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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 29 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 21.48% 13.83% 6.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.31% 14.94% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 5
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £387 £375 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £594
90th Percentile £586 £489 £598
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £468 £525
% change year-on-year +1.60% -10.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.88 £17.00 £20.97
% change year-on-year +99.29% -18.93% +10.37%

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 130 87 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 96.30% 92.55% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 61 110
10th Percentile £220 £313 £274
25th Percentile £350 £375 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.98%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £548
90th Percentile £656 £675 £641
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.50
25th Percentile - £15.50 £23.92
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £25.11
Median % change year-on-year - -32.30% -14.88%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £26.81
90th Percentile - - £27.52
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +57.14%

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
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 September 2025.

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 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 2 (6.90%) SugarCRM
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) SAP HR
1 4 (13.79%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Datadog
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) VPN
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) 5G
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) DB2
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Android Studio
3 2 (6.90%) Gradle
3 2 (6.90%) Xcode
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (72.41%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Salesforce Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Salesforce Technical Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) React Developer
5 3 (10.34%) SAP Support
5 3 (10.34%) Support Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Systems Support
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Cognos Support
6 2 (6.90%) Platform Support Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Specialist
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.45%) PMO Officer
7 1 (3.45%) Service Management Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) GraphQL
1 5 (17.24%) REST
2 4 (13.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (13.79%) SAP PI
2 4 (13.79%) Visualforce
3 3 (10.34%) React Native
3 3 (10.34%) Redux
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) Jest
4 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) ODBC
5 1 (3.45%) React
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Android
3 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) ETL
3 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (17.24%) Data Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Scrum
6 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
6 4 (13.79%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) ITIL
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Sequence Diagram
6 4 (13.79%) Service Management
6 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
6 4 (13.79%) Use Case
6 4 (13.79%) User Experience
6 4 (13.79%) User Stories
6 4 (13.79%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) Apex Code
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) JSX
5 2 (6.90%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) SAP
2 5 (17.24%) Salesforce
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Workday
4 2 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (6.90%) Cognos
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) IBM
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) UiPath
5 1 (3.45%) Databricks