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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 10 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 10.00% 7.69% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 8.03% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 13
10th Percentile £270 £450 £175
25th Percentile £363 £488 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £445 £585 £494
90th Percentile £552 £618 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +6.06%

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 88 137 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 88.00% 95.80% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 110 165
10th Percentile £208 £363 £250
25th Percentile £363 £450 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £622 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.57
25th Percentile - - £15.18
Median hourly rate - - £17.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.89%
75th Percentile - - £20.54
90th Percentile - - £22.15
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +6.35%

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 25 April 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 5G
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Blazor
1 2 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) API Design
3 2 (20.00%) API Development
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) OOP
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle