Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Problem Solving
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 200 189 215
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.04% 15.92% 12.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.47% 17.40% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 120 106
10th Percentile £315 £264 £328
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £496 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -14.48% +28.94%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £638
90th Percentile £653 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 16
10th Percentile £16.38 £21.94 £14.50
25th Percentile £26.22 £28.61 £19.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.80 £59.95
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -41.96% +14.97%
75th Percentile £64.63 £38.42 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.65 - £68.42
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £16.34 £42.89
% change year-on-year +28.56% -61.91% -23.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,485 1,086 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.00% 91.49% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 672 779
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £509 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -7.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £653 £698
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.82% -0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 41 74
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.79
25th Percentile £33.36 £17.30 £49.98
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -47.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £89.66 £62.24 £72.18
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £21.39 £57.35
% change year-on-year +145.09% -62.70% +9.24%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
Reading -11 102 £495 -10.00% 108
Wokingham -3 58 £430 -7.03% 10
Bracknell -3 10 £675 +22.73% 16
Windsor +10 8 £458 -12.86% 14
Slough -4 7 £480 +6.67% 24
Maidenhead -6 2 - - 17
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 21 (10.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (1.50%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.50%) CPLEX
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.50%) iTrent
3 4 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.00%) Primavera
4 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.50%) Azure
2 49 (24.50%) AWS
3 31 (15.50%) GCP
4 21 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.50%) OneDrive
8 7 (3.50%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.50%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (3.00%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.00%) Route 53
9 6 (3.00%) SaaS
10 5 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.00%) Azure API Management
11 4 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.00%) GitHub
12 3 (1.50%) Apigee
12 3 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.50%) DNS
2 22 (11.00%) DHCP
2 22 (11.00%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.50%) Firewall
4 7 (3.50%) SD-WAN
4 7 (3.50%) WAN
5 6 (3.00%) 2G
5 6 (3.00%) 3G
5 6 (3.00%) 4G
5 6 (3.00%) 5G
5 6 (3.00%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (3.00%) DNSSEC
5 6 (3.00%) FTP
5 6 (3.00%) Network Security
5 6 (3.00%) SIGTRAN
5 6 (3.00%) SS7
5 6 (3.00%) VPN
6 5 (2.50%) LAN
6 5 (2.50%) MPLS
7 3 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.50%) Power BI
2 10 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.00%) Metadata
6 3 (1.50%) Big Data
6 3 (1.50%) GIS
6 3 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.50%) QGIS
7 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.00%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.50%) Parquet
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
8 1 (0.50%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Git
2 16 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) Gradle
4 1 (0.50%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.50%) JMeter
4 1 (0.50%) Maven
4 1 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 114 (57.00%) Social Skills
2 90 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.50%) Telecoms
4 18 (9.00%) Finance
5 13 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.50%) Aerospace
7 10 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Publishing
12 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 3 (1.50%) Retail
13 2 (1.00%) Billing
13 2 (1.00%) Marketing
14 1 (0.50%) Advertising
14 1 (0.50%) Aviation
14 1 (0.50%) Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (13.00%) Analyst
2 17 (8.50%) Lead
3 16 (8.00%) Architect
4 15 (7.50%) Developer
5 14 (7.00%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.00%) IT Support
6 11 (5.50%) Consultant
7 10 (5.00%) Senior
8 9 (4.50%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.50%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.50%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.00%) Designer
10 6 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Mobile Designer
10 6 (3.00%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.00%) Workday Consultant
11 5 (2.50%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.50%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.00%) Terraform
2 12 (6.00%) RESTful
3 10 (5.00%) OpenAPI
3 10 (5.00%) Swagger
4 8 (4.00%) Kafka
4 8 (4.00%) PySpark
5 7 (3.50%) Django
5 7 (3.50%) FastAPI
5 7 (3.50%) Flask
5 7 (3.50%) NumPy
5 7 (3.50%) Pandas
5 7 (3.50%) pytest
5 7 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (3.50%) REST
6 6 (3.00%) LDAP
6 6 (3.00%) Web Services
7 5 (2.50%) ARM Templates
7 5 (2.50%) SOAP
7 5 (2.50%) Streamlit
8 4 (2.00%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.50%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.50%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.50%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.50%) LLPG
9 3 (1.50%) NLPG
10 2 (1.00%) CMDB
10 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.00%) Windows
2 15 (7.50%) Apple iOS
2 15 (7.50%) Linux
3 10 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Rocky
6 1 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (25.00%) Agile
3 47 (23.50%) ITIL
4 45 (22.50%) DevOps
5 39 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (19.00%) Analytics
7 36 (18.00%) CI/CD
8 33 (16.50%) ITSM
9 25 (12.50%) Customer Service
10 24 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (11.50%) AI
11 23 (11.50%) Service Delivery
12 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (10.00%) Decision-Making
13 20 (10.00%) Migration
13 20 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 20 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (9.50%) DevSecOps
14 19 (9.50%) Software Engineering
15 18 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 50 (25.00%) Python
2 29 (14.50%) SQL
3 23 (11.50%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.50%) Bash
6 6 (3.00%) Java
7 4 (2.00%) Bicep
7 4 (2.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.50%) Go
9 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.50%) R
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (17.00%) Degree
4 12 (6.00%) PMP
5 10 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.00%) CISSP
8 7 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.50%) CISM
9 5 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.00%) MCITP
11 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.00%) CCA
12 2 (1.00%) CISA
12 2 (1.00%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.00%) NVQ Level 3
12 2 (1.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.50%) GDPR
2 11 (5.50%) NIST
2 11 (5.50%) QA
3 8 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.00%) PMO
5 3 (1.50%) BS7666
6 2 (1.00%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) GAAP
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.50%) ITGC
7 1 (0.50%) JTAG
7 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.00%) Docker
3 10 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.00%) vSphere
7 3 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.00%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (10.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.50%) Ansible
3 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.50%) Istio
6 3 (1.50%) SCCM
6 3 (1.50%) SCOM
7 2 (1.00%) Avamar
7 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.00%) Grafana
7 2 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.50%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.50%) Podman
8 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.50%) QRadar
8 1 (0.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 61 (30.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.50%) ServiceNow
3 20 (10.00%) VMware
4 14 (7.00%) Databricks
5 12 (6.00%) Google
5 12 (6.00%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.50%) Workday
7 10 (5.00%) Oracle
7 10 (5.00%) Salesforce
8 9 (4.50%) SAP
9 7 (3.50%) CyberArk
10 6 (3.00%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (3.00%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.50%) Cisco
11 5 (2.50%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.50%) Citrix
12 3 (1.50%) ESRI
12 3 (1.50%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.00%) F5
13 2 (1.00%) Splunk