Problem-Solving Contracts in South Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 3 11 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 100 54 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 26.81% 11.82% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.09% 13.20% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 33 23
10th Percentile £322 £223 £445
25th Percentile £388 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -10.48% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £622
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £545
% change year-on-year - -12.84% +23.86%
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
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -62.50% +129.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +9 96 £500 -10.71% 131
Barnsley +12 2 £565 +66.18% 2
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (13.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.00%) Apache
2 5 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.00%) GCP
2 7 (7.00%) AWS
3 6 (6.00%) OCI
4 5 (5.00%) Azure
5 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.00%) GitHub
7 1 (1.00%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.00%) Network Security
3 5 (5.00%) NAS
3 5 (5.00%) SAN
4 4 (4.00%) Firewall
5 3 (3.00%) DHCP
5 3 (3.00%) DWDM
5 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
6 2 (2.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.00%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.00%) NGN
7 1 (1.00%) SSH
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
7 1 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (9.00%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (7.00%) Flink
4 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.00%) MySQL
4 5 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.00%) Power BI
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.00%) Tableau
7 2 (2.00%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
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
8 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (11.00%) JIRA
2 6 (6.00%) Git
3 5 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.00%) JMeter
4 2 (2.00%) Postman
4 2 (2.00%) Selenium
4 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (52.00%) Finance
3 47 (47.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.00%) Back Office
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Front Office
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (11.00%) Architect
2 10 (10.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) Analyst
3 9 (9.00%) Data Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Backup Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Commvault Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Developer
4 8 (8.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Database Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Lead
6 5 (5.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.00%) Consultant
8 3 (3.00%) Risk Manager
8 3 (3.00%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) Kafka
1 5 (5.00%) React
2 4 (4.00%) Middleware
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
3 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.00%) .NET
4 2 (2.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.00%) ISPF
5 1 (1.00%) HTML5
5 1 (1.00%) JPA
5 1 (1.00%) jQuery
5 1 (1.00%) LDAP
5 1 (1.00%) RESTful
5 1 (1.00%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (11.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.00%) PMI
4 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.00%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.00%) LPAR
7 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Robotics
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) 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
5 2 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) Agile
2 23 (23.00%) Project Management
3 21 (21.00%) Data Protection
4 20 (20.00%) Migration
5 19 (19.00%) Change Management
6 18 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
7 17 (17.00%) Risk Management
8 14 (14.00%) Translating Business Requirements
9 13 (13.00%) CI/CD
10 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (11.00%) Computer Science
11 11 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (11.00%) Problem Management
11 11 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
13 9 (9.00%) Data Analysis
13 9 (9.00%) Data Migration
14 8 (8.00%) Scrum
14 8 (8.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.00%) Python
2 13 (13.00%) SQL
3 11 (11.00%) Shell Script
4 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.00%) Java
6 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.00%) Go
7 3 (3.00%) JCL
7 3 (3.00%) REXX
8 2 (2.00%) PHP
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 13 (13.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.00%) CCNP
4 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.00%) CCNA
5 3 (3.00%) CISSP
5 3 (3.00%) OCP
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.00%) JNCIA
6 2 (2.00%) JNCIS
6 2 (2.00%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CBAP
7 1 (1.00%) CISA
7 1 (1.00%) CISM
7 1 (1.00%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.00%) PMO
3 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) NIST
6 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.00%) SLA
6 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.00%) 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
5 2 (2.00%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.00%) ACF2
6 1 (1.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.00%) Microcode
6 1 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Ansible
2 11 (11.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 10 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.00%) vRealize
5 3 (3.00%) Data Guard
6 2 (2.00%) Grafana
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%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Oracle
2 17 (17.00%) Commvault
3 9 (9.00%) 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%) IBM
9 2 (2.00%) Apple
9 2 (2.00%) Arista
9 2 (2.00%) Citrix
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%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.00%) Databricks
10 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.00%) Okta
10 1 (1.00%) Thycotic