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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 256 133 120
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.54% 13.25% 9.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.15% 15.34% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 98 71
10th Percentile £200 £195 £341
25th Percentile £364 £402 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £578
90th Percentile £725 £650 £618
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 13 6
10th Percentile - - £18.06
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.17 £37.59
Median hourly rate £15.22 £16.34 £91.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -82.05% +58.26%
75th Percentile £21.35 £20.71 £92.28
90th Percentile £37.80 - £92.37
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £18.41 £36.17
% change year-on-year +14.07% -49.09% -35.88%

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 1,493 867 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.95% 86.35% 79.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 578 633
10th Percentile £348 £312 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +6.54%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £731 £650 £713
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 96 72
10th Percentile £13.44 - £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.87 £47.05
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.04 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.77% -63.58% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.92 £59.38 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £58.38
% change year-on-year +114.06% -61.99% +7.35%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 84 £575 -4.17% 52
Farnborough +7 32 £575 +27.78% 73
Portsmouth -3 24 £535 +22.99% 48
Fareham 0 22 £275 -42.11% 35
Southampton +3 20 £180 -42.22% 85
Eastleigh -2 16 - - 7
Havant 0 8 £565 -11.37% 7
Romsey 0 8 £260 +105.21% 8
Waterlooville - 5 - - 1
Andover -16 4 £638 +27.50% 12
New Milton - 4 - - 1
Petersfield -1 3 - - 2
Winchester -6 3 £484 +112.64% 10
Hook - 2 £425 - 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 39 (15.23%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (14.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (10.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.64%) Azure
3 16 (6.25%) AWS
4 9 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.34%) GCP
5 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.56%) IaaS
7 3 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub
8 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.78%) PaaS
8 2 (0.78%) SaaS
9 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.33%) DNS
2 6 (2.34%) SAN
3 4 (1.56%) DHCP
3 4 (1.56%) VPN
3 4 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.17%) Firewall
4 3 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.17%) VLAN
5 2 (0.78%) LAN
5 2 (0.78%) Wireless
6 1 (0.39%) BGP
6 1 (0.39%) MPLS
6 1 (0.39%) NAS
6 1 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.52%) Power BI
2 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) GitLab
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) JUnit
3 1 (0.39%) MLflow
3 1 (0.39%) Mockito
3 1 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 132 (51.56%) Social Skills
2 123 (48.05%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (15.23%) Finance
4 32 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Retail
6 20 (7.81%) Manufacturing
7 18 (7.03%) French Language
8 14 (5.47%) Spanish Language
9 12 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (4.30%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.91%) Aerospace
12 8 (3.13%) Back Office
12 8 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (3.13%) Electronics
13 7 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Aviation
14 5 (1.95%) Law
14 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.78%) Billing
15 2 (0.78%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 33 (12.89%) Support Engineer
2 26 (10.16%) Lead
3 25 (9.77%) IT Engineer
4 24 (9.38%) IT Support
5 22 (8.59%) Analyst
6 19 (7.42%) Technical Support
7 18 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.64%) 2nd Line Support
8 17 (6.64%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.47%) 2nd Line Technical Support
10 12 (4.69%) Architect
10 12 (4.69%) IT Analyst
10 12 (4.69%) Senior
11 10 (3.91%) Administrator
11 10 (3.91%) PMO Planner
11 10 (3.91%) Service Analyst
12 9 (3.52%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 8 (3.13%) PMO Specialist
13 8 (3.13%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.30%) Terraform
2 5 (1.95%) .NET
2 5 (1.95%) React
3 4 (1.56%) JSON
3 4 (1.56%) Middleware
3 4 (1.56%) Node.js
3 4 (1.56%) REST
4 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.17%) SOAP
5 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.78%) Blazor
5 2 (0.78%) Kafka
5 2 (0.78%) LDAP
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.78%) OAuth
5 2 (0.78%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (0.78%) RESTful
5 2 (0.78%) SAML
5 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.34%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.34%) Robotics
7 5 (1.95%) FMCG
7 5 (1.95%) Social Media
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.56%) PKI
9 3 (1.17%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.17%) Digital Signage
9 3 (1.17%) iPhone
10 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 99 (38.67%) Windows
2 51 (19.92%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.64%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.08%) Linux
5 9 (3.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.56%) Android
6 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (22.27%) Customer Service
3 52 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (14.84%) Agile
4 38 (14.84%) Service Management
5 36 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
6 34 (13.28%) Service Delivery
7 33 (12.89%) ITSM
8 32 (12.50%) Change Management
8 32 (12.50%) ITIL
8 32 (12.50%) Migration
9 23 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (7.81%) Customer Experience
11 18 (7.03%) Data Protection
11 18 (7.03%) Software Distribution
12 17 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (6.25%) Process Improvement
14 15 (5.86%) Root Cause Analysis
15 14 (5.47%) CI/CD
15 14 (5.47%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.45%) PowerShell
2 33 (12.89%) SQL
3 18 (7.03%) Python
4 9 (3.52%) Bash
5 4 (1.56%) Java
6 3 (1.17%) C#
6 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.39%) C++
7 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 133 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 91 (35.55%) DV Cleared
3 37 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.42%) Degree
5 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.95%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.95%) CCNA
7 5 (1.95%) MCSE
7 5 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.17%) CISM
8 3 (1.17%) CISSP
8 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.78%) PMP
9 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) PMO
2 10 (3.91%) GDPR
3 6 (2.34%) SLA
4 5 (1.95%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.56%) NCSC
6 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.78%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
3 28 (10.94%) VMware NSX
4 24 (9.38%) vCloud
5 7 (2.73%) Docker
6 4 (1.56%) vSphere
7 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.39%) UAG
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (10.94%) vCenter Server
2 25 (9.77%) SCOM
3 14 (5.47%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.52%) Ansible
5 4 (1.56%) WMI
6 3 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
6 3 (1.17%) SCCM
7 2 (0.78%) vRealize
7 2 (0.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 84 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 46 (17.97%) VMware
3 18 (7.03%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.47%) SAP
5 9 (3.52%) Juniper
6 6 (2.34%) Dell
6 6 (2.34%) Google
7 5 (1.95%) IFS
7 5 (1.95%) Workday
8 4 (1.56%) Avaya
8 4 (1.56%) Meraki
8 4 (1.56%) Mitel
9 3 (1.17%) Cisco
9 3 (1.17%) Lotus
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) Qualys
10 2 (0.78%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.78%) Tenable
11 1 (0.39%) Becrypt
11 1 (0.39%) Broadcom
413 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire