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 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 54 83
Rank change year-on-year -69 +29 +9
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 15 25 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.71% 2.80% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 7.74% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 8
10th Percentile £412 £304 £216
25th Percentile £438 £375 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £509
90th Percentile £780 £668 £604
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% +25.00% -25.71%

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 799 323 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.72% 36.17% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 207 280
10th Percentile £325 £209 £266
25th Percentile £425 £347 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £555
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.27% -4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £11.52
25th Percentile £15.55 £32.67 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £21.97
90th Percentile £64.45 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -63 10 £513 -14.58% 9
West Yorkshire -26 6 £690 +10.40% 18
North Yorkshire -6 1 - - 11
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 2 (13.33%) SAS
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (6.67%) FTP
1 1 (6.67%) IOS XR
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) SNMP
1 1 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (6.67%) SSH
1 1 (6.67%) TACACS
1 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Metadata
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Insight Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) ASIC
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Business Case
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
4 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Pricing Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stress Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Teradata
2 1 (6.67%) Ariba
2 1 (6.67%) Ciena
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Concur
2 1 (6.67%) MarketAxess
2 1 (6.67%) Meraki
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Tradeweb