Problem-Solving Contracts in Yorkshire

Problem Solving
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 4 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 221 252 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.73% 14.92% 9.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.51% 17.27% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 131 102
10th Percentile £258 £180 £351
25th Percentile £360 £319 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -12.84% +23.86%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £600
90th Percentile £616 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £18.74 £11.75 £16.80
25th Percentile £21.24 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.60% -62.50% +129.56%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £55.15 £64.00
England median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £45.68
% change year-on-year +25.14% -61.69% +128.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire 0 107 £500 +3.09% 307
South Yorkshire +8 100 £500 +6.38% 102
North Yorkshire -1 5 £300 +130.77% 61
East Yorkshire +1 1 - - 29
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (9.05%) Confluence
2 12 (5.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (4.07%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.71%) Apache
4 6 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.90%) Trello
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.45%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.45%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.45%) SAP PP
2 1 (0.45%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.95%) GCP
2 18 (8.14%) AWS
3 16 (7.24%) Azure
4 15 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.17%) OCI
7 6 (2.71%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.81%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.36%) Serverless
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.90%) Lucidchart
10 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.41%) DNS
2 9 (4.07%) Network Security
3 6 (2.71%) NAS
3 6 (2.71%) SAN
4 4 (1.81%) DHCP
4 4 (1.81%) Firewall
4 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.36%) DWDM
6 2 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.90%) IMAP
6 2 (0.90%) LAN
6 2 (0.90%) POP3
6 2 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.90%) SMTP
6 2 (0.90%) VPN
6 2 (0.90%) WAN
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.45%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.84%) Oracle Database
2 13 (5.88%) Power BI
3 12 (5.43%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.98%) Flink
5 10 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.17%) Tableau
7 6 (2.71%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.26%) MySQL
8 5 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.81%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.36%) Power Query
10 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.90%) GIS
11 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.45%) Essbase
12 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) JIRA
2 13 (5.88%) Git
3 12 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.71%) Selenium
5 5 (2.26%) GitLab
6 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.90%) JMeter
6 2 (0.90%) Postman
6 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Babel
7 1 (0.45%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 118 (53.39%) Social Skills
2 77 (34.84%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (29.41%) Finance
4 22 (9.95%) Banking
5 20 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.71%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.71%) Police
8 6 (2.71%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.81%) Legal
10 3 (1.36%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.93%) Analyst
2 22 (9.95%) Developer
3 20 (9.05%) Architect
4 16 (7.24%) Lead
4 16 (7.24%) Senior
5 12 (5.43%) Business Analyst
5 12 (5.43%) Data Engineer
6 10 (4.52%) Support Analyst
7 9 (4.07%) Backup Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Commvault Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Support Engineer
8 8 (3.62%) Engineering Specialist
8 8 (3.62%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 8 (3.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 7 (3.17%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.71%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.26%) Database Engineer
11 5 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.26%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) React
2 10 (4.52%) Kafka
3 7 (3.17%) Apache Beam
3 7 (3.17%) CSS
3 7 (3.17%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (2.26%) .NET
4 5 (2.26%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.26%) HTML
4 5 (2.26%) JDBC
5 4 (1.81%) Akka
5 4 (1.81%) Middleware
5 4 (1.81%) RESTful
6 3 (1.36%) Play Framework
6 3 (1.36%) Spring
6 3 (1.36%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.90%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.90%) ISPF
7 2 (0.90%) Node.js
7 2 (0.90%) REST
7 2 (0.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.24%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.17%) NHS
5 5 (2.26%) PMI
6 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Licensing
8 2 (0.90%) Replication
8 2 (0.90%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.45%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.93%) Windows
2 30 (13.57%) Linux
3 18 (8.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.07%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.36%) zOS
6 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.94%) Agile
2 34 (15.38%) Project Management
3 32 (14.48%) Change Management
4 31 (14.03%) Decision-Making
5 30 (13.57%) Migration
6 29 (13.12%) CI/CD
6 29 (13.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (11.76%) Data Protection
8 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.95%) DevOps
10 21 (9.50%) Risk Management
11 20 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (9.05%) Microservices
11 20 (9.05%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (8.14%) Scrum
13 17 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
14 16 (7.24%) Data Analysis
14 16 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
16 14 (6.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.62%) Python
2 32 (14.48%) SQL
3 19 (8.60%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.33%) Bash
4 14 (6.33%) Perl
5 13 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 11 (4.98%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.52%) JavaScript
8 9 (4.07%) Scala
9 6 (2.71%) Java
10 4 (1.81%) C#
10 4 (1.81%) JCL
10 4 (1.81%) REXX
11 3 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.36%) Go
12 2 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.90%) PHP
12 2 (0.90%) Ruby
12 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.45%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (10.86%) Degree
2 23 (10.41%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.60%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.71%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.81%) CCNP
7 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.36%) CBAP
8 3 (1.36%) CCNA
8 3 (1.36%) CISSP
8 3 (1.36%) OCP
8 3 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.90%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.90%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.90%) PMP
9 2 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) PMO
2 7 (3.17%) SLA
3 6 (2.71%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.71%) QA
4 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.26%) GDPR
4 5 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.90%) NIST
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.07%) Docker
2 9 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.62%) vSphere
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.90%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.45%) ACF2
7 1 (0.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.45%) Microcode
7 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.50%) Ansible
2 13 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (5.43%) Terraform
4 10 (4.52%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.81%) Kibana
5 4 (1.81%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.81%) vRealize
6 3 (1.36%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.36%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.36%) Puppet
7 2 (0.90%) Grafana
7 2 (0.90%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.45%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 43 (19.46%) Oracle
2 19 (8.60%) Cisco
3 18 (8.14%) Commvault
3 18 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.33%) Google
5 9 (4.07%) SAP
5 9 (4.07%) VMware
6 7 (3.17%) Veritas
7 5 (2.26%) Databricks
7 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.81%) Dell
8 4 (1.81%) IBM
8 4 (1.81%) Motorola
8 4 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.81%) Splunk
9 3 (1.36%) Brio
9 3 (1.36%) Citrix
9 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.90%) Apple
10 2 (0.90%) NetApp