Problem Management Contracts in Birmingham

Problem Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 47 58 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 3 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 1.16% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.40% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £333 £218
25th Percentile £275 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £325 £488 £650
90th Percentile - - £660
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £450 £533
% change year-on-year +8.22% -15.49% +7.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Birmingham

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Birmingham

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Birmingham

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (66.67%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Software Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow