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

 6 months to
23 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 257 126 115
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.03% 12.64% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.45% 14.70% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 103 65
10th Percentile £175 £265 £353
25th Percentile £400 £402 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £603
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
South East median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.17 £12.04
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.34 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -19.27% -65.14%
75th Percentile £21.35 £16.50 £92.00
90th Percentile £40.05 - £92.37
South East median hourly rate £21.35 £18.82 £38.00
% change year-on-year +13.44% -50.47% -33.91%

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 1,562 857 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.17% 85.96% 79.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 608 716
10th Percentile £363 £300 £370
25th Percentile £475 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £578
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.93% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £667
90th Percentile £730 £656 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.57% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 70 123
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.59 £19.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £48.72 £33.47 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +45.57% -41.64% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.39 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £73.88 £78.37
South East median hourly rate £53.95 £23.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +129.57% -59.02% +14.70%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 83 £575 -4.17% 14
Portsmouth +4 32 £535 +22.99% 19
Farnborough -4 27 £575 +17.35% 25
Southampton +3 25 £180 -55.83% 33
Fareham +4 19 £275 -42.11% 16
Eastleigh -1 18 £500 - 7
Havant +3 10 £565 -13.08% 2
Romsey 0 8 £260 +105.21% 2
New Milton - 4 - - 2
Andover - 4 £638 - 6
Petersfield -1 2 - -
Winchester -6 2 £425 +8.97% 5
Waterlooville - 2 - - 1
Hook - 2 £425 - 3
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 29 (11.28%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 28 (10.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.34%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (6.23%) Azure
2 16 (6.23%) Power Platform
3 14 (5.45%) AWS
4 9 (3.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.11%) IaaS
5 8 (3.11%) PaaS
6 5 (1.95%) GCP
7 3 (1.17%) OCI
8 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.78%) SaaS
9 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.39%) GitHub
9 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.12%) DNS
2 12 (4.67%) SAN
3 9 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.17%) DHCP
5 3 (1.17%) VLAN
5 3 (1.17%) VPN
6 2 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.78%) NAS
7 1 (0.39%) BGP
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) MPLS
7 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) Power BI
2 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (6.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) JUnit
2 1 (0.39%) MLflow
2 1 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 132 (51.36%) Social Skills
2 127 (49.42%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (15.18%) Finance
4 34 (13.23%) Retail
5 22 (8.56%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (7.78%) French Language
7 16 (6.23%) Spanish Language
8 14 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.45%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.06%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.89%) Back Office
12 8 (3.11%) Aerospace
12 8 (3.11%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.95%) Aviation
13 5 (1.95%) Law
14 4 (1.56%) Electronics
15 3 (1.17%) Legal
15 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 33 (12.84%) Lead
2 29 (11.28%) Support Engineer
3 28 (10.89%) Analyst
4 26 (10.12%) IT Support
5 25 (9.73%) IT Engineer
6 21 (8.17%) Technical Support
7 19 (7.39%) 2nd Line Support
8 17 (6.61%) Architect
8 17 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.61%) IT Analyst
9 16 (6.23%) 2nd Line Technical Support
10 14 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (5.06%) Support Analyst
12 12 (4.67%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (4.28%) Field Engineer
14 10 (3.89%) Field Service Engineer
15 9 (3.50%) Service Manager
15 9 (3.50%) Technical Leader
16 8 (3.11%) Service Delivery Analyst
16 8 (3.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.28%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.95%) React
4 4 (1.56%) JSON
4 4 (1.56%) REST
5 3 (1.17%) Node.js
5 3 (1.17%) SOAP
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.78%) Blazor
6 2 (0.78%) Kafka
6 2 (0.78%) LDAP
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.78%) OAuth
6 2 (0.78%) OpenID
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.78%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (0.78%) SAML
6 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (4.67%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.50%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.33%) Robotics
7 5 (1.95%) Social Media
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) FMCG
8 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 3 (1.17%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.17%) Digital Signage
9 3 (1.17%) iPhone
10 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 92 (35.80%) Windows
2 43 (16.73%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.67%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.50%) Linux
4 9 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.56%) Android
5 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (28.02%) Customer Service
3 53 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (17.51%) Agile
5 35 (13.62%) Change Management
6 34 (13.23%) Service Delivery
7 33 (12.84%) ITIL
7 33 (12.84%) Service Management
7 33 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
8 32 (12.45%) ITSM
9 27 (10.51%) Migration
10 23 (8.95%) Customer Experience
11 22 (8.56%) Data Protection
12 21 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (6.61%) Process Improvement
14 16 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (6.23%) ERP
14 16 (6.23%) Software Distribution
15 14 (5.45%) CI/CD
15 14 (5.45%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.23%) SQL
2 30 (11.67%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.23%) Python
4 7 (2.72%) Bash
5 5 (1.95%) C#
5 5 (1.95%) Java
6 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Ada
8 1 (0.39%) C
8 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 127 (49.42%) Security Cleared
2 87 (33.85%) DV Cleared
3 33 (12.84%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.23%) Degree
5 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.89%) A+ Certification
7 10 (3.89%) CCNA
7 10 (3.89%) MCSE
7 10 (3.89%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.17%) PMO
2 14 (5.45%) GDPR
3 5 (1.95%) SLA
4 4 (1.56%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (20.23%) Active Directory
2 28 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (10.51%) vCloud
4 26 (10.12%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (9.73%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.95%) Docker
7 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.17%) vSphere
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 31 (12.06%) vCenter Server
2 23 (8.95%) SCOM
3 10 (3.89%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.72%) Ansible
5 3 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.17%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) SCCM
5 3 (1.17%) WMI
6 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 65 (25.29%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.07%) VMware
3 18 (7.00%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.67%) IFS
5 10 (3.89%) Dell
5 10 (3.89%) Juniper
5 10 (3.89%) SAP
6 9 (3.50%) Avaya
6 9 (3.50%) Meraki
6 9 (3.50%) Mitel
7 5 (1.95%) Google
7 5 (1.95%) Workday
8 4 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (1.56%) Sparx
9 3 (1.17%) Lotus
9 3 (1.17%) Oracle
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco
11 1 (0.39%) McAfee
11 1 (0.39%) UiPath
168 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire