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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 238 246
Rank change year-on-year -79 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 287 260 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.06% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.17% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 145 209
10th Percentile £306 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -7.93%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £530
90th Percentile £671 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 55
10th Percentile £18.42 £23.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 -
Median hourly rate £20.79 £45.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -53.80% +217.80% -24.46%
75th Percentile £26.11 £68.13 £25.00
90th Percentile £34.23 £70.00 £34.95
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £45.00 £14.32
% change year-on-year -53.80% +214.19% -23.59%

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 32,652 22,196 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.77% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,899 14,634 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £311 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,012 866 2,163
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.04 £20.03 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.67 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -45 114 £500 - 24
Midlands -35 52 £456 -12.93% 21
North of England -72 51 £463 +23.33% 20
West Midlands -28 47 £463 -11.74% 17
South West -17 35 £575 +6.98% 7
South East -41 34 £370 -17.78% 28
Yorkshire -43 31 £525 +37.61% 9
North West -61 19 £401 +23.38% 11
East Midlands - 5 £413 - 4
East of England -50 4 £275 -39.99% 6
North East -13 1 £400 -4.99%
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 (6.62%) Confluence
1 19 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.48%) SAS
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
5 4 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.35%) CICS
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.35%) IIS
8 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.39%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) assyst
5 1 (0.35%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 61 (21.25%) Azure
2 38 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (12.89%) Entra ID
4 31 (10.80%) AWS
5 21 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.57%) GCP
6 16 (5.57%) GitHub
7 15 (5.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 13 (4.53%) OneDrive
9 11 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.48%) Datadog
11 7 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.44%) IaaS
11 7 (2.44%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.44%) Serverless
12 6 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.09%) PaaS
13 5 (1.74%) SaaS
13 5 (1.74%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.76%) Firewall
2 15 (5.23%) Network Security
3 14 (4.88%) DNS
4 11 (3.83%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.83%) VPN
5 6 (2.09%) Broadband
5 6 (2.09%) LAN
5 6 (2.09%) NetScaler
5 6 (2.09%) WAN
6 5 (1.74%) DHCP
6 5 (1.74%) MPLS
6 5 (1.74%) SAN
6 5 (1.74%) Wireless
7 4 (1.39%) Internet
7 4 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.05%) NAS
8 3 (1.05%) Skype
8 3 (1.05%) SSL
8 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.48%) Metadata
2 10 (3.48%) Metadata Repository
3 8 (2.79%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.09%) MySQL
4 6 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.74%) Power BI
5 5 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.39%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 51 (17.77%) JIRA
2 13 (4.53%) Git
3 10 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.79%) GitLab
5 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.39%) Maven
6 3 (1.05%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.05%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) Mockito
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) Introscope
General
1 82 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.74%) Finance
3 36 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.45%) Banking
5 28 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.48%) Law
8 9 (3.14%) Legal
8 9 (3.14%) Retail
9 7 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.74%) Military
10 5 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.39%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.39%) Local Government
12 2 (0.70%) Publishing
13 1 (0.35%) Back Office
13 1 (0.35%) Games
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (13.94%) Service Manager
2 34 (11.85%) Analyst
3 28 (9.76%) Architect
4 24 (8.36%) IT Support
5 19 (6.62%) Lead
6 18 (6.27%) Senior
7 16 (5.57%) Consultant
7 16 (5.57%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.53%) Developer
8 13 (4.53%) IT Engineer
8 13 (4.53%) Support Analyst
9 12 (4.18%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.83%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.83%) Service Analyst
11 10 (3.48%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.48%) Incident Manager
12 9 (3.14%) Service Desk Analyst
12 9 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.79%) Service Delivery Manager
14 7 (2.44%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.23%) REST
2 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Graph
3 10 (3.48%) Middleware
4 6 (2.09%) .NET
4 6 (2.09%) Kafka
5 5 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.74%) Spring
6 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.39%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.39%) CSS
6 4 (1.39%) J2EE
6 4 (1.39%) jQuery
6 4 (1.39%) SAP Basis
6 4 (1.39%) Sass
6 4 (1.39%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.39%) Web Services
7 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.05%) Loki
7 3 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.92%) CMDB
2 15 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.18%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.83%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.44%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.09%) Replication
9 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.74%) PKI
10 4 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.70%) Clustering
12 2 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.25%) Windows
2 40 (13.94%) Linux
3 19 (6.62%) Unix
4 17 (5.92%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.83%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.74%) zOS
7 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.05%) Android
8 3 (1.05%) CentOS
8 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.70%) VMS
10 1 (0.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (50.87%) ITIL
2 95 (33.10%) Change Management
3 94 (32.75%) Service Management
4 80 (27.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 79 (27.53%) ITSM
6 70 (24.39%) Incident Management
7 58 (20.21%) DevOps
8 53 (18.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (16.72%) Service Delivery
11 47 (16.38%) Agile
12 42 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (13.24%) Observability
14 36 (12.54%) CI/CD
15 26 (9.06%) Incident Response
16 24 (8.36%) Data Modelling
17 21 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 20 (6.97%) Customer Service
18 20 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
18 20 (6.97%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.07%) PowerShell
2 39 (13.59%) SQL
3 28 (9.76%) Python
4 16 (5.57%) Java
5 15 (5.23%) Bash
6 9 (3.14%) C#
7 8 (2.79%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.09%) Go
10 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.05%) JCL
12 2 (0.70%) Perl
12 2 (0.70%) PHP
12 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) CLIST
13 1 (0.35%) Jython
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.35%) REXX
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (37.28%) Security Cleared
2 89 (31.01%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.41%) Degree
3 27 (9.41%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.74%) A+ Certification
6 5 (1.74%) CCNA
6 5 (1.74%) CCNP
6 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.74%) MCSE
7 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.05%) PMP
8 3 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.89%) SLA
2 8 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.44%) GDPR
4 6 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.74%) GRC
6 4 (1.39%) NIST
7 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.70%) QA
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.27%) Docker
3 7 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.05%) NFS
5 3 (1.05%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
7 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.92%) Grafana
3 16 (5.57%) Terraform
4 12 (4.18%) Ansible
5 11 (3.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.83%) SCCM
6 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.09%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.05%) Istio
9 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.05%) WSUS
10 2 (0.70%) Avamar
10 2 (0.70%) CASB
10 2 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.70%) Rancher
10 2 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 57 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 55 (19.16%) ServiceNow
3 29 (10.10%) Oracle
4 19 (6.62%) Remedy
5 17 (5.92%) Splunk
6 15 (5.23%) Cisco
7 12 (4.18%) VMware
8 10 (3.48%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.48%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.14%) BMC
9 9 (3.14%) SAP
10 8 (2.79%) Citrix
10 8 (2.79%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.09%) IBM
12 5 (1.74%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.39%) Brocade
13 4 (1.39%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.39%) Google
13 4 (1.39%) Talend