Problem-Solving Contracts in Coventry

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 16 6 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 16.00% 6.06% 10.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.84% 6.52% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £220 £483 £175
25th Percentile £264 £494 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +7.89% -1.30%
75th Percentile £483 £588 £480
90th Percentile £639 £678 £488
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.33 £22.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year +30.36% +8.67% +23.61%

All Process and 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 95 92 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 95.00% 92.93% 82.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 69 142
10th Percentile £210 £335 £264
25th Percentile £272 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £13.57
25th Percentile - £15.50 £15.18
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year - -4.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £20.54
90th Percentile - - £22.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Coventry.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Coventry over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Coventry.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Datadog
5 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) 5G
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Android Studio
1 2 (12.50%) Gradle
1 2 (12.50%) Xcode
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) React Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Cognos Support
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) PMO Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) React Native
1 3 (18.75%) Redux
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.25%) NB-IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Android
3 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 4 (25.00%) ETL
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) High Availability
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Data Security
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (12.50%) User Experience
4 2 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
1 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
2 2 (12.50%) JSX
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) NCSC
3 1 (6.25%) PMO
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Cognos
2 2 (12.50%) Dell
2 2 (12.50%) HP
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) UiPath
3 1 (6.25%) Workday