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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 104 130
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 +39
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 9 20 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.94% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.03% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 13
10th Percentile £483 £334 £283
25th Percentile £513 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £588
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -18.09% -2.08%
75th Percentile £689 £548 £650
90th Percentile £750 £581 £670
Central London median daily rate £575 £481 £564
% change year-on-year +19.48% -14.63% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.57 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +207.69%

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 1,634 1,946 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.66% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,194 1,750
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 7 November 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
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ION MarketView
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%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (11.11%) Back Office
5 1 (11.11%) French Language
5 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Environment Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Support
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%) Support 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%) Fixed Income
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 2 (22.22%) Proactive Management
4 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
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 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) PromQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
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%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) ION Trading
2 1 (11.11%) SAP