Problem Management Contracts in the East of England

Problem Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 91 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 12 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.98% 1.00% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.18% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile £423 - £311
25th Percentile £425 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.93% -36.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £513 £375 £650
90th Percentile £526 - -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 26
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile - - £13.41
Median hourly rate - £14.16 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -
75th Percentile - £14.64 £13.91
90th Percentile - £21.78 -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £25.00 £13.66
% change year-on-year -4.00% +83.02% -11.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,078 1,524 1,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.07% 84.29% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 605 1,009
10th Percentile £200 £202 £226
25th Percentile £375 £313 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £706
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 570 360
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.42 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.56 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £21.22
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +88.50% +7.12%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the East of England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the East of England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the East of England

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Hertfordshire +14 9 £450 +28.57% 14
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £470 -37.40% 2
Essex +6 1 - - 3
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
1 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SAP BW
1 6 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Consultant
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Basis Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) SAP Basis
1 6 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (50.00%) SAP Security
3 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 2 (16.67%) Budget Management
5 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (16.67%) Proactive Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle