Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 23 November 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 23 November 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
23 Nov 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 23 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 86 196 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.65% 5.79% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 6.70% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 101 136
Median daily rate £405 £435 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -6.90% +8.75% +14.29%
10th Percentile £141 £256 £275
90th Percentile £595 £550 £538
South East median daily rate £400 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 35 20
Median hourly rate £21.50 £23.63 £40.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -8.99% -41.67% +102.50%
10th Percentile £10.19 £13.35 £10.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £45.00 £50.50
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -46.34% +105.00%

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 987 2,924 3,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 87.81% 86.30% 84.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 1,781 2,000
Median daily rate £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £291 £300 £300
90th Percentile £588 £600 £575
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 157
Median hourly rate £32.06 £35.00 £39.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -8.41% -10.26% -2.50%
10th Percentile £10.25 £13.50 £12.08
90th Percentile £53.75 £51.67 £58.50
Median hourly rate £32.06 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.48% +1.82% +22.22%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +15 16 £375 -9.09% 8
Basingstoke +25 8 £475 +8.57% 6
Fleet +9 8 £405 -4.71% 1
Winchester +12 5 £375 -14.29% 2
Andover +12 3 £615 +40.57% 3
Havant -5 3 £575 +27.78% 1
Hook -8 3 £213 -50.75%
Fareham +17 2 £143 -53.28% 1
Farnborough +13 2 £425 -32.27% 3
Portsmouth -8 2 - - 8
Aldershot +2 1 - -
Bordon - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 - -
Wallington - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
South East

For the 6 months to 23 November 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 32 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 23 (26.74%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
7 16 (18.60%) Java
7 16 (18.60%) Windows
8 13 (15.12%) ITIL
9 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
9 12 (13.95%) SQL
10 11 (12.79%) HTML
10 11 (12.79%) CSS
10 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
10 11 (12.79%) Red Hat
10 11 (12.79%) Business Continuity
10 11 (12.79%) Degree
10 11 (12.79%) Change Control
10 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
10 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
11 10 (11.63%) Data Centre
11 10 (11.63%) Web Development
11 10 (11.63%) Azure
11 10 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (11.63%) Cisco
11 10 (11.63%) SAP
11 10 (11.63%) Linux
11 10 (11.63%) Oracle
12 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Office
12 9 (10.47%) Risk Management

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 7 (8.14%) Cloud Foundry
2 6 (6.98%) Apache
3 4 (4.65%) Confluence
3 4 (4.65%) JBoss
3 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.49%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (1.16%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.16%) nginx
6 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.16%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.16%) FrameMaker
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.16%) PTC Creo
5 1 (1.16%) Siemens NX
5 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.63%) Azure
2 9 (10.47%) AWS
3 8 (9.30%) Office 365
4 7 (8.14%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.49%) PaaS
5 3 (3.49%) SaaS
6 2 (2.33%) Azure Active Directory
6 2 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) Network Security
2 7 (8.14%) Firewall
2 7 (8.14%) iSCSI
3 6 (6.98%) DNS
4 5 (5.81%) BGP
4 5 (5.81%) LAN
4 5 (5.81%) WAN
5 4 (4.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.65%) VPN
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.49%) DHCP
6 3 (3.49%) DSL
6 3 (3.49%) MPLS
6 3 (3.49%) SNMP
6 3 (3.49%) SSL
6 3 (3.49%) VLAN
6 3 (3.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) SAP HANA
2 5 (5.81%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) JIRA
2 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.49%) Ant
4 3 (3.49%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.49%) Git (software)
4 3 (3.49%) Maven
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (3.49%) Toad
5 2 (2.33%) LabVIEW
6 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (1.16%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.16%) TortoiseSVN
6 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
2 7 (8.14%) Finance
3 4 (4.65%) Marketing
4 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Developer
2 13 (15.12%) Analyst
3 7 (8.14%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (8.14%) Network Engineer
3 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Architect
5 5 (5.81%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Service Analyst
5 5 (5.81%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Support Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Angular Developer
7 3 (3.49%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) IT Support
7 3 (3.49%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (3.49%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.49%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.49%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Digital Analyst
8 2 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) CSS
1 11 (12.79%) HTML
2 8 (9.30%) AngularJS
2 8 (9.30%) OpenLayers
2 8 (9.30%) RESTful
2 8 (9.30%) Web Services
3 7 (8.14%) JSF
3 7 (8.14%) SAPUI5
3 7 (8.14%) Spring
4 6 (6.98%) React
5 5 (5.81%) Ember.js
5 5 (5.81%) Java EE
6 4 (4.65%) .NET
7 3 (3.49%) JSON
8 2 (2.33%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (2.33%) Blazor
8 2 (2.33%) HTML5
8 2 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 9 (10.47%) User Experience
4 8 (9.30%) Management Information System
4 8 (9.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.49%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Life Science
6 2 (2.33%) Robotics
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.16%) EPoS
7 1 (1.16%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.16%) NHS
7 1 (1.16%) PDA
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.60%) Windows
2 10 (11.63%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.49%) Check Point GAiA
5 3 (3.49%) Unix
5 3 (3.49%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.16%) AIX
6 1 (1.16%) Android
6 1 (1.16%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.74%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (15.12%) ITIL
4 11 (12.79%) Business Continuity
4 11 (12.79%) Change Control
4 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
5 10 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (11.63%) Web Development
6 9 (10.47%) BDD
6 9 (10.47%) Migration
6 9 (10.47%) Project Delivery
6 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
7 8 (9.30%) Capacity Management
7 8 (9.30%) CRM
7 8 (9.30%) Front End Development
7 8 (9.30%) Microservices
7 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (9.30%) Scrum
7 8 (9.30%) Software Engineering
7 8 (9.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) Java
2 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
2 12 (13.95%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) C
3 8 (9.30%) C++
4 2 (2.33%) C#
4 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.16%) ABAP
5 1 (1.16%) ANSI C
5 1 (1.16%) ES6
5 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) Degree
4 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.81%) DBS Check
5 5 (5.81%) ISEB
6 4 (4.65%) CCNP
6 4 (4.65%) MCSE
6 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.49%) VCP6
7 3 (3.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) HNC
8 1 (1.16%) HND
8 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.16%) MCSA
8 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.65%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.16%) COBIT
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.14%) NFS
3 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.49%) vSphere
4 2 (2.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Puppet
2 4 (4.65%) Ansible
2 4 (4.65%) Opscode Chef
2 4 (4.65%) SCCM
3 3 (3.49%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (3.49%) Cisco UCCX
3 3 (3.49%) vRealize
4 2 (2.33%) Ambari
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.33%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.16%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.16%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.16%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Red Hat
3 10 (11.63%) Cisco
3 10 (11.63%) Oracle
3 10 (11.63%) SAP
4 6 (6.98%) Ingenico
5 5 (5.81%) F5
5 5 (5.81%) Talend
6 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.65%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.49%) Google
7 3 (3.49%) Juniper
7 3 (3.49%) Meraki
7 3 (3.49%) VMware
8 2 (2.33%) Adobe
8 2 (2.33%) Apple
8 2 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (1.16%) Embarcadero
9 1 (1.16%) Peregrine
9 1 (1.16%) Siemens