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

 6 months to
5 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 182 97 129
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.30% 13.53% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 15.28% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 75 83
10th Percentile £301 £313 £368
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.09% -3.20%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £669
90th Percentile £725 £625 £738
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 21
10th Percentile £14.38 - -
25th Percentile £16.38 £27.50 £7.43
Median hourly rate £18.86 £28.00 £13.05
Median % change year-on-year -32.66% +114.56% -74.90%
75th Percentile £20.71 £28.50 £21.50
90th Percentile - - £33.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £20.00 £19.38
% change year-on-year +3.55% +3.23% -62.74%

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 1,216 635 1,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.16% 88.56% 86.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 452 700
10th Percentile £326 £350 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +8.57%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 38 115
10th Percentile £14.30 £20.07 £12.78
25th Percentile £16.17 £28.13 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.26% +18.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £40.00 £69.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £53.40 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -38.89% +3.85% -3.71%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +2 46 £700 +14.75% 23
Farnborough -11 17 £500 +17.65% 19
Havant -6 15 £550 +8.91% 1
Eastleigh +2 14 £550 +10.00% 3
Southampton -1 12 £413 +9.63% 28
Portsmouth -2 12 £480 +2.13% 19
Fareham - 10 £525 - 20
Romsey - 9 £323 - 2
Fleet 0 7 £447 +49.00% 3
Andover - 5 £500 - 2
Winchester -2 3 £400 -3.03% 3
Gosport +2 2 - -
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 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.65%) Apache
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.65%) MS Project Server
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (9.89%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (8.79%) Azure
3 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.59%) AWS
5 11 (6.04%) IaaS
5 11 (6.04%) PaaS
6 6 (3.30%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.65%) GCP
8 3 (1.65%) Serverless
9 2 (1.10%) GitHub
9 2 (1.10%) OCI
9 2 (1.10%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.10%) SaaS
10 1 (0.55%) Figma
10 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
2 5 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.20%) SAN
4 2 (1.10%) Firewall
4 2 (1.10%) HTTP
4 2 (1.10%) NAS
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.55%) IPv4
5 1 (0.55%) IPv6
5 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.55%) LAN
5 1 (0.55%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) Power BI
2 6 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.10%) Redis
4 2 (1.10%) Tableau
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.55%) MySQL
5 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.55%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) JIRA
2 5 (2.75%) Git
3 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.20%) Gradle
3 4 (2.20%) Maven
3 4 (2.20%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.20%) Robot Framework
3 4 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.65%) GitLab
4 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.55%) Gatling
6 1 (0.55%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) JUnit
6 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.55%) TestNG
General
1 95 (52.20%) Social Skills
2 66 (36.26%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.99%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (10.44%) Finance
6 11 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.49%) Retail
8 7 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Billing
10 5 (2.75%) Banking
11 4 (2.20%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.65%) Legal
13 1 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (11.54%) Analyst
2 18 (9.89%) Architect
2 18 (9.89%) IT Support
3 13 (7.14%) Developer
4 12 (6.59%) 1st Line Support
4 12 (6.59%) IT Analyst
4 12 (6.59%) Lead
5 11 (6.04%) IT Support Analyst
5 11 (6.04%) Support Analyst
6 9 (4.95%) Senior
7 8 (4.40%) Project Manager
8 7 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (3.85%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.85%) Project Planner
8 7 (3.85%) VMware Architect
9 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (3.30%) IT Manager
9 6 (3.30%) Resource Manager
9 6 (3.30%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.75%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.20%) JSON
2 3 (1.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.65%) RESTful
2 3 (1.65%) Spring
2 3 (1.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.10%) JSON Schema
3 2 (1.10%) Kafka
3 2 (1.10%) Keycloak
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.10%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (1.10%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (1.10%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (1.10%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.55%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.55%) OAuth
4 1 (0.55%) OpenID
4 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.40%) PKI
4 7 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.20%) Replication
7 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.10%) CMDB
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.10%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (1.10%) PMI
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.55%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) IoT
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.03%) Windows
2 11 (6.04%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.30%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.75%) Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.02%) Agile
2 40 (21.98%) Customer Service
3 33 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (10.99%) Project Management
5 19 (10.44%) Time Management
6 18 (9.89%) Decision-Making
6 18 (9.89%) Service Delivery
7 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (9.34%) Process Improvement
8 16 (8.79%) ITIL
8 16 (8.79%) Project Delivery
9 14 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 14 (7.69%) Migration
9 14 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 13 (7.14%) Change Management
10 13 (7.14%) Creative Thinking
10 13 (7.14%) Information Security
11 12 (6.59%) DevOps
12 11 (6.04%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.79%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.69%) Python
3 10 (5.49%) SQL
4 5 (2.75%) Java
5 4 (2.20%) Bash
6 3 (1.65%) C++
6 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.10%) C
7 2 (1.10%) C#
8 1 (0.55%) R
8 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.68%) DV Cleared
3 27 (14.84%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.29%) Degree
5 6 (3.30%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.20%) PMP
8 3 (1.65%) CCNA
8 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.10%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.10%) CBAP
9 2 (1.10%) MCSE
9 2 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) PMO
2 9 (4.95%) GDPR
3 5 (2.75%) QA
3 5 (2.75%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) IFRS
4 3 (1.65%) NIST
4 3 (1.65%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.10%) PSD2
5 2 (1.10%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (8.79%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.85%) vCloud
4 4 (2.20%) Docker
5 2 (1.10%) Firmware
5 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.10%) vSphere
6 1 (0.55%) KVM
6 1 (0.55%) RHEV
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) vCenter Server
2 11 (6.04%) Terraform
3 10 (5.49%) Ansible
4 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.30%) SCCM
6 5 (2.75%) SCOM
7 4 (2.20%) Grafana
7 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) Argo
8 1 (0.55%) Istio
8 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.55%) linkerd
8 1 (0.55%) Nagios
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
8 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.29%) VMware
3 10 (5.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.30%) BiZZdesign
4 6 (3.30%) Sparx
5 5 (2.75%) Avaya
5 5 (2.75%) IBM
5 5 (2.75%) IFS
5 5 (2.75%) Meraki
5 5 (2.75%) Mitel
6 4 (2.20%) SAP
7 3 (1.65%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
8 2 (1.10%) Dell
8 2 (1.10%) Rackspace
8 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.10%) Snow
8 2 (1.10%) Splunk
8 2 (1.10%) Zerto
151 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire