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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 112 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +44
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 20 9 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 0.50% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.54% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £259 £492 £390
25th Percentile £372 £537 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +20.79% -23.23%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £556
90th Percentile £719 £729 £593
Central London median daily rate £400 £574 £475
% change year-on-year -30.28% +20.79% -19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 2,010 1,681 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.20% 94.23% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,112 1,243
10th Percentile £380 £325 £377
25th Percentile £460 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%

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 2 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 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VoIP
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) KDB
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Introscope
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support
2 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Credit Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Junior
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.00%) Ajax
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) CCTV
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.00%) PMI
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) AIX
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITSM
2 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 8 (40.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Change Management
3 6 (30.00%) Service Management
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Observability
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Change Control
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Management
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
7 2 (10.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Jython
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) COBIT
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) UAG
2 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (20.00%) Remedy
4 2 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Nexthink
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) VMware