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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 23 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 11.86% 12.12% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.69% 14.29% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 14
10th Percentile £266 £326 -
25th Percentile £304 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -21.95% -1.44%
75th Percentile £480 £425 £579
90th Percentile £496 £461 £592
West Midlands median daily rate £495 £436 £509
% change year-on-year +13.47% -14.21% -5.48%

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 168 84 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 86.60% 84.85% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 58 124
10th Percentile £263 £315 £363
25th Percentile £305 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £600
90th Percentile £644 £625 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.42% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £24.35 - £76.59
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £78.19
75th Percentile - - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
% change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +39.05%

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 26 January 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) SugarCRM
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Datadog
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) VSAN
2 1 (4.35%) BIG-IP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Local Government
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Storage Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Management Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Project Accountant
5 1 (4.35%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
5 1 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Accountant
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) CSS
1 3 (13.04%) HTML
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) ODBC
2 1 (4.35%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) API Integration
5 3 (13.04%) CRM
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) MVC
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
5 3 (13.04%) UX Design
6 2 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
6 2 (8.70%) ITSM
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (8.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
1 3 (13.04%) PHP
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (21.74%) vSphere
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) vRealize
1 5 (21.74%) VxRail
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) VMware
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
4 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
4 4 (17.39%) Commvault
4 4 (17.39%) Dell
4 4 (17.39%) HP
4 4 (17.39%) IBM
4 4 (17.39%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
5 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 2 (8.70%) Workday
6 1 (4.35%) F5
6 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto