Problem Management Contract Job Trends in England

Problem Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 291 248
Rank change year-on-year -26 -43 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 233 227 359
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.78% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.89% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 127 216
10th Percentile £209 £249 £263
25th Percentile £325 £413 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £481
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.82% -3.75%
75th Percentile £559 £586 £587
90th Percentile £650 £650 £641
UK median daily rate £453 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -5.63% +0.95% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 40
10th Percentile £15.50 £48.49 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £55.87 £13.41
Median hourly rate £20.79 £60.87 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -65.85% +329.89% -32.57%
75th Percentile £24.90 £69.06 £16.37
90th Percentile £26.16 £79.00 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £60.87 £14.16
% change year-on-year -65.85% +329.89% -32.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,932 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.81% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,758 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.90 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
London -26 83 £470 -6.00% 39
North of England -51 51 £450 - 40
North West -29 37 £325 -29.73% 22
South East -17 33 £525 +17.98% 54
Midlands -24 32 £388 -4.32% 17
South West +1 22 £575 - 16
West Midlands -28 20 £325 -19.75% 11
Yorkshire -39 13 £500 +11.11% 15
East Midlands - 12 £425 - 6
East of England -23 11 £450 - 17
North East -6 1 £650 - 3
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 23 (9.87%) SharePoint
2 19 (8.15%) Confluence
3 17 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (6.44%) Skype for Business
5 7 (3.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (3.00%) Mattermost
6 6 (2.58%) Apache
6 6 (2.58%) CICS
7 4 (1.72%) NetWeaver
8 3 (1.29%) IIS
8 3 (1.29%) iPlanet
8 3 (1.29%) JBoss
8 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.29%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.86%) SAS
10 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (12.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.72%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.29%) assyst
4 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.74%) Azure
2 37 (15.88%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (9.44%) AWS
4 19 (8.15%) OneDrive
5 13 (5.58%) SaaS
6 12 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.72%) GitHub
8 8 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.43%) PaaS
9 7 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.58%) Datadog
10 6 (2.58%) GCP
11 5 (2.15%) OCI
11 5 (2.15%) Serverless
12 4 (1.72%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.29%) AWS KMS
13 3 (1.29%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.01%) DNS
2 18 (7.73%) Skype
3 13 (5.58%) VPN
4 12 (5.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.86%) DHCP
5 9 (3.86%) Firewall
6 8 (3.43%) Network Security
7 7 (3.00%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.58%) Broadband
8 6 (2.58%) Internet
8 6 (2.58%) WAN
8 6 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.58%) Wireless
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.29%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.29%) LAN
9 3 (1.29%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.29%) SAN
9 3 (1.29%) SSH
9 3 (1.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.58%) Oracle Database
3 5 (2.15%) Metadata
3 5 (2.15%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (1.72%) SAP BW
4 4 (1.72%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.86%) DB2
6 2 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.43%) DTS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 27 (11.59%) JIRA
2 11 (4.72%) Git
3 7 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.72%) GitLab
5 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.29%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (1.29%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.29%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.86%) JUnit
6 2 (0.86%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.43%) MSI
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 102 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 68 (29.18%) Finance
3 44 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.02%) Banking
5 19 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.44%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.43%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.58%) Marketing
11 5 (2.15%) Electronics
11 5 (2.15%) Law
12 4 (1.72%) Local Government
12 4 (1.72%) Military
12 4 (1.72%) Retail
13 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.86%) Publishing
15 1 (0.43%) Advertising
15 1 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 62 (26.61%) Analyst
2 42 (18.03%) Support Analyst
3 27 (11.59%) IT Support
4 19 (8.15%) Incident Manager
4 19 (8.15%) Service Manager
5 17 (7.30%) Operations Analyst
6 16 (6.87%) IT Analyst
6 16 (6.87%) Operational Support Analyst
6 16 (6.87%) Operations Support Analyst
6 16 (6.87%) Senior
7 15 (6.44%) IT Support Analyst
8 11 (4.72%) Lead
9 10 (4.29%) Consultant
9 10 (4.29%) ITIL Manager
9 10 (4.29%) Service Analyst
9 10 (4.29%) Service Desk Analyst
10 9 (3.86%) ITIL Incident Manager
11 8 (3.43%) Service Desk Support
11 8 (3.43%) SharePoint Analyst
11 8 (3.43%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.29%) REST
2 8 (3.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.00%) Kafka
4 5 (2.15%) Middleware
4 5 (2.15%) SAML
5 4 (1.72%) ISPF
5 4 (1.72%) LDAP
5 4 (1.72%) SAP Basis
5 4 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (1.29%) OAuth
6 3 (1.29%) OpenID
7 2 (0.86%) .NET
7 2 (0.86%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.86%) RESTful
7 2 (0.86%) WireMock
7 2 (0.86%) XML
7 2 (0.86%) XMPP
8 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.01%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.29%) CMDB
4 9 (3.86%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.43%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.58%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.58%) PKI
7 5 (2.15%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.72%) VSAM
9 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.29%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (1.29%) Tandem
10 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.89%) Windows
2 28 (12.02%) Linux
3 16 (6.87%) Unix
4 12 (5.15%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.58%) Android
5 6 (2.58%) zOS
6 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.29%) CentOS
7 3 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.86%) Debian
8 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.86%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (60.09%) ITIL
2 69 (29.61%) Service Management
3 67 (28.76%) Change Management
4 65 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (25.75%) ITSM
6 55 (23.61%) Root Cause Analysis
7 48 (20.60%) Incident Management
8 46 (19.74%) DevOps
9 38 (16.31%) Agile
10 36 (15.45%) Service Delivery
10 36 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (13.73%) Information Security
13 28 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (12.02%) Project Management
14 24 (10.30%) Customer Service
15 22 (9.44%) CI/CD
15 22 (9.44%) Migration
16 21 (9.01%) Process Improvement
17 20 (8.58%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.45%) PowerShell
2 39 (16.74%) SQL
3 29 (12.45%) Python
4 13 (5.58%) Bash
5 11 (4.72%) Shell Script
6 10 (4.29%) Go
7 6 (2.58%) Java
7 6 (2.58%) PromQL
8 5 (2.15%) CLIST
8 5 (2.15%) REXX
9 4 (1.72%) JCL
10 3 (1.29%) Groovy
11 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.43%) C#
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) COBOL
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.60%) Degree
4 22 (9.44%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.29%) A+ Certification
7 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.58%) MCP
8 6 (2.58%) PMP
9 5 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.15%) MCDST
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.72%) MCSE
10 4 (1.72%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.29%) CCNP
11 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.01%) SLA
2 8 (3.43%) QA
3 7 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.15%) NIST
5 4 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) GRC
6 2 (0.86%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (24.46%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.72%) Docker
3 4 (1.72%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (1.29%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.43%) RACF
6 1 (0.43%) XenApp
6 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (9.87%) SCCM
2 21 (9.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (6.44%) HP SiteScope
3 15 (6.44%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.44%) SCOM
4 14 (6.01%) Grafana
5 11 (4.72%) Terraform
6 10 (4.29%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.00%) Ansible
8 5 (2.15%) OMEGAMON
9 3 (1.29%) CA Endevor
9 3 (1.29%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.29%) CA Wily
9 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.29%) Tivoli
9 3 (1.29%) WSUS
10 2 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 79 (33.91%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.59%) Splunk
3 26 (11.16%) Remedy
4 20 (8.58%) Oracle
4 20 (8.58%) ServiceNow
5 19 (8.15%) Cisco
6 12 (5.15%) SAP
7 11 (4.72%) IBM
8 8 (3.43%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.43%) Dynatrace
9 7 (3.00%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.58%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.15%) iManage
11 5 (2.15%) Mitel
11 5 (2.15%) VMware
12 4 (1.72%) BMC
12 4 (1.72%) Citrix
12 4 (1.72%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.29%) Broadcom
13 3 (1.29%) Datto