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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 32 32 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.58% 12.75% 8.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.39% 17.39% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 15
10th Percentile £191 - £104
25th Percentile £260 £143 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £210 £521
Median % change year-on-year +68.14% -59.71% +1.71%
75th Percentile £489 £505 £588
90th Percentile £588 £564 £625
South Wales median daily rate £331 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -17.21% -23.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £13.50 £20.47
% change year-on-year +8.22% -34.05% +25.97%

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 165 184 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.66% 73.31% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 147 173
10th Percentile £226 £143 £190
25th Percentile £303 £238 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £494 £551 £586
90th Percentile £650 £608 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.36 £17.13
25th Percentile £12.65 £15.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -21.81% +25.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.65 £25.75
90th Percentile £25.54 £25.60 £26.25
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £21.49 £19.49
% change year-on-year -25.53% +10.24% -2.55%

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 6 July 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 4 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Service Bus
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.13%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (6.25%) SAP WM
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.13%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) OCI
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) IPsec
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
1 1 (3.13%) RTP
1 1 (3.13%) SSL
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Welsh Language
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Multimedia
7 1 (3.13%) Electronics
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Designer
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Administrator
4 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Designer
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP Logistics Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) SAP WM Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Service Designer
4 2 (6.25%) SOA Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) OAuth
2 4 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (12.50%) SOAP
2 4 (12.50%) XML
3 3 (9.38%) Node.js
3 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
3 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
3 3 (9.38%) Swagger
3 3 (9.38%) XSD
4 2 (6.25%) CSS
4 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.25%) React
4 2 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) NumPy
5 1 (3.13%) SciPy
5 1 (3.13%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) NHS
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
2 7 (21.88%) SDLC
3 5 (15.63%) Coaching
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
4 4 (12.50%) API Design
4 4 (12.50%) API Management
4 4 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (9.38%) BPEL
5 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
5 3 (9.38%) Microservices
5 3 (9.38%) Project Management
5 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
5 3 (9.38%) SOA
5 3 (9.38%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (9.38%) Validation
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
1 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ISEB
4 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SEPA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.13%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Dell
3 2 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat