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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 233 241
Rank change year-on-year -97 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 281 266 362
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.09% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.19% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 161 210
10th Percentile £319 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £388 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.22% -11.43%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £500
90th Percentile £671 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £489 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +8.61% -3.22% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 49
10th Percentile - £23.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £20.79 £42.80 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.42% +90.20% +45.63%
75th Percentile £26.84 £68.44 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.42 £70.00 £45.20
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £42.80 £20.25
% change year-on-year -51.42% +111.33% +31.07%

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 33,725 22,317 32,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.07% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,581 14,667 21,200
10th Percentile £314 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,094 893 2,223
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.20 £72.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -44 112 £495 -1.00% 22
Midlands -38 52 £463 -5.32% 14
West Midlands -36 49 £463 -5.32% 11
North of England -75 49 £465 +24.00% 21
South West -20 35 £575 +17.95% 9
Yorkshire -43 33 £500 +33.33% 10
South East -43 29 £370 -17.78% 23
North West -70 15 £401 +23.38% 7
East of England -54 3 £400 -12.71% 9
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 3
North East -17 1 £400 -4.99% 4
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 17 (6.05%) Confluence
1 17 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.63%) SAS
3 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.78%) Apache
5 4 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (1.07%) IIS
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 61 (21.71%) Azure
2 36 (12.81%) Entra ID
3 33 (11.74%) AWS
3 33 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.41%) GitHub
6 16 (5.69%) GCP
7 15 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.27%) OneDrive
9 10 (3.56%) Datadog
10 8 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.85%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.85%) Serverless
11 7 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.49%) IaaS
12 6 (2.14%) PaaS
13 5 (1.78%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.61%) Firewall
2 15 (5.34%) DNS
2 15 (5.34%) Network Security
3 11 (3.91%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.56%) VPN
5 7 (2.49%) DHCP
6 6 (2.14%) LAN
6 6 (2.14%) NetScaler
6 6 (2.14%) WAN
7 5 (1.78%) MPLS
7 5 (1.78%) SAN
8 4 (1.42%) Broadband
8 4 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.42%) Wireless
9 3 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.07%) Internet
9 3 (1.07%) NAS
9 3 (1.07%) SSL
9 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.91%) Metadata
3 8 (2.85%) Metadata Repository
3 8 (2.85%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.85%) Power BI
4 6 (2.14%) MySQL
4 6 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.42%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.07%) Pentaho
7 3 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 51 (18.15%) JIRA
2 15 (5.34%) Git
3 11 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.20%) GitLab
5 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.42%) Maven
7 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.07%) Jaeger
7 3 (1.07%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.71%) JUnit
8 2 (0.71%) Mockito
9 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) Introscope
9 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 85 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 75 (26.69%) Finance
3 36 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.68%) Banking
5 29 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.27%) Law
7 11 (3.91%) Legal
8 10 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.85%) Retail
10 6 (2.14%) Military
10 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.42%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.42%) Local Government
12 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Police
14 1 (0.36%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (13.17%) Service Manager
2 31 (11.03%) Analyst
3 29 (10.32%) Architect
4 20 (7.12%) IT Support
5 18 (6.41%) Lead
6 17 (6.05%) Senior
6 17 (6.05%) Support Engineer
7 16 (5.69%) Consultant
8 13 (4.63%) Developer
8 13 (4.63%) IT Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.91%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.91%) Service Analyst
10 11 (3.91%) Support Analyst
11 10 (3.56%) Incident Manager
12 9 (3.20%) Administrator
12 9 (3.20%) Service Desk Analyst
12 9 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.34%) REST
2 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Graph
2 11 (3.91%) Middleware
3 6 (2.14%) .NET
3 6 (2.14%) Kafka
4 5 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.78%) Spring
5 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.42%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.42%) Bootstrap
5 4 (1.42%) CSS
5 4 (1.42%) J2EE
5 4 (1.42%) jQuery
5 4 (1.42%) SAP Basis
5 4 (1.42%) Sass
5 4 (1.42%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.42%) Web Services
6 3 (1.07%) Loki
6 3 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.05%) CMDB
2 13 (4.63%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.49%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.49%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.14%) Replication
8 5 (1.78%) Clustering
8 5 (1.78%) PKI
9 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.07%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.00%) Windows
2 41 (14.59%) Linux
3 20 (7.12%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.05%) Unix
5 10 (3.56%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.14%) zOS
7 5 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.71%) CentOS
9 2 (0.71%) Debian
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (49.82%) ITIL
2 92 (32.74%) Change Management
3 88 (31.32%) Service Management
4 77 (27.40%) Root Cause Analysis
5 74 (26.33%) ITSM
6 64 (22.78%) Incident Management
7 61 (21.71%) DevOps
8 54 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (18.86%) Agile
10 51 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (16.01%) Service Delivery
12 44 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (14.95%) CI/CD
14 39 (13.88%) Observability
15 26 (9.25%) Incident Response
16 25 (8.90%) Data Modelling
17 23 (8.19%) Decision-Making
17 23 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 20 (7.12%) Data Protection
19 19 (6.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (16.73%) PowerShell
2 40 (14.23%) SQL
3 28 (9.96%) Python
4 19 (6.76%) Java
5 16 (5.69%) Bash
6 11 (3.91%) C#
7 8 (2.85%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.49%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.14%) Go
10 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.07%) JCL
12 2 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.36%) Jython
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (39.50%) Security Cleared
2 94 (33.45%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.96%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.41%) Degree
5 8 (2.85%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.78%) CCNA
7 5 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.78%) MCSE
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.42%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (1.07%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.07%) CCNP
9 3 (1.07%) PMP
10 2 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.17%) SLA
2 9 (3.20%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.49%) GDPR
4 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.78%) GRC
6 4 (1.42%) NIST
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.71%) QA
9 1 (0.36%) COBIT
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (14.59%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.12%) Docker
3 11 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.42%) NFS
6 3 (1.07%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (1.07%) XenApp
6 3 (1.07%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.41%) Terraform
3 17 (6.05%) Grafana
4 13 (4.63%) Ansible
5 11 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.91%) SCCM
6 6 (2.14%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.42%) WSUS
8 3 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.07%) Istio
8 3 (1.07%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.71%) Avamar
9 2 (0.71%) CASB
9 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.71%) Podman
9 2 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (20.28%) ServiceNow
2 51 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.32%) Oracle
4 17 (6.05%) Remedy
4 17 (6.05%) Splunk
5 16 (5.69%) VMware
6 12 (4.27%) Cisco
7 11 (3.91%) Atlassian
8 10 (3.56%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.56%) Citrix
9 9 (3.20%) BMC
9 9 (3.20%) SAP
10 8 (2.85%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.49%) Denodo
11 7 (2.49%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.14%) Broadcom
13 5 (1.78%) Brocade
13 5 (1.78%) Dell
13 5 (1.78%) IBM
14 4 (1.42%) Google