Problem-Solving Contracts in Northamptonshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 33 40 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.79% 17.09% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.54% 18.96% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 23
10th Percentile £320 £262 £196
25th Percentile £405 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% +22.45%
75th Percentile £606 £370 £500
90th Percentile £622 £473 -
East Midlands median daily rate £350 £350 £400
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.90
25th Percentile - £22.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.73% -
75th Percentile - £26.00 £33.50
90th Percentile - - £35.90
East Midlands median hourly rate £13.50 £18.65 £9.74
% change year-on-year -27.61% +91.48% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 211 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 87.98% 90.17% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 164 278
10th Percentile £310 £205 £189
25th Percentile £356 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £464
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -13.75% +23.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £520
90th Percentile £613 £588 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £475 £441
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.83% +12.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 32
10th Percentile £10.90 £15.60 £10.78
25th Percentile £12.45 £22.72 £17.89
Median hourly rate £14.00 £51.00 £30.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.55% +68.93% -
75th Percentile £38.75 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £54.79 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £23.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.88% +16.25% +53.85%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Northampton 0 27 £560 +55.56% 43
Kettering -1 3 - - 7
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) SAP CO
1 3 (9.09%) SAP FI
1 3 (9.09%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DHCP
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.03%) LTE
1 1 (3.03%) SAN
1 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Automotive
7 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Architect
2 7 (21.21%) ForgeRock Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) SAP Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.09%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.06%) SAP HANA Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) OAuth
1 10 (30.30%) OpenID
1 10 (30.30%) SAML
2 7 (21.21%) LDAP
3 3 (9.09%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) OAuth2
3 3 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (9.09%) SAP PI
4 2 (6.06%) Middleware
5 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.03%) gRPC
5 1 (3.03%) JMS
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) OpenMP
5 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.03%) RAML
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Virtual Team
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 3 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.06%) Linux
4 1 (3.03%) AIX
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Migration
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (21.21%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (21.21%) Identity Management
5 6 (18.18%) SDLC
6 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) ITIL
7 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
7 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
9 2 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (6.06%) Critical Thinking
9 2 (6.06%) Decision-Making
9 2 (6.06%) Green IT
9 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.06%) Project Management
9 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) ABAP
1 6 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) BeanShell
3 2 (6.06%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) CBAP
2 1 (3.03%) ISEB
2 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) OpenAM
2 3 (9.09%) OpenIDM
3 2 (6.06%) Docker
4 1 (3.03%) Firmware
4 1 (3.03%) Lustre
4 1 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) PowerBroker
3 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) ForgeRock
2 6 (18.18%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Citrix
4 1 (3.03%) NetApp
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.03%) VMware