Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 21 24 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 13.13% 16.90% 10.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.41% 21.05% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 16
10th Percentile £138 £263 £304
25th Percentile £380 £313 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +3.36% -12.05%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £577
90th Percentile £514 £613 £650
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £461 £375
% change year-on-year -18.70% +23.00% -14.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.08 -
25th Percentile £15.64 £12.49 -
Median hourly rate £16.34 £14.17 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -79.76% +652.28%
75th Percentile £16.50 £15.08 -
90th Percentile - £15.18 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.34 £15.05 £46.25
% change year-on-year +8.59% -67.46% +145.59%

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 128 114 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.00% 80.28% 84.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 65 145
10th Percentile £270 £263 £270
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.85% +0.10%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £700
90th Percentile £723 £614 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 12
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £11.01
25th Percentile £15.91 £12.75 £18.29
Median hourly rate £17.11 £13.53 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.46% -72.25% +309.06%
75th Percentile £17.87 £15.21 £88.75
90th Percentile - £46.11 £93.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £28.75
% change year-on-year -1.51% -33.36% +49.68%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Problem-Solving

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 2 September 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 +2 18 £380 -24.00% 40
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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.76%) InDesign
2 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Sprinklr
2 1 (4.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (19.05%) Serverless
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (4.76%) JMeter
1 1 (4.76%) Postman
1 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 16 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Retail
4 4 (19.05%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Marketing
6 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) 1st Line Support
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) First Line Help Desk Support
5 2 (9.52%) Floorwalker
5 2 (9.52%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (9.52%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Django
1 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
1 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) Flash
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
3 1 (4.76%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Blog
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Workflow
4 4 (19.05%) Pair Programming
4 4 (19.05%) SDLC
4 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) TDD
5 3 (14.29%) Active Listening
5 3 (14.29%) Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (9.52%) Database Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) RBAC
6 2 (9.52%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (9.52%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) PHP
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Genesys
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Avaya
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Facebook
3 1 (4.76%) Instagram
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Twitter
3 1 (4.76%) YouTube