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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 154 96 145
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 13.23% 8.75% 10.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.29% 10.79% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 65 86
10th Percentile £213 £322 £240
25th Percentile £380 £395 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -2.55% -6.71%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £614
90th Percentile £600 £622 £669
South East median daily rate £461 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.80% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 15
10th Percentile - - £20.72
25th Percentile £16.17 £27.50 £24.28
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -46.67% +64.53%
75th Percentile £20.71 £28.50 £57.58
90th Percentile - - £64.75
South East median hourly rate £18.41 £28.25 £51.06
% change year-on-year -34.83% -44.67% +49.69%

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 1,007 890 1,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.51% 81.13% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 593 666
10th Percentile £311 £360 £300
25th Percentile £438 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% +2.62%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.01% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 61 88
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £16.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.20
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +18.00%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +7 35 £600 +17.07% 20
Portsmouth +7 17 £435 +53.71% 15
Farnborough +5 15 £413 +15.22% 14
Fleet +3 15 £405 -29.57% 10
Southampton +6 14 £375 +7.14% 39
Eastleigh +1 13 £500 +8.11% 3
Fareham - 12 £475 - 17
Winchester +2 4 £278 -49.55% 6
Havant -5 4 £535 -7.76%
Andover - 4 £500 - 4
Romsey - 4 £323 - 5
Gosport - 2 - - 3
Aldershot - 1 £128 - 7
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 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.90%) Apache
3 4 (2.60%) Confluence
3 4 (2.60%) IIS
4 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.39%) Azure
2 12 (7.79%) AWS
2 12 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.55%) GitHub
4 6 (3.90%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.90%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.25%) Serverless
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.30%) GCP
7 2 (1.30%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.84%) DNS
2 7 (4.55%) LAN
3 5 (3.25%) Firewall
4 4 (2.60%) SMTP
5 3 (1.95%) VPN
6 2 (1.30%) BGP
6 2 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.30%) HTTP
6 2 (1.30%) Junos
6 2 (1.30%) Network Security
6 2 (1.30%) OSPF
6 2 (1.30%) VLAN
6 2 (1.30%) VSAN
7 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.65%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.90%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.90%) Power BI
2 6 (3.90%) Redis
3 5 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.60%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.30%) Tableau
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) Big Data
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Parquet
7 1 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.49%) JIRA
2 7 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.60%) Git
5 3 (1.95%) Gradle
5 3 (1.95%) Maven
6 2 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) Gatling
7 1 (0.65%) GitLab
7 1 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.65%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) TestNG
7 1 (0.65%) TestRail
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (47.40%) Social Skills
2 49 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Finance
4 22 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Billing
7 7 (4.55%) Retail
8 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Back Office
9 4 (2.60%) Banking
9 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Aviation
11 2 (1.30%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.65%) French Language
12 1 (0.65%) Greek Language
12 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.65%) Portuguese Language
12 1 (0.65%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (9.74%) Analyst
1 15 (9.74%) Developer
2 13 (8.44%) 1st Line Support
3 10 (6.49%) Architect
4 9 (5.84%) Senior
5 7 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (4.55%) Help Desk Analyst
5 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (4.55%) Support Engineer
6 6 (3.90%) Coordinator
6 6 (3.90%) IT Support
7 5 (3.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (3.25%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (3.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (3.25%) Network Architect
7 5 (3.25%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.25%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (2.60%) IT Analyst
8 4 (2.60%) IT Engineer
8 4 (2.60%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.49%) YAML
2 9 (5.84%) Kafka
3 7 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.90%) Keycloak
5 5 (3.25%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.25%) RESTful
6 3 (1.95%) .NET
6 3 (1.95%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.95%) JSON
6 3 (1.95%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.30%) Spring
7 2 (1.30%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.65%) NumPy
8 1 (0.65%) OAuth
8 1 (0.65%) OpenID
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.65%) REST
8 1 (0.65%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.90%) PKI
4 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.95%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.30%) CMDB
5 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.30%) PMI
5 2 (1.30%) Replication
6 1 (0.65%) AS400
6 1 (0.65%) Clustering
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.65%) SCADA
6 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.58%) Windows
2 16 (10.39%) Linux
3 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) CentOS
4 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.30%) Unix
4 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.12%) Agile
2 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 21 (13.64%) DevOps
5 17 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 13 (8.44%) Containerisation
7 13 (8.44%) Decision-Making
7 13 (8.44%) Information Security
7 13 (8.44%) Migration
7 13 (8.44%) Service Delivery
8 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (7.79%) Process Improvement
9 11 (7.14%) Data Protection
9 11 (7.14%) Scrum
9 11 (7.14%) Validation
10 10 (6.49%) Time Management
11 9 (5.84%) Computer Science
12 8 (5.19%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (4.55%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.99%) SQL
2 18 (11.69%) PowerShell
3 13 (8.44%) Python
4 9 (5.84%) Bash
5 6 (3.90%) Java
6 5 (3.25%) C#
7 4 (2.60%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.95%) Scala
9 2 (1.30%) C
9 2 (1.30%) C++
9 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.30%) VB
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.65%) R
10 1 (0.65%) RPG
10 1 (0.65%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 51 (33.12%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 22 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (3.90%) ACCA
5 6 (3.90%) CIMA
6 5 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.95%) IIBA
9 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.30%) CBAP
9 2 (1.30%) CCNA
9 2 (1.30%) CCNP
9 2 (1.30%) MCSE
9 2 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) QA
2 6 (3.90%) PMO
3 5 (3.25%) GDPR
3 5 (3.25%) SLA
4 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.95%) NIST
5 3 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.95%) PSD2
6 2 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.30%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 2 (1.30%) WCAG
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS
7 1 (0.65%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.55%) Docker
2 7 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.95%) vSphere
4 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (12.34%) Ansible
2 14 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.14%) Terraform
4 7 (4.55%) Grafana
4 7 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.90%) Packer
5 6 (3.90%) SCCM
5 6 (3.90%) SCOM
6 4 (2.60%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.30%) VxRail
8 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.65%) Argo
8 1 (0.65%) Istio
8 1 (0.65%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.65%) vRealize
8 1 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.79%) VMware
3 11 (7.14%) Cisco
3 11 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.19%) Oracle
5 7 (4.55%) Juniper
5 7 (4.55%) Splunk
6 6 (3.90%) IBM
7 5 (3.25%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.25%) Dell
8 4 (2.60%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.95%) Citrix
9 3 (1.95%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.30%) F5
10 2 (1.30%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.30%) Google
10 2 (1.30%) Okta
10 2 (1.30%) Snow
10 2 (1.30%) Teradata