Problem-Solving Contracts in South Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 23 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 57 33 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.05% 6.36% 10.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.83% 6.86% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 46
10th Percentile £279 £424 -
25th Percentile £411 £500 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £622 £641 £575
90th Percentile £650 £665 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.25 £35.00 £18.35
% change year-on-year -53.57% +90.74% +25.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 412 481 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 87.10% 92.68% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 299 364
10th Percentile £360 £300 £300
25th Percentile £412 £473 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £564
90th Percentile £624 £743 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 20
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.55 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £12.83 £10.63 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -37.67% -9.04%
75th Percentile £22.00 - £22.33
90th Percentile £23.75 - £23.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.70
% change year-on-year +27.00% -43.16% -6.50%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Sheffield +7 48 £507 -7.82% 60
Doncaster - 5 £200 - 19
Barnsley - 1 £340 - 4
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (17.54%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.26%) Jupyter
2 3 (5.26%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) CICS
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.84%) GCP
2 15 (26.32%) AWS
2 15 (26.32%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) GitHub
3 9 (15.79%) Kong
4 6 (10.53%) Apigee
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.26%) CloudBees
5 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (5.26%) Vertex AI
6 2 (3.51%) Slack
7 1 (1.75%) IaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) Firewall
2 10 (17.54%) DNS
3 9 (15.79%) HTTP
3 9 (15.79%) SSL
3 9 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 9 (15.79%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) BIG-IP
4 3 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.75%) DHCP
5 1 (1.75%) RTP
5 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (5.26%) Bigtable
4 3 (5.26%) ClickHouse
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.51%) Metadata
6 1 (1.75%) OLAP
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Git
2 16 (28.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (19.30%) JIRA
4 9 (15.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (15.79%) CircleCI
4 9 (15.79%) GitLab
4 9 (15.79%) Travis CI
General
1 30 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 24 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
2 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
6 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
6 3 (5.26%) GCP Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) Trainer
7 2 (3.51%) Build Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) PMO Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Programmer
7 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (15.79%) JSON
1 9 (15.79%) Kafka
1 9 (15.79%) XML
1 9 (15.79%) YAML
2 6 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (7.02%) FastAPI
3 4 (7.02%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.02%) gRPC
3 4 (7.02%) JWT
3 4 (7.02%) OAuth
3 4 (7.02%) OpenAPI
3 4 (7.02%) RESTful
3 4 (7.02%) Swagger
4 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.26%) Apache Beam
4 3 (5.26%) CSS
4 3 (5.26%) HTML
4 3 (5.26%) Keycloak
4 3 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) CMDB
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) e-Learning
3 3 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Android
3 3 (5.26%) zOS
4 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) DevOps
2 26 (45.61%) CI/CD
3 22 (38.60%) Agile
4 20 (35.09%) Containerisation
5 15 (26.32%) Use Case
6 14 (24.56%) API Development
7 13 (22.81%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (21.05%) Data Modelling
8 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (21.05%) Project Management
8 12 (21.05%) Scrum
9 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (19.30%) ITSM
9 11 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (17.54%) Change Management
10 10 (17.54%) ITIL
11 9 (15.79%) API Integration
11 9 (15.79%) Secure Coding
11 9 (15.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.30%) Java
4 10 (17.54%) Bash
5 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.26%) ActionScript
7 3 (5.26%) Go
7 3 (5.26%) Groovy
7 3 (5.26%) Ruby
7 3 (5.26%) Scala
8 2 (3.51%) JCL
9 1 (1.75%) SQL
9 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.75%) CCNA
3 1 (1.75%) CEH
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.75%) CISSP
3 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.81%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.26%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) GRC
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (35.09%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.75%) ACF2
4 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.75%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) RACF
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (38.60%) Ansible
2 18 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (22.81%) Puppet
4 12 (21.05%) Grafana
4 12 (21.05%) Terraform
5 9 (15.79%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (15.79%) Kibana
5 9 (15.79%) logstash
5 9 (15.79%) Progress Chef
5 9 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.75%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) ServiceNow
2 10 (17.54%) Splunk
3 8 (14.04%) Google
3 8 (14.04%) IBM
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.53%) Solace
6 3 (5.26%) F5
7 2 (3.51%) CA
8 1 (1.75%) Samsung
8 1 (1.75%) VMware