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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 213 234 267
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.90% 20.91% 13.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.33% 22.44% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 150 137
10th Percentile £325 £324 £205
25th Percentile £375 £414 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -4.10% -
75th Percentile £566 £634 £619
90th Percentile £653 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 22
10th Percentile £23.21 £24.87 £14.50
25th Percentile £30.44 £32.31 £33.12
Median hourly rate £32.50 £48.00 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% -21.70% +12.35%
75th Percentile £40.59 £58.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.73 -
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £20.24
% change year-on-year +72.69% -6.99% -64.81%

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 1,486 1,043 1,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.02% 93.21% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 648 856
10th Percentile £306 £325 £235
25th Percentile £400 £415 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 25 104
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £76.09 £32.31 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.50 £61.50 £60.80
Median % change year-on-year +35.78% +1.14% -3.49%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £71.89
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 85 £488 -11.36% 42
Wokingham -3 84 £420 -17.65% 6
Windsor +6 11 £463 -19.57% 7
Bracknell -8 7 £575 +27.78% 5
Slough -6 4 £750 +66.67% 19
Hungerford - 3 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - - 4
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 19 (8.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.35%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.76%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.88%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (2.82%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.35%) iTrent
3 4 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.41%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.47%) Primavera
5 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 64 (30.05%) Azure
2 49 (23.00%) AWS
3 28 (13.15%) GCP
4 17 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.23%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.76%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.82%) SaaS
8 6 (2.82%) Serverless
9 5 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.41%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.41%) OCI
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.94%) GitHub
11 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.15%) DNS
2 27 (12.68%) Firewall
3 26 (12.21%) DHCP
3 26 (12.21%) WAN
4 20 (9.39%) BGP
4 20 (9.39%) LAN
5 18 (8.45%) OSPF
6 14 (6.57%) BIG-IP
6 14 (6.57%) Ethernet VPN
6 14 (6.57%) Junos
6 14 (6.57%) Network Security
6 14 (6.57%) TCP/IP
6 14 (6.57%) VXLAN
7 11 (5.16%) MPLS
8 10 (4.69%) SD-WAN
9 9 (4.23%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (3.29%) VPN
11 6 (2.82%) FTP
12 5 (2.35%) Internet
13 4 (1.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
1 9 (4.23%) Power BI
2 8 (3.76%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.29%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.35%) GIS
5 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.88%) QGIS
7 3 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.94%) Big Data
8 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (7.04%) JIRA
2 13 (6.10%) Git
3 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.35%) HP UFT
5 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.94%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.47%) Gradle
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 115 (53.99%) Social Skills
2 93 (43.66%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.57%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.16%) Finance
6 8 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.88%) Marketing
10 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.41%) Billing
10 3 (1.41%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Military
11 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.94%) Law
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (9.39%) Analyst
1 20 (9.39%) Senior
2 13 (6.10%) Architect
3 11 (5.16%) Consultant
3 11 (5.16%) Network Engineer
4 10 (4.69%) Lead
4 10 (4.69%) Project Manager
5 9 (4.23%) Data Engineer
5 9 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
6 8 (3.76%) Data Analyst
6 8 (3.76%) Developer
7 7 (3.29%) IT Support
7 7 (3.29%) SIEM Engineer
8 6 (2.82%) Project Planner
8 6 (2.82%) Software Engineer
8 6 (2.82%) Support Engineer
8 6 (2.82%) Test Engineer
8 6 (2.82%) Workday Consultant
9 5 (2.35%) DBA
9 5 (2.35%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.57%) 802.1X
1 14 (6.57%) LDAP
2 8 (3.76%) Kafka
3 6 (2.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 6 (2.82%) RESTful
4 5 (2.35%) REST
5 4 (1.88%) Django
5 4 (1.88%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.88%) Flask
5 4 (1.88%) Node.js
5 4 (1.88%) NumPy
5 4 (1.88%) OpenAPI
5 4 (1.88%) Pandas
5 4 (1.88%) pytest
5 4 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.88%) SAML
5 4 (1.88%) SOAP
5 4 (1.88%) Swagger
6 3 (1.41%) Web Services
6 3 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.55%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.04%) Clustering
2 15 (7.04%) PKI
3 13 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.82%) Cyber Security Posture
7 6 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.35%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.35%) Replication
9 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.88%) LLPG
9 4 (1.88%) NLPG
9 4 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.49%) Windows
2 17 (7.98%) Linux
3 9 (4.23%) Apple iOS
3 9 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.76%) Mac OS
5 6 (2.82%) Unix
6 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.94%) VMS
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.47%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.47%) ITIL
2 44 (20.66%) CI/CD
3 39 (18.31%) DevOps
4 29 (13.62%) Agile
4 29 (13.62%) High Availability
5 27 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (12.21%) Project Management
7 23 (10.80%) DevSecOps
7 23 (10.80%) ITSM
8 21 (9.86%) AI
8 21 (9.86%) SIEM
8 21 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (9.39%) Migration
10 19 (8.92%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (8.45%) Analytics
12 17 (7.98%) Customer Service
12 17 (7.98%) Decision-Making
12 17 (7.98%) Observability
13 16 (7.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.47%) Python
2 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.51%) Java
3 16 (7.51%) SQL
4 12 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.76%) Go
5 8 (3.76%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.29%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (3.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.35%) Korn
7 5 (2.35%) VBScript
8 3 (1.41%) Bash
9 2 (0.94%) Bicep
9 2 (0.94%) C#
9 2 (0.94%) Scala
10 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 94 (44.13%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.70%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.80%) CISSP
4 15 (7.04%) Degree
5 14 (6.57%) CISM
6 13 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (6.10%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.23%) JNCIA
7 9 (4.23%) JNCIP
7 9 (4.23%) JNCIS
7 9 (4.23%) PMP
8 8 (3.76%) GIAC
9 7 (3.29%) CEH
10 5 (2.35%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.94%) CCIE
12 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.94%) JNCIE
13 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) NIST
2 17 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.98%) QA
3 16 (7.51%) GDPR
4 10 (4.69%) Data Quality
5 9 (4.23%) PMO
6 4 (1.88%) BS7666
7 3 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.94%) SLA
9 1 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.47%) JTAG
System Software
1 25 (11.74%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.82%) Docker
4 5 (2.35%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.94%) Firmware
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (8.45%) FortiGate
2 16 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.10%) Ansible
4 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (3.29%) Kibana
7 5 (2.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.41%) Nessus
8 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.41%) Terraform
9 2 (0.94%) Avamar
9 2 (0.94%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.47%) Nmap
10 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.80%) Oracle
3 20 (9.39%) F5
4 19 (8.92%) Cisco
5 18 (8.45%) Juniper
6 17 (7.98%) VMware
7 15 (7.04%) Splunk
8 14 (6.57%) SolarWinds
9 13 (6.10%) BeyondTrust
9 13 (6.10%) CyberArk
9 13 (6.10%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (6.10%) SAP
9 13 (6.10%) ServiceNow
10 11 (5.16%) Workday
11 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
11 9 (4.23%) Salesforce
12 7 (3.29%) Databricks
13 6 (2.82%) FireEye
13 6 (2.82%) Google
13 6 (2.82%) Tanium