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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 225 250 284
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.27% 21.87% 14.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.53% 23.52% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 151 150
10th Percentile £331 £263 £205
25th Percentile £375 £409 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +0.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £619
90th Percentile £653 £650 £676
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -8.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 18
10th Percentile £27.31 £28.34 £15.55
25th Percentile £30.56 £40.98 £41.25
Median hourly rate £38.74 £52.75 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.57% -13.95% +12.35%
75th Percentile £80.94 £65.83 £61.60
90th Percentile £97.50 £78.56 £65.69
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +87.14% -2.86% -66.30%

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 1,548 1,063 1,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 84.45% 93.00% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 626 899
10th Percentile £304 £304 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 25 101
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.81 £18.50
25th Percentile £76.69 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +0.81% +5.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £77.19 £71.75
90th Percentile £104.30 £88.32 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -3.06%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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
Wokingham -1 90 £425 -15.84% 7
Reading -10 86 £500 -13.04% 38
Windsor +7 12 £475 -17.39% 21
Bracknell -3 12 £575 +27.78% 7
Slough -5 4 £638 +59.38% 16
Hungerford - 3 - - 1
Thatcham -2 2 £535 -10.83%
Maidenhead - 1 - - 3
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 15 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.22%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.22%) Confluence
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.78%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.22%) iTrent
3 4 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.33%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.33%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.00%) Azure
2 61 (27.11%) AWS
3 38 (16.89%) GCP
4 18 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.00%) SaaS
7 8 (3.56%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.67%) Serverless
9 5 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (1.78%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.33%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.33%) GitHub
11 3 (1.33%) OCI
11 3 (1.33%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.78%) Firewall
2 27 (12.00%) DNS
2 27 (12.00%) WAN
3 25 (11.11%) DHCP
4 21 (9.33%) BGP
5 20 (8.89%) LAN
6 18 (8.00%) OSPF
7 15 (6.67%) Network Security
8 14 (6.22%) BIG-IP
8 14 (6.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 14 (6.22%) Junos
8 14 (6.22%) VXLAN
9 13 (5.78%) TCP/IP
10 12 (5.33%) MPLS
11 10 (4.44%) SD-WAN
12 9 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (3.11%) FTP
13 7 (3.11%) VPN
14 5 (2.22%) Internet
15 4 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.44%) Power BI
2 9 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.22%) GIS
6 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (1.78%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.78%) QGIS
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.89%) Big Data
8 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) JIRA
2 12 (5.33%) Git
3 9 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.22%) HP UFT
5 3 (1.33%) GitLab
6 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.44%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 123 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 97 (43.11%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.33%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.44%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.11%) Finance
6 7 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.78%) Billing
9 3 (1.33%) Marketing
9 3 (1.33%) Military
10 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.89%) Law
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (8.89%) Analyst
2 19 (8.44%) Senior
3 15 (6.67%) Architect
4 13 (5.78%) Lead
5 12 (5.33%) Consultant
5 12 (5.33%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.89%) Network Engineer
7 9 (4.00%) Developer
7 9 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (3.56%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.11%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.11%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (3.11%) Service Manager
9 7 (3.11%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) Project Planner
10 6 (2.67%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.67%) Workday Consultant
11 5 (2.22%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.22%) DBA
11 5 (2.22%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.89%) LDAP
2 14 (6.22%) 802.1X
3 8 (3.56%) Kafka
4 7 (3.11%) REST
4 7 (3.11%) RESTful
5 6 (2.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 6 (2.67%) SOAP
6 5 (2.22%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.22%) Swagger
7 4 (1.78%) Django
7 4 (1.78%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.78%) Flask
7 4 (1.78%) Node.js
7 4 (1.78%) NumPy
7 4 (1.78%) Pandas
7 4 (1.78%) pytest
7 4 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.78%) SAML
7 4 (1.78%) Web Services
8 3 (1.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Data Centre
2 19 (8.44%) PKI
3 15 (6.67%) Clustering
4 13 (5.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.56%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.67%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.22%) Replication
11 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.78%) LLPG
11 4 (1.78%) NLPG
11 4 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.78%) Windows
2 19 (8.44%) Linux
3 9 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.11%) Unix
5 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.78%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.44%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.56%) ITIL
2 50 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 48 (21.33%) DevOps
4 35 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (14.67%) Agile
6 30 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (13.33%) High Availability
7 29 (12.89%) Project Management
8 28 (12.44%) DevSecOps
9 27 (12.00%) SIEM
10 26 (11.56%) ITSM
11 22 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (8.89%) PRINCE2
12 20 (8.89%) Service Management
13 19 (8.44%) Migration
14 18 (8.00%) AI
14 18 (8.00%) Change Management
14 18 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (8.00%) Roadmaps
15 17 (7.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.33%) Python
2 36 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.11%) Java
4 15 (6.67%) SQL
5 14 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.56%) Go
7 7 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.11%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.22%) Bash
8 5 (2.22%) Korn
8 5 (2.22%) VBScript
9 3 (1.33%) C#
10 2 (0.89%) Bicep
10 2 (0.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 100 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 64 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.56%) CISSP
4 17 (7.56%) CISM
5 15 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.78%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.33%) PMP
8 10 (4.44%) Degree
9 9 (4.00%) JNCIA
9 9 (4.00%) JNCIP
9 9 (4.00%) JNCIS
10 8 (3.56%) GIAC
10 8 (3.56%) PMI Certification
11 7 (3.11%) CEH
12 4 (1.78%) CCIE
13 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.33%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.56%) NIST
2 25 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (9.33%) GDPR
4 18 (8.00%) QA
5 10 (4.44%) Data Quality
6 8 (3.56%) PMO
7 4 (1.78%) BS7666
8 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.44%) JTAG
9 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.00%) Docker
4 5 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.89%) Firmware
5 2 (0.89%) NFS
5 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.00%) FortiGate
3 16 (7.11%) Ansible
4 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (3.11%) Kibana
6 6 (2.67%) Terraform
7 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.33%) Nessus
8 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.89%) Avamar
9 2 (0.89%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.44%) Nmap
10 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.22%) Oracle
3 22 (9.78%) VMware
4 21 (9.33%) Cisco
4 21 (9.33%) F5
5 19 (8.44%) BeyondTrust
5 19 (8.44%) CyberArk
5 19 (8.44%) Juniper
6 15 (6.67%) Splunk
7 14 (6.22%) ServiceNow
7 14 (6.22%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.78%) Extreme Networks
8 13 (5.78%) SAP
9 11 (4.89%) Workday
10 10 (4.44%) Google
10 10 (4.44%) Salesforce
11 9 (4.00%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.67%) FireEye
12 6 (2.67%) Tanium
13 5 (2.22%) Databricks