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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 175 98 131
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.42% 13.24% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.01% 15.12% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 72 75
10th Percentile £286 £316 £345
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -8.56% -3.57%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £653
90th Percentile £725 £625 £738
South East median daily rate £481 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -3.75% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 24
10th Percentile £15.45 - £7.43
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.50 £11.65
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% -59.49%
75th Percentile £20.71 £28.50 £32.81
90th Percentile - - £53.93
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.35% +23.81% -46.47%

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 1,166 648 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.75% 87.57% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 453 644
10th Percentile £320 £356 £378
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +6.94%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 35 120
10th Percentile £15.01 £19.09 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.17 £25.75 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -34.88% +26.72%
75th Percentile £36.25 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £52.21 £73.50 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -1 42 £700 +27.27% 18
Farnborough -8 18 £500 +17.65% 14
Eastleigh +1 13 £500 - 3
Southampton 0 13 £363 -3.65% 23
Havant -2 13 £550 +9.45% 2
Fareham - 13 £525 - 15
Portsmouth -8 10 £467 +10.53% 21
Romsey - 9 £323 - 1
Fleet - 9 £447 - 1
Andover - 5 £500 - 6
Winchester -2 3 £400 -3.03% 4
Gosport +2 2 - -
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 3 (1.71%) Apache
1 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.71%) MS Project Server
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (8.57%) Azure
3 12 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.71%) AWS
5 9 (5.14%) IaaS
6 8 (4.57%) PaaS
7 5 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.71%) SaaS
8 3 (1.71%) Serverless
9 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.14%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.14%) GCP
9 2 (1.14%) GitHub
9 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.57%) Figma
10 1 (0.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) Network Security
2 2 (1.14%) SAN
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.57%) IPv4
3 1 (0.57%) IPv6
3 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) NAS
3 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VLAN
3 1 (0.57%) VPN
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) Power BI
2 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.14%) Redis
4 2 (1.14%) Tableau
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau Desktop
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.00%) JIRA
2 5 (2.86%) Git
3 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.29%) Gradle
3 4 (2.29%) Maven
3 4 (2.29%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.29%) Robot Framework
3 4 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.71%) GitLab
4 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) Gatling
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.57%) TestNG
General
1 91 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (10.29%) Finance
6 11 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.14%) Retail
8 8 (4.57%) Billing
9 5 (2.86%) Banking
10 4 (2.29%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.14%) Legal
12 1 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (10.29%) Analyst
2 15 (8.57%) Architect
2 15 (8.57%) Developer
3 13 (7.43%) IT Support
4 12 (6.86%) 1st Line Support
5 10 (5.71%) Senior
6 8 (4.57%) IT Analyst
6 8 (4.57%) Lead
6 8 (4.57%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (4.00%) Coordinator
7 7 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
7 7 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 7 (4.00%) Project Planner
7 7 (4.00%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.43%) IT Manager
8 6 (3.43%) Resource Manager
9 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (2.86%) Support Engineer
9 5 (2.86%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) JSON
2 3 (1.71%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.71%) RESTful
2 3 (1.71%) Spring
2 3 (1.71%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.14%) JSON Schema
3 2 (1.14%) Kafka
3 2 (1.14%) Keycloak
3 2 (1.14%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (1.14%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (1.14%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth
4 1 (0.57%) OpenID
4 1 (0.57%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.57%) SAML
4 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.57%) PKI
4 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.71%) Replication
8 2 (1.14%) CMDB
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.14%) Mixed Reality
8 2 (1.14%) PMI
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.57%) Clustering
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.43%) Windows
2 11 (6.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.43%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.86%) Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.43%) Agile
2 34 (19.43%) Customer Service
3 29 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (11.43%) Project Management
6 19 (10.86%) Service Delivery
6 19 (10.86%) Time Management
7 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
7 17 (9.71%) Process Improvement
8 16 (9.14%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.43%) Creative Thinking
9 13 (7.43%) Information Security
10 12 (6.86%) DevOps
10 12 (6.86%) ITIL
11 11 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (6.29%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.29%) Data Protection
11 11 (6.29%) Incident Management
11 11 (6.29%) Roadmaps
12 10 (5.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.71%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.00%) Python
3 12 (6.86%) SQL
4 4 (2.29%) Bash
4 4 (2.29%) C++
4 4 (2.29%) Java
4 4 (2.29%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.14%) C
5 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.57%) C#
6 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (36.57%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.71%) DV Cleared
3 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.86%) Degree
5 6 (3.43%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.29%) PMP
8 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.14%) ACCA
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) CBAP
9 2 (1.14%) CCNA
9 2 (1.14%) CIMA
9 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.57%) PMO
2 6 (3.43%) GDPR
3 5 (2.86%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) IFRS
4 3 (1.71%) NIST
4 3 (1.71%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) PSD2
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.86%) vCloud
4 4 (2.29%) Docker
5 2 (1.14%) Firmware
5 2 (1.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) RHEV
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Terraform
2 10 (5.71%) Ansible
2 10 (5.71%) vCenter Server
3 9 (5.14%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.43%) SCCM
5 5 (2.86%) SCOM
6 4 (2.29%) Grafana
6 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.57%) Argo
8 1 (0.57%) Istio
8 1 (0.57%) linkerd
8 1 (0.57%) Nagios
8 1 (0.57%) Packer
8 1 (0.57%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.57%) vRealize
8 1 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.71%) VMware
3 9 (5.14%) Oracle
4 5 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (2.86%) IBM
4 5 (2.86%) Sparx
5 4 (2.29%) SAP
6 3 (1.71%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco
7 2 (1.14%) Dell
7 2 (1.14%) Google
7 2 (1.14%) IFS
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.14%) Snow
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.14%) Teradata
8 1 (0.57%) Apple
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) Mitel