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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 251 118 121
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.04% 12.36% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.42% 14.39% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 96 72
10th Percentile £175 £320 £350
25th Percentile £406 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +3.65% +8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
South East median daily rate £480 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.29% -1.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 11
10th Percentile - - £12.04
25th Percentile £13.45 - £12.65
Median hourly rate £16.07 - £20.24
75th Percentile £21.35 - £91.00
90th Percentile £38.03 - £92.37
South East median hourly rate £31.00 £18.82 £36.17
% change year-on-year +64.72% -47.96% -37.10%

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 1,529 820 1,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.43% 85.86% 81.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 574 761
10th Percentile £382 £325 £363
25th Percentile £481 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £656
90th Percentile £730 £664 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 62 129
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.71 £25.15 £40.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £37.44 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.53% -34.71% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.14% -61.81% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +4 70 £575 -4.17% 27
Portsmouth +2 31 £535 +5.11% 27
Farnborough -4 27 £560 +13.13% 31
Southampton +7 25 £180 -64.88% 23
Eastleigh -1 20 £500 - 9
Fareham +3 18 £275 -42.11% 15
Havant -1 10 £565 -11.37% 4
Romsey +1 9 £260 - 1
Andover - 5 £725 - 5
New Milton - 4 - - 1
Winchester -6 2 £425 +8.97% 4
Hook - 2 £425 - 1
Petersfield - 1 - - 1
Waterlooville - 1 - - 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 19 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.20%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 18 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.77%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.37%) Azure
4 15 (5.98%) AWS
5 12 (4.78%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.59%) IaaS
6 9 (3.59%) PaaS
7 5 (1.99%) GCP
8 3 (1.20%) OCI
9 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.40%) SaaS
9 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.16%) DNS
2 14 (5.58%) SAN
3 12 (4.78%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.59%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.20%) NAS
6 2 (0.80%) DHCP
6 2 (0.80%) VLAN
6 2 (0.80%) VPN
7 1 (0.40%) BGP
7 1 (0.40%) Firewall
7 1 (0.40%) HTTP
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) MPLS
7 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.77%) Power BI
2 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) Metadata
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.40%) JUnit
2 1 (0.40%) MLflow
2 1 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 126 (50.20%) Social Skills
2 118 (47.01%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (14.34%) Retail
4 35 (13.94%) Finance
5 20 (7.97%) French Language
6 16 (6.37%) Spanish Language
7 15 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (5.58%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.38%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.98%) Back Office
11 9 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (3.19%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.79%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.99%) Aviation
14 5 (1.99%) Law
14 5 (1.99%) Legal
15 3 (1.20%) Electronics
16 2 (0.80%) Billing
17 1 (0.40%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 33 (13.15%) Analyst
2 30 (11.95%) IT Support
3 29 (11.55%) Lead
4 26 (10.36%) Support Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) IT Engineer
5 23 (9.16%) Technical Support
6 22 (8.76%) IT Analyst
7 19 (7.57%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (7.17%) Architect
8 18 (7.17%) Support Analyst
9 17 (6.77%) IT Support Analyst
10 16 (6.37%) 2nd Line Technical Support
11 15 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (4.38%) Field Engineer
13 11 (4.38%) Field Service Engineer
14 10 (3.98%) Service Manager
15 8 (3.19%) Service Analyst
15 8 (3.19%) Service Delivery Analyst
15 8 (3.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.79%) JSON
2 6 (2.39%) .NET
3 5 (1.99%) React
4 4 (1.59%) REST
5 3 (1.20%) Node.js
5 3 (1.20%) SOAP
6 2 (0.80%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.80%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.80%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.80%) JSON Schema
6 2 (0.80%) Kafka
6 2 (0.80%) LDAP
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.80%) OAuth
6 2 (0.80%) OpenID
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.80%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (0.80%) RESTful
6 2 (0.80%) SAML
6 2 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.58%) Analytical Mindset
1 14 (5.58%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.19%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.39%) Robotics
7 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.99%) Social Media
8 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.59%) PKI
9 3 (1.20%) FMCG
10 2 (0.80%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.80%) Digital Signage
10 2 (0.80%) iPhone
10 2 (0.80%) Replication
11 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (35.06%) Windows
2 33 (13.15%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.38%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (3.19%) Linux
6 4 (1.59%) Android
6 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.87%) Customer Service
2 65 (25.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (18.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (17.93%) Agile
5 35 (13.94%) ITIL
6 34 (13.55%) Service Delivery
7 30 (11.95%) Change Management
7 30 (11.95%) Service Management
8 28 (11.16%) ITSM
9 26 (10.36%) Customer Experience
10 25 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (9.56%) Migration
12 23 (9.16%) Data Protection
13 19 (7.57%) Process Improvement
14 17 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
14 17 (6.77%) ERP
15 16 (6.37%) Decision-Making
16 15 (5.98%) CI/CD
16 15 (5.98%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 15 (5.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.75%) SQL
2 25 (9.96%) PowerShell
3 19 (7.57%) Python
4 7 (2.79%) Bash
5 5 (1.99%) C#
5 5 (1.99%) Java
6 3 (1.20%) C++
6 3 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.80%) C
8 1 (0.40%) Ada
8 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 115 (45.82%) Security Cleared
2 74 (29.48%) DV Cleared
3 36 (14.34%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.97%) Degree
5 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.38%) A+ Certification
7 11 (4.38%) CCNA
7 11 (4.38%) MCSE
7 11 (4.38%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) PMP
10 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.37%) GDPR
2 14 (5.58%) PMO
3 7 (2.79%) SLA
4 5 (1.99%) NCSC
5 2 (0.80%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (19.52%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (8.76%) vCloud
4 21 (8.37%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (7.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.99%) Docker
7 4 (1.59%) vSphere
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.40%) UAG
Systems Management
1 26 (10.36%) vCenter Server
2 17 (6.77%) SCOM
3 12 (4.78%) Terraform
4 11 (4.38%) Kubernetes
5 7 (2.79%) Ansible
6 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.20%) Puppet
6 3 (1.20%) WMI
7 2 (0.80%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.40%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 50 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.93%) VMware
3 17 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.18%) IFS
5 12 (4.78%) Avaya
5 12 (4.78%) Meraki
5 12 (4.78%) Mitel
6 11 (4.38%) Dell
7 10 (3.98%) Juniper
8 8 (3.19%) SAP
9 5 (1.99%) BiZZdesign
9 5 (1.99%) Google
9 5 (1.99%) Sparx
9 5 (1.99%) Workday
10 3 (1.20%) Oracle
11 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.80%) Cisco
11 2 (0.80%) Lotus
11 2 (0.80%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.80%) Zerto