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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 157 103 138
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 12.34% 10.43% 10.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.69% 12.47% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 69 82
10th Percentile £216 £312 £241
25th Percentile £363 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.29% -6.00%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £614
90th Percentile £649 £618 £667
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 12
10th Percentile - - £20.56
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -21.68% +12.03%
75th Percentile £20.71 £28.50 £55.00
90th Percentile - - £56.26
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £27.00 £42.45
% change year-on-year -29.63% -36.40% +24.46%

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 1,069 826 1,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 84.04% 83.60% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 562 637
10th Percentile £311 £356 £320
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £713 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 61 83
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.41 £21.15
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 £75.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.13 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

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 6 December 2025.

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
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 6 December 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 +1 36 £600 +4.35% 49
Farnborough -3 15 £400 - 15
Eastleigh +2 13 £500 +17.65% 8
Portsmouth -1 13 £435 +32.22% 90
Southampton +5 12 £363 +3.57% 96
Fleet +5 12 £414 -28.04% 2
Fareham - 12 £475 - 18
Havant -4 9 £535 -7.76% 5
Romsey - 7 £323 - 2
Andover - 4 £500 - 7
Winchester -3 3 £400 -23.81% 1
Gosport +6 2 - - 1
Aldershot - 1 £128 - 2
Petersfield - 1 £450 -
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 5 (3.18%) Apache
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.92%) Azure
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.73%) AWS
4 5 (3.18%) GitHub
5 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.91%) IaaS
6 3 (1.91%) PaaS
6 3 (1.91%) SaaS
6 3 (1.91%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.27%) GCP
7 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.27%) Slack
8 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.73%) DNS
2 7 (4.46%) LAN
3 4 (2.55%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) BGP
4 2 (1.27%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.27%) HTTP
4 2 (1.27%) Junos
4 2 (1.27%) OSPF
4 2 (1.27%) SMTP
4 2 (1.27%) VLAN
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.64%) DHCP
5 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.64%) SAN
5 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.64%) SSL
5 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Power BI
2 6 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.55%) Redis
4 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) Tableau
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) Big Data
6 1 (0.64%) DB2
6 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.64%) MySQL
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.64%) Parquet
6 1 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.73%) JIRA
2 7 (4.46%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (3.18%) Git
4 4 (2.55%) Gradle
4 4 (2.55%) Maven
5 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.64%) Gatling
7 1 (0.64%) GitLab
7 1 (0.64%) JMeter
7 1 (0.64%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.64%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.64%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.64%) TestNG
7 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (49.04%) Social Skills
2 54 (34.39%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.56%) Finance
4 22 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.55%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.73%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.10%) Billing
8 7 (4.46%) Retail
9 6 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.18%) Banking
11 4 (2.55%) Back Office
12 3 (1.91%) Aviation
13 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.64%) French Language
14 1 (0.64%) Greek Language
14 1 (0.64%) Italian Language
14 1 (0.64%) Portuguese Language
14 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (11.46%) Developer
2 14 (8.92%) Analyst
3 13 (8.28%) 1st Line Support
4 11 (7.01%) Architect
5 8 (5.10%) Senior
6 7 (4.46%) Coordinator
6 7 (4.46%) Help Desk Analyst
7 6 (3.82%) IT Support
7 6 (3.82%) Lead
7 6 (3.82%) Resource Manager
7 6 (3.82%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Network Architect
8 5 (3.18%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.18%) Windows Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Consultant
9 4 (2.55%) IT Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (2.55%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
1 6 (3.82%) RESTful
1 6 (3.82%) YAML
2 5 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.55%) Kafka
3 4 (2.55%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.91%) .NET
4 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.91%) Spring
4 3 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.27%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (0.64%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.64%) NumPy
6 1 (0.64%) OAuth
6 1 (0.64%) OpenID
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.64%) REST
6 1 (0.64%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (4.46%) PKI
3 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.27%) CMDB
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) PMI
5 2 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (0.64%) AS400
6 1 (0.64%) Clustering
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.64%) SCADA
6 1 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.64%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.38%) Windows
2 10 (6.37%) Linux
3 7 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.27%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.64%) CentOS
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.85%) Agile
2 26 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (14.01%) Customer Service
4 21 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (10.19%) DevOps
6 15 (9.55%) Time Management
7 13 (8.28%) Information Security
7 13 (8.28%) Process Improvement
7 13 (8.28%) Service Delivery
8 12 (7.64%) Decision-Making
9 11 (7.01%) Data Protection
9 11 (7.01%) Migration
10 10 (6.37%) Change Management
10 10 (6.37%) CI/CD
10 10 (6.37%) Project Management
11 9 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (5.73%) Conflict Resolution
11 9 (5.73%) Containerisation
11 9 (5.73%) Line Management
11 9 (5.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.19%) PowerShell
1 16 (10.19%) SQL
2 10 (6.37%) Python
3 7 (4.46%) Bash
4 5 (3.18%) C#
5 4 (2.55%) Java
5 4 (2.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.27%) C
6 2 (1.27%) C++
6 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.27%) VB
7 1 (0.64%) Groovy
7 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) R
7 1 (0.64%) RPG
7 1 (0.64%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 51 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.20%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.01%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.28%) Degree
5 6 (3.82%) ACCA
5 6 (3.82%) CIMA
5 6 (3.82%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.55%) PMP
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.91%) IIBA
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CBAP
8 2 (1.27%) CCNA
8 2 (1.27%) CCNP
8 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.27%) MCSE
9 1 (0.64%) OCP
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.73%) QA
2 7 (4.46%) PMO
3 5 (3.18%) GDPR
3 5 (3.18%) SLA
4 3 (1.91%) IFRS
4 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.91%) NIST
4 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.91%) PSD2
4 3 (1.91%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 2 (1.27%) WCAG
6 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.18%) Docker
4 2 (1.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.64%) vCloud
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (9.55%) Ansible
2 11 (7.01%) Terraform
3 10 (6.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.82%) SCCM
4 6 (3.82%) SCOM
5 5 (3.18%) Grafana
5 5 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.55%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.55%) Packer
6 4 (2.55%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.64%) Argo
8 1 (0.64%) Istio
8 1 (0.64%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.64%) vRealize
8 1 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) VMware
3 10 (6.37%) Cisco
3 10 (6.37%) Oracle
4 7 (4.46%) Juniper
4 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.82%) IBM
6 5 (3.18%) Splunk
7 4 (2.55%) Dell
8 3 (1.91%) Citrix
8 3 (1.91%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) F5
9 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.27%) Google
9 2 (1.27%) IFS
9 2 (1.27%) Snow
9 2 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.27%) Teradata
333 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire