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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +19
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 5 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 11.11% 22.95% 15.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.71% 24.56% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £232 £185 £313
25th Percentile £340 £289 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -38.46% +18.18%
75th Percentile £420 £425 £788
90th Percentile £423 £554 -
South Wales median daily rate £405 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +1.25% -21.95% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £23.10 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £25.67 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £27.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +209.09% -51.33% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £41.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £27.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.95% -16.67% -

All Process & 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 34 57 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 75.56% 93.44% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 43
10th Percentile £266 £161 £164
25th Percentile £406 £185 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £365 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.29% -30.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £438 £638
90th Percentile £713 £635 £688
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 12
10th Percentile £79.00 £15.20 £14.13
25th Percentile £81.25 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £85.00 £25.18 £32.33
Median % change year-on-year +237.57% -22.12% +59.75%
75th Percentile £88.13 £40.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £89.25 £41.25 -
South Wales median hourly rate £18.69 £25.09 £29.83
% change year-on-year -25.53% -15.90% +49.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend 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 5 January 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Newport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) HND
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (20.00%) Nessus
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable
1 1 (20.00%) VMware