Problem-Solving Contracts in Hampshire

Problem Solving
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 113 143 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.30% 7.97% 12.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.26% 9.74% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 74 99
10th Percentile £375 £388 £235
25th Percentile £425 £450 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +4.19% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £634
90th Percentile £650 - £750
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 26 29
10th Percentile - £7.43 £29.70
25th Percentile - £12.04 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £13.78 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year - -76.49% +13.77%
75th Percentile - £27.59 £73.71
90th Percentile - £91.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £58.05
% change year-on-year -12.47% -62.96% +22.20%

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 695 1,468 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 87.97% 81.83% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 808 702
10th Percentile £325 £388 £241
25th Percentile £450 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £592 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +12.79% +3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £662 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.20% -0.79% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 182 101
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.07 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.94 £26.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +98.34%
75th Percentile £64.06 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.63 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.00% -4.76% +133.33%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hampshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 June 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 +4 24 £600 -17.24% 251
Farnborough +26 20 £483 +44.46% 72
Portsmouth +12 16 £550 - 264
Southampton +9 10 £525 +10.53% 334
Havant +3 10 £638 +17.19% 5
Eastleigh +1 9 £500 - 9
Winchester +7 7 £390 -5.45% 38
Fleet +1 4 £402 -30.09% 11
Fareham -6 1 - - 30
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.62%) Confluence
2 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) Anypoint
4 4 (3.54%) IIS
4 4 (3.54%) Mule
5 3 (2.65%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.65%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.58%) Azure
2 19 (16.81%) AWS
3 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (3.54%) GitHub
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (3.54%) OpenShift
3 4 (3.54%) Serverless
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (2.65%) AWS KMS
4 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.65%) iPaaS
5 2 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.77%) IaaS
5 2 (1.77%) OCI
6 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) Firewall
1 13 (11.50%) LAN
2 12 (10.62%) VPN
3 9 (7.96%) Network Security
4 5 (4.42%) DNS
4 5 (4.42%) Wireless
5 4 (3.54%) SMTP
5 4 (3.54%) WAN
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.65%) Junos
6 3 (2.65%) SSL
7 2 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.77%) VoIP
8 1 (0.88%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.88%) ATM
8 1 (0.88%) Internet
8 1 (0.88%) SDH
8 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.54%) Redis
2 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) JIRA
2 10 (8.85%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) MSI
5 1 (0.88%) Snyk
5 1 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 70 (61.95%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (21.24%) Finance
4 9 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.08%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Aviation
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Network Engineer
2 15 (13.27%) Architect
2 15 (13.27%) Developer
3 10 (8.85%) Delphi Developer
4 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Analyst
5 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (4.42%) Network Architect
6 5 (4.42%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Senior
7 4 (3.54%) Consultant
7 4 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.54%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (3.54%) MuleSoft Developer
7 4 (3.54%) Tester
8 3 (2.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) IT Manager
8 3 (2.65%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (2.65%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) YAML
2 7 (6.19%) Kafka
2 7 (6.19%) Web Services
3 5 (4.42%) JSON
4 4 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.54%) Keycloak
4 4 (3.54%) RESTful
4 4 (3.54%) XML
5 3 (2.65%) RAML
5 3 (2.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.77%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.88%) MUnit
7 1 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) PKI
2 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Replication
5 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.89%) Windows
2 12 (10.62%) Linux
3 3 (2.65%) CentOS
3 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.77%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.51%) Agile
2 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (15.04%) Root Cause Analysis
3 16 (14.16%) Migration
4 15 (13.27%) DevOps
5 14 (12.39%) Computer Science
6 13 (11.50%) Validation
7 12 (10.62%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (10.62%) Project Management
8 11 (9.73%) Functional Testing
8 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (7.96%) Risk Management
11 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.19%) Containerisation
12 7 (6.19%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (6.19%) Network Architecture
12 7 (6.19%) Preventative Maintenance
13 6 (5.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.47%) SQL
2 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 11 (9.73%) C#
3 11 (9.73%) PL/SQL
4 10 (8.85%) Delphi
5 9 (7.96%) Python
6 6 (5.31%) Java
7 4 (3.54%) Bash
8 3 (2.65%) DataWeave
8 3 (2.65%) Scala
8 3 (2.65%) VB
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (43.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.66%) DV Cleared
3 22 (19.47%) SC Cleared
4 19 (16.81%) Degree
5 12 (10.62%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (9.73%) CCNA
6 11 (9.73%) CCNP
6 11 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.42%) CISSP
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.65%) CISA
8 3 (2.65%) CISM
9 2 (1.77%) ACCA
9 2 (1.77%) CIMA
9 2 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.77%) VCAP
9 2 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.88%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) SLA
2 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.54%) NIST
2 4 (3.54%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) PMO
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.88%) COBIT
5 1 (0.88%) COSO
5 1 (0.88%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.88%) ITGC
5 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.54%) vSphere
4 3 (2.65%) Docker
5 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (13.27%) Ansible
2 8 (7.08%) Terraform
3 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.54%) Grafana
4 4 (3.54%) Packer
4 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.54%) SCCM
5 3 (2.65%) CloudHub
5 3 (2.65%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.65%) SCOM
5 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.77%) vRealize
6 2 (1.77%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (1.77%) WMI
7 1 (0.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) Oracle
3 13 (11.50%) Cisco
4 11 (9.73%) VMware
5 9 (7.96%) Juniper
6 8 (7.08%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.54%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.54%) Splunk
8 3 (2.65%) Citrix
8 3 (2.65%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.65%) F5
8 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.65%) Thales
9 2 (1.77%) Dell
9 2 (1.77%) SAP
10 1 (0.88%) AlienVault
10 1 (0.88%) Google
10 1 (0.88%) Informatica
10 1 (0.88%) Niku