Problem-Solving Contracts in Yorkshire

Problem Solving
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 247 205 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.46% 9.42% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.09% 10.38% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 103 131
10th Percentile £190 £413 £238
25th Percentile £328 £486 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £534 £616 £538
90th Percentile £624 £690 £600
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.70 £10.20
25th Percentile £15.00 £25.25 £13.19
Median hourly rate £16.25 £35.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +94.44% +3.75%
75th Percentile £20.24 £47.50 £18.70
90th Percentile £63.75 £61.00 £28.85
England median hourly rate £16.23 £52.50 £23.20
% change year-on-year -69.09% +126.34% +28.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,445 1,975 2,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.60% 90.72% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,290 1,763
10th Percentile £275 £270 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £579 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 83
10th Percentile £11.35 £9.80 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.59
Median hourly rate £13.37 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.73% -42.54% -7.23%
75th Percentile £19.25 £20.99 £22.58
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £28.45
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Yorkshire +7 164 £485 -11.82% 206
South Yorkshire +14 59 £505 -6.05% 79
North Yorkshire +4 16 £130 -75.93% 54
East Yorkshire +6 5 £500 +6.38% 26
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (4.05%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.62%) WordPress
4 3 (1.21%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.21%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.21%) nginx
5 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (9.31%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.21%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.21%) Blender
4 3 (1.21%) Maya
4 3 (1.21%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.43%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.74%) Azure
1 29 (11.74%) GCP
2 25 (10.12%) AWS
3 18 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (4.86%) GitHub
6 9 (3.64%) Kong
7 8 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.24%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.43%) Apigee
9 5 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.62%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.62%) MailChimp
10 4 (1.62%) Vertex AI
11 3 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.21%) CloudBees
11 3 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.81%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.81%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (6.88%) Firewall
3 16 (6.48%) LAN
4 12 (4.86%) WAN
5 11 (4.45%) DNS
6 9 (3.64%) HTTP
6 9 (3.64%) SSL
6 9 (3.64%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.64%) VPN
7 5 (2.02%) Internet
8 4 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.62%) SAN
9 3 (1.21%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.81%) DHCP
11 1 (0.40%) Broadband
11 1 (0.40%) Network Security
11 1 (0.40%) PSTN
11 1 (0.40%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.88%) Power BI
2 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.64%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.02%) Tableau
6 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.21%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.21%) Bigtable
7 3 (1.21%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.21%) Cloud Spanner
7 3 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (1.21%) GIS
7 3 (1.21%) Metadata
7 3 (1.21%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.81%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (9.72%) Git
2 16 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.26%) JIRA
4 9 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (3.64%) CircleCI
4 9 (3.64%) GitLab
4 9 (3.64%) Travis CI
5 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.21%) JMeter
5 3 (1.21%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) JUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) RStudio
7 1 (0.40%) TestRail
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (56.28%) Social Skills
2 96 (38.87%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.74%) Finance
4 20 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.83%) Banking
8 3 (1.21%) Games
8 3 (1.21%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Marketing
8 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.81%) German Language
9 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (13.77%) Developer
2 32 (12.96%) Analyst
3 31 (12.55%) Service Desk Agent
4 22 (8.91%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.10%) Lead
6 12 (4.86%) Consultant
7 11 (4.45%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.05%) Senior
9 9 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.64%) ServiceNow Developer
10 8 (3.24%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Tester
11 7 (2.83%) Automation Tester
11 7 (2.83%) DevOps Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.43%) Architect
12 6 (2.43%) IT Support
12 6 (2.43%) SAP Analyst
12 6 (2.43%) SAP Business Analyst
12 6 (2.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.45%) JSON
1 11 (4.45%) Kafka
2 9 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.64%) XML
2 9 (3.64%) YAML
3 6 (2.43%) .NET
3 6 (2.43%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (2.43%) RESTful
3 6 (2.43%) Swagger
4 5 (2.02%) CSS
4 5 (2.02%) GraphQL
4 5 (2.02%) gRPC
4 5 (2.02%) HTML
4 5 (2.02%) JWT
4 5 (2.02%) OAuth
4 5 (2.02%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.02%) Web Services
5 4 (1.62%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.62%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.45%) Algorithms
2 9 (3.64%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.83%) NHS
5 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.62%) CMDB
6 4 (1.62%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.21%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.21%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.21%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.81%) BYOD
8 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.81%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.91%) Windows
2 10 (4.05%) Android
3 9 (3.64%) Linux
4 8 (3.24%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.02%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.21%) zOS
8 2 (0.81%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.08%) Agile
2 44 (17.81%) Customer Service
3 41 (16.60%) DevOps
4 40 (16.19%) CI/CD
5 39 (15.79%) Project Management
6 27 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (10.12%) Containerisation
8 24 (9.72%) ITIL
8 24 (9.72%) Scrum
8 24 (9.72%) Service Delivery
8 24 (9.72%) Test Automation
9 23 (9.31%) User Stories
10 22 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (8.50%) Data Modelling
12 20 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (7.69%) ITSM
14 18 (7.29%) Break/Fix
14 18 (7.29%) Business Analysis
15 17 (6.88%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (6.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.19%) Python
2 22 (8.91%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.29%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.88%) Java
5 14 (5.67%) Bash
5 14 (5.67%) SQL
6 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.43%) C#
8 5 (2.02%) Scala
9 4 (1.62%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.62%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.62%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.62%) VBA
10 3 (1.21%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.21%) C
10 3 (1.21%) Go
10 3 (1.21%) Groovy
10 3 (1.21%) Ruby
11 2 (0.81%) JCL
Qualifications
1 25 (10.12%) Degree
2 9 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.83%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.62%) CBAP
5 4 (1.62%) CCNA
5 4 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.62%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.81%) CISSP
6 2 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.40%) CCSA
7 1 (0.40%) CCSE
7 1 (0.40%) CEH
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.31%) QA
2 17 (6.88%) SLA
3 8 (3.24%) GDPR
4 7 (2.83%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.02%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.21%) PMO
7 2 (0.81%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (10.12%) Docker
2 10 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.81%) HDFS
5 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.81%) KVM
5 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.40%) ACF2
6 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 24 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.91%) Ansible
3 14 (5.67%) Terraform
4 13 (5.26%) Puppet
5 12 (4.86%) Grafana
6 9 (3.64%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (3.64%) Kibana
6 9 (3.64%) logstash
6 9 (3.64%) Progress Chef
6 9 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 52 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.88%) SAP
4 13 (5.26%) Citrix
4 13 (5.26%) Google
5 12 (4.86%) Cisco
6 11 (4.45%) 3Com
6 11 (4.45%) Aruba
6 11 (4.45%) Brocade
6 11 (4.45%) Juniper
6 11 (4.45%) Meraki
7 10 (4.05%) Splunk
8 8 (3.24%) IBM
9 6 (2.43%) Solace
9 6 (2.43%) VMware
10 4 (1.62%) Brio
10 4 (1.62%) Hootsuite
10 4 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.21%) Adobe
11 3 (1.21%) F5