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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 140 116 149
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.71% 9.65% 11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.86% 12.17% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 70 82
10th Percentile £195 £341 £209
25th Percentile £402 £384 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £623
90th Percentile £650 £618 £660
South East median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 22
10th Percentile £15.37 £18.06 £21.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £37.59 £37.19
Median hourly rate £17.00 £91.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -81.32% +63.38% +82.56%
75th Percentile £20.71 £92.28 £66.25
90th Percentile - £92.37 £73.75
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.96% -34.25% +88.94%

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 883 953 1,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.48% 79.28% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 622 650
10th Percentile £284 £360 £298
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £536
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.29% +2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £637
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 64 103
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.45 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.31 £21.03
Median hourly rate £21.79 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.87% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £34.38 £75.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £57.63 £78.75 £74.75
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £58.49 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.56% +7.58% +55.34%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +3 30 £600 +10.34% 24
Fleet +5 15 £405 -29.57% 12
Portsmouth +3 15 £435 +53.71% 18
Eastleigh 0 14 £500 +5.26% 7
Southampton +7 13 £417 +19.00% 30
Fareham +6 12 £475 +26.67% 10
Farnborough +12 11 £450 +31.96% 12
Havant -4 7 £638 +9.91% 1
Winchester +5 4 £228 -56.67% 5
Andover - 4 £500 - 3
Romsey - 2 £127 - 2
Aldershot - 1 £128 - 7
Petersfield - 1 £450 -
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 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.29%) Confluence
3 4 (2.86%) Apache
3 4 (2.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.57%) Azure
2 13 (9.29%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.29%) GitHub
5 5 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.14%) Serverless
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.43%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.43%) OCI
8 2 (1.43%) SaaS
8 2 (1.43%) Slack
9 1 (0.71%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) DNS
1 9 (6.43%) LAN
2 7 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) VPN
4 4 (2.86%) SMTP
5 3 (2.14%) Wireless
6 2 (1.43%) BGP
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.43%) HTTP
6 2 (1.43%) Junos
6 2 (1.43%) Network Security
6 2 (1.43%) OSPF
6 2 (1.43%) SSL
6 2 (1.43%) VLAN
6 2 (1.43%) VSAN
6 2 (1.43%) WAN
7 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.57%) Redis
4 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.14%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.71%) Big Data
5 1 (0.71%) DB2
5 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.71%) Parquet
5 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 7 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Git
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
4 1 (0.71%) Poetry
4 1 (0.71%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.71%) TestRail
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 43 (30.71%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.43%) Finance
4 15 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.00%) Retail
7 5 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Aviation
8 4 (2.86%) Back Office
8 4 (2.86%) Billing
8 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Banking
9 2 (1.43%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.71%) Greek Language
10 1 (0.71%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (12.14%) Analyst
2 11 (7.86%) Architect
2 11 (7.86%) Developer
3 10 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (5.71%) Senior
5 7 (5.00%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (5.00%) IT Support
5 7 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 6 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (3.57%) Consultant
7 5 (3.57%) Network Architect
7 5 (3.57%) Support Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (2.86%) Coordinator
8 4 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (2.86%) Wintel Support
8 4 (2.86%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.43%) YAML
2 8 (5.71%) Kafka
3 6 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.57%) Keycloak
5 3 (2.14%) .NET
5 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.14%) JSON
5 3 (2.14%) RESTful
5 3 (2.14%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.43%) Web Services
7 1 (0.71%) CSS
7 1 (0.71%) HTML
7 1 (0.71%) LDAP
7 1 (0.71%) Middleware
7 1 (0.71%) OAuth
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.71%) SAML
7 1 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.29%) PKI
2 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) PMI
5 2 (1.43%) Replication
6 1 (0.71%) AS400
6 1 (0.71%) Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) CMDB
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.71%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.71%) SCADA
6 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.29%) Windows
2 15 (10.71%) Linux
3 3 (2.14%) CentOS
3 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) VMS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) Agile
2 22 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (12.86%) Customer Service
4 17 (12.14%) DevOps
5 15 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (9.29%) Decision-Making
7 13 (9.29%) Migration
8 12 (8.57%) Validation
9 11 (7.86%) Service Delivery
10 10 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 10 (7.14%) Information Security
10 10 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (7.14%) Scrum
11 9 (6.43%) CI/CD
11 9 (6.43%) Data Protection
12 8 (5.71%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.71%) Process Improvement
12 8 (5.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (5.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.57%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.43%) SQL
3 12 (8.57%) Python
4 7 (5.00%) Bash
5 6 (4.29%) C#
6 3 (2.14%) Java
6 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.14%) Scala
7 2 (1.43%) C
7 2 (1.43%) C++
7 2 (1.43%) VB
8 1 (0.71%) Delphi
8 1 (0.71%) Groovy
8 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.71%) R
8 1 (0.71%) RPG
8 1 (0.71%) RPG IV
8 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) DV Cleared
3 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.29%) Degree
5 7 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.29%) ACCA
6 6 (4.29%) CIMA
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.86%) CCNA
8 4 (2.86%) CCNP
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.14%) IIBA
9 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.43%) CBAP
10 2 (1.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) SLA
3 5 (3.57%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) NIST
5 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.14%) PMO
5 3 (2.14%) PSD2
6 2 (1.43%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.86%) Docker
3 4 (2.86%) vSphere
4 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (11.43%) Ansible
2 10 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Terraform
4 6 (4.29%) SCCM
5 5 (3.57%) Grafana
5 5 (3.57%) Packer
5 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.57%) SCOM
6 4 (2.86%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.43%) VxRail
8 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.71%) Argo
8 1 (0.71%) Istio
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.71%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.71%) vRealize
8 1 (0.71%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 20 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.29%) Cisco
3 12 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 12 (8.57%) VMware
4 11 (7.86%) Oracle
5 9 (6.43%) Juniper
6 6 (4.29%) IBM
6 6 (4.29%) Splunk
7 5 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.57%) Dell
8 4 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.14%) Citrix
9 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.43%) Apple
10 2 (1.43%) F5
10 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.43%) Google
10 2 (1.43%) Okta
10 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.43%) Snow