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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 582 464 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 12.28% 8.42% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.50% 9.34% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 236 313
10th Percentile £240 £307 £200
25th Percentile £370 £413 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +11.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £632
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 18 64
10th Percentile - £15.43 £11.28
25th Percentile £10.95 £23.15 £12.94
Median hourly rate £13.50 £35.00 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year -61.43% +84.48% +45.94%
75th Percentile £28.75 £55.64 £41.19
90th Percentile £60.56 £67.68 £51.66
England median hourly rate £16.23 £51.90 £23.20
% change year-on-year -68.73% +123.74% +28.86%

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 4,015 4,967 6,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.69% 90.15% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,410 4,610
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 254
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.74 £13.66
Median hourly rate £20.74 £27.20 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +42.82% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +9 297 £488 +2.63% 559
Yorkshire +7 245 £475 -13.64% 356
North East +23 42 £563 +80.43% 146
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 (2.06%) Confluence
2 7 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.86%) WordPress
4 4 (0.69%) IBM Notes
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
5 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.52%) CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) CICS
7 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 60 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
6 3 (0.52%) Blender
6 3 (0.52%) Maya
6 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 13 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.03%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.86%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 73 (12.54%) Azure
2 62 (10.65%) AWS
3 37 (6.36%) GCP
4 36 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 30 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.41%) GitHub
8 13 (2.23%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.72%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.55%) Kong
11 8 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (1.03%) Apigee
13 6 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.81%) LAN
1 28 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
2 24 (4.12%) Firewall
2 24 (4.12%) VPN
3 23 (3.95%) WAN
4 18 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.75%) DNS
6 15 (2.58%) OSPF
7 10 (1.72%) HTTP
8 9 (1.55%) SSL
9 8 (1.37%) 5G
9 8 (1.37%) BGP
9 8 (1.37%) VLAN
9 8 (1.37%) Wireless
10 7 (1.20%) DHCP
10 7 (1.20%) Ethernet
10 7 (1.20%) Internet
10 7 (1.20%) Network Security
10 7 (1.20%) Wireless Security
11 6 (1.03%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.98%) Power BI
2 22 (3.78%) Data Lake
3 19 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.72%) Tableau
7 9 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.20%) Big Data
9 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.86%) Metadata
12 3 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.52%) Bigtable
12 3 (0.52%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (6.70%) Git
2 23 (3.95%) JIRA
3 21 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.06%) GitLab
5 10 (1.72%) Travis CI
6 9 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (1.55%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.69%) Selenium
10 3 (0.52%) JMeter
10 3 (0.52%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.34%) Appium
11 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.34%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.34%) Log4j
11 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.17%) RStudio
12 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 332 (57.04%) Social Skills
2 205 (35.22%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (9.11%) Finance
4 51 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 23 (3.95%) Manufacturing
6 21 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.26%) Banking
8 11 (1.89%) Legal
8 11 (1.89%) Marketing
8 11 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.86%) Local Government
12 5 (0.86%) Retail
13 4 (0.69%) Games
13 4 (0.69%) Law
14 3 (0.52%) German Language
14 3 (0.52%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 80 (13.75%) Analyst
2 61 (10.48%) Developer
2 61 (10.48%) Service Desk Agent
3 30 (5.15%) Senior
4 29 (4.98%) Architect
4 29 (4.98%) Consultant
5 28 (4.81%) Business Analyst
6 24 (4.12%) IT Support
7 23 (3.95%) Lead
8 22 (3.78%) Network Engineer
8 22 (3.78%) Project Manager
9 21 (3.61%) Service Analyst
10 20 (3.44%) Service Desk Analyst
11 18 (3.09%) IT Engineer
12 15 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.58%) Support Engineer
13 14 (2.41%) Capacity Manager
13 14 (2.41%) Problem Manager
14 13 (2.23%) IT Technician
15 12 (2.06%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.23%) Kafka
2 12 (2.06%) .NET
3 11 (1.89%) CSS
3 11 (1.89%) HTML
3 11 (1.89%) JSON
4 9 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.55%) XML
4 9 (1.55%) YAML
5 8 (1.37%) RESTful
6 7 (1.20%) Web Services
7 6 (1.03%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (1.03%) Swagger
8 5 (0.86%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.86%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.86%) gRPC
8 5 (0.86%) JWT
8 5 (0.86%) OAuth
8 5 (0.86%) OpenAPI
8 5 (0.86%) REST
9 4 (0.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.84%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.30%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.58%) CMDB
5 14 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.23%) NHS
7 12 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.03%) Life Science
13 4 (0.69%) Clustering
13 4 (0.69%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.69%) Derivative
13 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.52%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.60%) Windows
2 52 (8.93%) Windows 10
3 19 (3.26%) Linux
4 12 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.72%) Android
6 6 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.52%) zOS
9 2 (0.34%) Unix
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.96%) Customer Service
2 100 (17.18%) Agile
3 76 (13.06%) Project Management
4 64 (11.00%) DevOps
4 64 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 58 (9.97%) Decision-Making
6 57 (9.79%) Service Management
7 56 (9.62%) CI/CD
8 55 (9.45%) ITIL
9 54 (9.28%) Mentoring
10 48 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (8.08%) Time Management
12 42 (7.22%) Data Modelling
12 42 (7.22%) Quality Management
13 41 (7.04%) Computer Science
14 39 (6.70%) Statistics
15 38 (6.53%) Problem Management
16 36 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (6.01%) Migration
18 34 (5.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (10.65%) Python
2 50 (8.59%) SQL
3 32 (5.50%) PowerShell
4 28 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.47%) Bash
5 26 (4.47%) Java
6 9 (1.55%) C#
6 9 (1.55%) Go
7 8 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.03%) MATLAB
8 6 (1.03%) Scala
9 5 (0.86%) VBA
10 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.69%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.52%) ABAP
11 3 (0.52%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.52%) C
11 3 (0.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 94 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 80 (13.75%) Degree
3 79 (13.57%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (2.92%) CCNA
7 14 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.20%) CCNP
9 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.69%) CBAP
12 4 (0.69%) CCIE
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.69%) PMP
12 4 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.79%) SLA
2 38 (6.53%) QA
3 26 (4.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 25 (4.30%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.41%) GDPR
6 10 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.03%) GxP
8 5 (0.86%) GAMP
8 5 (0.86%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.86%) PMO
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.52%) IASME
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
10 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (6.36%) Docker
2 28 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.58%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) Firmware
6 2 (0.34%) HDFS
6 2 (0.34%) KVM
6 2 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.34%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) ACF2
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) RACF
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.98%) Ansible
2 29 (4.98%) Terraform
3 13 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.23%) Puppet
4 12 (2.06%) Grafana
5 11 (1.89%) SCCM
6 9 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (1.55%) Kibana
6 9 (1.55%) logstash
6 9 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.03%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.52%) Autotask
9 3 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.98%) VMware
3 27 (4.64%) SAP
4 24 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.61%) Citrix
6 18 (3.09%) Splunk
7 17 (2.92%) Cisco
8 16 (2.75%) Google
9 13 (2.23%) Juniper
9 13 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 12 (2.06%) Meraki
11 11 (1.89%) 3Com
11 11 (1.89%) Aruba
11 11 (1.89%) Brocade
12 10 (1.72%) Databricks
13 8 (1.37%) IBM
13 8 (1.37%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.03%) Solace
15 5 (0.86%) Oracle
16 4 (0.69%) Lotus