Problem-Solving Contracts in Portsmouth

Problem Solving
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 21 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.94% 7.39% 13.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.58% 7.98% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 20
10th Percentile £252 £385 -
25th Percentile £418 £425 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £535 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +18.89% -25.18%
75th Percentile £625 £564 £532
90th Percentile £675 £581 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £540 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +5.37% +13.89% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £53.55 £41.80
25th Percentile - £90.00 £54.06
Median hourly rate - £92.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% +17.95%
75th Percentile - £92.37 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £61.75
Hampshire median hourly rate - £16.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year - -72.44% +16.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 144 213 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 75.00% 92.61% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 91 138
10th Percentile £373 £400 £270
25th Percentile £442 £428 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +12.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £579
90th Percentile £640 £850 £656
Hampshire median daily rate £540 £582 £525
% change year-on-year -7.22% +10.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 84 25
10th Percentile £25.15 £51.06 £23.85
25th Percentile £32.94 £53.40 £45.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +8.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £70.00 £68.61
90th Percentile £61.50 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £41.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.51% +9.24% +61.54%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Portsmouth

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Portsmouth

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Portsmouth

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Portsmouth

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) GitHub
2 6 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) OSPF
2 1 (4.76%) SSH
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (28.57%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) MLflow
1 1 (4.76%) Poetry
1 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
1 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Support
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Project Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Project Support Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Support Officer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (28.57%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) Keycloak
2 6 (28.57%) YAML
3 2 (9.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Observability
4 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (9.52%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (9.52%) Time Management
6 2 (9.52%) Workflow
6 2 (9.52%) Workflow Management
7 1 (4.76%) Project Management
7 1 (4.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Groovy
3 1 (4.76%) PHP
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 22301
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (28.57%) Grafana
2 6 (28.57%) Packer
2 6 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 6 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (28.57%) Splunk
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Juniper
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.76%) Cloudera
6 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto