Problem Management Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Problem Management
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.89% - 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £750
75th Percentile - - £800
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.12 - -
Median hourly rate £17.39 - £14.16
75th Percentile £17.65 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £18.30 - £14.49
% change year-on-year - - +6.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 292 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.20% 88.75% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 125 109
10th Percentile £168 £205 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +13.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £550
90th Percentile £668 £686 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 67 161
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.45 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.41 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -13.35% +1.11% +11.93%
75th Percentile £18.50 £25.15 £21.46
90th Percentile £35.91 £60.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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
Cambridge - 2 £400 -
Peterborough - 1 - - 1
Problem Management
East of England

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware