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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 52 88
Rank change year-on-year -64 +36 +17
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 18 31 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.93% 3.13% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 8.81% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 7
10th Percentile £398 £213 £286
25th Percentile £416 £309 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +6.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £531 £638 £525
90th Percentile £610 £663 £627
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +73.08% -39.80%

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 724 352 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.26% 35.52% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 219 286
10th Percentile £316 £178 £270
25th Percentile £413 £300 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 27
10th Percentile £14.25 £21.55 £11.07
25th Percentile £15.23 £36.25 £12.94
Median hourly rate £21.78 £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +128.57% +64.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.50 £22.38
90th Percentile £57.33 £74.99 £23.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +57.88%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -62 13 £470 -21.67% 17
West Yorkshire -26 4 £506 +6.58% 48
North Yorkshire -2 1 - - 13
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.56%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) FTP
1 1 (5.56%) IOS XR
1 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.56%) SNMP
1 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (5.56%) SSH
1 1 (5.56%) TACACS
1 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Planning Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Legal Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) ASIC
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Dependency Management
4 3 (16.67%) Emotional Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (11.11%) Conflict Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Time Management
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (5.56%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.56%) Kanban
6 1 (5.56%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Go
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Ariba
2 1 (5.56%) Ciena
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Concur
2 1 (5.56%) MarketAxess
2 1 (5.56%) Meraki
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Tradeweb