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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 245 217 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.76% 9.70% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.19% 10.67% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 108 119
10th Percentile £200 £371 £219
25th Percentile £324 £484 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -3.95%
75th Percentile £569 £614 £531
90th Percentile £625 £665 £550
England median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.41% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 18
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.80 £10.11
25th Percentile £15.00 £25.50 £11.31
Median hourly rate £16.25 £40.00 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +129.56% +19.64%
75th Percentile £20.24 £55.00 £18.70
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.00 £28.90
England median hourly rate £17.00 £50.00 £23.85
% change year-on-year -66.00% +109.67% +27.02%

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 1,425 2,034 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.84% 90.93% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,335 1,779
10th Percentile £275 £275 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 83
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.64
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.22
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.45
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
West Yorkshire +7 167 £490 -10.91% 198
South Yorkshire +9 56 £490 -6.67% 110
North Yorkshire +6 16 £130 -75.93% 54
East Yorkshire +4 5 £500 +6.38% 22
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 5 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.63%) WordPress
4 3 (1.22%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.22%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.22%) nginx
5 2 (0.82%) Apache
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
Applications
1 23 (9.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.22%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.22%) Blender
4 3 (1.22%) Maya
4 3 (1.22%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.86%) SAP PM
3 5 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.82%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.20%) GCP
2 23 (9.39%) Azure
3 22 (8.98%) AWS
4 15 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.49%) GitHub
7 9 (3.67%) Kong
8 8 (3.27%) PowerApps
9 6 (2.45%) Apigee
10 5 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.63%) MailChimp
12 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.22%) CloudBees
12 3 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.22%) Vertex AI
13 2 (0.82%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 2 (0.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.82%) Slack
14 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (7.35%) Firewall
3 17 (6.94%) LAN
4 12 (4.90%) DNS
4 12 (4.90%) WAN
5 9 (3.67%) HTTP
5 9 (3.67%) SSL
5 9 (3.67%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.67%) VPN
6 5 (2.04%) Internet
6 5 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.04%) SAN
7 3 (1.22%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.22%) DHCP
7 3 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.41%) Broadband
8 1 (0.41%) PSTN
8 1 (0.41%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.12%) Power BI
2 9 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.63%) Tableau
5 3 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.22%) Bigtable
5 3 (1.22%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.22%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (1.22%) GIS
5 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.82%) Big Data
6 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.82%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Git
2 16 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.31%) JIRA
4 9 (3.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (3.67%) CircleCI
4 9 (3.67%) GitLab
4 9 (3.67%) Travis CI
5 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.22%) JMeter
5 3 (1.22%) XCUITest
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) JUnit
7 1 (0.41%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) TestRail
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (57.96%) Social Skills
2 93 (37.96%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.65%) Finance
4 19 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.67%) Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Games
8 3 (1.22%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.22%) Marketing
9 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Billing
10 1 (0.41%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Police
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (14.69%) Service Desk Agent
2 32 (13.06%) Analyst
3 31 (12.65%) Developer
4 24 (9.80%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.16%) Lead
6 11 (4.49%) Consultant
6 11 (4.49%) IT Engineer
7 10 (4.08%) Senior
8 9 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) ServiceNow Developer
9 8 (3.27%) Network Engineer
10 7 (2.86%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 7 (2.86%) Tester
11 6 (2.45%) Architect
11 6 (2.45%) Automation Tester
11 6 (2.45%) IT Support
11 6 (2.45%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (2.45%) SAP Business Analyst
11 6 (2.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.49%) JSON
1 11 (4.49%) Kafka
2 9 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (3.67%) XML
2 9 (3.67%) YAML
3 6 (2.45%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (2.04%) .NET
4 5 (2.04%) CSS
4 5 (2.04%) Swagger
4 5 (2.04%) Web Services
5 4 (1.63%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.63%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.63%) Gherkin
5 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.63%) HTML
5 4 (1.63%) JWT
5 4 (1.63%) LDAP
5 4 (1.63%) OAuth
5 4 (1.63%) OpenAPI
5 4 (1.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.49%) Algorithms
2 10 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.67%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.04%) NHS
7 5 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.63%) CMDB
8 4 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.22%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.22%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (0.82%) iPhone
10 2 (0.82%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.80%) Windows
2 9 (3.67%) Android
2 9 (3.67%) Linux
2 9 (3.67%) Windows 10
3 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.22%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.22%) zOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.90%) Agile
2 49 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 39 (15.92%) DevOps
3 39 (15.92%) Project Management
4 38 (15.51%) CI/CD
5 30 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (9.80%) Scrum
6 24 (9.80%) Service Delivery
7 23 (9.39%) Containerisation
7 23 (9.39%) ITIL
7 23 (9.39%) Test Automation
7 23 (9.39%) User Stories
8 22 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (7.76%) Business Analysis
9 19 (7.76%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (7.35%) Break/Fix
10 18 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (7.35%) Data Modelling
10 18 (7.35%) ITSM
10 18 (7.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.69%) Python
2 20 (8.16%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.53%) Java
3 16 (6.53%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.90%) Bash
5 10 (4.08%) SQL
6 8 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.04%) C#
7 5 (2.04%) Scala
8 4 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.63%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.63%) VB.NET
8 4 (1.63%) VBA
9 3 (1.22%) ActionScript
9 3 (1.22%) Go
9 3 (1.22%) Groovy
9 3 (1.22%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) ABAP
10 2 (0.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (10.61%) Degree
2 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.45%) CCNA
4 6 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (2.45%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (1.63%) A+ Certification
5 4 (1.63%) CBAP
5 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.63%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) CCSA
8 1 (0.41%) CCSE
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.20%) QA
2 21 (8.57%) SLA
3 7 (2.86%) GDPR
4 6 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.22%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (9.39%) Docker
2 9 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.22%) KVM
4 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.22%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.82%) HDFS
5 2 (0.82%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.41%) ACF2
6 1 (0.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (8.98%) Ansible
1 22 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.31%) Puppet
2 13 (5.31%) Terraform
3 12 (4.90%) Grafana
4 9 (3.67%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.67%) Kibana
4 9 (3.67%) logstash
4 9 (3.67%) Progress Chef
4 9 (3.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.22%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 52 (21.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.35%) SAP
2 18 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.31%) Citrix
4 12 (4.90%) Cisco
5 11 (4.49%) 3Com
5 11 (4.49%) Aruba
5 11 (4.49%) Brocade
5 11 (4.49%) Juniper
5 11 (4.49%) Meraki
6 10 (4.08%) Google
7 9 (3.67%) Splunk
7 9 (3.67%) VMware
8 8 (3.27%) IBM
9 6 (2.45%) Solace
10 4 (1.63%) Hootsuite
10 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.22%) Adobe
11 3 (1.22%) ESRI
11 3 (1.22%) HP