Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Problem Solving
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 254 127 115
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.90% 12.79% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.32% 14.85% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 101 64
10th Percentile £175 £263 £352
25th Percentile £394 £402 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £591
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 8
10th Percentile - - £12.04
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.17 £15.01
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.34 £55.12
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -70.36% -4.14%
75th Percentile £21.35 £16.50 £92.09
90th Percentile £39.75 - £92.37
South East median hourly rate £21.35 £18.00 £37.08
% change year-on-year +18.61% -51.46% -35.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,556 855 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.02% 86.10% 79.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 600 702
10th Percentile £363 £310 £363
25th Percentile £473 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £601 £659
90th Percentile £730 £656 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 72 119
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £19.54
25th Percentile £16.59 £18.97 £51.06
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £51.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.10 £64.88 £77.24
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Basingstoke +7 83 £575 -4.17% 40
Portsmouth +3 32 £535 +22.99% 27
Farnborough -4 28 £575 +17.35% 32
Southampton +4 24 £180 -45.95% 46
Fareham +3 19 £275 -42.11% 20
Eastleigh -1 18 £500 - 7
Havant +2 8 £565 -13.08% 6
Romsey 0 8 £260 +105.21% 8
New Milton - 4 - - 2
Andover - 4 £638 - 6
Petersfield -1 2 - - 1
Winchester -6 2 £425 +8.97% 6
Waterlooville - 2 - - 5
Hook - 2 £425 - 5
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 30 (11.81%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 27 (10.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (6.30%) Azure
3 15 (5.91%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.51%) AWS
5 8 (3.15%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.15%) IaaS
6 7 (2.76%) PaaS
7 5 (1.97%) GCP
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.79%) SaaS
10 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.39%) GitHub
10 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.24%) DNS
2 11 (4.33%) SAN
3 8 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.57%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (1.18%) VLAN
5 3 (1.18%) VPN
6 2 (0.79%) Firewall
6 2 (0.79%) NAS
6 2 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.39%) BGP
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.91%) Power BI
2 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (6.30%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) JUnit
2 1 (0.39%) MLflow
2 1 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 131 (51.57%) Social Skills
2 125 (49.21%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (15.35%) Finance
4 33 (12.99%) Retail
5 23 (9.06%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (7.87%) French Language
7 16 (6.30%) Spanish Language
8 14 (5.51%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (5.12%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.94%) Back Office
12 8 (3.15%) Aerospace
12 8 (3.15%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.97%) Aviation
13 5 (1.97%) Law
14 4 (1.57%) Electronics
14 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Legal
16 2 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (12.60%) Lead
2 28 (11.02%) Support Engineer
3 25 (9.84%) Analyst
4 24 (9.45%) IT Engineer
4 24 (9.45%) IT Support
5 21 (8.27%) Technical Support
6 19 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support
7 17 (6.69%) Architect
7 17 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.30%) 2nd Line Technical Support
8 16 (6.30%) IT Analyst
9 13 (5.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (4.72%) Support Analyst
11 11 (4.33%) IT Support Analyst
12 10 (3.94%) Field Engineer
13 9 (3.54%) Field Service Engineer
13 9 (3.54%) Service Manager
13 9 (3.54%) Technical Leader
14 8 (3.15%) Service Delivery Analyst
14 8 (3.15%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.33%) Terraform
2 6 (2.36%) .NET
3 5 (1.97%) React
4 4 (1.57%) JSON
4 4 (1.57%) REST
5 3 (1.18%) Node.js
5 3 (1.18%) SOAP
6 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.79%) Blazor
6 2 (0.79%) Kafka
6 2 (0.79%) LDAP
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.79%) OAuth
6 2 (0.79%) OpenID
6 2 (0.79%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (0.79%) RESTful
6 2 (0.79%) SAML
6 2 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (4.72%) Data Centre
1 12 (4.72%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.54%) Driving Licence
2 9 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.36%) Robotics
6 5 (1.97%) Social Media
7 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.57%) FMCG
7 4 (1.57%) PKI
8 3 (1.18%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.18%) Digital Signage
8 3 (1.18%) iPhone
9 1 (0.39%) CCTV
9 1 (0.39%) CMDB
9 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 91 (35.83%) Windows
2 43 (16.93%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.72%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.54%) Linux
4 9 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.57%) Android
5 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 70 (27.56%) Customer Service
3 53 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (17.72%) Agile
5 35 (13.78%) Change Management
6 34 (13.39%) Service Delivery
6 34 (13.39%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (12.99%) Service Management
8 32 (12.60%) ITIL
8 32 (12.60%) ITSM
9 25 (9.84%) Migration
10 23 (9.06%) Customer Experience
11 22 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (8.27%) Data Protection
13 16 (6.30%) Process Improvement
13 16 (6.30%) Software Distribution
14 15 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (5.91%) ERP
15 14 (5.51%) CI/CD
16 13 (5.12%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.39%) SQL
2 31 (12.20%) PowerShell
3 17 (6.69%) Python
4 7 (2.76%) Bash
5 5 (1.97%) C#
5 5 (1.97%) Java
6 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.79%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Ada
8 1 (0.39%) C
8 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 128 (50.39%) Security Cleared
2 87 (34.25%) DV Cleared
3 33 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.69%) Degree
5 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.54%) A+ Certification
7 9 (3.54%) CCNA
7 9 (3.54%) MCSE
7 9 (3.54%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.79%) PMP
10 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.39%) CCNP
11 1 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.27%) PMO
2 13 (5.12%) GDPR
3 5 (1.97%) SLA
4 4 (1.57%) NCSC
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (20.08%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (10.24%) vCloud
3 26 (10.24%) VMware ESXi
3 26 (10.24%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.97%) Docker
5 4 (1.57%) vSphere
6 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 30 (11.81%) vCenter Server
2 23 (9.06%) SCOM
3 10 (3.94%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.76%) Ansible
5 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.18%) Puppet
5 3 (1.18%) SCCM
5 3 (1.18%) WMI
6 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.39%) vRealize
6 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 66 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.29%) VMware
3 18 (7.09%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.33%) IFS
5 10 (3.94%) Juniper
5 10 (3.94%) SAP
6 9 (3.54%) Dell
7 8 (3.15%) Avaya
7 8 (3.15%) Meraki
7 8 (3.15%) Mitel
8 5 (1.97%) Google
8 5 (1.97%) Workday
9 4 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.57%) Sparx
10 3 (1.18%) Lotus
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.79%) Cisco
12 1 (0.39%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle
12 1 (0.39%) Rackspace
259 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire