Problem Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Problem Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 114 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 11 19 24
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.55% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.88% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 14
10th Percentile - £359 £466
25th Percentile £563 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £640
90th Percentile - £585 £675
London median daily rate £470 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -6.00% +0.20% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £60.00
75th Percentile £26.23 - £65.00
90th Percentile £26.43 - -
London median hourly rate £26.11 £100.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -73.89% +66.67% +207.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
City of London -15 7 £575 +17.95% 3
West End of London - 3 - -
City of Westminster - 3 - -
Problem Management
London

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (9.09%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
1 2 (18.18%) PaaS
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Local Government
2 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Service Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Environment Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) CICS Programmer
5 1 (9.09%) CICS Systems Programmer
5 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading Support
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Programmer
5 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Support
5 1 (9.09%) Programmer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Programmer
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) Change Control
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Proactive Management
5 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) PromQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) ION Trading