Problem-Solving Contracts in Sheffield

Problem Solving
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 40 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 11.33% 7.66% 9.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.27% 8.05% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 29
10th Percentile £400 £478 £283
25th Percentile £419 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £592 £630 £575
90th Percentile £769 £650 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -18.10% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £11.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 326 410 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.35% 95.13% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 292 287
10th Percentile £360 £364 £350
25th Percentile £414 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £658 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.11
90th Percentile - £34.35 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.38
% change year-on-year +65.71% -35.08% +37.35%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.50%) Jupyter
1 3 (7.50%) nginx
2 1 (2.50%) CICS
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.00%) InVision
1 2 (5.00%) Sketch
1 2 (5.00%) Zeplin
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) GCP
2 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (7.50%) CloudBees
2 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (7.50%) Vertex AI
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Figma
3 2 (5.00%) OCI
4 1 (2.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (7.50%) Bigtable
3 3 (7.50%) ClickHouse
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.00%) Metadata
4 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Axure RP
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
5 3 (7.50%) GCP Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Trainer
6 2 (5.00%) Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Build Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Designer
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM Trainer
6 2 (5.00%) ITSM Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Kafka
2 6 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.50%) Apache Beam
3 3 (7.50%) CSS
3 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) Keycloak
3 3 (7.50%) LDAP
4 1 (2.50%) JWT
4 1 (2.50%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) OAuth
4 1 (2.50%) OpenID
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) e-Learning
3 3 (7.50%) CMDB
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
1 15 (37.50%) DevOps
2 14 (35.00%) ITSM
3 11 (27.50%) Change Management
3 11 (27.50%) ITIL
4 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.00%) Service Management
6 7 (17.50%) CRM
7 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
7 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 6 (15.00%) Use Case
8 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.50%) Open Source
8 5 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
8 5 (12.50%) User Stories
9 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
9 4 (10.00%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) Go
4 3 (7.50%) Groovy
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Ruby
4 3 (7.50%) Scala
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.50%) PMO
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) WCAG
3 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) ACF2
2 1 (2.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Grafana
2 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.00%) IBM
2 6 (15.00%) Solace
3 4 (10.00%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) Adobe
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle