Problem-Solving Contracts in the West Midlands

Problem Solving
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 11 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 194 289 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.26% 12.77% 10.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 14.46% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 178 259
10th Percentile £256 £263 £166
25th Percentile £369 £402 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +20.36%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £551
90th Percentile £650 £688 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £14.29 £10.96 £14.35
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.03 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £18.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.09% +19.32% -13.89%
75th Percentile £56.25 £22.56 £18.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.36 £22.44
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,585 1,999 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.86% 88.33% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 1,366 2,339
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.06% +15.88%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 66
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.71 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +22.42% +3.63%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.13
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -2 76 £475 -5.00% 139
Warwickshire +11 44 £550 +4.76% 75
Shropshire -5 17 £141 -73.89% 27
Staffordshire +1 12 £450 -10.00% 83
Worcestershire +2 9 £550 +22.22% 41
Coventry +1 9 £525 +9.38% 44
Herefordshire -6 2 £475 +13.10% 7
Solihull -26 1 £345 -34.29% 11
Walsall - 1 £325 - 5
Dudley - 1 £375 - 9
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 6 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.06%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Drupal
3 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.03%) Maya
4 2 (1.03%) Trello
5 1 (0.52%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.52%) Simulink
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Odoo
2 3 (1.55%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.03%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.03%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.03%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.52%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.43%) Azure
2 18 (9.28%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.09%) Azure AKS
6 6 (3.09%) Azure App Service
7 5 (2.58%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.58%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.55%) dbt
10 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.03%) Serverless
11 1 (0.52%) Boomi
11 1 (0.52%) IaaS
11 1 (0.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.67%) Network Security
2 9 (4.64%) Firewall
3 8 (4.12%) WAN
4 6 (3.09%) LAN
4 6 (3.09%) VPN
5 5 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (2.06%) DHCP
6 4 (2.06%) DNS
6 4 (2.06%) VoIP
7 3 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.55%) SAN
7 3 (1.55%) VLAN
8 2 (1.03%) Internet
9 1 (0.52%) MPLS
9 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.52%) SDH
9 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.22%) Power BI
2 11 (5.67%) Data Mining
3 8 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.55%) Tableau
7 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) GIS
7 2 (1.03%) Metadata
7 2 (1.03%) OLAP
7 2 (1.03%) OLTP
7 2 (1.03%) Power Query
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Presto
8 1 (0.52%) QGIS
8 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.19%) JIRA
2 4 (2.06%) Git
3 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) Appium
4 2 (1.03%) kappa
4 2 (1.03%) UI Automator
4 2 (1.03%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.52%) Ant
5 1 (0.52%) Gradle
5 1 (0.52%) JUnit
5 1 (0.52%) Maven
5 1 (0.52%) NUnit
5 1 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (69.07%) Social Skills
2 91 (46.91%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.98%) Finance
4 20 (10.31%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.61%) Banking
7 6 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.55%) Law
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (1.03%) Games
10 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (12.37%) Analyst
1 24 (12.37%) Developer
2 20 (10.31%) Senior
3 18 (9.28%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.76%) Architect
4 17 (8.76%) Consultant
5 10 (5.15%) Data Architect
6 8 (4.12%) Administrator
6 8 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (3.61%) Lead
7 7 (3.61%) Programmer
8 6 (3.09%) AML Project Manager
8 6 (3.09%) C Programmer
8 6 (3.09%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.58%) Angular Developer
9 5 (2.58%) Business Analyst
9 5 (2.58%) Support Engineer
9 5 (2.58%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (2.06%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.06%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.67%) .NET
2 8 (4.12%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.09%) RESTful
4 5 (2.58%) ADO
4 5 (2.58%) Middleware
5 4 (2.06%) CSS
5 4 (2.06%) HTML
5 4 (2.06%) Spring
6 3 (1.55%) Flask
6 3 (1.55%) Pandas
6 3 (1.55%) React
6 3 (1.55%) Web Services
7 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.03%) JSON
7 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.03%) XML
8 1 (0.52%) Blazor
8 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.52%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 14 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.09%) Operational Technology
6 6 (3.09%) SCADA
7 5 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.06%) Clustering
8 4 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.06%) PMI
8 4 (2.06%) Social Media
8 4 (2.06%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.55%) CCTV
9 3 (1.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.25%) Windows
2 8 (4.12%) Linux
3 7 (3.61%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.09%) Unix
4 6 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.58%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.55%) CentOS
6 3 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.03%) Android
8 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.56%) Agile
1 36 (18.56%) Project Management
2 31 (15.98%) Computer Science
3 29 (14.95%) Decision-Making
4 25 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.79%) Project Delivery
6 16 (8.25%) Analytics
6 16 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (8.25%) User Experience
7 15 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (7.73%) ITIL
7 15 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (7.22%) DevOps
8 14 (7.22%) Roadmaps
9 12 (6.19%) Migration
10 11 (5.67%) Customer Service
10 11 (5.67%) Visualisation
11 10 (5.15%) Analytical Thinking
11 10 (5.15%) Critical Thinking
11 10 (5.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.34%) SQL
2 15 (7.73%) Python
3 9 (4.64%) C#
4 8 (4.12%) C
4 8 (4.12%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.09%) Bicep
5 6 (3.09%) Java
6 5 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.06%) Bash
7 4 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.03%) Swift
9 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.65%) Degree
2 23 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.58%) CCNP
6 5 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.58%) PMP
7 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.06%) CCIE
7 4 (2.06%) CISSP
7 4 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) CASP
8 2 (1.03%) CEH
8 2 (1.03%) GIAC
8 2 (1.03%) GSEC
8 2 (1.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.70%) QA
2 7 (3.61%) SLA
3 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.06%) PMO
5 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.58%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.55%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.55%) vSphere
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (2.58%) SCCM
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.55%) Autotask
3 3 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.55%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.03%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) logstash
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.12%) SAP
2 8 (4.12%) VMware
3 6 (3.09%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.58%) Apple
4 5 (2.58%) BMC
4 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.06%) Cisco
6 3 (1.55%) Datto
7 2 (1.03%) Citrix
7 2 (1.03%) Informatica
7 2 (1.03%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.03%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle
7 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.03%) TippingPoint
7 2 (1.03%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.52%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.52%) Palantir
8 1 (0.52%) Splunk