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

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 232 238 257
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.87% 19.59% 13.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.22% 21.17% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 139 128
10th Percentile £325 £324 £213
25th Percentile £378 £406 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.26% +5.31%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £619
90th Percentile £637 £655 £666
South East median daily rate £480 £499 £481
% change year-on-year -3.76% +3.69% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 23
10th Percentile £21.40 £27.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £30.50 £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 £52.19 £53.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.40 £70.07 -
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -12.47% -63.30%

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 1,632 1,124 1,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.52% 92.51% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 686 850
10th Percentile £325 £325 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £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 169 43 107
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £17.30
25th Percentile £76.69 £19.39 £41.38
Median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +125.32% -39.48% +3.75%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £106.20 £87.45 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £22.29 £50.00
% change year-on-year +146.80% -55.43% -

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 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 15 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 15 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 -13 101 £484 -10.00% 55
Wokingham -2 85 £425 -15.00% 5
Bracknell -10 9 £675 +22.73% 9
Windsor +3 8 £458 -22.13% 12
Slough -5 4 £460 +2.22% 28
Hungerford - 2 - -
Maidenhead -6 1 - - 7
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 23 (9.91%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.59%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 18 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.45%) CPLEX
2 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (3.45%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.59%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.16%) iTrent
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.86%) Primavera
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 71 (30.60%) Azure
2 54 (23.28%) AWS
3 32 (13.79%) GCP
4 19 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.17%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.31%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.59%) Route 53
8 6 (2.59%) SaaS
9 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.16%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.72%) GitHub
11 3 (1.29%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.29%) OCI
12 2 (0.86%) Azure API Management
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Storage
12 2 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.24%) DNS
2 35 (15.09%) DHCP
3 32 (13.79%) Firewall
4 28 (12.07%) WAN
5 24 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 22 (9.48%) LAN
7 20 (8.62%) BGP
8 18 (7.76%) OSPF
9 14 (6.03%) BIG-IP
9 14 (6.03%) Ethernet VPN
9 14 (6.03%) Junos
9 14 (6.03%) VXLAN
10 12 (5.17%) SD-WAN
11 11 (4.74%) MPLS
11 11 (4.74%) Network Security
12 9 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (3.02%) VPN
14 6 (2.59%) DNSSEC
14 6 (2.59%) FTP
15 5 (2.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 10 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.88%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.88%) Power BI
4 7 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.59%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.16%) GIS
7 4 (1.72%) Big Data
7 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.72%) QGIS
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.86%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.43%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.33%) Git
1 17 (7.33%) JIRA
2 6 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.86%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Gradle
4 1 (0.43%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 124 (53.45%) Social Skills
2 94 (40.52%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.19%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.90%) Finance
5 16 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.72%) Billing
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 3 (1.29%) Military
10 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Publishing
11 2 (0.86%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Aviation
12 1 (0.43%) Banking
12 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (12.50%) Analyst
2 23 (9.91%) Architect
3 17 (7.33%) Developer
4 16 (6.90%) Senior
5 12 (5.17%) Lead
6 11 (4.74%) Data Engineer
6 11 (4.74%) Network Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Data Analyst
7 10 (4.31%) IT Support
8 9 (3.88%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 8 (3.45%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Consultant
10 7 (3.02%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.59%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Service Analyst
11 6 (2.59%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.59%) Workday Consultant
12 5 (2.16%) Firewall Specialist
12 5 (2.16%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.03%) 802.1X
2 13 (5.60%) RESTful
3 11 (4.74%) LDAP
4 10 (4.31%) Kafka
4 10 (4.31%) OpenAPI
4 10 (4.31%) Swagger
5 8 (3.45%) Django
5 8 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 8 (3.45%) Flask
5 8 (3.45%) NumPy
5 8 (3.45%) Pandas
5 8 (3.45%) pytest
5 8 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (3.02%) PySpark
6 7 (3.02%) REST
7 6 (2.59%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 6 (2.59%) SAML
8 5 (2.16%) OAuth
9 4 (1.72%) Jinja
9 4 (1.72%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.52%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.47%) Clustering
2 15 (6.47%) PKI
3 14 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.88%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.88%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.72%) LLPG
10 4 (1.72%) NLPG
11 3 (1.29%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.53%) Windows
2 19 (8.19%) Linux
3 12 (5.17%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.74%) Mac OS
5 10 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.59%) Unix
7 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.43%) Android
8 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.43%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.45%) ITIL
2 40 (17.24%) DevOps
3 39 (16.81%) ITSM
4 36 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 35 (15.09%) Agile
6 32 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (13.36%) High Availability
8 27 (11.64%) Analytics
8 27 (11.64%) Customer Service
9 24 (10.34%) Migration
10 23 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (9.48%) AI
11 22 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (9.48%) DevSecOps
12 21 (9.05%) Load Balancing
12 21 (9.05%) Project Management
12 21 (9.05%) Service Management
13 19 (8.19%) Data Protection
13 19 (8.19%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.71%) Python
2 30 (12.93%) PowerShell
3 27 (11.64%) SQL
4 16 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.31%) Java
6 8 (3.45%) Bash
7 7 (3.02%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.16%) Go
9 5 (2.16%) Korn
10 3 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.86%) Bicep
11 2 (0.86%) C#
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (43.97%) Security Cleared
2 65 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) Degree
4 17 (7.33%) CISSP
5 14 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (6.03%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.74%) CISM
6 11 (4.74%) PMP
7 9 (3.88%) JNCIA
7 9 (3.88%) JNCIP
7 9 (3.88%) JNCIS
8 7 (3.02%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.72%) GIAC
11 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.29%) CEH
11 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.76%) NIST
2 14 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.03%) GDPR
2 14 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.74%) QA
4 6 (2.59%) PMO
5 4 (1.72%) BS7666
6 2 (0.86%) GRC
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.43%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) JTAG
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.60%) Docker
3 11 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (7.76%) FortiGate
1 18 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.03%) Ansible
3 13 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.17%) Terraform
5 10 (4.31%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (3.88%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.72%) SCCM
9 3 (1.29%) Kibana
9 3 (1.29%) Nessus
9 3 (1.29%) SCOM
9 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.86%) Avamar
10 2 (0.86%) OpenVAS
10 2 (0.86%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.43%) Nmap
Vendors
1 49 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.36%) ServiceNow
3 23 (9.91%) VMware
4 22 (9.48%) Cisco
5 20 (8.62%) F5
5 20 (8.62%) Oracle
6 18 (7.76%) Juniper
7 17 (7.33%) SolarWinds
8 16 (6.90%) Splunk
9 13 (5.60%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (5.17%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.17%) SAP
11 11 (4.74%) CyberArk
11 11 (4.74%) Databricks
11 11 (4.74%) Google
11 11 (4.74%) Salesforce
11 11 (4.74%) Workday
12 10 (4.31%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (2.59%) Infoblox
14 5 (2.16%) ESRI
120 Problem-Solving jobs in Berkshire