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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 210 111 136
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.55% 14.57% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.79% 16.40% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 93 74
10th Percentile £175 £378 £388
25th Percentile £409 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £554
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -7.00% +8.00%
75th Percentile £686 £600 £738
90th Percentile £748 £650 -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 26
10th Percentile - - £7.43
25th Percentile - - £12.04
Median hourly rate £13.45 - £13.78
75th Percentile £21.35 - £27.59
90th Percentile £37.00 - £91.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £20.24
% change year-on-year +72.69% -6.99% -64.81%

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 1,330 677 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.50% 88.85% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 484 774
10th Percentile £363 £315 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -7.12% +12.29%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £741
South East median daily rate £518 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.50% -1.96% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 39 168
10th Percentile £12.70 £21.11 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.49 £37.03 £25.84
Median hourly rate £37.00 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% -4.10% +4.27%
75th Percentile £56.21 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.10 £75.00 £78.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +5 55 £650 +8.33% 25
Portsmouth +5 25 £525 -8.70% 15
Southampton +2 24 £190 -59.03% 22
Farnborough -11 22 £568 +19.47% 18
Fareham +8 18 £369 - 15
Eastleigh +1 16 £550 +10.00% 5
Romsey - 9 £260 - 7
Havant -7 6 £550 -13.73% 6
New Milton - 4 - - 1
Andover - 4 £738 - 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 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.38%) Confluence
3 3 (1.43%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (7.14%) Azure
2 15 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 14 (6.67%) IaaS
3 14 (6.67%) PaaS
4 11 (5.24%) AWS
5 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.43%) OCI
7 2 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.95%) GCP
8 1 (0.48%) GitHub
8 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.62%) DNS
2 15 (7.14%) SAN
3 8 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.90%) NAS
4 4 (1.90%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.43%) VLAN
6 2 (0.95%) DHCP
6 2 (0.95%) LAN
7 1 (0.48%) Firewall
7 1 (0.48%) HTTP
7 1 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.48%) IPv4
7 1 (0.48%) IPv6
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.48%) VPN
7 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.48%) Redis
3 1 (0.48%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.43%) Robot Framework
2 3 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.95%) GitLab
3 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.48%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 91 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.76%) Retail
4 19 (9.05%) Finance
5 14 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.24%) Back Office
6 11 (5.24%) French Language
6 11 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.24%) Spanish Language
7 8 (3.81%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.33%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.38%) Aviation
9 5 (2.38%) Law
9 5 (2.38%) Legal
10 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Electronics
12 1 (0.48%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 27 (12.86%) IT Support
2 24 (11.43%) Analyst
3 23 (10.95%) Architect
4 21 (10.00%) Lead
5 18 (8.57%) Support Analyst
6 17 (8.10%) IT Analyst
6 17 (8.10%) IT Support Analyst
6 17 (8.10%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) IT Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) Technical Support
8 14 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (5.24%) 2nd Line Technical Support
9 11 (5.24%) Field Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Field Service Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.29%) Senior
10 9 (4.29%) Service Manager
10 9 (4.29%) VMware Architect
11 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) JSON
2 5 (2.38%) .NET
3 2 (0.95%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.95%) Blazor
3 2 (0.95%) JSON Schema
3 2 (0.95%) LDAP
3 2 (0.95%) OAuth
3 2 (0.95%) OpenID
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.95%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (0.95%) React
3 2 (0.95%) REST
3 2 (0.95%) RESTful
3 2 (0.95%) SAML
3 2 (0.95%) SOAP
3 2 (0.95%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (0.95%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.62%) Data Centre
2 14 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.33%) PKI
6 6 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.86%) Robotics
7 5 (2.38%) Social Media
8 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.43%) Replication
10 2 (0.95%) FMCG
10 2 (0.95%) Mixed Reality
10 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.48%) CCTV
11 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.48%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 63 (30.00%) Windows
2 23 (10.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.86%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.90%) Android
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.43%) Linux
5 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.29%) Customer Service
2 45 (21.43%) Agile
3 37 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (11.43%) Change Management
6 22 (10.48%) ITIL
7 21 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 20 (9.52%) Data Protection
8 20 (9.52%) ITSM
8 20 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (9.05%) Customer Experience
9 19 (9.05%) Migration
9 19 (9.05%) Service Delivery
10 18 (8.57%) Decision-Making
11 17 (8.10%) Project Management
11 17 (8.10%) Service Management
12 16 (7.62%) Roadmaps
13 15 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (7.14%) ERP
14 14 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.48%) SQL
2 20 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.19%) Python
4 4 (1.90%) C#
4 4 (1.90%) C++
4 4 (1.90%) Java
5 2 (0.95%) C
6 1 (0.48%) Ada
6 1 (0.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.76%) DV Cleared
3 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.90%) Degree
5 13 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.71%) CCNA
6 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.24%) A+ Certification
7 11 (5.24%) MCSE
7 11 (5.24%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) CCNP
10 2 (0.95%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.95%) PMP
11 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) GDPR
2 9 (4.29%) PMO
3 6 (2.86%) SLA
4 5 (2.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 34 (16.19%) Active Directory
2 26 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.05%) vCloud
4 15 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (6.67%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.38%) vSphere
7 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.95%) Firmware
8 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.48%) KVM
9 1 (0.48%) RHEV
9 1 (0.48%) UAG
9 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 24 (11.43%) vCenter Server
2 13 (6.19%) SCOM
3 10 (4.76%) Terraform
4 8 (3.81%) Ansible
5 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.43%) WMI
7 2 (0.95%) Grafana
7 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.95%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Istio
8 1 (0.48%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.48%) linkerd
8 1 (0.48%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.48%) Nagios
8 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 45 (21.43%) VMware
2 26 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.19%) IFS
4 11 (5.24%) Dell
5 8 (3.81%) Avaya
5 8 (3.81%) BiZZdesign
5 8 (3.81%) Meraki
5 8 (3.81%) Mitel
5 8 (3.81%) Sparx
6 5 (2.38%) SAP
6 5 (2.38%) Workday
7 4 (1.90%) Juniper
8 3 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.43%) Oracle
8 3 (1.43%) Rackspace
8 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.43%) Zerto
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco
9 2 (0.95%) Google
10 1 (0.48%) Red Hat