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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 238 241 251
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.16% 19.74% 12.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.55% 21.23% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 142 122
10th Percentile £325 £313 £213
25th Percentile £375 £401 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £623
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £481 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% +3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 23
10th Percentile £21.85 £27.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £29.78 £34.23 £25.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.28 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -36.05% +6.85%
75th Percentile £47.28 £53.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £79.35 £70.07 -
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -16.36% -61.24%

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 1,636 1,135 1,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.55% 92.96% 86.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 692 854
10th Percentile £319 £325 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -3.81% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 44 111
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £74.98 £20.26 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.79 £49.50 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +69.27% -18.32% +2.06%
75th Percentile £88.00 £75.92 £72.04
90th Percentile £106.30 £88.46 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -14 97 £500 -6.98% 52
Wokingham -2 94 £425 -15.00% 6
Bracknell -9 10 £663 +32.50% 8
Windsor +4 8 £458 -22.13% 7
Slough -5 4 £460 +2.22% 19
Hungerford - 2 - -
Maidenhead -6 1 - - 6
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 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.52%) Confluence
3 5 (2.10%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.36%) CPLEX
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.10%) iTrent
3 4 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.84%) Primavera
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 77 (32.35%) Azure
2 58 (24.37%) AWS
3 35 (14.71%) GCP
4 19 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.04%) OneDrive
7 11 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.52%) Route 53
9 6 (2.52%) SaaS
10 5 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.68%) GitHub
12 3 (1.26%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.26%) OCI
13 2 (0.84%) Azure API Management
13 2 (0.84%) Azure Storage
13 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.81%) DNS
2 36 (15.13%) DHCP
3 32 (13.45%) Firewall
4 28 (11.76%) WAN
5 23 (9.66%) TCP/IP
6 22 (9.24%) LAN
7 20 (8.40%) BGP
8 18 (7.56%) OSPF
9 14 (5.88%) BIG-IP
9 14 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
9 14 (5.88%) Junos
9 14 (5.88%) VXLAN
10 12 (5.04%) Network Security
10 12 (5.04%) SD-WAN
11 11 (4.62%) MPLS
12 9 (3.78%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (2.94%) FTP
13 7 (2.94%) VPN
14 6 (2.52%) DNSSEC
15 5 (2.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.04%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.78%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.78%) Power BI
4 7 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.10%) GIS
7 4 (1.68%) QGIS
8 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.84%) Big Data
9 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.42%) Parquet
10 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.14%) JIRA
2 16 (6.72%) Git
3 7 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 2 (0.84%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Gradle
5 1 (0.42%) Maven
General
1 131 (55.04%) Social Skills
2 94 (39.50%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.98%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 16 (6.72%) Finance
5 15 (6.30%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.68%) Billing
9 4 (1.68%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Military
10 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Aviation
12 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (11.34%) Analyst
2 23 (9.66%) Architect
3 17 (7.14%) Developer
4 16 (6.72%) Senior
5 12 (5.04%) Lead
6 11 (4.62%) Data Engineer
6 11 (4.62%) Network Engineer
7 10 (4.20%) IT Support
8 9 (3.78%) Data Analyst
8 9 (3.78%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.36%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.36%) Support Engineer
10 7 (2.94%) Consultant
11 6 (2.52%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.52%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.52%) Workday Consultant
12 5 (2.10%) Firewall Specialist
12 5 (2.10%) HR Analyst
12 5 (2.10%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.88%) 802.1X
2 13 (5.46%) LDAP
3 12 (5.04%) RESTful
4 10 (4.20%) Kafka
4 10 (4.20%) OpenAPI
4 10 (4.20%) Swagger
5 8 (3.36%) Django
5 8 (3.36%) FastAPI
5 8 (3.36%) Flask
5 8 (3.36%) NumPy
5 8 (3.36%) Pandas
5 8 (3.36%) pytest
5 8 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.94%) REST
7 6 (2.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 6 (2.52%) SAML
8 5 (2.10%) OAuth
8 5 (2.10%) PySpark
9 4 (1.68%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.13%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.30%) Clustering
2 15 (6.30%) PKI
3 13 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.78%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.78%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.68%) LLPG
10 4 (1.68%) NLPG
11 3 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.49%) Windows
2 19 (7.98%) Linux
3 12 (5.04%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.62%) Mac OS
5 10 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.52%) Unix
6 6 (2.52%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.42%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.89%) ITIL
2 40 (16.81%) DevOps
3 39 (16.39%) CI/CD
4 37 (15.55%) ITSM
5 34 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (14.29%) High Availability
5 34 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (13.87%) Agile
7 27 (11.34%) Analytics
7 27 (11.34%) Customer Service
8 24 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (10.08%) DevSecOps
9 22 (9.24%) AI
9 22 (9.24%) Migration
9 22 (9.24%) Project Management
9 22 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (8.82%) Decision-Making
10 21 (8.82%) Load Balancing
11 20 (8.40%) Data Protection
12 19 (7.98%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.79%) Python
2 32 (13.45%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.50%) SQL
4 16 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.88%) Java
6 8 (3.36%) Bash
6 8 (3.36%) Go
7 7 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.10%) Korn
10 3 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) C#
11 2 (0.84%) Scala
11 2 (0.84%) VBScript
12 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (44.96%) Security Cleared
2 70 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.50%) Degree
4 19 (7.98%) CISSP
5 13 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.46%) CISM
5 13 (5.46%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.62%) PMP
7 9 (3.78%) JNCIA
7 9 (3.78%) JNCIP
7 9 (3.78%) JNCIS
8 7 (2.94%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.10%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.68%) GIAC
11 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.26%) CEH
11 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.40%) NIST
2 16 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (6.30%) GDPR
4 12 (5.04%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.62%) QA
6 6 (2.52%) PMO
7 4 (1.68%) BS7666
8 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.84%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.42%) ITGC
9 1 (0.42%) JTAG
9 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (12.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.20%) Docker
4 5 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.10%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) Firmware
8 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (7.56%) FortiGate
1 18 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.46%) Ansible
4 11 (4.62%) Terraform
5 10 (4.20%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (3.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.10%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.68%) SCCM
9 3 (1.26%) Kibana
9 3 (1.26%) Nessus
9 3 (1.26%) SCOM
9 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.84%) Avamar
10 2 (0.84%) OpenVAS
10 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.42%) vMotion
Vendors
1 49 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.18%) ServiceNow
3 24 (10.08%) VMware
4 21 (8.82%) Cisco
5 20 (8.40%) F5
5 20 (8.40%) Oracle
6 18 (7.56%) Juniper
7 17 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 16 (6.72%) Splunk
9 13 (5.46%) CyberArk
9 13 (5.46%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (5.46%) SAP
10 12 (5.04%) BeyondTrust
10 12 (5.04%) Red Hat
11 11 (4.62%) Google
11 11 (4.62%) Salesforce
11 11 (4.62%) Workday
12 9 (3.78%) Databricks
13 6 (2.52%) Infoblox
14 5 (2.10%) Citrix