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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 91 89
Rank change year-on-year -31 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 34 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.19% 1.05% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.08% 2.92% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 10
10th Percentile £450 £441 £179
25th Percentile £475 £456 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +32.86% -28.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £651 £606
England median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.32% - -9.52%
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 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.71% -67.09% +52.05%

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 1,104 514 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.70% 36.02% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 311 258
10th Percentile £319 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £386 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £559 £594
90th Percentile £688 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 59
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.92 £16.76 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £18.51 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% +26.56% -32.76%
75th Percentile £43.96 £24.88 £18.89
90th Percentile £68.75 £56.67 £41.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.77 £44.74
% change year-on-year +34.15% -26.75% +6.52%

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 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 25 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 -26 20 £575 +23.66% 12
West Yorkshire -11 13 £500 -25.93% 23
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 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) GCP
4 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
5 4 (11.76%) AWS
5 4 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (11.76%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) LAN
1 8 (23.53%) VLAN
1 8 (23.53%) WLAN
2 6 (17.65%) Network Security
3 5 (14.71%) BGP
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (14.71%) DHCP
3 5 (14.71%) DNS
3 5 (14.71%) Firewall
3 5 (14.71%) IPsec
3 5 (14.71%) OSPF
3 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.71%) VoIP
3 5 (14.71%) VPN
3 5 (14.71%) WAN
3 5 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (14.71%) Wireless
4 1 (2.94%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) Neo4j
3 3 (8.82%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (5.88%) Git
4 2 (5.88%) MSBuild
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Banking
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 6 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Police
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Electronics
6 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Marketing
8 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.82%) IAM Developer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) IT Support
5 3 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cost Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Insight Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Insight Data Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Kafka
2 5 (14.71%) Hibernate
2 5 (14.71%) React
2 5 (14.71%) Redux
2 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) REST
3 4 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Privileged Access Management
6 6 (17.65%) Change Management
6 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.65%) Identity Management
6 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (17.65%) Microservices
6 6 (17.65%) Scrum
6 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 5 (14.71%) Dependency Management
7 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) CCNP
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) Terraform
3 5 (14.71%) Control-M
4 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.76%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) CheckPoint
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Teradata
4 1 (2.94%) Delphix