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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 202 111 131
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.07% 14.72% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 16.37% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 87 72
10th Percentile £175 £370 £365
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £554
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.71% +1.98%
75th Percentile £723 £600 £738
90th Percentile £735 £650 -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 26
10th Percentile £13.03 - £7.43
25th Percentile - - £12.04
Median hourly rate £13.45 - £13.78
75th Percentile £18.12 - £27.59
90th Percentile £37.00 - £91.00
South East median hourly rate £33.86 £18.82 £19.81
% change year-on-year +79.91% -4.97% -65.56%

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 1,312 678 1,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.38% 89.92% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 492 715
10th Percentile £361 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +11.05%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 40 165
10th Percentile £12.70 £19.82 £13.05
25th Percentile £14.82 £28.63 £26.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% -1.92% +9.24%
75th Percentile £55.30 £71.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.77 £75.00 £79.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -4.04%

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 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +6 51 £700 +14.75% 14
Portsmouth +4 24 £525 -6.67% 22
Southampton +3 24 £200 -36.51% 18
Farnborough -10 20 £560 +20.43% 21
Fareham +6 16 £369 - 21
Eastleigh +1 12 £550 +10.00% 4
Havant -3 11 £550 -13.73% 3
Romsey - 9 £323 - 2
Andover - 3 £725 - 5
New Milton - 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 8 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.98%) Confluence
3 3 (1.49%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 19 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (9.41%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.43%) Azure
4 14 (6.93%) IaaS
4 14 (6.93%) PaaS
5 11 (5.45%) AWS
6 8 (3.96%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.49%) OCI
8 2 (0.99%) GCP
8 2 (0.99%) SaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.50%) Figma
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub
9 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.93%) SAN
2 11 (5.45%) DNS
3 8 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.98%) NAS
4 4 (1.98%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.99%) DHCP
5 2 (0.99%) LAN
5 2 (0.99%) VLAN
6 1 (0.50%) Firewall
6 1 (0.50%) HTTP
6 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.50%) IPv4
6 1 (0.50%) IPv6
6 1 (0.50%) Network Security
6 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) VPN
6 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.41%) Power BI
2 4 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Redis
4 1 (0.50%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.47%) JIRA
2 4 (1.98%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) GitLab
3 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.50%) Gradle
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 98 (48.51%) Social Skills
2 89 (44.06%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.87%) Retail
4 24 (11.88%) Finance
5 14 (6.93%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.95%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.46%) Back Office
9 8 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.47%) French Language
10 7 (3.47%) Spanish Language
11 6 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.48%) Aviation
12 5 (2.48%) Law
12 5 (2.48%) Legal
13 3 (1.49%) Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Avionics
14 1 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (11.88%) Analyst
1 24 (11.88%) IT Support
2 23 (11.39%) Architect
3 20 (9.90%) Lead
4 18 (8.91%) Support Analyst
5 17 (8.42%) IT Analyst
5 17 (8.42%) IT Support Analyst
6 13 (6.44%) IT Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) Technical Support
8 11 (5.45%) Field Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Field Service Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (4.95%) VMware Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.46%) Senior
11 7 (3.47%) Developer
11 7 (3.47%) Project Planner
11 7 (3.47%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.98%) JSON
2 3 (1.49%) .NET
3 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.99%) JSON Schema
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.99%) React
3 2 (0.99%) RESTful
3 2 (0.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (0.99%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.50%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.50%) Blazor
4 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.50%) Node.js
4 1 (0.50%) OpenID
4 1 (0.50%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.92%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.47%) PKI
6 6 (2.97%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.48%) Robotics
7 5 (2.48%) Social Media
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.49%) Replication
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.99%) Mixed Reality
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.50%) CCTV
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) FMCG
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (24.75%) Windows
2 17 (8.42%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.48%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.98%) Android
4 4 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.49%) Linux
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (29.70%) Customer Service
2 47 (23.27%) Agile
3 39 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (12.38%) Change Management
5 22 (10.89%) Process Improvement
6 21 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (10.40%) ITIL
6 21 (10.40%) Project Management
7 19 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (9.41%) Decision-Making
7 19 (9.41%) Migration
8 18 (8.91%) ITSM
9 17 (8.42%) Roadmaps
10 16 (7.92%) Data Protection
10 16 (7.92%) ERP
10 16 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (7.43%) Customer Experience
11 15 (7.43%) Time Management
12 14 (6.93%) Project Delivery
12 14 (6.93%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.42%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.43%) SQL
3 11 (5.45%) Python
4 4 (1.98%) C++
4 4 (1.98%) Java
5 3 (1.49%) C#
6 2 (0.99%) C
7 1 (0.50%) Ada
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (40.10%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.77%) DV Cleared
3 28 (13.86%) Degree
4 27 (13.37%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.94%) CCNA
7 11 (5.45%) A+ Certification
7 11 (5.45%) MCSE
7 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.45%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.48%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.98%) PMP
10 2 (0.99%) CCNP
10 2 (0.99%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.50%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.43%) GDPR
2 12 (5.94%) PMO
3 6 (2.97%) SLA
4 4 (1.98%) NCSC
5 2 (0.99%) IFRS
5 2 (0.99%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.50%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 26 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 21 (10.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (7.92%) vCloud
4 10 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.46%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.48%) vSphere
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.99%) Firmware
9 1 (0.50%) Docker
9 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.50%) KVM
9 1 (0.50%) RHEV
9 1 (0.50%) UAG
9 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 21 (10.40%) vCenter Server
2 9 (4.46%) SCOM
2 9 (4.46%) Terraform
3 7 (3.47%) Ansible
4 5 (2.48%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.49%) SCCM
6 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.99%) Grafana
6 2 (0.99%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Istio
7 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.50%) linkerd
7 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (19.80%) VMware
2 29 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.43%) IFS
4 11 (5.45%) Dell
5 9 (4.46%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (4.46%) Sparx
6 8 (3.96%) Avaya
6 8 (3.96%) Meraki
6 8 (3.96%) Mitel
7 5 (2.48%) Oracle
7 5 (2.48%) SAP
7 5 (2.48%) Workday
8 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.49%) Rackspace
8 3 (1.49%) Zerto
9 2 (0.99%) Cisco
9 2 (0.99%) Google
9 2 (0.99%) Juniper
10 1 (0.50%) McAfee
10 1 (0.50%) Red Hat