Problem-Solving Contracts in Cardiff

Problem Solving
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 26 34 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 16.25% 16.04% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.81% 21.12% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 22
10th Percentile £201 - £160
25th Percentile £225 £143 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £380 £448
Median % change year-on-year -12.85% -15.08% -
75th Percentile £478 £526 £569
90th Percentile £587 £588 £621
South Wales median daily rate £331 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -34.26% -4.05% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £13.50 £20.47
% change year-on-year +177.78% -34.05% +15.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cardiff

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cardiff

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cardiff

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cardiff

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
1 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.85%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) IPsec
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Welsh Language
4 2 (7.69%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 3 (11.54%) Administrator
2 3 (11.54%) Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Designer
2 3 (11.54%) IT Support
2 3 (11.54%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Senior IT Support
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead Designer
3 2 (7.69%) Service Designer
3 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (3.85%) Logistics Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.69%) React
2 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 2 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) Express.js
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) JWT
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) NestJS
3 1 (3.85%) NumPy
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) Puppeteer
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Agile
1 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 5 (19.23%) Coaching
3 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 4 (15.38%) SDLC
4 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Scrum
4 3 (11.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (7.69%) Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (7.69%) ETL
5 2 (7.69%) ITIL
5 2 (7.69%) Microservices
5 2 (7.69%) Password Management
5 2 (7.69%) Project Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Management
5 2 (7.69%) TDD
5 2 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Argo
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Nagios
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) SAP