Problem-Solving Contracts in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 7 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 577 468 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 12.43% 8.38% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.53% 9.25% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 240 302
10th Percentile £279 £305 £200
25th Percentile £375 £413 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £548
90th Percentile £639 £650 £632
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 18 71
10th Percentile - £15.43 £11.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £23.15 £12.02
Median hourly rate £13.50 £40.30 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -66.50% +115.48% +13.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £55.64 £38.16
90th Percentile £60.56 £67.68 £50.78
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
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +10 294 £493 +9.56% 587
Yorkshire +8 247 £475 -13.64% 365
North East +23 38 £563 +80.43% 135
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (2.08%) Confluence
2 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.69%) IBM Notes
5 4 (0.69%) WordPress
6 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.52%) CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.52%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (10.57%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.52%) Blender
7 3 (0.52%) Maya
7 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 18 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.21%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.17%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 68 (11.79%) Azure
2 60 (10.40%) AWS
3 33 (5.72%) GCP
3 33 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 27 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.25%) GitHub
6 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
7 10 (1.73%) PowerApps
8 9 (1.56%) Kong
9 8 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (1.04%) Apigee
11 6 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.04%) SaaS
12 5 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.03%) LAN
2 28 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (4.33%) Firewall
4 24 (4.16%) VPN
5 23 (3.99%) WAN
6 18 (3.12%) TCP/IP
7 17 (2.95%) DNS
8 15 (2.60%) OSPF
9 10 (1.73%) HTTP
10 9 (1.56%) SSL
11 8 (1.39%) BGP
11 8 (1.39%) DHCP
11 8 (1.39%) VLAN
11 8 (1.39%) Wireless
12 7 (1.21%) 5G
12 7 (1.21%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.21%) Internet
12 7 (1.21%) Network Security
12 7 (1.21%) Wireless Security
13 6 (1.04%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.85%) Power BI
2 22 (3.81%) Data Lake
3 16 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.56%) Tableau
7 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.21%) Big Data
8 7 (1.21%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.69%) Metadata
11 3 (0.52%) Bigtable
11 3 (0.52%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.52%) GIS
11 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (6.41%) Git
2 24 (4.16%) JIRA
3 22 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.08%) GitLab
5 10 (1.73%) Travis CI
6 9 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.56%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.69%) Selenium
10 3 (0.52%) JMeter
10 3 (0.52%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.35%) Appium
11 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.35%) Log4j
11 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 332 (57.54%) Social Skills
2 208 (36.05%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (9.88%) Finance
4 52 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.33%) Manufacturing
6 23 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.64%) Banking
8 16 (2.77%) Marketing
9 12 (2.08%) Legal
10 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.04%) Retail
14 5 (0.87%) Law
15 4 (0.69%) Local Government
16 3 (0.52%) Games
16 3 (0.52%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (14.38%) Analyst
2 65 (11.27%) Service Desk Agent
3 56 (9.71%) Developer
4 34 (5.89%) Business Analyst
4 34 (5.89%) Consultant
5 30 (5.20%) Senior
6 28 (4.85%) Architect
7 24 (4.16%) IT Support
7 24 (4.16%) Lead
8 22 (3.81%) Network Engineer
9 21 (3.64%) Service Analyst
10 20 (3.47%) Service Desk Analyst
11 18 (3.12%) IT Engineer
11 18 (3.12%) Project Manager
12 15 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Support Engineer
13 14 (2.43%) Capacity Manager
13 14 (2.43%) IT Technician
13 14 (2.43%) Problem Manager
14 12 (2.08%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.25%) Kafka
2 11 (1.91%) CSS
2 11 (1.91%) JSON
3 10 (1.73%) .NET
3 10 (1.73%) HTML
4 9 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.56%) XML
4 9 (1.56%) YAML
5 7 (1.21%) Web Services
6 6 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (1.04%) RESTful
7 5 (0.87%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.87%) Swagger
8 4 (0.69%) FastAPI
8 4 (0.69%) GraphQL
8 4 (0.69%) gRPC
8 4 (0.69%) JWT
8 4 (0.69%) LDAP
8 4 (0.69%) OpenAPI
8 4 (0.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 27 (4.68%) Virtual Team
3 17 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.60%) CMDB
6 14 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.08%) NHS
8 11 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 7 (1.21%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.04%) Life Science
12 5 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.69%) Clustering
13 4 (0.69%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.52%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.73%) Windows
2 51 (8.84%) Windows 10
3 20 (3.47%) Linux
4 13 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.56%) Android
6 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.69%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) Unix
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.52%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (21.49%) Customer Service
2 103 (17.85%) Agile
3 77 (13.34%) Project Management
4 64 (11.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (10.92%) DevOps
6 60 (10.40%) Decision-Making
7 57 (9.88%) Service Management
8 55 (9.53%) CI/CD
8 55 (9.53%) ITIL
8 55 (9.53%) Mentoring
9 48 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (8.15%) Time Management
11 42 (7.28%) Quality Management
12 40 (6.93%) Data Modelling
12 40 (6.93%) Statistics
13 39 (6.76%) Migration
14 38 (6.59%) Problem Management
15 37 (6.41%) Computer Science
16 35 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (6.07%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 58 (10.05%) Python
2 47 (8.15%) SQL
3 28 (4.85%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.33%) Bash
6 24 (4.16%) Java
7 9 (1.56%) Go
8 8 (1.39%) C#
8 8 (1.39%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.04%) MATLAB
9 6 (1.04%) Scala
10 5 (0.87%) VBA
11 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.69%) Ruby
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.69%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.52%) ABAP
12 3 (0.52%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 92 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.04%) Degree
3 78 (13.52%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.29%) CCNA
7 14 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.21%) CCNP
9 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.69%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.69%) CBAP
12 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.69%) PMP
12 4 (0.69%) VCAP
12 4 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.40%) SLA
2 39 (6.76%) QA
3 26 (4.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 24 (4.16%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.43%) GDPR
6 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.04%) GxP
8 5 (0.87%) GAMP
8 5 (0.87%) PMO
9 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.52%) IASME
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.52%) NIST
10 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) COREP
12 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.17%) FINREP
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 36 (6.24%) Docker
2 30 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (4.68%) Active Directory
4 17 (2.95%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.52%) KVM
6 3 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.35%) Firmware
7 2 (0.35%) HDFS
7 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.17%) ACF2
8 1 (0.17%) RACF
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.20%) Ansible
3 28 (4.85%) Terraform
4 14 (2.43%) Puppet
5 12 (2.08%) Grafana
5 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.73%) Progress Chef
7 9 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (1.56%) Kibana
7 9 (1.56%) logstash
7 9 (1.56%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.56%) SCCM
8 6 (1.04%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.52%) Autotask
10 3 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 127 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.37%) VMware
3 27 (4.68%) SAP
4 23 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.64%) Citrix
6 17 (2.95%) Cisco
6 17 (2.95%) Splunk
7 13 (2.25%) Juniper
7 13 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.08%) Google
8 12 (2.08%) Meraki
9 11 (1.91%) 3Com
9 11 (1.91%) Aruba
9 11 (1.91%) Brocade
10 10 (1.73%) Databricks
11 8 (1.39%) IBM
11 8 (1.39%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.21%) Oracle
13 6 (1.04%) Solace
14 4 (0.69%) Teradata