Problem Management Contracts in England

Problem Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 259 265
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 248 341 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.95% 0.91% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.07% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 204 289
10th Percentile £305 £325 £263
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £613
90th Percentile £641 £608 £694
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 30 38
10th Percentile £20.83 £14.16 £13.37
25th Percentile £23.50 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +83.02% -8.93%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.13 £20.73
90th Percentile £47.50 £42.07 £44.73
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £25.00 £13.66
% change year-on-year -4.00% +83.02% -11.87%

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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 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
London +34 95 £475 +7.95% 111
North of England -11 70 £375 -23.94% 43
North West +4 43 £325 -34.08% 27
Midlands +16 29 £453 -4.63% 20
West Midlands +16 27 £449 -5.47% 12
Yorkshire -10 26 £378 -28.10% 13
South East +16 18 £500 +11.11% 48
South West +3 15 £444 -15.48% 12
East of England +20 14 £450 +28.57% 26
East Midlands -3 2 £650 - 7
North East 0 1 £421 -13.64% 3
Problem Management
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Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.85%) Confluence
3 13 (5.24%) Skype for Business
4 11 (4.44%) SharePoint
5 9 (3.63%) Mattermost
6 7 (2.82%) CICS
6 7 (2.82%) NetWeaver
7 5 (2.02%) IIS
7 5 (2.02%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (1.21%) JBoss
9 3 (1.21%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (1.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) InfoPath
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (3.23%) SAP IBP
2 4 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.81%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.40%) Endur
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.29%) Azure
2 19 (7.66%) Power Platform
3 17 (6.85%) PowerApps
4 16 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.05%) AWS
6 13 (5.24%) GitHub
7 10 (4.03%) SaaS
8 8 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.42%) ShareGate
10 5 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.02%) OneDrive
10 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.21%) Datadog
12 3 (1.21%) IaaS
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.81%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.66%) Firewall
2 13 (5.24%) Skype
3 12 (4.84%) LAN
3 12 (4.84%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.84%) WAN
3 12 (4.84%) WebEx
4 11 (4.44%) VPN
5 10 (4.03%) Wireless
6 9 (3.63%) SAN
6 9 (3.63%) Softphone
6 9 (3.63%) Unified Communications
7 8 (3.23%) DNS
8 6 (2.42%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.42%) SSL
8 6 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (2.02%) DHCP
9 5 (2.02%) HTTP
9 5 (2.02%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.02%) VoIP
9 5 (2.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.24%) Oracle Database
2 11 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (3.23%) SAP HANA
4 7 (2.82%) SAP BW
5 6 (2.42%) DB2
6 4 (1.61%) Power BI
6 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.21%) DTS
7 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.21%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.81%) IMS/DB
8 2 (0.81%) MySQL
8 2 (0.81%) Tableau
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 20 (8.06%) JIRA
2 14 (5.65%) Git
2 14 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.82%) Postman
4 3 (1.21%) GitLab
5 2 (0.81%) Maven
5 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.40%) Toad
6 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (21.37%) Finance
4 23 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.06%) Banking
6 8 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.42%) Law
8 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Back Office
9 4 (1.61%) Legal
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (11.29%) Analyst
2 20 (8.06%) Service Manager
3 18 (7.26%) Delivery Manager
4 17 (6.85%) Lead
5 15 (6.05%) Support Engineer
6 14 (5.65%) Consultant
6 14 (5.65%) Senior
7 12 (4.84%) Administrator
7 12 (4.84%) Service Delivery Manager
7 12 (4.84%) Support Analyst
8 11 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Backup Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Architect
10 9 (3.63%) Commvault Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Messaging Engineer
10 9 (3.63%) Messaging Support
10 9 (3.63%) Messaging Support Engineer
11 8 (3.23%) Operations Engineer
11 8 (3.23%) Operations Support Engineer
11 8 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.84%) XMPP
2 10 (4.03%) Web Services
3 8 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (2.82%) HTML
4 7 (2.82%) SAP Basis
4 7 (2.82%) SOAP
4 7 (2.82%) XML
5 6 (2.42%) CSS
5 6 (2.42%) Middleware
5 6 (2.42%) REST
6 5 (2.02%) .NET
6 5 (2.02%) Ajax
6 5 (2.02%) ISPF
7 4 (1.61%) J2EE
7 4 (1.61%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.81%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.81%) EJB
8 2 (0.81%) JDBC
8 2 (0.81%) LDAP
8 2 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.69%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.65%) CMDB
4 11 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.23%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.42%) Replication
8 6 (2.42%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.02%) VSAM
10 4 (1.61%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.61%) Handset
10 4 (1.61%) IBM Mainframe
10 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.21%) Clustering
11 3 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.92%) Windows
2 33 (13.31%) Linux
3 21 (8.47%) Unix
4 8 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.42%) zOS
6 5 (2.02%) Android
7 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.21%) CentOS
8 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.21%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.81%) AIX
9 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.81%) Solaris
9 2 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (47.18%) ITIL
2 82 (33.06%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (28.63%) Agile
4 67 (27.02%) Change Management
5 57 (22.98%) Service Management
6 51 (20.56%) Incident Management
7 46 (18.55%) DevOps
8 44 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (14.92%) Service Delivery
10 36 (14.52%) ITSM
11 35 (14.11%) Performance Tuning
12 34 (13.71%) Configuration Management
12 34 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (13.31%) Migration
13 33 (13.31%) Process Improvement
14 32 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
15 25 (10.08%) Root Cause Analysis
16 22 (8.87%) Mentoring
17 21 (8.47%) Translating Business Requirements
18 18 (7.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.13%) SQL
2 22 (8.87%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.47%) Python
4 8 (3.23%) Go
4 8 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.23%) REXX
5 6 (2.42%) Bash
5 6 (2.42%) CLIST
5 6 (2.42%) Java
5 6 (2.42%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.02%) ActionScript
6 5 (2.02%) ActionScript 2.0
6 5 (2.02%) JCL
7 4 (1.61%) C#
8 3 (1.21%) C
8 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
10 1 (0.40%) C++
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.69%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (8.06%) Degree
5 9 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.42%) CCNA
8 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.21%) CCIE
10 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.21%) PMP
11 2 (0.81%) CCNP
11 2 (0.81%) CISA
11 2 (0.81%) CISM
11 2 (0.81%) CISSP
11 2 (0.81%) GIAC
11 2 (0.81%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.05%) SLA
2 7 (2.82%) QA
3 4 (1.61%) ISO 22301
3 4 (1.61%) ISO 31000
3 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.61%) PMO
4 3 (1.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.42%) Docker
4 5 (2.02%) Time Sharing Option
5 4 (1.61%) Firmware
6 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.81%) vSphere
8 1 (0.40%) RACF
8 1 (0.40%) SRDF
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.24%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (4.44%) Ansible
4 10 (4.03%) Grafana
5 9 (3.63%) Puppet
5 9 (3.63%) SCOM
5 9 (3.63%) Terraform
6 8 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.42%) OMEGAMON
7 6 (2.42%) SCCM
8 4 (1.61%) CA Endevor
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.61%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.21%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.21%) Podman
9 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.32%) Cisco
3 34 (13.71%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.26%) Oracle
4 18 (7.26%) VMware
5 17 (6.85%) Splunk
6 16 (6.45%) IBM
6 16 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 11 (4.44%) SAP
8 10 (4.03%) Commvault
9 8 (3.23%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.82%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.42%) HP
11 6 (2.42%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.42%) SolarWinds
12 5 (2.02%) IBM Sterling
12 5 (2.02%) Remedy
12 5 (2.02%) Snow
13 4 (1.61%) Brocade
13 4 (1.61%) F5