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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 201 107 135
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 11.78% 14.12% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.94% 15.78% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 84 74
10th Percentile £175 £366 £370
25th Percentile £355 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -11.50% +3.39%
75th Percentile £722 £600 £738
90th Percentile £734 £646 -
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £484
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.31% -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 26
10th Percentile £12.94 - £7.43
25th Percentile - £27.50 £12.04
Median hourly rate £13.45 £28.00 £13.78
Median % change year-on-year -51.96% +103.27% -76.49%
75th Percentile £17.05 £28.50 £31.13
90th Percentile £37.00 - £91.00
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +96.60% -2.86% -66.00%

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 1,345 678 1,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.84% 89.45% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 493 722
10th Percentile £351 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.69% +12.27%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £743
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 43 165
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.00 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.65 £28.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +9.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.28 £75.00 £79.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +96.43% -41.05% -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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +5 53 £700 +14.75% 14
Southampton +6 24 £200 -36.51% 22
Portsmouth +5 23 £525 -6.67% 22
Farnborough -10 19 £560 +24.44% 26
Fareham - 15 £369 - 22
Havant -3 11 £550 -12.00% 2
Eastleigh +1 10 £550 +10.00% 3
Romsey - 10 £323 - 4
Andover - 3 £725 - 5
Gosport +2 1 - - 1
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 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.49%) MS Project Server
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.94%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (9.95%) Power Platform
3 16 (7.96%) Azure
4 14 (6.97%) IaaS
4 14 (6.97%) PaaS
5 12 (5.97%) AWS
6 8 (3.98%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.49%) OCI
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.00%) GCP
9 2 (1.00%) SaaS
9 2 (1.00%) Serverless
10 1 (0.50%) Figma
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.97%) SAN
2 10 (4.98%) DNS
3 8 (3.98%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.99%) NAS
4 4 (1.99%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.00%) DHCP
5 2 (1.00%) LAN
5 2 (1.00%) 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 20 (9.95%) Power BI
2 5 (2.49%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.50%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.99%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.49%) Git
4 2 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.00%) Gradle
4 2 (1.00%) Maven
4 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 98 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 92 (45.77%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.44%) Finance
4 23 (11.44%) Retail
5 15 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (6.97%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.98%) Back Office
10 6 (2.99%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.49%) Banking
11 5 (2.49%) French Language
11 5 (2.49%) Legal
11 5 (2.49%) Spanish Language
11 5 (2.49%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.99%) Aviation
12 4 (1.99%) Law
12 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.00%) Billing
14 1 (0.50%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 24 (11.94%) IT Support
2 23 (11.44%) Analyst
2 23 (11.44%) Architect
3 21 (10.45%) Lead
4 18 (8.96%) Support Analyst
5 17 (8.46%) IT Analyst
5 17 (8.46%) IT Support Analyst
6 13 (6.47%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.47%) Field Engineer
7 11 (5.47%) Field Service Engineer
8 10 (4.98%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.98%) Technical Support
8 10 (4.98%) VMware Architect
9 9 (4.48%) Developer
9 9 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
9 9 (4.48%) Project Manager
9 9 (4.48%) Senior
10 8 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (3.48%) Project Planner
11 7 (3.48%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.99%) JSON
2 2 (1.00%) .NET
2 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.00%) JSON Schema
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.00%) React
2 2 (1.00%) RESTful
2 2 (1.00%) Spring
2 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 2 (1.00%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.50%) Kafka
3 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.50%) Node.js
3 1 (0.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (0.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.50%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.96%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.98%) PKI
6 6 (2.99%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.99%) Robotics
7 4 (1.99%) Social Media
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.49%) Replication
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.00%) Mixed Reality
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.50%) CCTV
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (23.88%) Windows
2 17 (8.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.49%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.99%) Android
4 4 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.99%) Linux
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.86%) Customer Service
2 49 (24.38%) Agile
3 40 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (11.94%) Change Management
5 23 (11.44%) ITIL
5 23 (11.44%) Process Improvement
6 22 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (10.45%) Migration
8 20 (9.95%) Project Management
9 19 (9.45%) Decision-Making
10 17 (8.46%) ERP
10 17 (8.46%) ITSM
10 17 (8.46%) Roadmaps
11 16 (7.96%) Time Management
12 15 (7.46%) Data Protection
12 15 (7.46%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (6.47%) Customer Experience
13 13 (6.47%) Project Delivery
13 13 (6.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.96%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.47%) SQL
3 11 (5.47%) Python
4 5 (2.49%) Java
5 4 (1.99%) C++
6 2 (1.00%) C
6 2 (1.00%) C#
7 1 (0.50%) Ada
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 46 (22.89%) DV Cleared
3 28 (13.93%) Degree
4 27 (13.43%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.47%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.97%) CCNA
7 11 (5.47%) A+ Certification
7 11 (5.47%) MCSE
7 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.47%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.49%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.99%) PMP
10 2 (1.00%) CCNP
10 2 (1.00%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.50%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) PgMP
11 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) GDPR
2 13 (6.47%) PMO
3 6 (2.99%) SLA
4 4 (1.99%) NCSC
5 3 (1.49%) IFRS
5 3 (1.49%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
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 25 (12.44%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.47%) vCloud
4 7 (3.48%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.99%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.49%) vSphere
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.00%) Docker
8 2 (1.00%) Firmware
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 20 (9.95%) vCenter Server
2 10 (4.98%) Terraform
3 8 (3.98%) Ansible
3 8 (3.98%) SCOM
4 5 (2.49%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.49%) SCCM
5 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.00%) Grafana
5 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) Istio
6 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.50%) linkerd
6 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.50%) Nagios
6 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (19.90%) VMware
2 31 (15.42%) Microsoft
3 15 (7.46%) IFS
4 11 (5.47%) Dell
5 9 (4.48%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (4.48%) Sparx
6 8 (3.98%) Avaya
6 8 (3.98%) Meraki
6 8 (3.98%) Mitel
7 6 (2.99%) Oracle
8 5 (2.49%) SAP
9 4 (1.99%) Workday
10 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.49%) Rackspace
10 3 (1.49%) Zerto
11 2 (1.00%) Cisco
11 2 (1.00%) Google
11 2 (1.00%) Juniper
12 1 (0.50%) McAfee
12 1 (0.50%) Red Hat