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

 6 months to
14 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 217 192 213
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.85% 15.74% 13.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 17.41% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 120 103
10th Percentile £307 £219 £280
25th Percentile £400 £388 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -8.10% +23.53%
75th Percentile £578 £578 £619
90th Percentile £644 £650 £652
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £486
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.46% +8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 7 16
10th Percentile £16.38 £16.30 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.25 £19.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £20.79 £44.56
Median % change year-on-year +56.33% -53.35% -11.57%
75th Percentile £70.50 £35.37 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.50 £38.42 -
South East median hourly rate £20.25 £18.82 £37.08
% change year-on-year +7.60% -49.25% -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 1,529 1,103 1,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.51% 90.41% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 696 753
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £447 £413 £430
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 176 48 61
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.30
25th Percentile £35.17 £17.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £80.55 £37.28 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +116.07% -36.26% -5.34%
75th Percentile £91.31 £64.06 £63.41
90th Percentile £104.00 £82.18 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £21.02 £58.49
% change year-on-year +125.98% -64.06% +7.58%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -10 114 £500 - 90
Wokingham -2 50 £437 +0.46% 16
Bracknell +2 15 £373 -40.40% 19
Slough -2 10 £480 +6.67% 50
Maidenhead -4 7 - - 14
Windsor +5 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 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.92%) 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 18 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.76%) CPLEX
4 6 (2.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.30%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.92%) iTrent
4 2 (0.92%) Primavera
4 2 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.92%) 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 (34.56%) Azure
2 44 (20.28%) AWS
3 28 (12.90%) GCP
4 21 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.07%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.61%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.69%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.23%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.76%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.76%) Route 53
10 6 (2.76%) Smartsheet
11 5 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.30%) GitHub
11 5 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.84%) SaaS
13 3 (1.38%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.60%) DNS
2 20 (9.22%) DHCP
2 20 (9.22%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.61%) Firewall
4 6 (2.76%) 2G
4 6 (2.76%) 3G
4 6 (2.76%) 4G
4 6 (2.76%) 5G
4 6 (2.76%) Diameter Protocol
4 6 (2.76%) DNSSEC
4 6 (2.76%) FTP
4 6 (2.76%) SIGTRAN
4 6 (2.76%) SS7
5 5 (2.30%) Network Security
6 4 (1.84%) Unified Communications
6 4 (1.84%) VoIP
6 4 (1.84%) VPN
7 3 (1.38%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.61%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.15%) Power BI
3 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.84%) Metadata
5 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.38%) Parquet
6 2 (0.92%) Big Data
6 2 (0.92%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.92%) 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 (9.68%) Git
2 17 (7.83%) JIRA
3 9 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.38%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.46%) JMeter
5 1 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 115 (53.00%) Social Skills
2 98 (45.16%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 20 (9.22%) Finance
5 19 (8.76%) Aerospace
5 19 (8.76%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.84%) Legal
10 4 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.84%) Publishing
11 2 (0.92%) Banking
11 2 (0.92%) Electronics
11 2 (0.92%) Marketing
11 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.92%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Billing
12 1 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (12.44%) Analyst
2 18 (8.29%) Lead
3 17 (7.83%) Architect
4 15 (6.91%) Consultant
4 15 (6.91%) Developer
5 14 (6.45%) IT Support
6 12 (5.53%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.07%) Senior
8 10 (4.61%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.69%) Designer
10 6 (2.76%) Mobile Designer
10 6 (2.76%) Python Developer
10 6 (2.76%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.76%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.76%) Workday Consultant
11 5 (2.30%) Coordinator
11 5 (2.30%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.30%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.30%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.06%) Terraform
2 13 (5.99%) RESTful
3 9 (4.15%) OpenAPI
3 9 (4.15%) REST
3 9 (4.15%) Swagger
4 7 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.23%) PySpark
4 7 (3.23%) Web Services
5 6 (2.76%) Django
5 6 (2.76%) FastAPI
5 6 (2.76%) Flask
5 6 (2.76%) Kafka
5 6 (2.76%) LDAP
5 6 (2.76%) NumPy
5 6 (2.76%) OAuth
5 6 (2.76%) Pandas
5 6 (2.76%) pytest
5 6 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.76%) SAML
6 5 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 14 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.76%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.30%) Life Science
8 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.38%) Wiki
10 2 (0.92%) CMDB
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.29%) Windows
2 15 (6.91%) Apple iOS
2 15 (6.91%) Linux
3 10 (4.61%) macOS
4 8 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Rocky
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (23.50%) DevOps
3 47 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (21.20%) Agile
5 41 (18.89%) ITIL
6 40 (18.43%) Analytics
7 39 (17.97%) CI/CD
8 33 (15.21%) ITSM
9 28 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 28 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (11.98%) Customer Service
11 25 (11.52%) Service Delivery
12 23 (10.60%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 20 (9.22%) AI
14 20 (9.22%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (8.29%) Data Protection
15 18 (8.29%) Software Engineering
15 18 (8.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.12%) Python
2 30 (13.82%) SQL
3 24 (11.06%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.53%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.07%) Bash
6 6 (2.76%) Bicep
7 4 (1.84%) C#
7 4 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.38%) VBScript
9 2 (0.92%) Java
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%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (35.02%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 38 (17.51%) Degree
4 12 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.23%) CISSP
7 7 (3.23%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.23%) PMP
8 6 (2.76%) CISM
9 5 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.84%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.84%) MCITP
11 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.92%) CCA
12 2 (0.92%) CCNA
12 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.53%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.53%) QA
2 9 (4.15%) NIST
3 8 (3.69%) GDPR
4 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.30%) PMO
6 3 (1.38%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.38%) 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 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.91%) Docker
3 8 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.30%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.84%) vSphere
6 2 (0.92%) IAG
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.46%) RACF
7 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 20 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.76%) Ansible
3 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.61%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) SCCM
6 3 (1.38%) SCOM
7 2 (0.92%) Avamar
7 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.92%) Grafana
7 2 (0.92%) 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 69 (31.80%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.83%) VMware
4 13 (5.99%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.53%) Databricks
5 12 (5.53%) Google
5 12 (5.53%) SAP
6 8 (3.69%) Cisco
6 8 (3.69%) Workday
7 7 (3.23%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.23%) Oracle
8 6 (2.76%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.30%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.38%) Citrix
10 3 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.38%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.92%) F5
11 2 (0.92%) Juniper
11 2 (0.92%) Splunk
225 Problem-Solving jobs in Berkshire