Problem-Solving Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Problem Solving
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 4 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 30 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 12.50% 14.67% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.15% 16.92% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 11
10th Percentile £200 £439 £105
25th Percentile £328 £463 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £533 £311
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +71.08% -33.78%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £338
90th Percentile £576 £604 £500
North East median daily rate £450 £563 £312
% change year-on-year -20.00% +80.43% -31.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.35 -
25th Percentile £12.39 - -
Median hourly rate £16.75 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% - -
75th Percentile £20.03 - -
90th Percentile £36.31 £13.68 -
North East median hourly rate £17.00 £11.50 -
% change year-on-year +47.83% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 195 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.50% 86.67% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 91 185
10th Percentile £206 £315 £312
25th Percentile £350 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £638 £747
North East median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 37 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £13.96 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% - -
75th Percentile £27.66 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £49.73 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £39.34
% change year-on-year -12.82% -50.43% +138.42%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +4 26 £450 -15.49% 608
Sunderland -2 1 £325 -55.17% 43
Problem-Solving
North East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) LabWindows
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Figma
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.33%) Kong
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) JUnit
2 1 (3.33%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (6.67%) Local Government
5 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Developer
2 3 (10.00%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (6.67%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Designer
3 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Product Designer
3 2 (6.67%) SAP Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Scala Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Support Officer
3 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (3.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Akka
1 2 (6.67%) Play Framework
1 2 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) Next.js
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) Playwright
2 1 (3.33%) pytest
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.33%) FPGA
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Agile
1 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 4 (13.33%) Product Management
6 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) BDD
6 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (10.00%) ETL
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Product Requirements
6 3 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.00%) User Stories
7 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) ABAP
1 2 (6.67%) Python
1 2 (6.67%) Scala
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
2 1 (3.33%) Bicep
2 1 (3.33%) C
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) SCCM
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Sage
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) VMware