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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 255 124 116
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.02% 12.51% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.43% 14.57% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 102 68
10th Percentile £175 £277 £354
25th Percentile £400 £406 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £631
90th Percentile £725 £650 £738
South East median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - £12.04
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £20.24
75th Percentile £21.35 - £92.00
90th Percentile £40.05 - £92.37
South East median hourly rate £23.18 £18.82 £37.08
% change year-on-year +23.14% -49.25% -35.51%

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 1,552 851 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.26% 85.87% 80.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 605 735
10th Percentile £363 £314 £371
25th Percentile £475 £456 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £670
90th Percentile £730 £656 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 67 122
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.92
25th Percentile £16.17 £23.27 £51.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -40.92% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.72 £74.69
90th Percentile £68.55 £74.25 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £23.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +129.36% -59.02% +14.70%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +6 79 £575 -4.17% 24
Portsmouth +7 33 £535 +22.99% 22
Farnborough +1 27 £575 +17.35% 27
Southampton +3 25 £180 -55.83% 42
Fareham +4 19 £275 -42.11% 21
Eastleigh -1 18 £500 - 11
Havant +2 10 £565 -11.37% 2
Romsey 0 8 £260 +105.21% 8
New Milton - 4 - - 2
Andover - 4 £638 - 6
Petersfield -1 2 - - 1
Winchester -6 2 £425 +8.97% 7
Waterlooville - 2 - - 3
Hook - 2 £425 - 4
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 27 (10.59%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.27%) Azure
4 14 (5.49%) AWS
5 10 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.14%) IaaS
6 8 (3.14%) PaaS
7 5 (1.96%) GCP
8 3 (1.18%) OCI
9 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) SaaS
10 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.39%) GitHub
10 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.80%) DNS
2 12 (4.71%) SAN
3 10 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.57%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.18%) DHCP
5 3 (1.18%) VLAN
5 3 (1.18%) VPN
6 2 (0.78%) Firewall
6 2 (0.78%) NAS
7 1 (0.39%) BGP
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) MPLS
7 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) Metadata
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (6.27%) JIRA
2 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) JUnit
2 1 (0.39%) MLflow
2 1 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 131 (51.37%) Social Skills
2 124 (48.63%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (15.29%) Finance
4 35 (13.73%) Retail
5 21 (8.24%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (7.84%) French Language
7 16 (6.27%) Spanish Language
8 15 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (5.49%) Manufacturing
10 13 (5.10%) Public Sector
11 11 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (3.92%) Back Office
13 8 (3.14%) Aerospace
13 8 (3.14%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.96%) Aviation
14 5 (1.96%) Law
15 4 (1.57%) Electronics
16 3 (1.18%) Legal
16 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 33 (12.94%) Lead
2 29 (11.37%) Analyst
3 28 (10.98%) Support Engineer
4 27 (10.59%) IT Support
5 25 (9.80%) IT Engineer
6 21 (8.24%) Technical Support
7 19 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (7.06%) IT Analyst
9 17 (6.67%) Architect
10 16 (6.27%) 2nd Line Technical Support
10 16 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Support Analyst
12 13 (5.10%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (4.31%) Field Engineer
14 10 (3.92%) Field Service Engineer
15 9 (3.53%) Service Manager
16 8 (3.14%) Service Delivery Analyst
16 8 (3.14%) Team Leader
16 8 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.31%) Terraform
2 6 (2.35%) .NET
3 5 (1.96%) React
4 4 (1.57%) JSON
4 4 (1.57%) REST
5 3 (1.18%) Node.js
5 3 (1.18%) SOAP
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.78%) Blazor
6 2 (0.78%) Kafka
6 2 (0.78%) LDAP
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.78%) OAuth
6 2 (0.78%) OpenID
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.78%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (0.78%) SAML
6 2 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.10%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (4.71%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.53%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.35%) Robotics
8 5 (1.96%) Social Media
9 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.57%) FMCG
9 4 (1.57%) PKI
10 3 (1.18%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.18%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.18%) iPhone
11 1 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 91 (35.69%) Windows
2 41 (16.08%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.71%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.53%) Linux
4 9 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.57%) Android
5 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.63%) Continuous Improvement
1 73 (28.63%) Customer Service
2 53 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (17.65%) Agile
4 35 (13.73%) Change Management
5 34 (13.33%) ITIL
5 34 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 32 (12.55%) Service Management
7 31 (12.16%) ITSM
7 31 (12.16%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (10.98%) Migration
9 23 (9.02%) Customer Experience
9 23 (9.02%) Data Protection
10 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (7.06%) Process Improvement
12 17 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (6.67%) ERP
13 15 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (5.49%) Software Distribution
14 14 (5.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.94%) SQL
2 28 (10.98%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.27%) Python
4 7 (2.75%) Bash
5 5 (1.96%) C#
5 5 (1.96%) Java
6 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.78%) C++
8 1 (0.39%) Ada
8 1 (0.39%) C
8 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 123 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 83 (32.55%) DV Cleared
3 33 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.27%) Degree
5 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.92%) A+ Certification
7 10 (3.92%) CCNA
7 10 (3.92%) MCSE
7 10 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.18%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.78%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) PMO
2 15 (5.88%) GDPR
3 5 (1.96%) SLA
4 4 (1.57%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (20.39%) Active Directory
2 28 (10.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.80%) vCloud
4 24 (9.41%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (9.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.96%) Docker
7 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.18%) vSphere
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 29 (11.37%) vCenter Server
2 21 (8.24%) SCOM
3 10 (3.92%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.75%) Ansible
5 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.18%) Puppet
5 3 (1.18%) SCCM
5 3 (1.18%) WMI
6 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 64 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.43%) VMware
3 18 (7.06%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.10%) IFS
5 10 (3.92%) Avaya
5 10 (3.92%) Dell
5 10 (3.92%) Juniper
5 10 (3.92%) Meraki
5 10 (3.92%) Mitel
5 10 (3.92%) SAP
6 5 (1.96%) Google
6 5 (1.96%) Workday
7 4 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (1.57%) Sparx
8 3 (1.18%) Lotus
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle
9 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
10 1 (0.39%) McAfee
10 1 (0.39%) UiPath
222 Problem-Solving jobs in Hampshire