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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 5.48% 27.12% 17.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 30.77% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 13
10th Percentile £373 £185 -
25th Percentile £388 £285 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -31.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £463 £431 £625
90th Percentile £478 £638 £755
South Wales median daily rate £400 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +3.23% -8.82% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £23.10 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £25.67 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £27.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +209.09% +150.00% -46.26%
75th Percentile £87.50 £41.25 £12.68
90th Percentile - - £13.69
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £27.50 £12.25
% change year-on-year -22.73% +124.49% -40.16%

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 56 52 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 76.71% 88.14% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 43
10th Percentile £363 £160 £133
25th Percentile £413 £185 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -2.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £625
90th Percentile £716 £638 £635
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 17
10th Percentile £40.54 £18.15 £13.02
25th Percentile £47.63 £20.12 £15.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.18 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year +98.57% +11.02% +16.37%
75th Percentile £83.13 £41.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £87.25 £45.00 £87.80
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.00 £22.68
% change year-on-year -3.41% -3.00% +25.03%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Physics
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Statistics
1 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) VMware