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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 271 261
Rank change year-on-year -60 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 324 250 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.92% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.01% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 146 203
10th Percentile £263 £306 £333
25th Percentile £401 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £577 £538 £530
90th Percentile £672 £648 £608
UK median daily rate £491 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 26
10th Percentile £18.72 £20.83 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £15.94
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.09% +50.00% +83.02%
75th Percentile £49.55 £47.12 -
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £34.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +6.10% -4.00% +83.02%

All Process & 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 38,560 24,752 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.53% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 15,918 20,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,394 1,279 2,235
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.28 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.87 £17.99 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 2026. 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 -29 123 £515 +8.42% 45
North of England -81 67 £500 +33.33% 39
Midlands -11 65 £463 -5.03% 13
West Midlands -27 61 £469 +4.40% 10
Yorkshire -36 40 £500 +32.45% 11
South East -52 33 £463 -7.50% 37
South West -20 28 £400 -17.95% 17
North West -64 26 £408 +25.54% 22
East of England -33 6 £400 -12.71% 10
East Midlands -14 4 £163 -75.00% 3
North East -35 1 £400 -4.99% 6
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 20 (6.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.40%) SAS
2 11 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.23%) IIS
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.93%) NetWeaver
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.62%) Apache
5 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.52%) Azure
2 48 (14.81%) Entra ID
3 38 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.42%) AWS
5 21 (6.48%) GitHub
6 19 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.32%) OneDrive
10 13 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.70%) Serverless
12 11 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.40%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (3.40%) IaaS
12 11 (3.40%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.64%) DNS
2 25 (7.72%) Firewall
3 17 (5.25%) DHCP
4 14 (4.32%) VPN
5 11 (3.40%) Network Security
6 9 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.47%) SAN
8 7 (2.16%) Kerberos
8 7 (2.16%) LAN
9 6 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.85%) NAS
10 5 (1.54%) WAN
10 5 (1.54%) Wireless
11 4 (1.23%) MPLS
12 3 (0.93%) Internet
12 3 (0.93%) NGFW
12 3 (0.93%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.93%) VLAN
13 2 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.40%) Power BI
2 10 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.47%) Metadata
4 8 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.85%) MySQL
6 5 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.23%) Db2
8 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.93%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.62%) KDB
9 2 (0.62%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 60 (18.52%) JIRA
2 16 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.01%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.70%) GitLab
5 9 (2.78%) Git
6 4 (1.23%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) Introscope
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 127 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.77%) Finance
3 44 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.72%) Banking
6 12 (3.70%) Legal
7 10 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.78%) Law
8 9 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.47%) Retail
10 6 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.54%) Front Office
11 5 (1.54%) Military
12 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.23%) Police
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
14 2 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.62%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 31 (9.57%) Analyst
2 31 (9.57%) Support Engineer
3 24 (7.41%) Architect
4 22 (6.79%) Lead
5 20 (6.17%) Incident Manager
5 20 (6.17%) Senior
6 19 (5.86%) IT Support
7 16 (4.94%) Consultant
8 14 (4.32%) Major Incident Manager
9 12 (3.70%) Developer
9 12 (3.70%) IT Engineer
9 12 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (3.70%) Scrum Master
10 11 (3.40%) Administrator
10 11 (3.40%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (2.78%) Help Desk Support
11 9 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.01%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (2.78%) .NET
2 9 (2.78%) AWS CDK
2 9 (2.78%) Middleware
3 7 (2.16%) LDAP
3 7 (2.16%) REST
4 6 (1.85%) SAP Basis
5 5 (1.54%) CSS
5 5 (1.54%) Spring
5 5 (1.54%) Web Services
6 4 (1.23%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.23%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.23%) FIDO
6 4 (1.23%) J2EE
6 4 (1.23%) jQuery
6 4 (1.23%) Loki
6 4 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.23%) Sass
6 4 (1.23%) Spring MVC
7 3 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.56%) CMDB
2 18 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.09%) PKI
7 9 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.47%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.16%) Mainframe
9 7 (2.16%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.85%) Replication
10 6 (1.85%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.54%) Clustering
12 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (24.07%) Windows
2 45 (13.89%) Linux
3 21 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.86%) Unix
5 7 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.16%) zOS
6 6 (1.85%) Android
6 6 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) AIX
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (49.07%) ITIL
2 103 (31.79%) ITSM
3 91 (28.09%) Service Management
4 83 (25.62%) Change Management
5 81 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (22.84%) Incident Management
7 67 (20.68%) Agile
7 67 (20.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (19.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 58 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (16.67%) Service Delivery
11 52 (16.05%) DevOps
12 39 (12.04%) CI/CD
13 37 (11.42%) Decision-Making
14 33 (10.19%) Incident Response
15 29 (8.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (8.64%) Customer Service
17 26 (8.02%) Scrum
18 24 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
19 23 (7.10%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.80%) SQL
2 33 (10.19%) PowerShell
3 24 (7.41%) Python
4 15 (4.63%) Java
5 14 (4.32%) Bash
6 13 (4.01%) C#
7 7 (2.16%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.54%) JCL
9 4 (1.23%) Go
9 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.62%) Perl
11 2 (0.62%) PHP
11 2 (0.62%) REXX
11 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.31%) Jython
12 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 114 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 93 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.02%) Degree
5 14 (4.32%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.40%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.85%) CCNA
8 6 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.23%) MCSE
10 4 (1.23%) PMP
10 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.93%) CCNP
11 3 (0.93%) CISSP
11 3 (0.93%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.96%) SLA
2 11 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.47%) GDPR
3 8 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.85%) NIST
6 5 (1.54%) GRC
7 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.62%) QA
9 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.31%) COBIT
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (17.59%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (4.94%) Docker
4 12 (3.70%) NFS
5 9 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.47%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.54%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (1.54%) vSphere
8 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.93%) Firmware
9 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.62%) UAG
10 2 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.62%) XenApp
10 2 (0.62%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (6.17%) Terraform
2 19 (5.86%) SCCM
3 13 (4.01%) Ansible
4 11 (3.40%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.78%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.47%) Grafana
7 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.54%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.54%) SCOM
8 5 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.23%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.23%) Istio
9 4 (1.23%) Podman
10 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.93%) Rancher
10 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.62%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.62%) CASB
11 2 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 81 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 59 (18.21%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.02%) VMware
4 25 (7.72%) Remedy
5 22 (6.79%) Oracle
6 19 (5.86%) Cisco
7 12 (3.70%) Broadcom
7 12 (3.70%) SAP
8 10 (3.09%) Splunk
9 9 (2.78%) Citrix
10 7 (2.16%) BMC
10 7 (2.16%) Brocade
10 7 (2.16%) Dell
10 7 (2.16%) Denodo
10 7 (2.16%) IBM
10 7 (2.16%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.85%) Canon
11 6 (1.85%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.85%) Sybase
12 5 (1.54%) HP