Problem Management Contracts in the City of London

Problem Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 111 148
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.68% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.75% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 18
10th Percentile £449 £390 £282
25th Percentile £521 £400 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £413 £588
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% -29.79% +17.50%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £700
90th Percentile £631 £668 £816
Central London median daily rate £575 £456 £588
% change year-on-year +26.03% -22.34% +20.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) SWIFTNet
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 2 (18.18%) Flink
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 2 (18.18%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Military
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) International Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Police
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Product Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Product Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Products Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) IT Risk Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Management Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Support
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) MCSE
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Confluent
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) GoldenSource
3 1 (9.09%) Nexthink
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds