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

 6 months to
2 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 199 107 132
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.82% 14.34% 8.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 15.97% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 82 72
10th Percentile £175 £364 £365
25th Percentile £359 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.50% +3.39%
75th Percentile £696 £613 £738
90th Percentile £725 £650 -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 25
10th Percentile £13.03 - £7.43
25th Percentile £13.45 £27.50 £12.04
Median hourly rate £15.19 £28.00 £13.05
Median % change year-on-year -45.77% +114.56% -77.73%
75th Percentile £17.05 £28.50 £21.50
90th Percentile £37.00 - £37.05
South East median hourly rate £31.25 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +66.05% -2.86% -65.69%

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 1,329 670 1,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.92% 89.81% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 483 718
10th Percentile £357 £325 £388
25th Percentile £466 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% +11.48%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £739
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 41 163
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.12 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £30.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +8.21%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +1 51 £700 +14.75% 11
Southampton +2 25 £200 -36.51% 26
Portsmouth +4 24 £525 -6.67% 20
Farnborough -14 19 £560 +24.44% 15
Fareham - 15 £525 - 22
Havant -5 11 £550 -12.00% 2
Eastleigh +2 9 £550 +10.00% 5
Romsey - 9 £323 - 4
Andover - 2 £613 - 5
Gosport +2 1 - - 1
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 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.51%) Apache
2 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.51%) MS Project Server
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (9.55%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (10.55%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.54%) Azure
4 14 (7.04%) IaaS
4 14 (7.04%) PaaS
5 12 (6.03%) AWS
6 8 (4.02%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.51%) OCI
8 3 (1.51%) Serverless
9 2 (1.01%) GCP
9 2 (1.01%) SaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Figma
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.04%) SAN
2 8 (4.02%) DNS
2 8 (4.02%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.01%) NAS
3 4 (2.01%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.01%) DHCP
4 2 (1.01%) LAN
4 2 (1.01%) VLAN
5 1 (0.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.50%) IPv4
5 1 (0.50%) IPv6
5 1 (0.50%) Network Security
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.55%) Power BI
2 5 (2.51%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.50%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) JIRA
2 5 (2.51%) Git
3 4 (2.01%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.01%) Gradle
3 4 (2.01%) Maven
3 4 (2.01%) Robot Framework
3 4 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.01%) GitLab
4 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) JUnit
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.50%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 98 (49.25%) Social Skills
2 88 (44.22%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.06%) Finance
4 21 (10.55%) Retail
5 18 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.02%) Back Office
10 6 (3.02%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.51%) Banking
11 5 (2.51%) Legal
11 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.01%) French Language
12 4 (2.01%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.51%) Billing
14 2 (1.01%) Aviation
14 2 (1.01%) Law
14 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.50%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 22 (11.06%) Analyst
1 22 (11.06%) Architect
2 21 (10.55%) IT Support
3 20 (10.05%) Lead
4 17 (8.54%) Support Analyst
5 16 (8.04%) IT Analyst
5 16 (8.04%) IT Support Analyst
6 11 (5.53%) Field Engineer
6 11 (5.53%) Field Service Engineer
6 11 (5.53%) IT Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Developer
7 10 (5.03%) VMware Architect
8 9 (4.52%) Enterprise Architect
8 9 (4.52%) Project Manager
8 9 (4.52%) Senior
8 9 (4.52%) Technical Support
9 7 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.52%) Project Planner
9 7 (3.52%) Resource Manager
9 7 (3.52%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.51%) AngularJS
1 3 (1.51%) JSON
1 3 (1.51%) RESTful
1 3 (1.51%) Spring
1 3 (1.51%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.01%) JSON Schema
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.01%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (1.01%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.50%) React
3 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.04%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.52%) PKI
6 6 (3.02%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.51%) Replication
8 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.01%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (1.01%) Robotics
8 2 (1.01%) Social Media
8 2 (1.01%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.50%) CCTV
9 1 (0.50%) CMDB
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.60%) Windows
2 14 (7.04%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.51%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.01%) Linux
5 3 (1.51%) Android
5 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.63%) Customer Service
2 52 (26.13%) Agile
3 39 (19.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (11.56%) Process Improvement
5 22 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (11.06%) Change Management
5 22 (11.06%) ITIL
6 21 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (10.55%) Migration
7 20 (10.05%) Project Management
8 18 (9.05%) Decision-Making
8 18 (9.05%) Time Management
9 17 (8.54%) Roadmaps
10 16 (8.04%) ERP
10 16 (8.04%) ITSM
11 14 (7.04%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (6.53%) Creative Thinking
12 13 (6.53%) Project Delivery
13 12 (6.03%) Conflict Resolution
13 12 (6.03%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.53%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.53%) SQL
3 10 (5.03%) Python
4 6 (3.02%) Java
5 4 (2.01%) C++
6 2 (1.01%) C
6 2 (1.01%) C#
7 1 (0.50%) Ada
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 43 (21.61%) DV Cleared
3 28 (14.07%) Degree
4 25 (12.56%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (6.03%) CCNA
7 11 (5.53%) A+ Certification
7 11 (5.53%) MCSE
7 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.53%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.51%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.01%) PMP
10 2 (1.01%) CCNP
10 2 (1.01%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.50%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) PgMP
11 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) PMO
2 13 (6.53%) GDPR
3 6 (3.02%) SLA
4 3 (1.51%) IFRS
4 3 (1.51%) NCSC
4 3 (1.51%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) QA
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.50%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (10.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.53%) vCloud
4 5 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.51%) vSphere
5 4 (2.01%) Docker
5 4 (2.01%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.01%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.50%) KVM
8 1 (0.50%) RHEV
8 1 (0.50%) UAG
8 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 18 (9.05%) vCenter Server
2 10 (5.03%) Terraform
3 8 (4.02%) Ansible
4 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.02%) SCOM
5 5 (2.51%) SCCM
6 2 (1.01%) Grafana
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Istio
7 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.50%) linkerd
7 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 37 (18.59%) VMware
2 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.04%) IFS
4 11 (5.53%) Dell
5 9 (4.52%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (4.52%) Sparx
6 8 (4.02%) Avaya
6 8 (4.02%) Meraki
6 8 (4.02%) Mitel
7 6 (3.02%) Oracle
8 4 (2.01%) SAP
9 3 (1.51%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.51%) Rackspace
9 3 (1.51%) Zerto
10 2 (1.01%) Cisco
10 2 (1.01%) Google
10 2 (1.01%) Juniper
10 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.01%) Workday
11 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
155 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire