Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Newport

Problem Solving
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 6 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newport 30.00% 22.54% 23.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.00% 23.53% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 23
10th Percentile £213 £185 £273
25th Percentile £299 - £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -20.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £423 - £650
90th Percentile £434 £518 £695
South Wales median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +50.44% +247.69%
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £85.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -82.81% +157.58% +103.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20 68 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 100.00% 95.77% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 88
10th Percentile £181 £188 £273
25th Percentile £266 £246 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -25.58% -5.70%
75th Percentile £473 - £638
90th Percentile £575 £510 £675
South Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 28 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.12 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.00 £33.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.89% -21.76% +111.23%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £53.19
90th Percentile - £60.63 £55.25
South Wales median hourly rate £14.61 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -42.39% -4.60% +32.91%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Newport

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Newport

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newport over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Newport

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Problem-Solving

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

General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Clinical Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) NHS Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Business Case
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft