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 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 12 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 195 297 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.03% 13.28% 10.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.09% 15.11% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 182 274
10th Percentile £218 £258 £166
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.45% +17.12%
75th Percentile £585 £597 £575
90th Percentile £647 £731 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 6
10th Percentile £14.71 £10.96 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.09 £13.03 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.25 £18.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.37% +10.42% -6.94%
75th Percentile £56.25 £22.56 £18.45
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.36 £21.80
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
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 1,613 1,965 3,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.93% 87.84% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,334 2,338
10th Percentile £263 £263 £278
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £586
90th Percentile £745 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 63
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £19.93
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.05
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
Birmingham -4 75 £475 -5.00% 134
Warwickshire +4 45 £513 -6.82% 71
Shropshire -11 17 £141 -73.89% 32
Staffordshire 0 13 £400 -20.00% 86
Worcestershire 0 11 £475 +5.56% 47
Coventry -7 7 £548 +14.06% 42
Herefordshire -9 2 £475 +13.10% 8
Solihull -22 1 £345 -34.29% 14
Walsall - 1 £325 - 8
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 5 (2.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 5 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
1 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.05%) CMS
3 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Drupal
3 2 (1.03%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.51%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.03%) Maya
4 2 (1.03%) Trello
5 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.51%) Simulink
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.56%) Oracle HRMS
2 4 (2.05%) Odoo
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 (0.51%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.36%) Azure
2 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.08%) Azure AKS
6 6 (3.08%) Azure App Service
7 4 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.05%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.05%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.54%) dbt
9 2 (1.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.03%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.03%) Serverless
10 1 (0.51%) Boomi
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.62%) Firewall
2 8 (4.10%) Network Security
2 8 (4.10%) WAN
3 6 (3.08%) LAN
3 6 (3.08%) VPN
4 5 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.05%) DHCP
5 4 (2.05%) DNS
5 4 (2.05%) VoIP
6 3 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.54%) SAN
6 3 (1.54%) VLAN
7 2 (1.03%) Internet
8 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.51%) MPLS
8 1 (0.51%) SDH
8 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.67%) Power BI
2 10 (5.13%) Data Mining
3 7 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (1.54%) Power Query
5 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.54%) Tableau
6 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.03%) GIS
6 2 (1.03%) Metadata
6 2 (1.03%) OLAP
6 2 (1.03%) OLTP
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.05%) Git
3 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) kappa
5 1 (0.51%) Ant
5 1 (0.51%) Appium
5 1 (0.51%) Gradle
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.51%) UI Automator
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) XCUITest
General
1 139 (71.28%) Social Skills
2 95 (48.72%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.41%) Finance
4 19 (9.74%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.59%) Banking
6 7 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Law
9 3 (1.54%) Legal
9 3 (1.54%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Automotive
10 2 (1.03%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (11.28%) Analyst
1 22 (11.28%) Developer
1 22 (11.28%) Senior
2 17 (8.72%) Consultant
2 17 (8.72%) Project Manager
3 15 (7.69%) Architect
4 9 (4.62%) Administrator
4 9 (4.62%) Data Architect
5 8 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (3.59%) Lead
6 7 (3.59%) Programmer
7 6 (3.08%) AML Project Manager
7 6 (3.08%) C Programmer
7 6 (3.08%) Data Engineer
7 6 (3.08%) Support Engineer
8 5 (2.56%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (2.56%) Angular Developer
9 4 (2.05%) Java Developer
9 4 (2.05%) Network Manager
9 4 (2.05%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.13%) .NET
2 8 (4.10%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.08%) Middleware
3 6 (3.08%) RESTful
4 5 (2.56%) ADO
4 5 (2.56%) CSS
4 5 (2.56%) HTML
5 4 (2.05%) Spring
5 4 (2.05%) Web Services
6 3 (1.54%) Flask
6 3 (1.54%) Pandas
6 3 (1.54%) React
7 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.03%) JSON
7 2 (1.03%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.03%) XML
8 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.51%) REST
8 1 (0.51%) SOAP
8 1 (0.51%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.18%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.56%) SCADA
8 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.05%) Clustering
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.05%) PMI
8 4 (2.05%) Social Media
8 4 (2.05%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.23%) Windows
2 8 (4.10%) Linux
2 8 (4.10%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.08%) Unix
3 6 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.54%) CentOS
5 3 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.03%) Android
6 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.51%) VMS
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (17.44%) Project Management
2 30 (15.38%) Agile
2 30 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 28 (14.36%) Decision-Making
4 27 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (9.74%) ITIL
6 17 (8.72%) Project Delivery
7 15 (7.69%) Analytics
7 15 (7.69%) DevOps
8 14 (7.18%) Roadmaps
8 14 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (7.18%) User Experience
9 13 (6.67%) Visualisation
10 12 (6.15%) Customer Service
11 11 (5.64%) Critical Thinking
11 11 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (5.64%) Migration
12 10 (5.13%) Data Modelling
13 9 (4.62%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.82%) SQL
2 14 (7.18%) Python
3 9 (4.62%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.10%) C
4 8 (4.10%) C#
5 6 (3.08%) Bicep
5 6 (3.08%) Java
6 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.05%) Bash
8 3 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Swift
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (21.54%) Degree
2 22 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.56%) CCNP
6 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.56%) PMP
7 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.05%) CCIE
7 4 (2.05%) CISSP
7 4 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.03%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) CEH
8 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) GIAC
8 2 (1.03%) GSEC
8 2 (1.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.15%) QA
2 10 (5.13%) SLA
3 6 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.05%) PMO
5 2 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.54%) VMware Server
4 3 (1.54%) vSphere
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Firmware
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (3.08%) SCCM
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.54%) Autotask
3 3 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.54%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.03%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) logstash
5 1 (0.51%) Nessus
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Terraform
5 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.62%) VMware
3 7 (3.59%) Oracle
3 7 (3.59%) SAP
4 6 (3.08%) Apple
4 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.56%) BMC
6 4 (2.05%) Cisco
6 4 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.54%) Datto
8 2 (1.03%) Citrix
8 2 (1.03%) Informatica
8 2 (1.03%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.03%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.03%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.51%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.51%) Splunk
9 1 (0.51%) Xilinx