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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 219 199 215
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.97% 16.05% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 17.72% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 124 104
10th Percentile £307 £220 £283
25th Percentile £407 £398 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £483 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -9.39% +25.29%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £616
90th Percentile £661 £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 32 8 16
10th Percentile £16.38 £16.60 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.19 £18.63 £19.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £20.79 £44.56
Median % change year-on-year +56.33% -53.35% -11.57%
75th Percentile £69.75 £33.84 £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 1,525 1,123 1,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.33% 90.56% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 710 762
10th Percentile £350 £320 £325
25th Percentile £449 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £724 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 49 61
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.30
25th Percentile £35.11 £17.50 £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 £63.75 £63.41
90th Percentile £104.00 £81.45 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £20.79 £58.49
% change year-on-year +116.45% -64.46% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -10 117 £500 - 36
Wokingham -2 48 £437 -3.43% 3
Bracknell +1 15 £373 -40.40% 7
Slough -3 10 £480 +6.67% 8
Maidenhead -5 7 - - 6
Windsor +5 6 £500 -4.76% 14
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 (9.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.28%) Confluence
3 3 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.46%) CICS
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.20%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.28%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Workday HCM
2 6 (2.74%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.91%) Primavera
4 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.46%) iTrent
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 76 (34.70%) Azure
2 42 (19.18%) AWS
3 26 (11.87%) GCP
4 21 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.02%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.11%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.65%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.20%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.74%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.74%) Route 53
10 6 (2.74%) Smartsheet
11 5 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.28%) GitHub
12 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.83%) SaaS
12 4 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.50%) DNS
2 20 (9.13%) DHCP
2 20 (9.13%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.57%) Firewall
4 7 (3.20%) FTP
5 6 (2.74%) 2G
5 6 (2.74%) 3G
5 6 (2.74%) 4G
5 6 (2.74%) 5G
5 6 (2.74%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (2.74%) DNSSEC
5 6 (2.74%) SIGTRAN
5 6 (2.74%) SS7
6 5 (2.28%) Network Security
7 4 (1.83%) Unified Communications
7 4 (1.83%) VoIP
7 4 (1.83%) VPN
8 3 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.91%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.65%) Power BI
2 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.83%) Metadata
5 3 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.37%) Parquet
5 3 (1.37%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.91%) Big Data
6 2 (0.91%) 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 20 (9.13%) Git
2 18 (8.22%) JIRA
3 9 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.37%) 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 (52.51%) Social Skills
2 97 (44.29%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.59%) Aerospace
3 21 (9.59%) Finance
3 21 (9.59%) Telecoms
4 19 (8.68%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.57%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Publishing
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (11.87%) Analyst
2 18 (8.22%) Lead
3 17 (7.76%) Architect
4 16 (7.31%) Consultant
5 14 (6.39%) Developer
5 14 (6.39%) IT Support
6 12 (5.48%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.57%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.57%) Senior
8 8 (3.65%) Designer
9 6 (2.74%) Mobile Designer
9 6 (2.74%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (2.74%) Support Engineer
9 6 (2.74%) Technical Leader
9 6 (2.74%) Workday Consultant
10 5 (2.28%) Coordinator
10 5 (2.28%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.28%) Service Analyst
10 5 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.28%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.96%) Terraform
2 12 (5.48%) RESTful
3 9 (4.11%) PySpark
3 9 (4.11%) REST
4 8 (3.65%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.65%) Swagger
4 8 (3.65%) Web Services
5 7 (3.20%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.74%) LDAP
6 6 (2.74%) OAuth
6 6 (2.74%) SAML
6 6 (2.74%) Streamlit
6 6 (2.74%) XML
6 6 (2.74%) XSLT
7 5 (2.28%) Django
7 5 (2.28%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.28%) Kafka
7 5 (2.28%) NumPy
7 5 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.39%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.65%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.28%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.28%) Life Science
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.37%) Wiki
11 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.91%) CMDB
11 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.16%) Windows
2 15 (6.85%) Apple iOS
2 15 (6.85%) Linux
3 10 (4.57%) macOS
4 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.91%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Rocky
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 52 (23.74%) DevOps
3 50 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (21.46%) Agile
5 41 (18.72%) Analytics
5 41 (18.72%) ITIL
6 40 (18.26%) CI/CD
7 33 (15.07%) ITSM
8 29 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (11.87%) Customer Service
11 25 (11.42%) Service Delivery
12 24 (10.96%) Decision-Making
13 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (10.05%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.13%) AI
15 20 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (8.22%) Data Protection
16 18 (8.22%) Software Engineering
16 18 (8.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.46%) Python
2 31 (14.16%) SQL
3 24 (10.96%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.02%) Bash
6 6 (2.74%) Bicep
7 4 (1.83%) C#
7 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.37%) VBScript
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) COBOL
9 1 (0.46%) Java
9 1 (0.46%) JCL
9 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.46%) R
9 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (34.70%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 40 (18.26%) Degree
4 14 (6.39%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.57%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.20%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.20%) CISSP
8 7 (3.20%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.20%) PMP
9 6 (2.74%) CISM
10 5 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.83%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.83%) MCITP
12 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.91%) CISA
13 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
13 2 (0.91%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.39%) QA
2 13 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.11%) NIST
4 8 (3.65%) GDPR
5 6 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.28%) PMO
7 3 (1.37%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.37%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.46%) GAAP
8 1 (0.46%) GMP
8 1 (0.46%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.46%) ITGC
8 1 (0.46%) JTAG
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.94%) Docker
3 8 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.83%) vSphere
6 2 (0.91%) IAG
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.46%) RACF
7 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (8.68%) Ansible
2 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.57%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.74%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (1.37%) Istio
6 3 (1.37%) SCCM
6 3 (1.37%) SCOM
7 2 (0.91%) Avamar
7 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.91%) Grafana
7 2 (0.91%) 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 72 (32.88%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 17 (7.76%) VMware
4 14 (6.39%) Databricks
5 13 (5.94%) Red Hat
6 12 (5.48%) Google
6 12 (5.48%) SAP
7 8 (3.65%) Cisco
7 8 (3.65%) Workday
8 7 (3.20%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.74%) Infoblox
9 6 (2.74%) Oracle
10 5 (2.28%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.28%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.37%) Citrix
11 3 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.37%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.91%) Ariba
12 2 (0.91%) Juniper
12 2 (0.91%) Nokia