Problem-Solving Contracts in West Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 9 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 103 173 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.26% 13.25% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.42% 14.70% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 93 107
10th Percentile £330 £312 £200
25th Percentile £406 £380 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £675
90th Percentile £577 £702 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +0.05% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 19
10th Percentile - £14.30 £10.20
25th Percentile - £15.99 £12.54
Median hourly rate - £17.35 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year - -0.01% +69.27%
75th Percentile - £21.05 £23.75
90th Percentile - £26.42 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.07 £17.35 £17.10
% change year-on-year -7.38% +1.45% +66.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 668 1,177 1,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.97% 90.12% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 768 1,266
10th Percentile £326 £312 £220
25th Percentile £400 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £567 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 40
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.94 £10.20
25th Percentile £19.19 £16.71 £13.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +17.65%
75th Percentile £37.50 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.00 £30.02 £25.23
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.64 £21.31 £19.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% +12.16% +8.57%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +3 86 £475 -8.65% 75
Wakefield -3 9 - - 1
Bradford +2 4 £575 +9.52% 16
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.85%) Apache
3 5 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.94%) Trello
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.21%) Azure
2 19 (18.45%) AWS
3 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (10.68%) GCP
5 9 (8.74%) Entra ID
6 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.83%) GitHub
8 5 (4.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 4 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.88%) npm
9 4 (3.88%) Serverless
10 3 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.94%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) DAB
1 2 (1.94%) Internet
1 2 (1.94%) Wireless
1 2 (1.94%) WLAN
2 1 (0.97%) Broadband
2 1 (0.97%) DNS
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) LAN
2 1 (0.97%) Network Security
2 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.97%) VPN
2 1 (0.97%) WAN
2 1 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (5.83%) Big Data
2 6 (5.83%) BigQuery
3 5 (4.85%) Apache Hive
3 5 (4.85%) Hadoop
3 5 (4.85%) Power BI
4 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) DataStage
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Git
2 8 (7.77%) JIRA
3 4 (3.88%) Babel
3 4 (3.88%) webpack
4 2 (1.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.97%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.97%) JUnit
5 1 (0.97%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.97%) Postman
5 1 (0.97%) RStudio
5 1 (0.97%) TestRail
5 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (61.17%) Social Skills
2 40 (38.83%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (24.27%) Finance
4 9 (8.74%) Banking
4 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.85%) German Language
6 3 (2.91%) Legal
7 2 (1.94%) Law
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Front Office
8 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.39%) Developer
2 17 (16.50%) Analyst
3 7 (6.80%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (6.80%) Service Desk Agent
4 6 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Business Analyst
5 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Scala Developer
5 5 (4.85%) Senior
6 4 (3.88%) Incident Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Release Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Scala Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Technical Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.77%) .NET
2 6 (5.83%) Kafka
2 6 (5.83%) RESTful
3 5 (4.85%) JSON
4 4 (3.88%) Akka
4 4 (3.88%) CSS
4 4 (3.88%) HTML
4 4 (3.88%) JWT
4 4 (3.88%) Play Framework
4 4 (3.88%) React
4 4 (3.88%) Redux
5 3 (2.91%) jQuery
5 3 (2.91%) PySpark
6 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.94%) DOM
6 2 (1.94%) FHIR
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.94%) REST
6 2 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.88%) BYOD
2 4 (3.88%) Low-Code
2 4 (3.88%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.94%) NHS
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Android
1 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Agile
2 16 (15.53%) CI/CD
2 16 (15.53%) DevOps
2 16 (15.53%) Project Management
3 12 (11.65%) Scrum
4 11 (10.68%) Software Engineering
5 10 (9.71%) Customer Service
5 10 (9.71%) Data Engineering
5 10 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (9.71%) Decision-Making
6 9 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (8.74%) Data Science
6 9 (8.74%) Visualisation
7 8 (7.77%) Change Management
7 8 (7.77%) Data Modelling
7 8 (7.77%) Incident Management
7 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (7.77%) Process Improvement
7 8 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (6.80%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.48%) Python
2 17 (16.50%) SQL
3 11 (10.68%) Scala
4 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.74%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.77%) Bash
7 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.88%) C#
9 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.94%) Java
11 1 (0.97%) C
11 1 (0.97%) C++
11 1 (0.97%) Dart
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.74%) Degree
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.97%) CBAP
5 1 (0.97%) CCNA
5 1 (0.97%) CCNP
5 1 (0.97%) CEH
5 1 (0.97%) CISSP
5 1 (0.97%) OSCP
5 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.97%) PMP
5 1 (0.97%) VCAP
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (4.85%) NIST
2 4 (3.88%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) SLA
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.94%) HL7
5 1 (0.97%) GRC
5 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) HDFS
3 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Terraform
2 5 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.88%) Kibana
4 2 (1.94%) SCCM
4 2 (1.94%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.94%) SCSM
5 1 (0.97%) Nessus
5 1 (0.97%) vRealize
5 1 (0.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) Brio
2 4 (3.88%) Databricks
2 4 (3.88%) Google
3 3 (2.91%) Cisco
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle
3 3 (2.91%) SAP
3 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.94%) Syclo
5 1 (0.97%) Civica
5 1 (0.97%) Commvault
5 1 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.97%) Foundry
5 1 (0.97%) Palantir
5 1 (0.97%) Qualys
5 1 (0.97%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.97%) Veeam
5 1 (0.97%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.97%) VMware
5 1 (0.97%) Workday