Problem-Solving Contracts in Shropshire

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 5 18 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 35 11 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 26.92% 8.21% 42.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.00% 13.25% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 62
10th Percentile £210 - £423
25th Percentile £423 - £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £117 £540
Median % change year-on-year +293.16% -78.33% +1.89%
75th Percentile £524 £289 -
90th Percentile £538 £391 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -10.63% -4.10% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Shropshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford +11 29 £463 +295.30% 79
Shrewsbury - 4 £285 - 71
Problem-Solving
West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (5.71%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP HR
1 1 (2.86%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
3 12 (34.29%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
1 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (11.43%) Git
4 2 (5.71%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 29 (82.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Lead
2 7 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) DBA
4 2 (5.71%) Denodo Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) ABAP Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) SAP Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Scala Developer
5 1 (2.86%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) CSS
1 3 (8.57%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Camel
2 2 (5.71%) Next.js
2 2 (5.71%) React
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.86%) Play Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Quarkus
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.86%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.86%) Web Dynpro
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Agile
2 17 (48.57%) DevOps
3 16 (45.71%) Process Improvement
4 12 (34.29%) Test Strategy
5 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
5 11 (31.43%) Data Modelling
5 11 (31.43%) OO
5 11 (31.43%) Problem Management
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) BDD
7 4 (11.43%) Business Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.43%) Microservices
8 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (8.57%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (8.57%) Cost Reduction
8 3 (8.57%) Front End Development
8 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.57%) User Stories
9 2 (5.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Java
2 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) ABAP
4 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.71%) OCP
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) PERC
3 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Opsview
2 3 (8.57%) SCCM
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Denodo
2 3 (8.57%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow