Problem-Solving Contracts in Durham

Problem Solving
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Durham 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 9 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Durham 16.98% - 14.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% - 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £290 - £235
25th Percentile £313 - £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £430
Median % change year-on-year - - +218.52%
75th Percentile £438 - £448
90th Percentile £460 - £449
North East median daily rate £450 £275 £450
% change year-on-year +63.64% -38.89% +33.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 44 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 90.57% 93.62% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 40 28
10th Percentile £313 - £159
25th Percentile £425 £400 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £413 £428
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.51% +131.08%
75th Percentile £594 £506 £538
90th Percentile £631 £588 £588
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £17.30 - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.14 - -
90th Percentile £29.12 - -
North East median hourly rate £29.77 £32.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.97% +82.86% +29.63%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Durham

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Durham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Durham.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Durham

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Durham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Durham over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Durham

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Durham.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Durham

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Durham region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington - 2 - - 6
Hartlepool - 1 £300 -
Problem-Solving
North East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Project Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Photovoltaics
1 5 (55.56%) Renewable Energy
1 5 (55.56%) Solar Energy
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Budget Management
1 5 (55.56%) Contract Management
1 5 (55.56%) Contract Negotiation
1 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Accounts Payable
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 2 (22.22%) Data Entry
2 2 (22.22%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Autotask
1 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Aruba
2 1 (11.11%) Datto
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Sophos
2 1 (11.11%) VMware