Problem Management Contracts in the North of England

Problem Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Problem Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem Management over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 161 142
Rank change year-on-year +58 -19 +29
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 65 38 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.57% 0.74% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 0.84% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 89
10th Percentile £424 £385 £326
25th Percentile £457 £491 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +21.94% +5.88%
75th Percentile £554 £587 £600
90th Percentile £586 £591 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £19.20
25th Percentile - £74.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year - +252.94% -20.29%
75th Percentile - £75.50 £27.25
90th Percentile - - £27.40
England median hourly rate £56.75 £13.66 £17.00
% change year-on-year +315.41% -19.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Problem Management 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,479 4,544 6,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.05% 88.42% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,995 3,012 4,805
10th Percentile £300 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £684 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 206 223
10th Percentile £12.67 £15.74 £10.20
25th Percentile £16.31 £18.00 £14.64
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +36.61% +15.03%
75th Percentile £51.90 £46.18 £31.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £62.49 £69.18
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Yorkshire +31 32 £554 -5.70% 6
North West +27 31 £484 -3.20% 19
North East -2 2 £488 -2.50% 3
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.08%) Confluence
1 2 (3.08%) SAS
2 1 (1.54%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.62%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.62%) Slack
3 2 (3.08%) GitHub
4 1 (1.54%) Kong
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DHCP
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.54%) MVNO
2 1 (1.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.62%) Power BI
1 16 (24.62%) Qlik Sense
2 14 (21.54%) Relational Database
3 13 (20.00%) MySQL
4 5 (7.69%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
General
1 26 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
6 1 (1.54%) Automotive
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Data Scientist
2 10 (15.38%) Analyst
2 10 (15.38%) Problem Manager
3 8 (12.31%) Operations Analyst
4 5 (7.69%) Availability Manager
4 5 (7.69%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 5 (7.69%) Capacity Manager
5 4 (6.15%) Administrator
5 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Incident Manager
7 2 (3.08%) DBA
7 2 (3.08%) Incident and Problem Manager
7 2 (3.08%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) IT Operations Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.08%) SQL DBA
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Manager
8 1 (1.54%) Head of IT Operations
8 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 1 (1.54%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 13 (20.00%) CSS
1 13 (20.00%) HTML
2 6 (9.23%) Middleware
3 2 (3.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Management Information System
2 8 (12.31%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Clustering
4 2 (3.08%) CMDB
4 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
2 3 (4.62%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Unix
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.08%) zOS
4 1 (1.54%) AIX
4 1 (1.54%) Android
4 1 (1.54%) Solaris
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (72.31%) Service Management
2 46 (70.77%) ITIL
3 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (29.23%) Data Modelling
4 19 (29.23%) ITSM
4 19 (29.23%) Mentoring
5 17 (26.15%) Data Science
6 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (21.54%) Data Security
7 14 (21.54%) Quality Management
7 14 (21.54%) Scrum
7 14 (21.54%) Statistics
8 13 (20.00%) Proactive Management
9 11 (16.92%) Computer Science
9 11 (16.92%) Incident Management
9 11 (16.92%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (13.85%) Change Management
11 8 (12.31%) Agile
11 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.69%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.69%) Python
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) JCL
5 2 (3.08%) REXX
6 1 (1.54%) Bash
6 1 (1.54%) C
6 1 (1.54%) Groovy
6 1 (1.54%) Korn
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) PMI Certification
3 14 (21.54%) PMP
4 13 (20.00%) Degree
5 11 (16.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (16.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.62%) MCSE
6 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.08%) CCNA
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.54%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (1.54%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) NFS
1 2 (3.08%) Time Sharing Option
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (1.54%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Ansible
1 2 (3.08%) Nagios
1 2 (3.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (3.08%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.23%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.08%) Broadcom
5 2 (3.08%) Brocade
5 2 (3.08%) CA
5 2 (3.08%) Dell
5 2 (3.08%) IBM
5 2 (3.08%) VMware
6 1 (1.54%) EMC
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.54%) Motorola
6 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.54%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) Veritas