Self-Motivation Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Self-Motivation
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 85 95
Rank change year-on-year -39 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 29 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.02% 1.34% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 3.66% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 7
10th Percentile £438 £451 £168
25th Percentile £500 £463 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +20.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £633 £629 £578
90th Percentile £771 £683 £611
England median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.46% -2.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 £21.88 -
90th Percentile - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.75 £21.39 £62.50
% change year-on-year +29.71% -65.78% +95.31%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,116 492 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.13% 36.53% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 297 258
10th Percentile £325 £305 £259
25th Percentile £413 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £639
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 62
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.63 £12.18
Median hourly rate £25.36 £19.76 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% +35.08% +37.58%
75th Percentile £50.16 £30.10 £17.52
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.47 £40.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.03 £38.50
% change year-on-year +33.11% -14.22% +21.26%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Self-Motivation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in Yorkshire

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
South Yorkshire -34 20 £575 -4.17% 14
West Yorkshire -21 8 £500 -25.93% 24
Self-Motivation
England

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Network Security
2 5 (17.24%) LAN
2 5 (17.24%) VLAN
2 5 (17.24%) WLAN
3 4 (13.79%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) BGP
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (6.90%) DHCP
4 2 (6.90%) DNS
4 2 (6.90%) Firewall
4 2 (6.90%) IPsec
4 2 (6.90%) OSPF
4 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.90%) VoIP
4 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.90%) Wireless
5 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Neo4j
3 3 (10.34%) Metadata
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) MSBuild
3 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.45%) Gradle
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Banking
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 6 (20.69%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Electronics
5 3 (10.34%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Police
6 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) IAM Developer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cost Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.90%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) React
3 2 (6.90%) Redux
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (24.14%) DevOps
4 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Privileged Access Management
5 6 (20.69%) Change Management
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
5 6 (20.69%) Identity Management
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Microservices
5 6 (20.69%) Scrum
5 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
6 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 5 (17.24%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) CCNP
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Ansible
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Kustomize
4 2 (6.90%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Teradata
3 1 (3.45%) Delphix