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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 28 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 14.89% 15.60% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.00% 17.53% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 14
10th Percentile £275 - £288
25th Percentile £308 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £400 £469
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -14.67% -9.86%
75th Percentile £486 £488 £579
90th Percentile £500 - £592
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £17.24 £29.77
% change year-on-year -1.39% -42.09% +48.85%

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 175 97 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 93.09% 88.99% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 64 139
10th Percentile £263 £375 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £575
90th Percentile £678 £626 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%

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 6 December 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 & 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) SugarCRM
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) SAP HR
1 4 (14.29%) SAP PM
2 1 (3.57%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Datadog
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) VSAN
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Git
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Salesforce Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Consultant
5 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Storage Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) SAP Support
6 3 (10.71%) Support Specialist
6 3 (10.71%) Systems Support
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Data Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Exchange Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Exchange Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) HR Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) HR Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) SAP PI Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) GraphQL
1 5 (17.86%) SAP PI
2 4 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (14.29%) Visualforce
3 3 (10.71%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.57%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (17.86%) Use Case
5 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) ETL
5 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Scrum
5 4 (14.29%) Sequence Diagram
5 4 (14.29%) User Stories
6 3 (10.71%) API Integration
6 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.71%) User Experience
6 3 (10.71%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Apex Code
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.71%) PHP
4 2 (7.14%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.86%) vSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) vRealize
1 5 (17.86%) VxRail
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) SAP
2 8 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco
3 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
4 4 (14.29%) AppDynamics
4 4 (14.29%) Commvault
4 4 (14.29%) Dell
4 4 (14.29%) HP
4 4 (14.29%) IBM
4 4 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 3 (10.71%) Workday
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
6 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle
7 1 (3.57%) UiPath