28%) Microservices
7 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.53%) Analytics
8 6 (10.53%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
8 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
9 5 (8.77%) Migration
9 5 (8.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) Java
2 14 (24.56%) SQL
3 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.02%) Python
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.26%) Scala
6 2 (3.51%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) GDPR
2 5 (8.77%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.02%) QA
4 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.75%) NIST
6 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
2 7 (12.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.28%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (5.26%) AirWatch
3 3 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (1.75%) SCOM
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) IBM
2 7 (12.28%) Ping Identity
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) VMware