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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 7 20
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 20 16 5
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 6.90% 14.95% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 16.49% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
10th Percentile £279 £220 -
25th Percentile £300 £264 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% -26.19% +9.38%
75th Percentile £566 £483 £638
90th Percentile £675 £639 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £18.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £31.61 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.62% +40.47% +21.65%

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 249 97 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 85.86% 90.65% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 59 70
10th Percentile £278 £208 £336
25th Percentile £375 £263 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £634
90th Percentile £600 £638 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.42 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.82%
75th Percentile £30.59 - £18.50
90th Percentile £38.75 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -

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 17 June 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) Postman
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) MSI
3 1 (5.00%) Protractor
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Local Government
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Accountant
2 3 (15.00%) Project Accountant
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Accountant
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Manager
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior SAP Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) UI Designer
4 1 (5.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) CSS3
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) HTML5
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
2 1 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Deadline-Driven
5 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Order to Cash
6 3 (15.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (15.00%) Record to Report
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience
7 2 (10.00%) CRM
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) CCNP
1 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) CBAP
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
1 3 (15.00%) WCAG
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) F5
2 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) AVEVA
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) NetApp
4 1 (5.00%) VMware