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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 8 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 218 113 144
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.77% 14.41% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.97% 16.21% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 95 77
10th Percentile £175 £375 £388
25th Percentile £403 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £544
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.95% +8.75%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £738
90th Percentile £735 £650 -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 26
10th Percentile - - £7.43
25th Percentile £13.45 - £12.04
Median hourly rate £16.92 - £13.78
75th Percentile £25.05 - £27.59
90th Percentile £37.00 - £91.00
South East median hourly rate £31.88 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +69.37% -12.47% -62.61%

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 1,365 697 1,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.96% 88.90% 81.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 489 803
10th Percentile £363 £323 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -7.63% +12.38%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £730 £667 £738
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.10% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 46 178
10th Percentile £12.83 £20.13 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.70 £32.97 £26.56
Median hourly rate £37.00 £52.44 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% -8.57% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £64.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £77.88
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +3 55 £613 +2.08% 17
Portsmouth +5 27 £525 -6.67% 13
Farnborough -13 24 £575 +19.17% 21
Southampton +3 23 £180 -65.71% 21
Fareham +8 18 £369 - 18
Eastleigh +1 18 £550 +10.00% 5
Havant -10 9 £565 -11.37% 6
Romsey - 9 £260 - 4
Andover - 4 £738 -
New Milton - 4 - -
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 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.38%) MS Project Server
3 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (7.80%) Azure
3 16 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.50%) AWS
4 12 (5.50%) IaaS
4 12 (5.50%) PaaS
5 8 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.38%) OCI
7 2 (0.92%) GCP
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.46%) GitHub
8 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.46%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.46%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.80%) DNS
2 15 (6.88%) SAN
3 8 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.83%) NAS
4 4 (1.83%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.92%) VLAN
6 1 (0.46%) HTTP
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.34%) Power BI
2 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
4 1 (0.46%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (5.05%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) GitLab
2 2 (0.92%) Robot Framework
2 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.46%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
General
1 101 (46.33%) Social Skills
2 97 (44.50%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (14.68%) Retail
4 21 (9.63%) Finance
5 14 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.96%) French Language
6 13 (5.96%) Spanish Language
7 11 (5.05%) Back Office
7 11 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.67%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.29%) Aviation
10 5 (2.29%) Law
10 5 (2.29%) Legal
11 2 (0.92%) Electronics
12 1 (0.46%) Avionics
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (12.39%) Analyst
1 27 (12.39%) IT Support
2 21 (9.63%) Architect
2 21 (9.63%) Lead
3 19 (8.72%) Support Engineer
4 18 (8.26%) Technical Support
5 17 (7.80%) IT Analyst
5 17 (7.80%) IT Engineer
5 17 (7.80%) Support Analyst
6 16 (7.34%) 2nd Line Support
6 16 (7.34%) IT Support Analyst
7 13 (5.96%) 2nd Line Technical Support
8 11 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Field Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Field Service Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Senior
9 10 (4.59%) Service Manager
10 9 (4.13%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) VMware Architect
12 7 (3.21%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) JSON
2 6 (2.75%) .NET
3 2 (0.92%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.92%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.92%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.92%) Blazor
3 2 (0.92%) JSON Schema
3 2 (0.92%) LDAP
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.92%) OAuth
3 2 (0.92%) OpenID
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.92%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (0.92%) React
3 2 (0.92%) RESTful
3 2 (0.92%) SAML
3 2 (0.92%) SOAP
3 2 (0.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (0.92%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.88%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.75%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.75%) PKI
5 6 (2.75%) Robotics
6 5 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.29%) Social Media
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.38%) Replication
8 2 (0.92%) FMCG
8 2 (0.92%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.46%) CCTV
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 66 (30.28%) Windows
2 23 (10.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.75%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.83%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.83%) Linux
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.94%) Customer Service
2 42 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (18.81%) Agile
4 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (11.93%) ITIL
5 26 (11.93%) Service Delivery
6 24 (11.01%) Change Management
7 22 (10.09%) Customer Experience
7 22 (10.09%) ITSM
7 22 (10.09%) Migration
8 21 (9.63%) Service Management
9 20 (9.17%) Data Protection
9 20 (9.17%) Process Improvement
9 20 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (6.88%) AI
11 15 (6.88%) Decision-Making
11 15 (6.88%) ERP
11 15 (6.88%) Project Management
12 14 (6.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.93%) SQL
2 20 (9.17%) PowerShell
3 14 (6.42%) Python
4 5 (2.29%) C#
5 4 (1.83%) C++
5 4 (1.83%) Java
6 2 (0.92%) Bash
6 2 (0.92%) C
6 2 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.46%) Ada
7 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (41.74%) Security Cleared
2 53 (24.31%) DV Cleared
3 31 (14.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.39%) Degree
5 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.05%) A+ Certification
7 11 (5.05%) CCNA
7 11 (5.05%) MCSE
7 11 (5.05%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.92%) PMP
11 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.46%) CCNP
11 1 (0.46%) HND
11 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) GDPR
2 8 (3.67%) PMO
3 6 (2.75%) SLA
4 5 (2.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 34 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.72%) vCloud
4 16 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (6.88%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.29%) vSphere
7 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.92%) Firmware
8 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.46%) UAG
Systems Management
1 23 (10.55%) vCenter Server
2 13 (5.96%) SCOM
3 10 (4.59%) Terraform
4 8 (3.67%) Ansible
5 7 (3.21%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.38%) WMI
7 2 (0.92%) Grafana
7 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) Istio
8 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.46%) linkerd
8 1 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (19.72%) VMware
2 28 (12.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.96%) IFS
4 11 (5.05%) Dell
5 8 (3.67%) Avaya
5 8 (3.67%) Meraki
5 8 (3.67%) Mitel
5 8 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
6 7 (3.21%) Sparx
7 5 (2.29%) SAP
7 5 (2.29%) Workday
8 4 (1.83%) Juniper
9 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle
9 3 (1.38%) Rackspace
9 3 (1.38%) Zerto
10 2 (0.92%) Google
11 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.46%) Splunk