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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 250 287
Rank change year-on-year -75 +37 -33
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 328 272 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.99% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.09% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 157 166
10th Percentile £250 £310 £328
25th Percentile £390 £375 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £453 £486
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -6.84% -2.75%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £650 £614
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.12% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 7
10th Percentile £16.45 £20.83 £20.97
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.57 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -3.38% +101.32%
75th Percentile £44.09 £47.12 £49.37
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £75.09
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.10% -12.73% +101.32%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -36 141 £458 -3.58% 24
Midlands -28 62 £463 -0.32% 16
North of England -82 60 £475 +22.42% 16
West Midlands -27 55 £463 +3.01% 11
South East -39 37 £538 +7.50% 26
Yorkshire -36 35 £500 +28.87% 2
North West -65 24 £401 +6.93% 13
South West -39 14 £375 -28.57% 5
East of England -19 10 £400 -20.00% 10
East Midlands -16 7 - - 5
North East -38 1 £400 -38.46% 1
Problem Management
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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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 14 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.74%) SAS
5 4 (1.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.91%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.61%) Apache
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (7.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Maple
Business Applications
1 15 (4.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) iTrent
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.87%) Azure
2 50 (15.24%) AWS
3 47 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (12.80%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.93%) GitHub
6 22 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (4.57%) OneDrive
8 15 (4.57%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.66%) GCP
10 12 (3.66%) Serverless
11 11 (3.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.41%) DNS
2 34 (10.37%) Firewall
3 27 (8.23%) DHCP
4 19 (5.79%) VPN
5 16 (4.88%) Network Security
6 13 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.05%) SAN
8 9 (2.74%) LAN
9 8 (2.44%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.44%) Wireless
10 7 (2.13%) NAS
10 7 (2.13%) WAN
11 6 (1.83%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.22%) HTTP
13 3 (0.91%) NGFW
13 3 (0.91%) VLAN
13 3 (0.91%) VoIP
14 2 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
14 2 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.57%) Power BI
1 15 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.74%) MySQL
3 8 (2.44%) Metadata
4 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.13%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.52%) Db2
5 5 (1.52%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.61%) KDB
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (16.46%) JIRA
2 18 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.27%) GitLab
4 13 (3.96%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.13%) Git
6 4 (1.22%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.91%) Maven
7 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) Introscope
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 145 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.48%) Finance
3 51 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.62%) Banking
6 14 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.35%) Legal
8 11 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.44%) Front Office
10 7 (2.13%) Law
10 7 (2.13%) Retail
11 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.52%) Military
12 4 (1.22%) Local Government
12 4 (1.22%) Police
13 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (12.80%) Support Engineer
2 36 (10.98%) Analyst
3 24 (7.32%) Senior
4 22 (6.71%) Architect
5 21 (6.40%) IT Support
5 21 (6.40%) Lead
6 19 (5.79%) Incident Manager
7 17 (5.18%) Consultant
7 17 (5.18%) Service Manager
8 16 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.88%) IT Engineer
8 16 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) Major Incident Manager
11 12 (3.66%) Scrum Master
12 11 (3.35%) Support Analyst
13 10 (3.05%) Applications Support
14 9 (2.74%) Administrator
14 9 (2.74%) IT Manager
14 9 (2.74%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.23%) Terraform
2 12 (3.66%) Middleware
2 12 (3.66%) REST
3 9 (2.74%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.44%) LDAP
4 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (2.44%) Web Services
5 7 (2.13%) CSS
5 7 (2.13%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.83%) .NET
6 6 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.83%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.52%) SOAP
7 5 (1.52%) XML
8 4 (1.22%) Ajax
8 4 (1.22%) FIDO
8 4 (1.22%) HTML
8 4 (1.22%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.22%) Loki
8 4 (1.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.96%) CMDB
5 13 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.35%) PKI
8 9 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.44%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.44%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.83%) Replication
11 6 (1.83%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.52%) Clustering
12 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 104 (31.71%) Windows
2 48 (14.63%) Linux
3 34 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.79%) Unix
5 15 (4.57%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.74%) Android
7 8 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.13%) zOS
9 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.30%) AIX
12 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (46.65%) ITIL
2 101 (30.79%) ITSM
3 96 (29.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 91 (27.74%) Change Management
4 91 (27.74%) Service Management
5 84 (25.61%) Incident Management
6 75 (22.87%) Agile
6 75 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 67 (20.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 65 (19.82%) DevOps
9 63 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (17.07%) Service Delivery
11 51 (15.55%) CI/CD
12 38 (11.59%) Decision-Making
13 37 (11.28%) Runbook
14 34 (10.37%) Customer Service
15 33 (10.06%) Migration
16 29 (8.84%) Data Protection
16 29 (8.84%) Incident Response
17 28 (8.54%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.72%) Python
2 43 (13.11%) PowerShell
3 40 (12.20%) SQL
4 28 (8.54%) Java
5 21 (6.40%) Bash
6 15 (4.57%) JavaScript
7 12 (3.66%) C#
8 5 (1.52%) JCL
8 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.22%) Go
9 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.91%) VBScript
11 2 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) REXX
12 1 (0.30%) ABAP
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 100 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 77 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.15%) Degree
4 19 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.35%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.13%) CCNA
9 7 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.83%) MCSE
10 6 (1.83%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.52%) CISSP
11 5 (1.52%) PMP
11 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.22%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.24%) SLA
2 12 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.13%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.83%) COBIT
5 6 (1.83%) NIST
6 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.52%) GRC
7 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.61%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) SEPA
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (21.04%) Active Directory
2 26 (7.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.01%) Docker
4 13 (3.96%) NFS
5 12 (3.66%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.13%) vSphere
8 5 (1.52%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.91%) Firmware
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.61%) UAG
11 2 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.61%) XenApp
11 2 (0.61%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.49%) SCCM
3 16 (4.88%) Ansible
4 11 (3.35%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.74%) Grafana
6 7 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.13%) SCOM
7 5 (1.52%) Istio
7 5 (1.52%) Podman
7 5 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.22%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.91%) Rancher
10 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.61%) CASB
10 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 83 (25.30%) ServiceNow
2 70 (21.34%) Microsoft
3 36 (10.98%) VMware
4 24 (7.32%) Cisco
5 23 (7.01%) Oracle
6 19 (5.79%) Remedy
7 14 (4.27%) Broadcom
8 13 (3.96%) Splunk
9 12 (3.66%) SAP
10 10 (3.05%) Dynatrace
11 9 (2.74%) HP
12 8 (2.44%) Citrix
12 8 (2.44%) Denodo
13 7 (2.13%) Brocade
13 7 (2.13%) Dell
13 7 (2.13%) IBM
13 7 (2.13%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.13%) Sybase
14 6 (1.83%) Google
14 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
92 Problem Management jobs in England