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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 14 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.81% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.88% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £489 £428 £400
25th Percentile £536 £469 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £581
90th Percentile £681 £600 £650
Central London median daily rate £581 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +14.81% +1.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.00

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 1,876 1,596 2,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.46% 92.15% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,294 1,030 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 31 March 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 (7.14%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (7.14%) ION MarketView
2 1 (7.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Introscope
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Military
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.14%) International Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (42.86%) IT Support
2 5 (35.71%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Support
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) BYOD
1 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
1 1 (7.14%) PMI
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) AIX
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 7 (50.00%) ITSM
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Management
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) User Experience
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) Jython
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) COBIT
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (7.14%) CA Wily
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (35.71%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) ION Trading
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle