Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Problem Solving
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 5.36% 6.25% 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 11.11% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £363 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £400 £588 -
90th Percentile £415 - -
West Wales median daily rate £375 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate - - £13.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 71.43% 56.25% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 3
10th Percentile £375 - £465
25th Percentile £413 £185 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £513
90th Percentile £520 £508 £520
West Wales median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.42%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median hourly rate £17.21 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.42%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Swansea

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

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

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

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform