Problem-Solving Contracts in Hampshire

Problem Solving
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 121 138 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.44% 7.96% 11.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.80% 9.74% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 79 98
10th Percentile £321 £350 £200
25th Percentile £425 £403 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £617
90th Percentile £650 £738 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 25
10th Percentile - - £33.13
25th Percentile - £7.43 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year - -75.25% +16.28%
75th Percentile - £27.05 £73.71
90th Percentile - £92.07 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.47% -63.30% +23.35%

All Process and 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 766 1,417 1,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.11% 81.72% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 821 705
10th Percentile £325 £371 £252
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +12.19% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £660 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 155 106
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.55 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.81 £21.23
Median hourly rate £43.00 £57.35 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +6.70% +73.39%
75th Percentile £59.69 £70.84 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £74.38
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +118.91%

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 16 July 2025.

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
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 July 2025. 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 30 £600 -17.24% 31
Portsmouth +13 20 £478 -13.09% 51
Farnborough +19 16 £490 +45.19% 36
Southampton +9 11 £513 +41.38% 64
Havant +3 10 £638 +9.91% 1
Eastleigh +1 7 £500 - 8
Winchester +7 5 £390 -5.45% 11
Fleet 0 4 £402 -30.09% 5
Aldershot +11 1 £128 -69.88% 4
Fareham -3 1 - - 12
Romsey - 1 - - 2
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.96%) Confluence
3 5 (4.13%) Apache
4 4 (3.31%) Anypoint
4 4 (3.31%) IIS
4 4 (3.31%) Mule
5 3 (2.48%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.01%) Azure
2 21 (17.36%) AWS
3 7 (5.79%) GitHub
3 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.96%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.13%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.31%) Serverless
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.48%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.48%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.65%) IaaS
8 2 (1.65%) OCI
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.83%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.05%) LAN
2 14 (11.57%) Firewall
3 12 (9.92%) VPN
4 9 (7.44%) Network Security
5 6 (4.96%) DNS
6 5 (4.13%) Wireless
7 4 (3.31%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (3.31%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (3.31%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (3.31%) Junos
7 4 (3.31%) SMTP
7 4 (3.31%) SSL
7 4 (3.31%) WAN
8 2 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.65%) VoIP
8 2 (1.65%) VSAN
9 1 (0.83%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.83%) ATM
9 1 (0.83%) HTTP
9 1 (0.83%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.96%) Redis
3 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) DB2
6 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.83%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (5.79%) JIRA
2 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.31%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.65%) MSI
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
4 1 (0.83%) Poetry
4 1 (0.83%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.83%) Snyk
4 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.83%) TestRail
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (56.20%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.05%) Finance
4 10 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Back Office
7 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Aviation
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (16.53%) Network Engineer
2 18 (14.88%) Architect
3 11 (9.09%) Developer
4 8 (6.61%) Analyst
4 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Network Architect
5 7 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Consultant
6 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (3.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Delphi Developer
7 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) IT Support
7 4 (3.31%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Tester
7 4 (3.31%) Wintel Engineer
7 4 (3.31%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) YAML
2 9 (7.44%) Kafka
3 8 (6.61%) Web Services
4 7 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.96%) JSON
5 6 (4.96%) Keycloak
6 4 (3.31%) RESTful
6 4 (3.31%) SOAP
6 4 (3.31%) XML
7 3 (2.48%) RAML
8 2 (1.65%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.83%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.83%) CSS
9 1 (0.83%) Flask
9 1 (0.83%) HTML
9 1 (0.83%) MUnit
9 1 (0.83%) NumPy
9 1 (0.83%) Pandas
9 1 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) PKI
2 4 (3.31%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) AS400
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Replication
5 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.14%) Windows
2 17 (14.05%) Linux
3 4 (3.31%) CentOS
3 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.36%) Agile
2 18 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (14.88%) DevOps
3 17 (14.05%) Migration
4 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (10.74%) Validation
5 12 (9.92%) CI/CD
6 11 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 10 (8.26%) Containerisation
7 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (8.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (7.44%) Project Management
9 8 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (6.61%) Decision-Making
9 8 (6.61%) Incident Management
10 7 (5.79%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (5.79%) Network Architecture
10 7 (5.79%) Preventative Maintenance
10 7 (5.79%) Scrum
11 6 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.88%) SQL
2 16 (13.22%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.09%) Python
4 7 (5.79%) Bash
5 6 (4.96%) C#
5 6 (4.96%) Java
6 5 (4.13%) PL/SQL
7 4 (3.31%) Delphi
7 4 (3.31%) VB
8 3 (2.48%) DataWeave
8 3 (2.48%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) Groovy
9 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) RPG
9 1 (0.83%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 58 (47.93%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.93%) DV Cleared
3 25 (20.66%) SC Cleared
4 17 (14.05%) Degree
5 14 (11.57%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (10.74%) CCNA
7 12 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (9.09%) CCNP
9 4 (3.31%) ACCA
9 4 (3.31%) CIMA
10 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.65%) CISSP
11 2 (1.65%) MCSE
11 2 (1.65%) VCAP
11 2 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.83%) CCIE
12 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) SLA
2 7 (5.79%) QA
3 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.48%) PMO
5 2 (1.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.83%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.13%) vSphere
4 4 (3.31%) Docker
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (16.53%) Ansible
2 11 (9.09%) Terraform
3 10 (8.26%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.96%) Grafana
4 6 (4.96%) Packer
4 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.13%) SCCM
5 5 (4.13%) SCOM
6 4 (3.31%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.48%) CloudHub
7 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.65%) vRealize
8 2 (1.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (1.65%) VxRail
8 2 (1.65%) WMI
9 1 (0.83%) Argo
9 1 (0.83%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.05%) Cisco
3 13 (10.74%) Juniper
3 13 (10.74%) Red Hat
3 13 (10.74%) VMware
4 10 (8.26%) Oracle
5 7 (5.79%) Splunk
6 4 (3.31%) Citrix
6 4 (3.31%) Dell
6 4 (3.31%) F5
6 4 (3.31%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.31%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.48%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.48%) Thales
8 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.83%) EMC
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica
8 1 (0.83%) SAP