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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 106 141
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 +33
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 9 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.04% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 15
10th Percentile £492 £385 £328
25th Percentile £537 £447 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £488 £630
Median % change year-on-year +17.69% -22.62% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £559 £675
90th Percentile £729 £604 £700
Central London median daily rate £574 £488 £609
% change year-on-year +17.69% -19.92% +13.20%
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 1,669 1,921 2,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.24% 92.13% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,229 1,929
10th Percentile £325 £387 £363
25th Percentile £420 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £788 £814
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -35.29%

Problem Management
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

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 14 September 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 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%) 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
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
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
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
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%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Production
2 1 (11.11%) IT 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
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Register
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
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 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
1 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%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds