Problem-Solving Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 18 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 12.77% 17.61% 10.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.52% 21.54% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 14
10th Percentile £141 £280 £188
25th Percentile £367 - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £650
90th Percentile £566 £772 £755
East Midlands median daily rate £373 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +6.43% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £11.82 £10.25
25th Percentile - £11.92 £11.20
Median hourly rate - £13.27 £11.80
Median % change year-on-year - +12.44% +29.42%
75th Percentile - £14.85 £15.48
90th Percentile - £15.09 £19.19
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £13.50 £15.85
% change year-on-year +40.74% -14.83% +67.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 130 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 87.94% 81.76% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 187
10th Percentile £333 £255 £304
25th Percentile £410 £350 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £700
90th Percentile £565 £678 £743
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 11
10th Percentile - £12.02 £11.00
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -28.65% +47.28%
75th Percentile - £17.32 £24.37
90th Percentile £15.88 £23.10 £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottingham +8 15 £450 -14.29% 144
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Exstream
2 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) NetBeans
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Retail Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Finance Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) SDLC Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) POSIX
2 1 (5.56%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (5.56%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile
1 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
1 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) C
2 2 (11.11%) C++
2 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.56%) ACSP
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) MISRA
2 2 (11.11%) MISRA C
2 2 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) IEC 61508
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) OpenText
2 2 (11.11%) QNX
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow