Problem Management Contracts in the City of London

Problem Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Problem Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 105 140
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 +32
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 9 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.98% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.08% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile £492 £350 £209
25th Percentile £537 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £413 £638
Median % change year-on-year +39.09% -35.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £638 £516 £681
90th Percentile £729 £654 £756
Central London median daily rate £574 £413 £638
% change year-on-year +39.09% -35.29% +24.39%

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 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) CICS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Back Office
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) French Language
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) International Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Production
2 1 (11.11%) IT Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) IT Risk Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Management Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Support
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Go
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
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%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) GoldenSource
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds