Problem Management Contracts in Cumbria

Problem Management
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 14 28 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.18% 10.81% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 11.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 0
10th Percentile £434 £436 -
25th Percentile £447 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £493 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% - -
75th Percentile £522 £500 -
90th Percentile £531 - -
North West median daily rate £363 £493 £425
% change year-on-year -26.42% +16.00% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.80 - -
Median hourly rate £40.59 - -
75th Percentile £43.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £26.66 £65.00
% change year-on-year +52.25% -58.98% +300.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 248 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.64% 95.75% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 29
10th Percentile £368 £430 £350
25th Percentile £425 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £500
90th Percentile £638 £725 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 8
10th Percentile £22.72 - £22.61
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £44.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +11.80%
75th Percentile £59.24 £44.74 £66.16
90th Percentile £81.15 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Cumbria

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Cumbria

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Cumbria

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness -16 9 £450 -8.72%
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (28.57%) Skype for Business
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) PSTN
2 4 (28.57%) Skype
2 4 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (14.29%) NAS
General
1 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Collaboration Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Blackberry
1 4 (28.57%) Handset
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Android
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (14.29%) AIX
2 2 (14.29%) CentOS
2 2 (14.29%) HPUX
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Solaris
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Storage Management
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
5 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (7.14%) Active Listening
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) ITIL
6 1 (7.14%) Line Management
6 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.14%) SFIA
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bash
1 2 (14.29%) Perl
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Firmware
2 2 (14.29%) KVM
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 3 (21.43%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (21.43%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Brocade
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
1 5 (35.71%) EMC
1 5 (35.71%) HP
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Clearswift
2 4 (28.57%) Ribbon
3 3 (21.43%) Veritas
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) Nintex