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

 6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 189 102 126
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.45% 13.84% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.38% 15.32% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 78 76
10th Percentile £189 £348 £388
25th Percentile £400 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £725 £600 £738
90th Percentile £730 £641 -
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 22
10th Percentile £13.03 - £7.43
25th Percentile £13.45 £27.50 £8.58
Median hourly rate £16.96 £28.00 £13.05
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% +114.56% -76.90%
75th Percentile £17.96 £28.50 £16.00
90th Percentile £37.00 - £31.35
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +48.78% -2.86% -64.77%

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 1,314 666 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.59% 90.37% 84.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 485 712
10th Percentile £340 £325 £388
25th Percentile £464 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £675
90th Percentile £751 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 37 158
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £30.00 £25.52
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +0.70% +14.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £62.54 - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +3 49 £700 +14.75% 12
Portsmouth +3 22 £525 -6.67% 17
Southampton +5 21 £200 -36.51% 22
Farnborough -13 19 £500 +11.11% 16
Havant -6 12 £550 -8.33% 1
Fareham - 12 £525 - 9
Eastleigh +3 9 £550 +10.00% 7
Romsey - 9 £323 - 3
Gosport +2 2 - - 1
Winchester -3 1 £400 -9.86%
Andover - 1 £725 - 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 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.59%) Apache
2 3 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.59%) MS Project Server
3 2 (1.06%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (10.58%) Power Platform
3 17 (8.99%) Azure
4 14 (7.41%) IaaS
4 14 (7.41%) PaaS
5 13 (6.88%) AWS
6 8 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.59%) GCP
8 3 (1.59%) OCI
8 3 (1.59%) Serverless
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
9 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.06%) SaaS
10 1 (0.53%) Figma
10 1 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.35%) SAN
2 8 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (3.70%) DNS
4 4 (2.12%) NAS
4 4 (2.12%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.06%) DHCP
5 2 (1.06%) VLAN
6 1 (0.53%) Firewall
6 1 (0.53%) HTTP
6 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.53%) IPv4
6 1 (0.53%) IPv6
6 1 (0.53%) LAN
6 1 (0.53%) Network Security
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.53%) VPN
6 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) Power BI
2 6 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.12%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.06%) Redis
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.53%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.12%) Gradle
2 4 (2.12%) Maven
2 4 (2.12%) Robot Framework
2 4 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.59%) GitLab
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.53%) Gatling
5 1 (0.53%) JMeter
5 1 (0.53%) JUnit
5 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
5 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.53%) TestNG
General
1 94 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 83 (43.92%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Finance
4 20 (10.58%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (10.05%) Retail
6 15 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (5.82%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Back Office
10 5 (2.65%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.65%) Banking
10 5 (2.65%) Legal
11 4 (2.12%) Billing
11 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.59%) French Language
12 3 (1.59%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.53%) Avionics
13 1 (0.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 21 (11.11%) Architect
2 20 (10.58%) Lead
3 19 (10.05%) Analyst
3 19 (10.05%) IT Support
4 14 (7.41%) IT Analyst
4 14 (7.41%) IT Support Analyst
4 14 (7.41%) Support Analyst
5 12 (6.35%) Developer
6 10 (5.29%) VMware Architect
7 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (4.76%) Field Engineer
7 9 (4.76%) Field Service Engineer
7 9 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.23%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.23%) Senior
8 8 (4.23%) Technical Support
9 7 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) Project Planner
9 7 (3.70%) Resource Manager
10 6 (3.17%) Customer Service Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
1 3 (1.59%) JSON
1 3 (1.59%) RESTful
1 3 (1.59%) Spring
1 3 (1.59%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.06%) JSON Schema
2 2 (1.06%) Kafka
2 2 (1.06%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (1.06%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.53%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.53%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.53%) React
3 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.53%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.70%) PKI
5 6 (3.17%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.59%) Replication
7 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.06%) Mixed Reality
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.53%) CCTV
8 1 (0.53%) CMDB
8 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.05%) Windows
2 13 (6.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.17%) Linux
4 5 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.51%) Agile
2 50 (26.46%) Customer Service
3 34 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (12.70%) Process Improvement
5 21 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (11.11%) Migration
5 21 (11.11%) Project Management
6 20 (10.58%) Change Management
7 19 (10.05%) ITIL
7 19 (10.05%) Time Management
8 18 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 17 (8.99%) Roadmaps
10 15 (7.94%) ERP
11 14 (7.41%) Project Delivery
11 14 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (6.88%) Creative Thinking
13 12 (6.35%) Data Protection
13 12 (6.35%) DevOps
13 12 (6.35%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.35%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.82%) Python
2 11 (5.82%) SQL
3 6 (3.17%) Java
4 4 (2.12%) C++
5 3 (1.59%) Bash
5 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.06%) C
6 2 (1.06%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) Ada
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.69%) DV Cleared
3 25 (13.23%) Degree
3 25 (13.23%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.82%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (5.29%) CCNA
6 9 (4.76%) A+ Certification
6 9 (4.76%) MCSE
6 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.17%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.65%) PMP
9 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.06%) CCNP
10 2 (1.06%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.53%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.53%) MBA
11 1 (0.53%) PgMP
11 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) PMO
2 12 (6.35%) GDPR
3 5 (2.65%) SLA
4 3 (1.59%) IFRS
4 3 (1.59%) NCSC
4 3 (1.59%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.29%) vCloud
4 5 (2.65%) vSphere
5 4 (2.12%) Docker
5 4 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.59%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.06%) Firmware
8 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.53%) KVM
8 1 (0.53%) RHEV
8 1 (0.53%) UAG
8 1 (0.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (8.99%) vCenter Server
2 12 (6.35%) Terraform
3 10 (5.29%) Ansible
4 8 (4.23%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.65%) SCCM
5 5 (2.65%) SCOM
6 4 (2.12%) Grafana
6 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.53%) Argo
7 1 (0.53%) Istio
7 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.53%) linkerd
7 1 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.53%) Nagios
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.53%) Packer
7 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 36 (19.05%) VMware
2 30 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.88%) IFS
4 9 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
4 9 (4.76%) Dell
4 9 (4.76%) Sparx
5 8 (4.23%) Avaya
5 8 (4.23%) Meraki
5 8 (4.23%) Mitel
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle
6 4 (2.12%) SAP
7 3 (1.59%) Rackspace
7 3 (1.59%) Zerto
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco
8 2 (1.06%) Google
8 2 (1.06%) Juniper
8 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.06%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds
121 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire