Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 25 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 9.47% 9.89% 9.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.73% 11.84% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile £263 £270 -
25th Percentile £290 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £394 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% -21.25% +4.17%
75th Percentile £484 £445 £563
90th Percentile £530 £471 £587
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +4.70% -9.26% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 233 76 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 88.26% 83.52% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 55 126
10th Percentile £283 £208 £369
25th Percentile £325 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +6.77%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.44 - £76.59
Median hourly rate £21.61 - £78.19
Median % change year-on-year - - +525.48%
75th Percentile £27.21 - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.26 £18.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +22.75% -21.17% +29.87%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Coventry over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) iTrent
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Datadog
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Route 53
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) VSAN
2 3 (12.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) MSI
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Local Government
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Accountant
4 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Project Accountant
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Accountant
5 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Exchange Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior SAP Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SAP PI
1 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 8 (32.00%) ITIL
4 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.00%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (12.00%) Deadline-Driven
7 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 3 (12.00%) ITSM
7 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
7 3 (12.00%) Order to Cash
7 3 (12.00%) Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (12.00%) Record to Report
7 3 (12.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.00%) Business Analysis
8 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) PHP
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CBAP
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) vRealize
1 5 (20.00%) VxRail
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco
3 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (16.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (16.00%) Commvault
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.00%) F5
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.00%) SAP
7 1 (4.00%) AVEVA
7 1 (4.00%) Citrix
7 1 (4.00%) NetApp