Problem Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Problem Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 111 105
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 18 11 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.64% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.67% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £259 £492 £418
25th Percentile £372 £537 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +14.75% -20.63%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £563
90th Percentile £691 £729 £616
Central London median daily rate £400 £574 £500
% change year-on-year -30.28% +14.75% -20.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.57 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £26.57 -
% change year-on-year -26.61% - -

All Process & 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 1,984 1,631 1,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.73% 94.39% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,097 1,201
10th Percentile £367 £325 £375
25th Percentile £455 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £774 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem Management

Problem Management
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 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the City of London

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) VoIP
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) KDB
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
2 2 (11.11%) IT Support
2 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Junior
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.56%) Ajax
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) CCTV
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Unix
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) ITSM
2 8 (44.44%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) Service Management
4 5 (27.78%) Change Management
4 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 4 (22.22%) Observability
6 3 (16.67%) Change Control
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Runbook
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) UAG
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Dynatrace
4 3 (16.67%) Remedy
5 2 (11.11%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix
6 1 (5.56%) Nexthink
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) VMware