Problem Management Contracts in Berkshire

Problem Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 11 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.94% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.08% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £435 - £429
25th Percentile - £300 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £520
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -32.69% +25.30%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £537
90th Percentile - £511 £541
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £520
% change year-on-year - -13.46% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year - +31.98% +134.52%
75th Percentile - - £77.16
90th Percentile - - £79.68
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £51.75 £49.25
% change year-on-year -53.62% +5.08% +134.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Berkshire

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Berkshire

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Berkshire

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reading +23 3 £450 -10.04% 2
Wokingham -10 3 £450 +12.50%
Slough -10 1 £425 +41.67% 4
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) PuTTY
2 1 (9.09%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Major Incident Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Ajax
1 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) REST
1 4 (36.36%) SOAP
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
1 4 (36.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) ITIL
2 9 (81.82%) ITSM
3 6 (54.55%) Incident Management
4 5 (45.45%) Change Management
4 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
4 5 (45.45%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (45.45%) Service Management
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
6 2 (18.18%) Operations Management
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) COBIT
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) BMC
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
4 1 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (9.09%) Snow
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk