Problem-Solving Contracts in West Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 11 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 182 167 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.00% 10.23% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.47% 11.15% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 72 71
10th Percentile £263 £303 £250
25th Percentile £336 £447 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +22.22% -1.37%
75th Percentile £542 £619 £531
90th Percentile £648 £700 £545
Yorkshire median daily rate £452 £525 £427
% change year-on-year -14.00% +22.95% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 14
10th Percentile £11.75 - £9.62
25th Percentile £12.56 - £10.53
Median hourly rate £15.00 £70.00 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year -78.57% +301.72% -10.30%
75th Percentile £15.19 - £18.70
90th Percentile £15.25 - £25.74
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £25.50 £17.43
% change year-on-year -41.18% +46.34% +19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 889 1,498 1,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.93% 91.73% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 1,016 1,292
10th Percentile £300 £331 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £568
90th Percentile £669 £700 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 45
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £14.46 £12.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £21.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -41.72% +21.88% -21.83%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.15
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +13 87 £500 -9.09% 102
Wakefield 0 60 £340 - 9
Bradford +7 17 £490 +5.95% 17
Huddersfield +1 9 £250 -25.93% 5
Halifax +8 4 £330 -44.54% 6
Sowerby Bridge 0 3 £330 -44.54%
Mirfield - 1 £338 - 1
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 4 (2.20%) WordPress
2 3 (1.65%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.10%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.85%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.49%) Power Platform
2 8 (4.40%) Azure
3 7 (3.85%) AWS
3 7 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.30%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.20%) MailChimp
6 3 (1.65%) GCP
7 2 (1.10%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.10%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.55%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.55%) Serverless
8 1 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.64%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (9.34%) LAN
3 12 (6.59%) WAN
4 6 (3.30%) DHCP
4 6 (3.30%) DNS
4 6 (3.30%) Firewall
4 6 (3.30%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (2.75%) Internet
5 5 (2.75%) SAN
6 1 (0.55%) Broadband
6 1 (0.55%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.49%) Power BI
2 4 (2.20%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.65%) GIS
4 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.10%) Big Data
4 2 (1.10%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.10%) Tableau
5 1 (0.55%) Ingres
5 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.55%) Power Query
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Cucumber
1 3 (1.65%) Git
1 3 (1.65%) JMeter
1 3 (1.65%) XCUITest
2 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Postman
2 1 (0.55%) Selenium
2 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (62.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.44%) Finance
4 14 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.95%) Banking
6 8 (4.40%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Retail
8 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Billing
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (23.08%) Service Desk Agent
2 32 (17.58%) Analyst
3 26 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 25 (13.74%) Developer
5 13 (7.14%) Lead
6 11 (6.04%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.40%) SAP Analyst
7 8 (4.40%) SAP Business Analyst
7 8 (4.40%) Senior
8 6 (3.30%) Network Engineer
8 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow Developer
9 5 (2.75%) Automation Tester
9 5 (2.75%) Data Centre Engineer
9 5 (2.75%) IT Technician
9 5 (2.75%) Senior Developer
9 5 (2.75%) Tester
10 4 (2.20%) IT Support
10 4 (2.20%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (2.20%) QA Manager
10 4 (2.20%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.75%) REST
1 5 (2.75%) Web Services
2 3 (1.65%) .NET
2 3 (1.65%) .NET Framework
2 3 (1.65%) Gherkin
2 3 (1.65%) HTML
2 3 (1.65%) Laravel
3 2 (1.10%) JSON
3 2 (1.10%) Kafka
4 1 (0.55%) CSS
4 1 (0.55%) LDAP
4 1 (0.55%) Node.js
4 1 (0.55%) PySpark
4 1 (0.55%) React
4 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.55%) SAML
4 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.85%) NHS
2 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.65%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.55%) CMDB
7 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Genomics
7 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) mHealth
7 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.55%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Windows
2 8 (4.40%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.30%) Windows 7
3 6 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.65%) Android
5 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.53%) Customer Service
2 38 (20.88%) Agile
3 33 (18.13%) Project Management
4 22 (12.09%) Service Delivery
5 20 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (10.99%) Test Automation
5 20 (10.99%) User Stories
6 18 (9.89%) Business Analysis
6 18 (9.89%) Requirements Gathering
7 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (7.14%) Break/Fix
8 13 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.14%) Waterfall
9 12 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (6.59%) DevOps
9 12 (6.59%) SDLC
10 10 (5.49%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.49%) Scrum
10 10 (5.49%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.04%) Python
2 11 (6.04%) SQL
3 6 (3.30%) TypeScript
4 4 (2.20%) Java
5 3 (1.65%) C#
5 3 (1.65%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.65%) PHP
5 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
5 3 (1.65%) VBA
6 2 (1.10%) ABAP
6 2 (1.10%) Scala
7 1 (0.55%) Bash
7 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (10.99%) Degree
2 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (2.20%) A+ Certification
4 4 (2.20%) CBAP
4 4 (2.20%) CCNA
4 4 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.65%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.65%) PMP
6 2 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.55%) CCSA
7 1 (0.55%) CISM
7 1 (0.55%) CISSP
7 1 (0.55%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) SLA
2 15 (8.24%) QA
3 3 (1.65%) PMO
4 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.30%) KVM
3 6 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (3.30%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (2.20%) Docker
4 4 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (3.30%) vCenter Server
2 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) SAP
3 12 (6.59%) Cisco
3 12 (6.59%) VMware
4 11 (6.04%) 3Com
4 11 (6.04%) Aruba
4 11 (6.04%) Brocade
4 11 (6.04%) Citrix
4 11 (6.04%) Juniper
4 11 (6.04%) Meraki
5 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.20%) Brio
6 4 (2.20%) Hootsuite
6 4 (2.20%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.65%) ESRI
8 2 (1.10%) Ariba
8 2 (1.10%) Databricks
9 1 (0.55%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (0.55%) Concur
9 1 (0.55%) Xerox