Problem-Solving Contracts in Wales

Problem Solving
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 56 72 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 15.01% 11.86% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.65% 13.56% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 32
10th Percentile - £182 £176
25th Percentile £143 £274 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -0.65% +21.27%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £559
90th Percentile £625 £588 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £11.00 - £15.73
25th Percentile £11.56 - £16.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.47 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.05% +15.32% +3.95%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.94
90th Percentile £36.18 - £19.58
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.54% +100.00% +33.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 531 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 76.41% 87.48% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 410 598
10th Percentile £160 £182 £200
25th Percentile £356 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £575
90th Percentile £671 £650 £642
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £11.75 £14.63 £14.20
25th Percentile £14.99 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £19.70 £18.14 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.61% -12.58% -0.12%
75th Percentile £51.75 £22.93 £38.94
90th Percentile £85.90 £49.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +2 46 £325 -35.00% 70
West Wales - 4 £500 - 13
North Wales - 1 - - 22
Problem-Solving
UK

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Acrobat
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.57%) SAP HCM
2 2 (3.57%) SAP HR
2 2 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 14 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (5.36%) GitHub
3 3 (5.36%) WhatsApp
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) WLAN
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) MySQL
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.57%) PowerCenter
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 38 (67.86%) Social Skills
2 24 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Local Government
3 8 (14.29%) Marketing
4 5 (8.93%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Digital Economy
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) IT Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) IT Support
3 9 (16.07%) IT Support Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Support Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Bid Manager
4 8 (14.29%) Senior
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Bid Manager
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Manager
5 7 (12.50%) Analyst
6 6 (10.71%) Field Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) DBA
7 5 (8.93%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.14%) Coordinator
8 4 (7.14%) Field Service Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (7.14%) Support Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) CRM Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Migration Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) .NET
1 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.57%) Middleware
2 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.79%) CSS
2 1 (1.79%) CSS3
2 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.79%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) HTML5
2 1 (1.79%) MobX
2 1 (1.79%) Next.js
2 1 (1.79%) Node.js
2 1 (1.79%) React
2 1 (1.79%) Redux
2 1 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) NHS
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) AIX
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.57%) Android
5 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (25.00%) Project Management
3 11 (19.64%) Risk Management
4 10 (17.86%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (16.07%) Customer Service
5 9 (16.07%) Value Proposition
6 8 (14.29%) Agile
6 8 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 8 (14.29%) Psychology
7 7 (12.50%) Migration
8 5 (8.93%) Decision-Making
9 4 (7.14%) Break/Fix
9 4 (7.14%) DevOps
9 4 (7.14%) E-business
9 4 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (7.14%) Resource Management
9 4 (7.14%) Scrum
10 3 (5.36%) CRM
10 3 (5.36%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) C#
2 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.79%) PHP
3 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.79%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) R
3 1 (1.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.29%) PMI Certification
4 8 (14.29%) PMP
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.79%) Docker
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Data Guard
2 3 (5.36%) SCCM
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Argo
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Nagios
4 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Adobe
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) VMware
4 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Dell
4 2 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) SonicWALL
4 2 (3.57%) WatchGuard
4 2 (3.57%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.79%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk