Problem-Solving Contracts in West Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 3 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 107 177 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.53% 17.72% 10.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.31% 20.23% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 87 79
10th Percentile £232 £283 £356
25th Percentile £366 £334 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £616
90th Percentile £600 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £545
% change year-on-year - -12.84% +23.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 -
25th Percentile - £12.56 -
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.60% -78.57% +301.72%
75th Percentile £31.82 £15.19 -
90th Percentile £102.00 £15.25 -
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
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds +4 93 £475 -3.06% 232
Bradford +2 11 £595 +21.43% 88
Halifax -5 1 £513 +55.30% 3
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 12 (11.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (6.54%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.67%) Confluence
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.93%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) GCP
2 11 (10.28%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.35%) AWS
4 8 (7.48%) Azure
5 6 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.80%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.80%) Serverless
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
7 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.15%) DNS
2 2 (1.87%) IMAP
2 2 (1.87%) Network Security
2 2 (1.87%) POP3
2 2 (1.87%) SMTP
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) Intranet
3 1 (0.93%) SNA
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.08%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.41%) Power BI
3 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.61%) Flink
5 5 (4.67%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Tableau
7 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.80%) Power Query
8 2 (1.87%) GIS
8 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) Essbase
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.93%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Git
1 6 (5.61%) JIRA
2 3 (2.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) Babel
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 56 (52.34%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (9.35%) Finance
6 6 (5.61%) Police
6 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.74%) Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Legal
8 3 (2.80%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (17.76%) Analyst
2 13 (12.15%) Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Architect
3 11 (10.28%) Lead
4 8 (7.48%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
5 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.61%) Senior
5 6 (5.61%) Support Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (3.74%) IT Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Scala Developer
7 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Support Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) GCP Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Kafka
1 7 (6.54%) React
2 6 (5.61%) Apache Beam
2 6 (5.61%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (4.67%) JDBC
4 4 (3.74%) Akka
4 4 (3.74%) CSS
5 3 (2.80%) Play Framework
6 2 (1.87%) .NET
6 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.87%) HTML
6 2 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.87%) Playwright
6 2 (1.87%) REST
6 2 (1.87%) RESTful
6 2 (1.87%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (0.93%) Ajax
7 1 (0.93%) D3.js
7 1 (0.93%) JSON
7 1 (0.93%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (6.54%) NHS
3 3 (2.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) iPhone
5 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.82%) Linux
1 18 (16.82%) Windows
2 14 (13.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.45%) Agile
2 21 (19.63%) Decision-Making
3 16 (14.95%) Microservices
3 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (14.02%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.02%) DevOps
4 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (12.15%) Security Management
6 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (11.21%) Service Management
6 12 (11.21%) SOA
7 11 (10.28%) Change Management
7 11 (10.28%) ITIL
8 10 (9.35%) Analytics
8 10 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (9.35%) Project Management
8 10 (9.35%) Scrum
8 10 (9.35%) Server Management
9 9 (8.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.76%) SQL
2 15 (14.02%) Python
3 14 (13.08%) Bash
3 14 (13.08%) Perl
4 13 (12.15%) PL/SQL
5 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.48%) Scala
7 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.80%) C#
8 3 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.87%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.93%) JCL
10 1 (0.93%) R
10 1 (0.93%) REXX
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.08%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.41%) Degree
5 4 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.87%) CBAP
6 2 (1.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.93%) MBA
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
2 3 (2.80%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Terminal Services
2 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Terraform
2 4 (3.74%) Kibana
3 2 (1.87%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.93%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Cisco
3 7 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.54%) SAP
4 6 (5.61%) Google
5 4 (3.74%) Databricks
5 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.80%) Brio
6 3 (2.80%) Dell
6 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.87%) Splunk
7 2 (1.87%) Veritas
8 1 (0.93%) Ariba
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) Citrix
8 1 (0.93%) ESRI
8 1 (0.93%) IBM
8 1 (0.93%) Workday