Problem-Solving Contracts in West Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 4 11 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 163 167 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.82% 11.02% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.45% 12.07% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 85 62
10th Percentile £306 £425 £251
25th Percentile £363 £488 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £625 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £550
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £11.75 £34.00 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.56 £40.00 £14.82
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.00 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +172.48% -5.53%
75th Percentile £15.19 £60.00 £18.70
90th Percentile £15.25 £66.00 £25.63
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
West 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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 838 1,384 1,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.48% 91.35% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 947 1,234
10th Percentile £300 £350 £282
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 48
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.51
25th Percentile £12.15 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £19.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +1.60% -18.70%
75th Percentile £15.24 £50.44 £22.56
90th Percentile £53.75 £65.63 £27.70
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 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 May 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 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
Leeds +8 87 £490 -10.91% 113
Wakefield 0 45 £398 - 17
Bradford +13 18 £490 -14.78% 26
Huddersfield +2 6 £375 - 6
Halifax +4 1 £525 -11.76% 7
Mirfield - 1 £338 - 2
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 4 (2.45%) WordPress
2 3 (1.84%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.68%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.36%) Power Platform
2 10 (6.13%) Azure
3 9 (5.52%) AWS
4 8 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (3.68%) GCP
5 6 (3.68%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.45%) MailChimp
7 3 (1.84%) GitHub
7 3 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.43%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (9.82%) LAN
3 12 (7.36%) WAN
4 5 (3.07%) Firewall
4 5 (3.07%) Internet
5 4 (2.45%) SAN
6 1 (0.61%) Broadband
6 1 (0.61%) DHCP
6 1 (0.61%) DNS
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.61%) PSTN
6 1 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) Power BI
2 4 (2.45%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.84%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.84%) GIS
3 3 (1.84%) Tableau
4 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.23%) Big Data
4 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.61%) Ingres
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Power Query
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Git
2 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
2 3 (1.84%) JMeter
2 3 (1.84%) XCUITest
3 2 (1.23%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) Selenium
4 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.61%) JUnit
4 1 (0.61%) Postman
4 1 (0.61%) RStudio
4 1 (0.61%) TestRail
4 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 97 (59.51%) Social Skills
2 57 (34.97%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.43%) Finance
4 12 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.84%) Banking
7 3 (1.84%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) German Language
8 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (19.63%) Service Desk Agent
2 28 (17.18%) Analyst
3 25 (15.34%) Developer
4 22 (13.50%) Business Analyst
5 12 (7.36%) Lead
6 10 (6.13%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.91%) Tester
8 7 (4.29%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.29%) Senior
8 7 (4.29%) ServiceNow Developer
9 6 (3.68%) Consultant
9 6 (3.68%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.68%) SAP Business Analyst
10 5 (3.07%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.45%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.45%) IT Support
11 4 (2.45%) IT Support Engineer
11 4 (2.45%) Support Engineer
12 3 (1.84%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.68%) .NET
2 5 (3.07%) Web Services
3 4 (2.45%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.45%) Gherkin
4 3 (1.84%) Playwright
5 2 (1.23%) JSON
5 2 (1.23%) Kafka
5 2 (1.23%) REST
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.61%) CSS
6 1 (0.61%) HTML
6 1 (0.61%) J2EE
6 1 (0.61%) LDAP
6 1 (0.61%) Node.js
6 1 (0.61%) PySpark
6 1 (0.61%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.61%) SAML
6 1 (0.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.75%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.68%) NHS
4 4 (2.45%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) BYOD
6 2 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.61%) CMDB
7 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.61%) Genomics
7 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) mHealth
7 1 (0.61%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.68%) Windows
2 5 (3.07%) Android
2 5 (3.07%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.70%) Agile
2 34 (20.86%) Customer Service
3 25 (15.34%) Project Management
4 20 (12.27%) Service Delivery
4 20 (12.27%) User Stories
5 18 (11.04%) Business Analysis
6 17 (10.43%) Test Automation
7 16 (9.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 16 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (7.98%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (7.98%) Break/Fix
8 13 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (7.98%) CI/CD
8 13 (7.98%) SDLC
9 12 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (7.36%) DevOps
10 11 (6.75%) Software Architecture
11 10 (6.13%) Scrum
11 10 (6.13%) Waterfall
12 9 (5.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.59%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.75%) Python
3 9 (5.52%) SQL
4 8 (4.91%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.68%) C#
6 5 (3.07%) Java
7 4 (2.45%) Bash
7 4 (2.45%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.45%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.45%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.45%) VBA
8 3 (1.84%) C
9 2 (1.23%) ABAP
9 2 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) Dart
10 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) R
10 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (8.59%) Degree
2 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (3.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) CBAP
3 4 (2.45%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.61%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.61%) CCNA
5 1 (0.61%) CCSA
5 1 (0.61%) CCSE
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.61%) CISM
5 1 (0.61%) CISSP
5 1 (0.61%) Dell Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) SLA
2 10 (6.13%) QA
3 3 (1.84%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.45%) Docker
3 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) HDFS
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) KVM
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.20%) SAP
3 12 (7.36%) Cisco
4 11 (6.75%) 3Com
4 11 (6.75%) Aruba
4 11 (6.75%) Brocade
4 11 (6.75%) Citrix
4 11 (6.75%) Juniper
4 11 (6.75%) Meraki
5 7 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.07%) VMware
7 4 (2.45%) Brio
7 4 (2.45%) Hootsuite
7 4 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.84%) ESRI
8 3 (1.84%) Google
9 2 (1.23%) Ariba
9 2 (1.23%) Databricks
9 2 (1.23%) Syclo
10 1 (0.61%) Xerox