Problem Management Contracts in the Midlands

Problem Management
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 119 86
Rank change year-on-year +14 -33 -20
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 34 43 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 1.25% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.41% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 93
10th Percentile £380 £247 £275
25th Percentile £400 £335 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £540
90th Percentile £518 £650 £579
England median daily rate £472 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -10.10% +6.06% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Problem Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +19 26 £450 -16.67% 11
East Midlands +19 8 - - 6
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (23.53%) SaaS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) LAN
1 6 (17.65%) WAN
2 2 (5.88%) Internet
2 2 (5.88%) Wireless
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 10 (29.41%) Legal
3 6 (17.65%) Back Office
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Law
5 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (23.53%) IT Manager
1 8 (23.53%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 8 (23.53%) IT Services Manager
1 8 (23.53%) Service Delivery Manager
1 8 (23.53%) Service Manager
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Support
2 6 (17.65%) Technical Support Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Incident Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) AS400
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) ITIL
2 13 (38.24%) Service Management
3 11 (32.35%) Change Management
4 10 (29.41%) Incident Management
5 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (23.53%) Business Analysis
6 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 8 (23.53%) Information Security
6 8 (23.53%) IT Governance
6 8 (23.53%) ITSM
6 8 (23.53%) Migration
6 8 (23.53%) People Management
6 8 (23.53%) Performance Metrics
6 8 (23.53%) Service Delivery
6 8 (23.53%) Service Delivery Management
7 6 (17.65%) Batch Scheduling
7 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 5 (14.71%) Runbook
8 5 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Swift
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Dell Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) SysTrack
2 2 (5.88%) CEMLI
3 1 (2.94%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Okta
3 6 (17.65%) SAP
4 5 (14.71%) Citrix
4 5 (14.71%) New Relic
4 5 (14.71%) OpenAI
4 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.82%) HP
6 2 (5.88%) Dell
6 2 (5.88%) Fujitsu
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle
6 2 (5.88%) Sun
7 1 (2.94%) 3PAR
7 1 (2.94%) NetApp
7 1 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.94%) Veritas