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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 110 163 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.26% 16.86% 10.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.83% 19.47% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 80 84
10th Percentile £234 £306 £425
25th Percentile £400 £359 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £528 £625
90th Percentile £600 £600 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +27.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile - £11.75 £34.00
25th Percentile - £12.56 £40.00
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.60% -70.00% +172.48%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £60.00
90th Percentile - £15.25 £66.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £16.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.25% -53.57% +90.74%

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 528 837 1,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 92.47% 86.56% 91.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 497 950
10th Percentile £285 £300 £354
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £604 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 36 18
10th Percentile - £11.95 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -34.05% +1.60%
75th Percentile £30.10 £15.24 £50.44
90th Percentile £34.43 £53.75 £65.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -43.16%

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 31 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
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 31 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 91 £500 +2.04% 200
Bradford 0 14 £598 +21.94% 23
Wakefield 0 2 £400 +0.63% 16
Halifax -7 2 £506 -3.57% 6
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 (10.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.45%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.91%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.91%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.91%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.73%) GCP
2 13 (11.82%) AWS
2 13 (11.82%) Power Platform
3 11 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (7.27%) Azure
5 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.36%) Serverless
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.73%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.82%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon Macie
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.73%) DNS
2 2 (1.82%) SSL
2 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) Internet
3 1 (0.91%) Intranet
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) SNA
3 1 (0.91%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) Oracle Database
2 12 (10.91%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.09%) Power BI
4 9 (8.18%) Flink
5 7 (6.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.64%) Tableau
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.73%) Big Data
8 3 (2.73%) Power Query
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.82%) GIS
9 2 (1.82%) MySQL
9 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.91%) Essbase
10 1 (0.91%) Looker
10 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Git
1 7 (6.36%) JIRA
2 4 (3.64%) Selenium
3 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.91%) Babel
5 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.91%) Gradle
5 1 (0.91%) JMeter
5 1 (0.91%) JUnit
5 1 (0.91%) Log4j
5 1 (0.91%) Maven
5 1 (0.91%) Postman
5 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.91%) TestNG
5 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 56 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.09%) Finance
5 8 (7.27%) Police
6 6 (5.45%) Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.55%) Health Technology
8 4 (3.64%) Legal
9 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Games
10 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (20.91%) Analyst
2 14 (12.73%) Architect
3 11 (10.00%) Developer
4 8 (7.27%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 8 (7.27%) Lead
4 8 (7.27%) Support Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Senior
8 4 (3.64%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (3.64%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Scala Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Test Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.73%) IT Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.00%) Kafka
2 9 (8.18%) Apache Beam
2 9 (8.18%) JDBC
2 9 (8.18%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (6.36%) React
4 4 (3.64%) Akka
5 3 (2.73%) CSS
5 3 (2.73%) HTML
5 3 (2.73%) Node.js
5 3 (2.73%) Play Framework
5 3 (2.73%) Playwright
6 2 (1.82%) .NET
6 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.82%) PySpark
6 2 (1.82%) REST
7 1 (0.91%) D3.js
7 1 (0.91%) Flask
7 1 (0.91%) LDAP
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (8.18%) NHS
3 3 (2.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.91%) iPhone
5 1 (0.91%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.91%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.27%) Linux
2 17 (15.45%) Windows
3 14 (12.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.82%) Android
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) Agile
2 28 (25.45%) Decision-Making
3 20 (18.18%) DevOps
4 17 (15.45%) CI/CD
5 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (14.55%) Microservices
6 14 (12.73%) Service Management
6 14 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.82%) Security Management
8 12 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (10.91%) SOA
9 11 (10.00%) Analytics
9 11 (10.00%) ITIL
9 11 (10.00%) Migration
10 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (9.09%) Scrum
10 10 (9.09%) Server Management
10 10 (9.09%) Visualisation
11 9 (8.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) SQL
2 18 (16.36%) Python
3 14 (12.73%) Bash
3 14 (12.73%) Perl
4 13 (11.82%) PL/SQL
5 11 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.27%) Scala
7 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.64%) C#
8 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.91%) Java
10 1 (0.91%) JCL
10 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.91%) R
10 1 (0.91%) REXX
10 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.45%) Degree
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.82%) CBAP
5 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.82%) PMP
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.91%) MBA
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Terraform
2 4 (3.64%) Ansible
2 4 (3.64%) Kibana
3 2 (1.82%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
4 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Oracle
2 14 (12.73%) Cisco
3 8 (7.27%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.55%) Brio
4 5 (4.55%) Google
4 5 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (3.64%) Databricks
5 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) Dell
6 2 (1.82%) IBM
6 2 (1.82%) Splunk
6 2 (1.82%) Veritas
7 1 (0.91%) Ariba
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) Citrix
7 1 (0.91%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.91%) ESRI
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.91%) TIBCO