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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 159 101 124
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.14% 11.22% 9.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.64% 13.25% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 70 76
10th Percentile £255 £312 £223
25th Percentile £376 £384 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -6.91% -6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £631
90th Percentile £688 £626 £671
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 9
10th Percentile - - £20.35
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -23.29% +17.91%
75th Percentile £20.71 £28.50 £55.00
90th Percentile - - £55.28
South East median hourly rate £20.36 £27.00 £48.40
% change year-on-year -24.61% -44.21% +51.68%

All Process and 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 1,086 762 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.90% 84.67% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 532 614
10th Percentile £313 £356 £316
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £699 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 71
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.50 £24.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.51 £54.56
% change year-on-year -52.89% -12.92% +45.49%

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 21 December 2025.

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
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 21 December 2025. 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 -4 34 £600 +2.56% 14
Farnborough -8 16 £400 -5.88% 11
Southampton +4 13 £375 +7.14% 58
Eastleigh +3 13 £500 +17.65% 3
Portsmouth -5 13 £435 +53.71% 63
Fleet - 12 £414 -
Fareham - 12 £475 - 13
Havant -4 9 £535 -7.76% 5
Romsey - 8 £323 - 3
Andover - 4 £500 - 5
Winchester -3 3 £400 -27.27%
Gosport +6 2 - -
Aldershot - 1 £128 - 2
Petersfield - 1 £450 - 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 4 (2.52%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.89%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (9.43%) Azure
3 10 (6.29%) AWS
3 10 (6.29%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.14%) GitHub
4 5 (3.14%) IaaS
4 5 (3.14%) PaaS
5 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.52%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.52%) SaaS
6 3 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.89%) GCP
6 3 (1.89%) Serverless
7 2 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.26%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.26%) Slack
8 1 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.03%) DNS
2 6 (3.77%) LAN
3 5 (3.14%) Firewall
4 3 (1.89%) VLAN
4 3 (1.89%) VPN
5 2 (1.26%) BGP
5 2 (1.26%) HTTP
5 2 (1.26%) Network Security
5 2 (1.26%) OSPF
5 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.63%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.63%) IPv4
6 1 (0.63%) IPv6
6 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
6 1 (0.63%) SSH
6 1 (0.63%) SSL
6 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.29%) Power BI
2 6 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.52%) Redis
4 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.26%) Tableau
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.63%) DB2
6 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.63%) MySQL
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) JIRA
2 7 (4.40%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (3.77%) Git
4 4 (2.52%) Gradle
4 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.52%) Maven
5 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.89%) GitLab
6 2 (1.26%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.26%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.63%) Gatling
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.63%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.63%) TestNG
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 54 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.09%) Finance
4 23 (14.47%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.32%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.03%) Billing
6 8 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.03%) Retail
7 5 (3.14%) Banking
7 5 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Aviation
9 2 (1.26%) Back Office
9 2 (1.26%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.63%) French Language
10 1 (0.63%) Greek Language
10 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (11.32%) Developer
2 15 (9.43%) Analyst
3 13 (8.18%) 1st Line Support
4 12 (7.55%) Architect
5 10 (6.29%) Senior
6 8 (5.03%) IT Support
6 8 (5.03%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.40%) Coordinator
7 7 (4.40%) Help Desk Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Lead
8 6 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (3.77%) Resource Manager
9 5 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) IT Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Network Architect
10 4 (2.52%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (2.52%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.52%) Support Analyst
10 4 (2.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.77%) AngularJS
1 6 (3.77%) RESTful
2 4 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.52%) Kafka
2 4 (2.52%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.89%) .NET
3 3 (1.89%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.89%) Spring
3 3 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.89%) YAML
4 2 (1.26%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.63%) CSS
5 1 (0.63%) HTML
5 1 (0.63%) JSON
5 1 (0.63%) LDAP
5 1 (0.63%) Middleware
5 1 (0.63%) OAuth
5 1 (0.63%) SAML
5 1 (0.63%) SOAP
5 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.77%) PKI
3 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.26%) CMDB
5 2 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.26%) PMI
5 2 (1.26%) Replication
6 1 (0.63%) AS400
6 1 (0.63%) Clustering
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.63%) SCADA
6 1 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.63%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.95%) Windows
2 9 (5.66%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.03%) Linux
4 2 (1.26%) Unix
4 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.63%) CentOS
5 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.08%) Agile
2 24 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (14.47%) Customer Service
3 23 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (10.06%) Time Management
5 15 (9.43%) Decision-Making
6 14 (8.81%) DevOps
6 14 (8.81%) Process Improvement
6 14 (8.81%) Service Delivery
7 13 (8.18%) Information Security
7 13 (8.18%) Project Management
8 12 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 11 (6.92%) Change Management
9 11 (6.92%) CI/CD
9 11 (6.92%) Data Protection
10 10 (6.29%) ITIL
11 9 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (5.66%) Containerisation
11 9 (5.66%) Line Management
11 9 (5.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.43%) PowerShell
1 15 (9.43%) SQL
2 11 (6.92%) Python
3 7 (4.40%) Bash
4 5 (3.14%) C#
5 4 (2.52%) Java
5 4 (2.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.26%) C
6 2 (1.26%) C++
6 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.63%) Groovy
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) R
7 1 (0.63%) RPG
7 1 (0.63%) RPG IV
7 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.09%) DV Cleared
3 23 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.81%) Degree
5 7 (4.40%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.14%) PMP
7 4 (2.52%) ACCA
7 4 (2.52%) CIMA
7 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.89%) CCNA
8 3 (1.89%) CCNP
8 3 (1.89%) IIBA
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.26%) CBAP
9 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.26%) MCSE
10 1 (0.63%) OCP
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) PMO
2 7 (4.40%) QA
3 5 (3.14%) GDPR
4 4 (2.52%) SLA
5 3 (1.89%) IFRS
5 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.89%) NIST
5 3 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.89%) PSD2
5 3 (1.89%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.26%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 2 (1.26%) WCAG
7 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) Docker
4 2 (1.26%) vCloud
4 2 (1.26%) vSphere
5 1 (0.63%) KVM
5 1 (0.63%) RHEV
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Ansible
2 11 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.92%) Terraform
3 6 (3.77%) Grafana
3 6 (3.77%) Prometheus
3 6 (3.77%) vCenter Server
4 5 (3.14%) SCCM
4 5 (3.14%) SCOM
5 3 (1.89%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.89%) Packer
6 2 (1.26%) Argo
6 2 (1.26%) Istio
6 2 (1.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) linkerd
7 1 (0.63%) Nagios
7 1 (0.63%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.63%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.43%) VMware
3 10 (6.29%) Oracle
4 9 (5.66%) Cisco
5 6 (3.77%) IBM
5 6 (3.77%) Juniper
5 6 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.14%) Splunk
7 4 (2.52%) Dell
8 3 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.89%) Google
8 3 (1.89%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.26%) Apple
9 2 (1.26%) F5
9 2 (1.26%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.26%) IFS
9 2 (1.26%) SAP
9 2 (1.26%) Snow
9 2 (1.26%) Teradata