Problem-Solving Contracts in South Wales

Problem Solving
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 51 62 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 15.04% 11.97% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% 13.48% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 30
10th Percentile £143 £201 £154
25th Percentile £174 £300 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +8.36% +29.20%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £543
90th Percentile £625 £625 £688
Wales median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.00 - £15.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.47 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +32.06% -6.91%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £15.75
90th Percentile £57.10 - -
Wales median hourly rate £13.50 £25.74 £15.50
% change year-on-year -47.54% +66.03% -6.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 460 755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.24% 88.80% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 351 560
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £352 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £667 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £495 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.48% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 27
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -19.38% +9.76%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £36.94
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £23.75
% change year-on-year +19.59% -20.78% +23.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in South Wales over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cardiff +12 34 £380 -15.08% 60
Newport -1 17 £600 +14.29% 17
Problem-Solving
Wales

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (15.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (15.69%) Acrobat
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.96%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SAP HCM
1 2 (3.92%) SAP HR
1 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.88%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) GitHub
3 3 (5.88%) WhatsApp
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.92%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) LAN
2 3 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) MySQL
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.92%) PowerCenter
2 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) JIRA
General
1 37 (72.55%) Social Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Local Government
3 8 (15.69%) Marketing
4 5 (9.80%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Digital Economy
6 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) IT Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) IT Support
3 9 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Bid Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Project Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Bid Manager
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Manager
5 7 (13.73%) Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) DBA
7 4 (7.84%) Coordinator
7 4 (7.84%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (7.84%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Administrator
8 3 (5.88%) Field Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (5.88%) Software Project Manager
9 2 (3.92%) Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) NHS
3 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) Linux
3 4 (7.84%) AIX
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.96%) Android
6 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Project Management
2 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (21.57%) Agile
3 11 (21.57%) Risk Management
4 10 (19.61%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (17.65%) Value Proposition
6 8 (15.69%) PRINCE2
6 8 (15.69%) Psychology
7 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
7 6 (11.76%) Scrum
8 5 (9.80%) Project Governance
8 5 (9.80%) SDLC
9 4 (7.84%) DevOps
9 4 (7.84%) E-business
9 4 (7.84%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (7.84%) Kanban
9 4 (7.84%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (7.84%) Resource Management
10 3 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.96%) PHP
2 1 (1.96%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) R
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Degree
2 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) PMI Certification
4 8 (15.69%) PMP
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) PMO
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.92%) Ansible
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.92%) Nagios
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.92%) SCCM
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) Adobe
3 5 (9.80%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.84%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) VMware
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco
6 2 (3.92%) Dell
6 2 (3.92%) Informatica
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.92%) SonicWALL
6 2 (3.92%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.96%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.96%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.96%) Splunk