Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 29 May 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 29 May 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
South East > Hampshire
6 months to
29 May 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 17 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 149 232 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.97% 6.65% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.27% 7.47% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 143 119
Median daily rate £450 £450 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +20.00% +10.70%
10th Percentile £263 £257 £304
90th Percentile £537 £575 £521
South East median daily rate £425 £440 £400
% change year-on-year -3.41% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.77 £28.92
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +78.89% -42.02% +58.48%
10th Percentile £18.05 £12.57 £10.00
90th Percentile £47.20 £49.11 £45.00
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £23.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -10.64% -40.51% +122.54%

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,607 3,104 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.94% 89.02% 84.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 1,987 1,875
Median daily rate £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.88% +2.41%
10th Percentile £299 £300 £275
90th Percentile £588 £588 £574
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £433
% change year-on-year - +4.05% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 171 131
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.48 £28.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +7.78% +14.96% +2.73%
10th Percentile £15.29 £12.50 £12.23
90th Percentile £57.38 £57.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £26.71 £29.36 £23.50
% change year-on-year -9.03% +24.94% +17.50%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2020.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2020.

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 29 May 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
Southampton +14 24 £459 +2.00% 10
Portsmouth +34 22 £195 -53.85% 1
Havant +4 15 £500 -6.98%
Basingstoke +14 12 £375 +7.14% 6
Hook +5 11 £413 -14.95%
Andover +6 10 £444 -2.74% 1
Fareham +6 8 £450 +210.34%
Farnborough -5 6 £400 -11.11% 3
Fleet +17 5 £411 +0.92% 1
Gosport - 4 £525 -
Winchester +8 3 £450 +5.88% 1
Aldershot -5 1 £288 -32.35% 1
Bordon - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
South East

For the 6 months to 29 May 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 61 (40.94%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (27.52%) Security Cleared
3 37 (24.83%) Windows
3 37 (24.83%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (20.13%) SC Cleared
5 25 (16.78%) Degree
6 24 (16.11%) MS Exchange
7 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
8 22 (14.77%) Active Directory
9 20 (13.42%) Internet
9 20 (13.42%) ITIL
9 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Office
9 20 (13.42%) Migration
10 19 (12.75%) SQL
10 19 (12.75%) Python
10 19 (12.75%) Windows Server
10 19 (12.75%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (12.08%) Decision-Making
11 18 (12.08%) Microsoft Excel
11 18 (12.08%) VPN
12 17 (11.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
13 16 (10.74%) Capacity Management
13 16 (10.74%) Office 365
14 15 (10.07%) HP
14 15 (10.07%) Management Information System
14 15 (10.07%) Remote Desktop
15 14 (9.40%) ITSM
15 14 (9.40%) MS Visio

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (16.11%) MS Exchange
2 12 (8.05%) Exchange Server 2003
2 12 (8.05%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (6.71%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.36%) IIS
6 4 (2.68%) Confluence
7 3 (2.01%) SAS
8 2 (1.34%) Apache
8 2 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (1.34%) CMS
8 2 (1.34%) JBoss
8 2 (1.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (12.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (9.40%) MS Visio
4 13 (8.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (6.71%) Acrobat
6 9 (6.04%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (1.34%) Windchill
8 1 (0.67%) InVision
8 1 (0.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.67%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.74%) Office 365
2 14 (9.40%) Azure
3 10 (6.71%) G Suite
4 8 (5.37%) AWS
5 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.34%) Coveralls
6 2 (1.34%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.34%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Active Directory
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.67%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.67%) PaaS
7 1 (0.67%) Trello
7 1 (0.67%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.42%) Internet
2 18 (12.08%) VPN
3 15 (10.07%) Remote Desktop
4 12 (8.05%) WebEx
5 11 (7.38%) Firewall
6 7 (4.70%) BGP
6 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.03%) MPLS
7 6 (4.03%) OSPF
7 6 (4.03%) SNMP
7 6 (4.03%) VLAN
7 6 (4.03%) WAN
8 5 (3.36%) LAN
8 5 (3.36%) Skype
9 4 (2.68%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.68%) DHCP
9 4 (2.68%) DNS
10 3 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (2.01%) Network Security
10 3 (2.01%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.36%) Apache Hive
3 5 (3.36%) Big Data
3 5 (3.36%) Hadoop
3 5 (3.36%) Impala
3 5 (3.36%) Power BI
3 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.34%) GIS
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.34%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.34%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.67%) QlikView
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) Git (software)
2 7 (4.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.68%) JIRA
4 3 (2.01%) JUnit
4 3 (2.01%) Maven
4 3 (2.01%) MSI
4 3 (2.01%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.34%) ClearCase
5 2 (1.34%) ClearQuest
5 2 (1.34%) Gradle
5 2 (1.34%) Selenium
5 2 (1.34%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.34%) TestDirector
5 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.67%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.67%) Subversion
6 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.67%) TestNG
General
1 12 (8.05%) Finance
2 8 (5.37%) Marketing
3 7 (4.70%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.03%) Legal
5 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.68%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.01%) Military
7 3 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.34%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
9 1 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.67%) Law
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (14.09%) Analyst
2 15 (10.07%) Architect
3 14 (9.40%) Developer
4 12 (8.05%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.04%) Office 365 Architect
6 8 (5.37%) Help Desk Support
6 8 (5.37%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Desktop Support
8 5 (3.36%) IT Support
8 5 (3.36%) Security Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Team Leader
8 5 (3.36%) Test Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Java Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Product Owner
9 4 (2.68%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Technical Manager
10 3 (2.01%) Administrator
10 3 (2.01%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.04%) HTML
2 7 (4.70%) CSS
2 7 (4.70%) RESTful
3 5 (3.36%) .NET
3 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.36%) React
3 5 (3.36%) Spring
3 5 (3.36%) Web Services
4 3 (2.01%) Java EE
4 3 (2.01%) jQuery
4 3 (2.01%) Middleware
4 3 (2.01%) Pandas
5 2 (1.34%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.34%) Ember.js
5 2 (1.34%) JSF
5 2 (1.34%) JSP
5 2 (1.34%) NumPy
5 2 (1.34%) SOAP
5 2 (1.34%) WSDL
5 2 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (40.94%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (10.07%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.38%) Blackberry
4 11 (7.38%) PDA
5 10 (6.71%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.70%) User Experience
7 4 (2.68%) PKI
8 3 (2.01%) Life Science
8 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.34%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.34%) Clustering
9 2 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.34%) e-Health
9 2 (1.34%) LIMS
9 2 (1.34%) PACS
9 2 (1.34%) Replication
10 1 (0.67%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.83%) Windows
2 19 (12.75%) Windows Server
3 17 (11.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (9.40%) Windows 7
4 14 (9.40%) Windows Vista
5 12 (8.05%) Windows 2000
5 12 (8.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (8.05%) Windows XP
6 9 (6.04%) Linux
7 4 (2.68%) Unix
7 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.01%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.83%) Agile Software Development
2 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (13.42%) ITIL
3 20 (13.42%) Migration
4 18 (12.08%) Decision-Making
5 16 (10.74%) Capacity Management
6 14 (9.40%) ITSM
7 13 (8.72%) DevOps
8 12 (8.05%) Configuration Management
8 12 (8.05%) CRM
9 11 (7.38%) Product Backlog
9 11 (7.38%) SDLC
9 11 (7.38%) User Stories
10 10 (6.71%) Business Analysis
10 10 (6.71%) Coaching
10 10 (6.71%) Project Delivery
11 9 (6.04%) Data Modelling
11 9 (6.04%) ETL
11 9 (6.04%) Risk Management
11 9 (6.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.75%) Python
1 19 (12.75%) SQL
2 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.38%) Java
4 9 (6.04%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.70%) C#
6 6 (4.03%) C
7 5 (3.36%) Scala
8 4 (2.68%) C++
8 4 (2.68%) R
9 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.34%) Bash Shell
10 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.34%) VBScript
11 1 (0.67%) Delphi
11 1 (0.67%) Java 8
11 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (27.52%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.13%) SC Cleared
3 25 (16.78%) Degree
4 9 (6.04%) ISEB
5 8 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.70%) CCNP
6 7 (4.70%) HND
7 5 (3.36%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (3.36%) CISM
7 5 (3.36%) CISSP
7 5 (3.36%) CLAS
7 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.68%) CCIE
9 3 (2.01%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 3 (2.01%) MCSE
10 2 (1.34%) CCNA
10 2 (1.34%) MCSA
10 2 (1.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) JSP 440
2 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.68%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.34%) HL7
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (14.77%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.36%) HDFS
4 3 (2.01%) Docker
4 3 (2.01%) vSphere
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.34%) NFS
6 1 (0.67%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 12 (8.05%) ServiceCenter
1 12 (8.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (3.36%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 5 (3.36%) SCDPM
3 4 (2.68%) SCCM
4 3 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
4 3 (2.01%) Opscode Chef
4 3 (2.01%) WSUS
5 2 (1.34%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.34%) Puppet
5 2 (1.34%) vRealize
6 1 (0.67%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.67%) Ansible
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.07%) HP
3 12 (8.05%) Bomgar
3 12 (8.05%) Cisco
3 12 (8.05%) Peregrine
3 12 (8.05%) Remedy
4 10 (6.71%) Adobe
4 10 (6.71%) IronPort
4 10 (6.71%) Proofpoint
5 9 (6.04%) Oracle
5 9 (6.04%) VMware
6 6 (4.03%) F5
7 5 (3.36%) Cloudera
8 4 (2.68%) Citrix
8 4 (2.68%) SAP
9 3 (2.01%) Blue Coat
9 3 (2.01%) Juniper
9 3 (2.01%) McAfee
9 3 (2.01%) Progress
9 3 (2.01%) Riverbed