Problem-Solving Contracts in the Midlands

Problem Solving
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 299 426 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.10% 12.98% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.50% 14.69% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 281 329
10th Percentile £254 £163 £175
25th Percentile £313 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +20.37%
75th Percentile £600 £554 £550
90th Percentile £673 £688 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 16
10th Percentile £11.50 £10.88 £8.40
25th Percentile £12.13 £11.80 £9.49
Median hourly rate £16.95 £16.70 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +36.33% -31.94%
75th Percentile £40.19 £21.69 £19.20
90th Percentile £61.13 £25.98 £23.25
England median hourly rate £17.00 £50.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year -66.00% +113.77% +17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,214 2,900 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.21% 88.33% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,032 3,228
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 107 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.06% +18.31% +14.01%
75th Percentile £33.25 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Midlands -2 194 £500 - 498
East Midlands +4 101 £350 - 327
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.34%) CMS
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) Confluence
4 2 (0.67%) Drupal
4 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Maya
5 2 (0.67%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.67%) Trello
5 2 (0.67%) ZBrush
6 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.33%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.33%) Simulink
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Odoo
1 5 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.34%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.34%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.34%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (1.00%) SAP MII
4 2 (0.67%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.67%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.33%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.05%) Azure
2 26 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 23 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.35%) AWS
5 14 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.68%) SaaS
8 7 (2.34%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.01%) Azure AKS
9 6 (2.01%) Azure App Service
10 5 (1.67%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.00%) dbt
12 3 (1.00%) Serverless
13 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.67%) GCP
13 2 (0.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.68%) Firewall
1 11 (3.68%) Network Security
2 10 (3.34%) WAN
3 8 (2.68%) LAN
4 7 (2.34%) VPN
5 6 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.67%) DHCP
6 5 (1.67%) DNS
7 4 (1.34%) VoIP
7 4 (1.34%) Wireless
8 3 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.00%) SAN
8 3 (1.00%) VLAN
9 2 (0.67%) Internet
9 2 (0.67%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.33%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.69%) Power BI
2 11 (3.68%) Data Mining
2 11 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.34%) Big Data
5 4 (1.34%) Tableau
6 3 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.00%) MySQL
6 3 (1.00%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.67%) GIS
7 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.67%) OLAP
7 2 (0.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (5.35%) JIRA
2 4 (1.34%) Git
2 4 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) Appium
3 2 (0.67%) kappa
3 2 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.67%) UI Automator
3 2 (0.67%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.33%) Ant
4 1 (0.33%) Gradle
4 1 (0.33%) JUnit
4 1 (0.33%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) NUnit
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 184 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 120 (40.13%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (19.06%) Finance
4 24 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.36%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.01%) Banking
6 12 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.34%) Legal
8 8 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.67%) Automotive
9 5 (1.67%) Marketing
10 4 (1.34%) Electronics
10 4 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Retail
11 3 (1.00%) Games
11 3 (1.00%) Law
12 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (11.71%) Analyst
1 35 (11.71%) Architect
2 34 (11.37%) Developer
3 26 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 25 (8.36%) Consultant
5 21 (7.02%) Senior
6 12 (4.01%) Data Architect
7 11 (3.68%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.01%) Administrator
8 9 (3.01%) Lead
8 9 (3.01%) Support Engineer
9 8 (2.68%) Business Analyst
9 8 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (2.68%) IT Services Delivery Manager
9 8 (2.68%) IT Services Manager
9 8 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (2.68%) Service Delivery Manager
9 8 (2.68%) Service Manager
9 8 (2.68%) Test Manager
10 7 (2.34%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.68%) .NET
2 10 (3.34%) OAuth
2 10 (3.34%) OpenID
2 10 (3.34%) SAML
3 8 (2.68%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.34%) LDAP
4 7 (2.34%) Middleware
4 7 (2.34%) RESTful
5 6 (2.01%) JSON
6 5 (1.67%) ADO
6 5 (1.67%) CSS
6 5 (1.67%) HTML
7 4 (1.34%) React
7 4 (1.34%) REST
7 4 (1.34%) Spring
7 4 (1.34%) Web Services
8 3 (1.00%) Flask
8 3 (1.00%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.00%) Pandas
8 3 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (5.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.01%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.01%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.01%) SCADA
9 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.34%) Clustering
9 4 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.34%) PMI
9 4 (1.34%) Social Media
9 4 (1.34%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.03%) Windows
2 12 (4.01%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.68%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.68%) Linux
4 9 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.34%) Unix
6 6 (2.01%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.00%) CentOS
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.67%) Android
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (18.06%) Decision-Making
3 46 (15.38%) Agile
4 42 (14.05%) Project Management
5 37 (12.37%) Computer Science
6 35 (11.71%) Migration
7 30 (10.03%) Time Management
8 28 (9.36%) Critical Thinking
9 26 (8.70%) Customer Service
10 25 (8.36%) People Management
11 23 (7.69%) Project Delivery
12 20 (6.69%) Asset Management
12 20 (6.69%) Conflict Management
12 20 (6.69%) DevOps
13 19 (6.35%) Analytics
13 19 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (6.02%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (6.02%) ITIL
14 18 (6.02%) Service Management
15 16 (5.35%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.70%) SQL
2 18 (6.02%) Python
3 12 (4.01%) Java
4 10 (3.34%) C#
4 10 (3.34%) Swift
5 8 (2.68%) C
5 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.34%) PHP
7 6 (2.01%) Bicep
7 6 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.67%) Bash
8 5 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.34%) ABAP
9 4 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.00%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (18.06%) Degree
2 37 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.02%) HND
5 20 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.69%) HNC
6 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.67%) CCNP
8 5 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.67%) PMP
9 4 (1.34%) CCIE
9 4 (1.34%) CISSP
9 4 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (1.00%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.69%) QA
2 9 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.34%) SLA
4 4 (1.34%) PMO
5 3 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.00%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.00%) OpenIDM
4 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.00%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.00%) vSphere
5 2 (0.67%) Docker
5 2 (0.67%) Firmware
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.67%) XenApp
5 2 (0.67%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.33%) Lustre
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.67%) SCCM
3 4 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.00%) Autotask
4 3 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.67%) Kibana
5 2 (0.67%) logstash
6 1 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.33%) PowerBroker
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.35%) SAP
3 10 (3.34%) ForgeRock
4 8 (2.68%) Okta
4 8 (2.68%) VMware
5 7 (2.34%) Cisco
5 7 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.67%) Apple
7 5 (1.67%) BMC
8 4 (1.34%) Citrix
9 3 (1.00%) Databricks
9 3 (1.00%) Datto
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle
10 2 (0.67%) Informatica
10 2 (0.67%) LogRhythm
10 2 (0.67%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.67%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.67%) TippingPoint
10 2 (0.67%) Trend Micro