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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 268 301
Rank change year-on-year -58 +33 -49
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 317 264 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.95% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.05% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 149 157
10th Percentile £250 £311 £329
25th Percentile £368 £371 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £652 £610
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 6
10th Percentile £16.23 £20.53 £25.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.58 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% +1.76% +141.58%
75th Percentile £36.57 £47.12 £53.93
90th Percentile £67.84 £48.98 £79.25
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £23.88 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -27.65% +141.58%

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 39,013 25,190 28,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.87% 90.78% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,073 16,045 18,122
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,593 1,471 1,456
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -49 130 £476 -4.75% 66
North of England -90 63 £475 +22.42% 24
Midlands -18 62 £463 +3.93% 16
West Midlands -12 54 £463 +14.91% 11
South East -40 38 £538 +7.50% 38
Yorkshire -41 36 £500 +28.87% 8
North West -82 26 £408 +8.80% 13
South West -45 12 £350 -33.33% 13
East of England -24 9 £400 -20.00% 12
East Midlands -12 8 - - 5
North East -37 1 £400 -38.46% 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 19 (5.99%) Confluence
2 13 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.79%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.84%) SAS
5 4 (1.26%) IIS
5 4 (1.26%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.63%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.32%) Apache
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Maple
Business Applications
1 14 (4.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) iTrent
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.08%) Azure
2 48 (15.14%) AWS
3 45 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (11.99%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.57%) GitHub
6 18 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.05%) OneDrive
9 14 (4.42%) Power Platform
10 13 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.79%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.79%) Serverless
12 11 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (3.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.88%) DNS
2 30 (9.46%) Firewall
3 27 (8.52%) DHCP
4 19 (5.99%) VPN
5 15 (4.73%) Network Security
6 13 (4.10%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.15%) SAN
7 10 (3.15%) Wireless
8 9 (2.84%) LAN
8 9 (2.84%) WAN
9 8 (2.52%) Kerberos
10 7 (2.21%) NAS
11 6 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.26%) HTTP
13 3 (0.95%) VLAN
13 3 (0.95%) VoIP
14 2 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
14 2 (0.63%) Internet
14 2 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.42%) Power BI
1 14 (4.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.52%) Metadata
3 7 (2.21%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.21%) MySQL
3 7 (2.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.21%) Pentaho
4 5 (1.58%) Db2
5 4 (1.26%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.95%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.63%) KDB
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (14.51%) JIRA
2 17 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.42%) GitLab
4 13 (4.10%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.21%) Git
6 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.63%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) Introscope
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) MSI
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.45%) Finance
3 48 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.57%) Banking
6 14 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.15%) Legal
10 8 (2.52%) Front Office
11 7 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.21%) Law
12 5 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.58%) Military
13 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.26%) Local Government
13 4 (1.26%) Police
13 4 (1.26%) Retail
14 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (12.93%) Support Engineer
2 35 (11.04%) Analyst
3 23 (7.26%) Architect
3 23 (7.26%) Senior
4 21 (6.62%) Lead
5 20 (6.31%) Incident Manager
6 17 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.05%) Consultant
7 16 (5.05%) IT Support
8 15 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (4.73%) Service Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Major Incident Manager
10 12 (3.79%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Scrum Master
11 10 (3.15%) Administrator
11 10 (3.15%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.15%) Support Analyst
12 9 (2.84%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.84%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.57%) Terraform
2 11 (3.47%) Middleware
2 11 (3.47%) REST
3 9 (2.84%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.52%) LDAP
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.89%) Software Packaging
5 6 (1.89%) Web Services
6 5 (1.58%) CSS
6 5 (1.58%) SAP Basis
6 5 (1.58%) SOAP
6 5 (1.58%) XML
7 4 (1.26%) .NET
7 4 (1.26%) Ajax
7 4 (1.26%) FIDO
7 4 (1.26%) HTML
7 4 (1.26%) Jakarta EE
7 4 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.95%) PySpark
8 3 (0.95%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.99%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.42%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.47%) CMDB
6 11 (3.47%) PKI
7 8 (2.52%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.21%) Autonomous Agent
8 7 (2.21%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.89%) Replication
9 6 (1.89%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 100 (31.55%) Windows
2 46 (14.51%) Linux
3 33 (10.41%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.36%) Unix
5 16 (5.05%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.15%) Android
6 10 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.89%) zOS
9 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.95%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.32%) AIX
12 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.63%) ITIL
2 103 (32.49%) ITSM
3 99 (31.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 91 (28.71%) Service Management
5 83 (26.18%) Change Management
6 81 (25.55%) Incident Management
7 80 (25.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 76 (23.97%) Agile
9 66 (20.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 61 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (18.61%) DevOps
12 56 (17.67%) Service Delivery
13 48 (15.14%) CI/CD
14 39 (12.30%) Runbook
15 36 (11.36%) Decision-Making
16 33 (10.41%) Customer Service
17 30 (9.46%) Major Incident Management
17 30 (9.46%) Migration
18 29 (9.15%) Data Protection
18 29 (9.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.20%) Python
2 43 (13.56%) PowerShell
3 38 (11.99%) SQL
4 28 (8.83%) Java
5 21 (6.62%) Bash
6 13 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.52%) C#
8 5 (1.58%) JCL
8 5 (1.58%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.58%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.95%) VBScript
10 2 (0.63%) Bicep
10 2 (0.63%) Go
10 2 (0.63%) Magik
10 2 (0.63%) REXX
11 1 (0.32%) ABAP
11 1 (0.32%) Jython
11 1 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 103 (32.49%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.46%) Degree
4 19 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.79%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.47%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.21%) CCNA
8 7 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.89%) MCSE
9 6 (1.89%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.58%) CISSP
10 5 (1.58%) PMP
10 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.26%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.14%) SLA
2 11 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.89%) COBIT
5 5 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.58%) NIST
6 4 (1.26%) GDPR
6 4 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.95%) GRC
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.63%) QA
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (21.14%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.26%) Docker
4 13 (4.10%) NFS
4 13 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.79%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.21%) vSphere
7 5 (1.58%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) Firmware
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.63%) UAG
9 2 (0.63%) XenApp
9 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.36%) SCCM
3 16 (5.05%) Ansible
3 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.10%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.15%) SCOM
6 6 (1.89%) Grafana
7 5 (1.58%) Podman
7 5 (1.58%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.95%) Istio
10 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.63%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.63%) Avamar
10 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (23.97%) ServiceNow
2 68 (21.45%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.36%) VMware
4 24 (7.57%) Cisco
4 24 (7.57%) Oracle
5 18 (5.68%) Remedy
6 16 (5.05%) Broadcom
7 15 (4.73%) Splunk
8 10 (3.15%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.84%) HP
9 9 (2.84%) SAP
10 8 (2.52%) Denodo
11 7 (2.21%) Brocade
11 7 (2.21%) Dell
12 6 (1.89%) Canon
12 6 (1.89%) Citrix
12 6 (1.89%) IBM
12 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.89%) Sybase