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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 94 76
Rank change year-on-year -19 -18 +21
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 44 19 23
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.54% 1.25% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.93% 3.26% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 10
10th Percentile £459 £408 £210
25th Percentile £475 £430 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £615
90th Percentile £830 £629 £638
England median daily rate £488 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +4.84% -2.11% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - - £36.38
25th Percentile £17.12 - £36.56
Median hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -61.29% -15.43%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £41.56
90th Percentile - - £42.13
England median hourly rate £25.49 £21.39 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.17% -69.44% +52.77%

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 1,119 583 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.13% 38.23% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 359 255
10th Percentile £341 £280 £250
25th Percentile £413 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -9.61% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £606
90th Percentile £688 £619 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 36
10th Percentile £14.71 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.28 £13.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £15.55 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +54.34% +6.32% -31.67%
75th Percentile £43.96 £18.51 £26.56
90th Percentile £53.88 £50.53 £42.19
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.96%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -20 24 £605 +30.16% 11
West Yorkshire -9 16 £500 -25.93% 34
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 7
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 (6.82%) SAS
1 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.64%) GitHub
3 6 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 4 (9.09%) AWS
5 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (9.09%) Serverless
6 2 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) LAN
1 9 (20.45%) VLAN
1 9 (20.45%) WLAN
2 6 (13.64%) BGP
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (13.64%) DHCP
2 6 (13.64%) DNS
2 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 6 (13.64%) IPsec
2 6 (13.64%) Network Security
2 6 (13.64%) OSPF
2 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.64%) VoIP
2 6 (13.64%) VPN
2 6 (13.64%) WAN
2 6 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (13.64%) Wireless
3 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Metadata
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.09%) Neo4j
3 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) JIRA
2 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.36%) Gradle
4 2 (4.55%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) MSBuild
4 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Finance
5 6 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (11.36%) Manufacturing
6 5 (11.36%) Police
6 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.82%) Electronics
7 3 (6.82%) Marketing
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.36%) Software Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Administrator
4 3 (6.82%) Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Data Administrator
4 3 (6.82%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Data Insight Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Insight Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Insight Data Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) IT Support
4 3 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Lead
4 3 (6.82%) Lead Data Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Kafka
2 6 (13.64%) Hibernate
2 6 (13.64%) React
2 6 (13.64%) Redux
2 6 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 5 (11.36%) Spring
4 4 (9.09%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) .NET
5 2 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.64%) PKI
4 3 (6.82%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.82%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.09%) Agile
3 11 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (18.18%) DevSecOps
4 8 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps
5 7 (15.91%) Observability
5 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (15.91%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (15.91%) Secrets Management
5 7 (15.91%) Zero Trust
6 6 (13.64%) Change Management
6 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.64%) Microservices
6 6 (13.64%) Scrum
6 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 6 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 6 (13.64%) Java
2 6 (13.64%) PL/SQL
2 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 6 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) CCNP
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) COSHH
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (22.73%) Ansible
2 6 (13.64%) Control-M
3 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.09%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) CheckPoint
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Teradata
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Delphix