Problem-Solving Contracts in Sheffield

Problem Solving
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 2 11 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 96 46 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 30.09% 12.14% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.48% 13.11% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 25 21
10th Percentile £322 £400 £475
25th Percentile £388 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +6.67% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £628 £716 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +6.38% -10.48% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.90
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £25.50
75th Percentile - - £32.75
90th Percentile - - £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £25.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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 1 May 2025.

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 13 (13.54%) Confluence
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.46%) GCP
2 7 (7.29%) AWS
3 6 (6.25%) OCI
4 5 (5.21%) Azure
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) DNS
2 7 (7.29%) Network Security
3 5 (5.21%) NAS
3 5 (5.21%) SAN
4 4 (4.17%) Firewall
5 3 (3.13%) DHCP
5 3 (3.13%) DWDM
5 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.08%) LAN
6 2 (2.08%) VPN
6 2 (2.08%) WAN
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.04%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.04%) NGN
7 1 (1.04%) SSH
7 1 (1.04%) SSL
7 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) Oracle Database
2 9 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (7.29%) Flink
4 5 (5.21%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.21%) MySQL
4 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.13%) Power BI
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.42%) JIRA
3 6 (6.25%) Git
4 5 (5.21%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.08%) JMeter
5 2 (2.08%) Postman
5 2 (2.08%) Selenium
5 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (55.21%) Social Skills
2 49 (51.04%) Finance
3 46 (47.92%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.79%) Banking
5 7 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
8 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (11.46%) Architect
2 10 (10.42%) Senior
3 9 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Analyst
4 8 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Commvault Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Developer
4 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (5.21%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) Data Protection Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Database Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.17%) Lead
7 3 (3.13%) Consultant
7 3 (3.13%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Risk Manager
8 2 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Kafka
1 5 (5.21%) React
2 4 (4.17%) Middleware
3 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.13%) Apache Beam
3 3 (3.13%) CSS
3 3 (3.13%) HTML
3 3 (3.13%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (3.13%) Spring
3 3 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.08%) .NET
4 2 (2.08%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.04%) CSS3
5 1 (1.04%) HTML5
5 1 (1.04%) ISPF
5 1 (1.04%) jQuery
5 1 (1.04%) LDAP
5 1 (1.04%) Node.js
5 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.04%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (11.46%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) PMI
5 2 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Licensing
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Replication
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.04%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) LPAR
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Robotics
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Linux
2 10 (10.42%) Windows
3 5 (5.21%) Unix
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Agile
2 21 (21.88%) Data Protection
2 21 (21.88%) Project Management
3 19 (19.79%) Migration
4 18 (18.75%) Change Management
4 18 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 16 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 14 (14.58%) Translating Business Requirements
7 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
8 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
8 11 (11.46%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (11.46%) Problem Management
9 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
10 9 (9.38%) Data Migration
10 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.33%) Data Analysis
12 7 (7.29%) Scrum
12 7 (7.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.42%) Python
2 12 (12.50%) SQL
3 11 (11.46%) Shell Script
4 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.25%) Java
6 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.13%) Go
8 2 (2.08%) JCL
8 2 (2.08%) PHP
8 2 (2.08%) REXX
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.04%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) CLIST
9 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.17%) CCNP
4 4 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.13%) CCNA
5 3 (3.13%) CISSP
5 3 (3.13%) OCP
5 3 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.08%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.08%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CISA
7 1 (1.04%) CISM
7 1 (1.04%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.17%) GDPR
2 4 (4.17%) PMO
2 4 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.33%) vSphere
3 4 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.04%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.04%) Microcode
6 1 (1.04%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) Ansible
2 11 (11.46%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (10.42%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.17%) Terraform
4 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.17%) vRealize
5 3 (3.13%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.08%) Grafana
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.08%) Puppet
7 1 (1.04%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) Oracle
2 17 (17.71%) Commvault
3 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.33%) VMware
4 7 (7.29%) Google
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco
6 4 (4.17%) Veritas
7 2 (2.08%) Apple
7 2 (2.08%) Arista
7 2 (2.08%) Citrix
7 2 (2.08%) IBM
7 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) Centrify
8 1 (1.04%) Confluent
8 1 (1.04%) Databricks
8 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.04%) Okta
8 1 (1.04%) Thycotic