Problem-Solving Contracts in Shropshire

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 3 10
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 17 32 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 12.69% 35.56% 22.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% 41.03% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 115
10th Percentile £117 £381 £406
25th Percentile £120 £522 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £141 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -73.89% - +16.13%
75th Percentile £300 £586 £551
90th Percentile £470 £595 £587
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 78 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 63.43% 86.67% 97.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 485
10th Percentile £200 £320 £382
25th Percentile £320 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £505
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +6.93% +15.17%
75th Percentile £500 £554 £575
90th Percentile £520 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £10.42 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.05% +214.29% -48.53%
75th Percentile £11.32 £57.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £14.26 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +11.48%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Shropshire over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Shropshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Telford -10 17 £141 -73.89% 16
Problem-Solving
West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (17.65%) LAN
1 3 (17.65%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Administrator
1 7 (41.18%) Programmer
2 6 (35.29%) C Programmer
3 3 (17.65%) Junior
3 3 (17.65%) PMO Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Server Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) VMWare Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Junior Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) C++ Programmer
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Junior PMO
5 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
1 3 (17.65%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) CentOS
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Time Management
2 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (17.65%) Change Control
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
3 3 (17.65%) Process Management
3 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.88%) Data Management
5 1 (5.88%) Database Security
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) OCP
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) VMware NSX
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Server
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Apple
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle