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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 41 33 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 10.96% 7.35% 8.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.85% 7.67% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 28
10th Percentile £400 £439 £274
25th Percentile £430 £500 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £645 £641 £575
90th Percentile £650 £665 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -10.48% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £25.50 -

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 346 430 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.51% 95.77% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 301 291
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £566
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
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% +4.40%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +22.31%

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 7 May 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 7 (17.07%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.32%) Jupyter
2 3 (7.32%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) GCP
2 7 (17.07%) AWS
2 7 (17.07%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) Apigee
3 6 (14.63%) GitHub
3 6 (14.63%) Kong
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.32%) CloudBees
4 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (7.32%) Vertex AI
5 2 (4.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 6 (14.63%) DNS
2 6 (14.63%) HTTP
2 6 (14.63%) SSL
2 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 6 (14.63%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (7.32%) Bigtable
3 3 (7.32%) ClickHouse
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) Metadata
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) JIRA
3 7 (17.07%) Git
4 6 (14.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (14.63%) CircleCI
4 6 (14.63%) GitLab
4 6 (14.63%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (60.98%) Social Skills
2 16 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Marketing
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Architect
1 6 (14.63%) Lead
2 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
4 3 (7.32%) GCP Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Trainer
5 2 (4.88%) Build Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) CRM Trainer
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM Trainer
5 2 (4.88%) PMO Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) Kafka
2 6 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (14.63%) JSON
2 6 (14.63%) XML
2 6 (14.63%) YAML
3 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.32%) Apache Beam
3 3 (7.32%) CSS
3 3 (7.32%) HTML
3 3 (7.32%) Keycloak
3 3 (7.32%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.76%) e-Learning
4 3 (7.32%) CMDB
4 3 (7.32%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) DevOps
2 19 (46.34%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
4 12 (29.27%) ITSM
4 12 (29.27%) Use Case
5 10 (24.39%) Change Management
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (24.39%) ITIL
6 9 (21.95%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
6 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (21.95%) Project Management
6 9 (21.95%) Scrum
7 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
9 6 (14.63%) CRM
9 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
9 6 (14.63%) Service Management
9 6 (14.63%) Task Automation
9 6 (14.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.07%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) Bash
4 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.32%) Go
5 3 (7.32%) Groovy
5 3 (7.32%) Ruby
5 3 (7.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.44%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.44%) ACF2
3 1 (2.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Ansible
2 9 (21.95%) Grafana
2 9 (21.95%) Terraform
3 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
4 6 (14.63%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (14.63%) Kibana
4 6 (14.63%) logstash
4 6 (14.63%) Progress Chef
4 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.63%) Puppet
5 3 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.44%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) ServiceNow
2 6 (14.63%) IBM
2 6 (14.63%) Solace
2 6 (14.63%) Splunk
3 4 (9.76%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle