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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 131
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 +40
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 9 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 1.00% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.08% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £495 £319 £328
25th Percentile £544 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +38.42% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £739 £556 £663
90th Percentile £770 £593 £675
Central London median daily rate £658 £475 £606
% change year-on-year +38.42% -21.65% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.57 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 - -

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 1,603 1,936 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.88% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,194 1,786
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £786 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

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 21 October 2025.

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 (11.11%) CICS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Back Office
4 1 (11.11%) French Language
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) International Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Environment Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Production
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Support
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 2 (22.22%) Proactive Management
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Go
1 2 (22.22%) PromQL
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP