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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 3 3 20
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 3.49% 14.29% 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 15.79% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £383 £297 £250
25th Percentile £413 £345 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £519 £434 £570
90th Percentile £538 £440 £625
South Wales median daily rate £500 £353 £400
% change year-on-year +41.61% -11.73% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.40
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £48.00
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £77.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £14.61 £13.50
% change year-on-year +45.45% +8.22% -

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 71 19 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 82.56% 90.48% 96.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 9 26
10th Percentile £363 £244 £169
25th Percentile £375 £266 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% +9.38% -26.94%
75th Percentile £550 £473 -
90th Percentile £575 £508 £606
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 27
10th Percentile £34.81 - £18.39
25th Percentile £45.27 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -62.50% +120.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £25.09
% change year-on-year +41.94% -38.22% +28.73%

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 3 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Backup Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Physics
1 1 (33.33%) Presales
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp