Problem Management Contracts in Cheshire

Problem Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 18 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.68% 0.75% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 0.90% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £230 £434 £273
25th Percentile £301 £447 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -31.29%
75th Percentile - £522 £363
90th Percentile £348 £531 £408
North West median daily rate £388 £493 £440
% change year-on-year -21.35% +12.05% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.66 -
North West median hourly rate £43.86 £26.66 £53.75
% change year-on-year +64.50% -50.40% +289.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 472 446 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.52% 83.68% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 300 303
10th Percentile £313 £310 £301
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.73 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £81.44 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Cheshire

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Cheshire

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Cheshire

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Chester - 13 £325 - 1
Warrington -3 5 £230 -48.89%
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (44.44%) Mattermost
1 8 (44.44%) Skype for Business
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
1 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (27.78%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Skype
1 8 (44.44%) Softphone
1 8 (44.44%) Unified Communications
1 8 (44.44%) WebEx
2 5 (27.78%) LAN
2 5 (27.78%) WAN
2 5 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (27.78%) Wireless
2 5 (27.78%) WLAN
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Messaging Support
2 8 (44.44%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Operations Support Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Operations Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Support Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) CMDB
2 5 (27.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) ITIL
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) B2B
3 8 (44.44%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Asset Management
4 5 (27.78%) ITSM
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Line Management
7 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) PowerShell
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCNA
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) SCOM
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (27.78%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 8 (44.44%) Splunk