Problem-Solving Contracts in Hampshire

Problem Solving
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 106 132 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.21% 8.20% 12.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.80% 9.79% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 72 110
10th Percentile £363 £365 £235
25th Percentile £425 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £547
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +3.39% +4.29%
75th Percentile £618 £738 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £750
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 25 24
10th Percentile - £7.43 £51.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £12.04 £52.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £13.05 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year +114.56% -77.99% +24.83%
75th Percentile £28.50 £21.50 £74.06
90th Percentile - £37.05 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £19.38 £56.99
% change year-on-year -2.86% -66.00% +26.63%

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 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Farnborough +16 26 £450 +34.73% 24
Portsmouth +12 17 £563 +0.45% 116
Basingstoke +8 16 £610 -15.86% 92
Southampton +8 10 £315 -25.88% 113
Havant +3 9 £625 +14.89% 1
Winchester +5 7 £390 -17.89% 14
Eastleigh -1 6 £500 +2.56% 7
Lee-on-the-Solent - 2 £575 -
Fleet -2 1 £300 -36.84% 4
Gosport -3 1 - - 10
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (17.92%) Confluence
2 4 (3.77%) Anypoint
2 4 (3.77%) Mule
3 3 (2.83%) Mule ESB
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.94%) Apache
Applications
1 19 (17.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Infor LN
2 4 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.94%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.94%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.94%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.94%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.09%) Azure
2 13 (12.26%) AWS
3 3 (2.83%) AWS KMS
3 3 (2.83%) iPaaS
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (1.89%) IaaS
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.94%) GitHub
5 1 (0.94%) OCI
5 1 (0.94%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.94%) Serverless
5 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.94%) SonarCloud
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.43%) Firewall
1 10 (9.43%) LAN
2 9 (8.49%) VPN
3 8 (7.55%) Network Security
4 4 (3.77%) 4G
4 4 (3.77%) 5G
4 4 (3.77%) LTE
5 3 (2.83%) 5G NR
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.83%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (2.83%) Junos
5 3 (2.83%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (2.83%) SSL
6 2 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.89%) WAN
6 2 (1.89%) Wireless
7 1 (0.94%) ATM
7 1 (0.94%) Frame Relay
7 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) Redis
1 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.94%) MySQL
2 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.94%) Power BI
2 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (17.92%) JIRA
2 16 (15.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.89%) MSI
3 2 (1.89%) TestRail
4 1 (0.94%) Snyk
General
1 69 (65.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.19%) Finance
3 31 (29.25%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.09%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Automotive
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Developer
2 17 (16.04%) Network Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) Delphi Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Architect
5 8 (7.55%) Consultant
6 6 (5.66%) Analyst
6 6 (5.66%) Implementation Consultant
6 6 (5.66%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Senior
7 5 (4.72%) ERP Consultant
7 5 (4.72%) ERP Implementation Consultant
7 5 (4.72%) Infor Consultant
8 4 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.77%) MuleSoft Developer
8 4 (3.77%) Network Architect
9 3 (2.83%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (2.83%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Web Services
2 4 (3.77%) JSON
2 4 (3.77%) RESTful
2 4 (3.77%) XML
3 3 (2.83%) RAML
3 3 (2.83%) REST
3 3 (2.83%) SOAP
4 2 (1.89%) Kafka
4 2 (1.89%) Laravel
5 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.94%) Flutter
5 1 (0.94%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.94%) MUnit
5 1 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.94%) React
5 1 (0.94%) Vue
5 1 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
1 5 (4.72%) PKI
2 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
2 3 (2.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.89%) Replication
4 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.64%) Windows
2 3 (2.83%) Linux
2 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.89%) CentOS
4 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.13%) Agile
2 24 (22.64%) Collaborative Working
3 21 (19.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 17 (16.04%) Functional Testing
4 17 (16.04%) Migration
5 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (12.26%) Computer Science
6 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.43%) Change Management
7 10 (9.43%) Project Management
7 10 (9.43%) Risk Management
7 10 (9.43%) Validation
8 9 (8.49%) DevOps
9 8 (7.55%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (7.55%) Preventative Maintenance
9 8 (7.55%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (6.60%) Data Migration
10 7 (6.60%) Network Architecture
11 6 (5.66%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.58%) SQL
2 17 (16.04%) C#
2 17 (16.04%) PL/SQL
3 16 (15.09%) Delphi
4 8 (7.55%) Python
5 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.83%) DataWeave
6 3 (2.83%) Java
6 3 (2.83%) VB
7 2 (1.89%) PHP
8 1 (0.94%) Bash
8 1 (0.94%) C++
8 1 (0.94%) Dart
8 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.98%) Degree
4 16 (15.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (8.49%) CCNA
6 9 (8.49%) CCNP
6 9 (8.49%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.72%) CISSP
8 3 (2.83%) CISA
8 3 (2.83%) CISM
9 2 (1.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.89%) VCAP
9 2 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.94%) APMP
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.94%) CRISC
10 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) SLA
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.77%) NIST
4 3 (2.83%) GDPR
5 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) COBIT
6 1 (0.94%) COSO
6 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.94%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.94%) ITGC
6 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.94%) PMO
6 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.83%) vSphere
4 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 3 (2.83%) CloudHub
3 3 (2.83%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.89%) vRealize
4 2 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (1.89%) WMI
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) NSN NetAct
5 1 (0.94%) Packer
5 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.94%) SCCM
5 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.75%) Oracle
3 9 (8.49%) Cisco
4 5 (4.72%) Infor
4 5 (4.72%) Juniper
4 5 (4.72%) SAP
4 5 (4.72%) VMware
5 4 (3.77%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.83%) Citrix
6 3 (2.83%) F5
6 3 (2.83%) Thales
7 2 (1.89%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.94%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.94%) Dell
8 1 (0.94%) Google
8 1 (0.94%) Informatica
8 1 (0.94%) Nokia
8 1 (0.94%) Splunk
8 1 (0.94%) Zend