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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 216 191 207
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.93% 15.62% 12.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.35% 17.30% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 120 97
10th Percentile £306 £219 £312
25th Percentile £400 £388 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -12.27% +29.30%
75th Percentile £576 £573 £625
90th Percentile £644 £650 £653
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 16
10th Percentile £16.38 £18.25 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £19.45 £19.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.55 £44.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% -40.42% -10.39%
75th Percentile £70.50 £36.89 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.50 £38.42 -
South East median hourly rate £20.25 £18.41 £37.08
% change year-on-year +9.99% -50.35% -32.58%

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 1,505 1,104 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.10% 90.27% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 699 751
10th Percentile £350 £319 £325
25th Percentile £440 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £650 £689
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 48 65
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.33
25th Percentile £35.06 £17.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £37.28 £60.46
Median % change year-on-year +114.59% -38.33% -0.28%
75th Percentile £91.31 £64.06 £64.73
90th Percentile £104.00 £82.18 £75.34
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £21.32 £58.49
% change year-on-year +122.80% -63.55% +9.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -8 114 £500 - 161
Wokingham -2 50 £437 +2.82% 20
Bracknell 0 14 £524 -14.49% 31
Slough -4 10 £480 +6.67% 72
Maidenhead -4 7 - - 25
Windsor +7 6 £500 -4.76% 24
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 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.46%) CICS
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.24%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.78%) CPLEX
4 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.24%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.31%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) iTrent
4 2 (0.93%) Primavera
4 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.46%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.72%) Azure
2 44 (20.37%) AWS
3 28 (12.96%) GCP
4 21 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.09%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.63%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.78%) Azure API Management
9 6 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.78%) Route 53
9 6 (2.78%) Smartsheet
10 5 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.85%) GitHub
11 4 (1.85%) SaaS
12 3 (1.39%) Azure App Service
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.65%) DNS
2 20 (9.26%) DHCP
2 20 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.63%) Firewall
4 7 (3.24%) FTP
5 6 (2.78%) 2G
5 6 (2.78%) 3G
5 6 (2.78%) 4G
5 6 (2.78%) 5G
5 6 (2.78%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (2.78%) DNSSEC
5 6 (2.78%) SIGTRAN
5 6 (2.78%) SS7
6 5 (2.31%) Network Security
7 4 (1.85%) Unified Communications
7 4 (1.85%) VPN
8 3 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.39%) VoIP
9 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.63%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.17%) Power BI
3 6 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.85%) Metadata
5 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.39%) Parquet
6 2 (0.93%) Big Data
6 2 (0.93%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.46%) Tableau
7 1 (0.46%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (9.72%) Git
2 18 (8.33%) JIRA
3 8 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.39%) HP UFT
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.46%) Gradle
6 1 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.46%) JMeter
6 1 (0.46%) Maven
6 1 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 115 (53.24%) Social Skills
2 99 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.26%) Telecoms
4 19 (8.80%) Aerospace
4 19 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (8.80%) Finance
5 12 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Publishing
10 3 (1.39%) Legal
11 2 (0.93%) Banking
11 2 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.46%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 27 (12.50%) Analyst
2 17 (7.87%) Architect
2 17 (7.87%) Lead
3 16 (7.41%) Consultant
3 16 (7.41%) Developer
4 14 (6.48%) IT Support
5 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.09%) Senior
7 10 (4.63%) Business Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) Designer
9 7 (3.24%) Workday Consultant
10 6 (2.78%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (2.78%) Mobile Designer
10 6 (2.78%) Python Developer
10 6 (2.78%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.78%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.78%) Workday Integration Consultant
11 5 (2.31%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (2.31%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.31%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.65%) Terraform
2 13 (6.02%) RESTful
3 10 (4.63%) REST
4 9 (4.17%) OpenAPI
4 9 (4.17%) Swagger
5 8 (3.70%) Web Services
6 7 (3.24%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.24%) PySpark
7 6 (2.78%) FastAPI
7 6 (2.78%) Flask
7 6 (2.78%) Kafka
7 6 (2.78%) LDAP
7 6 (2.78%) NumPy
7 6 (2.78%) OAuth
7 6 (2.78%) Pandas
7 6 (2.78%) pytest
7 6 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.78%) SAML
7 6 (2.78%) XML
7 6 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.48%) Cloud Native
1 14 (6.48%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.31%) Life Science
7 5 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.39%) Wiki
10 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.35%) Windows
2 15 (6.94%) Apple iOS
3 14 (6.48%) Linux
4 10 (4.63%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Unix
8 1 (0.46%) Rocky
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 50 (23.15%) DevOps
3 46 (21.30%) Agile
3 46 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (18.98%) ITIL
5 39 (18.06%) Analytics
5 39 (18.06%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.28%) ITSM
7 28 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (12.04%) Customer Service
10 25 (11.57%) Service Delivery
11 22 (10.19%) Decision-Making
11 22 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (10.19%) Roadmaps
12 20 (9.26%) AI
12 20 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (8.33%) DevSecOps
13 18 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 18 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.76%) Python
2 31 (14.35%) SQL
3 24 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.63%) Bash
6 6 (2.78%) Bicep
7 4 (1.85%) C#
7 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.39%) Java
8 3 (1.39%) VBScript
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) COBOL
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) JCL
10 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.46%) R
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.13%) Degree
4 12 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.24%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.24%) CISSP
8 7 (3.24%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.24%) PMP
9 6 (2.78%) CISM
10 5 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.85%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.85%) MCITP
12 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.93%) CISA
13 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.56%) QA
2 9 (4.17%) NIST
3 8 (3.70%) GDPR
4 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.31%) PMO
6 3 (1.39%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.39%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.46%) GAAP
7 1 (0.46%) GMP
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.46%) ITGC
7 1 (0.46%) JTAG
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.48%) Docker
3 8 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.85%) vSphere
6 2 (0.93%) IAG
6 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.46%) RACF
7 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.33%) Ansible
3 13 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.63%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.39%) Istio
6 3 (1.39%) SCCM
6 3 (1.39%) SCOM
7 2 (0.93%) Avamar
7 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.93%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.46%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.46%) Podman
8 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.46%) QRadar
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.46%) vMotion
Vendors
1 68 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.96%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.87%) VMware
4 12 (5.56%) Databricks
4 12 (5.56%) Google
4 12 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.56%) SAP
5 9 (4.17%) Workday
6 7 (3.24%) Cisco
6 7 (3.24%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.24%) Oracle
7 6 (2.78%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.31%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.39%) Citrix
9 3 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.39%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.93%) F5
10 2 (0.93%) Remedy
10 2 (0.93%) Splunk
351 Problem-Solving jobs in Berkshire