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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 100 49 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 28.33% 12.37% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.03% 13.69% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 29 18
10th Percentile £311 £400 £440
25th Percentile £375 £453 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -7.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £647
90th Percentile £616 £650 £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £490 £550
% change year-on-year - -10.91% +29.41%
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 333 358 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.33% 90.40% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 206 275
10th Percentile £265 £377 £363
25th Percentile £383 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -17.45% +17.50%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £638 £744
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £18.10 - £12.45
25th Percentile £18.20 £10.90 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -15.24% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £31.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -37.67%

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 3 June 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 18 (18.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.00%) Apache
2 5 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) GCP
2 8 (8.00%) AWS
3 7 (7.00%) OCI
4 6 (6.00%) Azure
5 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.00%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) DNS
2 6 (6.00%) Network Security
3 5 (5.00%) NAS
3 5 (5.00%) SAN
4 4 (4.00%) Firewall
5 3 (3.00%) DWDM
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.00%) DHCP
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
6 2 (2.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.00%) Internet
7 1 (1.00%) NGN
7 1 (1.00%) SSH
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (9.00%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (7.00%) Flink
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.00%) MySQL
5 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.00%) Power BI
6 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.00%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.00%) Tableau
8 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 12 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.00%) Git
4 5 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.00%) JMeter
5 2 (2.00%) Postman
5 2 (2.00%) Selenium
5 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (52.00%) Finance
3 44 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (21.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Front Office
9 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (11.00%) Analyst
2 10 (10.00%) Architect
2 10 (10.00%) Senior
3 8 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
3 8 (8.00%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.00%) Commvault Engineer
3 8 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 8 (8.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 7 (7.00%) Developer
5 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Database Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.00%) Consultant
7 3 (3.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.00%) Lead
7 3 (3.00%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Risk Manager
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) Kafka
2 4 (4.00%) Middleware
2 4 (4.00%) React
3 3 (3.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.00%) Apache Beam
3 3 (3.00%) CSS
3 3 (3.00%) HTML
3 3 (3.00%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.00%) .NET
4 2 (2.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.00%) Spring
5 1 (1.00%) CSS3
5 1 (1.00%) HTML5
5 1 (1.00%) ISPF
5 1 (1.00%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.00%) Node.js
5 1 (1.00%) PySpark
5 1 (1.00%) RESTful
5 1 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.00%) Derivative
4 2 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.00%) Equities
4 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle Licensing
4 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.00%) Replication
4 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.00%) LPAR
5 1 (1.00%) Robotics
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Agile
2 22 (22.00%) Data Protection
3 20 (20.00%) Migration
4 19 (19.00%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (19.00%) Project Management
5 16 (16.00%) Risk Management
6 15 (15.00%) Change Management
7 13 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (11.00%) Problem Management
8 11 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 9 (9.00%) Data Migration
10 9 (9.00%) Scrum
11 8 (8.00%) Computer Science
11 8 (8.00%) Data Analysis
11 8 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.00%) Python
2 12 (12.00%) Shell Script
3 11 (11.00%) SQL
4 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.00%) Java
6 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.00%) Go
8 2 (2.00%) JCL
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
8 2 (2.00%) REXX
8 2 (2.00%) Ruby
9 1 (1.00%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.00%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.00%) C
9 1 (1.00%) CLIST
9 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.00%) CCNP
3 4 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.00%) OCP
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.00%) CCNA
5 2 (2.00%) JNCIA
5 2 (2.00%) JNCIS
5 2 (2.00%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) CISSP
6 1 (1.00%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.00%) QA
3 3 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (1.00%) SLA
5 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.00%) vSphere
3 4 (4.00%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.00%) Microcode
6 1 (1.00%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (21.00%) Ansible
2 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (5.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) vRealize
5 3 (3.00%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.00%) Grafana
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.00%) SCOM
7 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Oracle
2 18 (18.00%) Commvault
3 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.00%) VMware
5 7 (7.00%) Google
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco
7 4 (4.00%) Veritas
8 3 (3.00%) Citrix
8 3 (3.00%) IBM
9 2 (2.00%) Apple
9 2 (2.00%) Arista
9 2 (2.00%) Dell
9 2 (2.00%) HP
9 2 (2.00%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.00%) Centrify
10 1 (1.00%) Confluent
10 1 (1.00%) Pure Storage
10 1 (1.00%) Thycotic
10 1 (1.00%) Zscaler