Problem-Solving Contracts in Salford

Problem Solving
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salford 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Salford 30.43% 4.35% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.82% 5.88% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £650 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% - -
75th Percentile £825 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.30 - -
Manchester median hourly rate £20.26 £60.00 £20.10
% change year-on-year -66.24% +198.47% +77.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 17 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 95.65% 73.91% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 33
10th Percentile £392 £349 £413
25th Percentile £400 £378 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £775 £456 £638
90th Percentile £825 £475 £735
Manchester median daily rate £467 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Median hourly rate £17.30 £46.51 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.80% +32.89% -
Manchester median hourly rate £22.63 £31.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -27.00% +58.97% +8.33%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Salford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Salford

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Salford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Salford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Salford over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Salford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Salford

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Salford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Installation Technician
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Matrix Management
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (42.86%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (28.57%) PLM
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (42.86%) PMI Certification
1 3 (42.86%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow