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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 273 282
Rank change year-on-year -47 +9 -17
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 324 248 279
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.90% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.99% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 146 174
10th Percentile £263 £310 £338
25th Percentile £401 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.45% -4.66%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £672 £650 £614
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.64 £20.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -7.69% +90.34%
75th Percentile £49.55 £47.12 £34.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.20 £58.49
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £22.42 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.61% -13.79% +90.34%

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 38,532 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -24 136 £500 +5.26% 38
North of England -81 64 £475 +25.00% 34
Midlands -27 63 £469 +1.02% 23
West Midlands -35 58 £469 +4.40% 18
Yorkshire -36 40 £500 +28.87% 10
South East -54 32 £519 +3.75% 26
North West -74 23 £408 +25.54% 17
South West -32 18 £400 -17.95% 20
East of England -19 7 £400 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -9 5 - - 5
North East -45 1 £400 -38.46% 7
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 20 (6.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (2.78%) SAS
5 4 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.23%) IIS
6 3 (0.93%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.62%) Apache
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Maple
Business Applications
1 16 (4.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.60%) Azure
2 48 (14.81%) AWS
3 45 (13.89%) Entra ID
4 41 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (7.10%) GitHub
6 18 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (4.32%) OneDrive
10 13 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.70%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.70%) Serverless
12 11 (3.40%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.42%) DNS
2 32 (9.88%) Firewall
3 22 (6.79%) DHCP
4 16 (4.94%) VPN
5 14 (4.32%) Network Security
6 13 (4.01%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.09%) LAN
8 9 (2.78%) SAN
8 9 (2.78%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.47%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.47%) WAN
10 7 (2.16%) NAS
11 6 (1.85%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (1.85%) Wireless
12 4 (1.23%) HTTP
13 3 (0.93%) Internet
13 3 (0.93%) MPLS
13 3 (0.93%) NGFW
13 3 (0.93%) VLAN
14 2 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.70%) Power BI
3 10 (3.09%) MySQL
4 8 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.85%) Metadata
6 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.54%) Db2
6 5 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.54%) Pentaho
6 5 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.62%) KDB
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (17.28%) JIRA
2 17 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.01%) Bitbucket
3 13 (4.01%) GitLab
4 7 (2.16%) Git
5 4 (1.23%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.31%) Introscope
6 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 136 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.22%) Finance
3 44 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.72%) Banking
6 11 (3.40%) Legal
6 11 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.47%) Law
9 8 (2.47%) Retail
10 6 (1.85%) Front Office
10 6 (1.85%) Military
11 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.23%) Local Government
11 4 (1.23%) Police
12 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
12 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 29 (8.95%) Analyst
3 27 (8.33%) Architect
3 27 (8.33%) Service Manager
4 23 (7.10%) Incident Manager
4 23 (7.10%) Senior
5 20 (6.17%) Lead
6 19 (5.86%) IT Support
7 16 (4.94%) Major Incident Manager
8 15 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.32%) Consultant
10 13 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) Developer
11 12 (3.70%) IT Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) Scrum Master
11 12 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.09%) Administrator
12 10 (3.09%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.40%) REST
2 10 (3.09%) Middleware
3 9 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 9 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 9 (2.78%) Web Services
4 8 (2.47%) CSS
4 8 (2.47%) LDAP
5 7 (2.16%) .NET
6 6 (1.85%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.85%) XML
7 5 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.54%) Spring
8 4 (1.23%) Ajax
8 4 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.23%) Bootstrap
8 4 (1.23%) FIDO
8 4 (1.23%) Loki
8 4 (1.23%) Sass
8 4 (1.23%) Software Packaging
8 4 (1.23%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.86%) CMDB
4 18 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.40%) PKI
8 10 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.09%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.47%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.47%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.16%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.85%) Replication
11 6 (1.85%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
12 5 (1.54%) Clustering
12 5 (1.54%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 94 (29.01%) Windows
2 44 (13.58%) Linux
3 30 (9.26%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.56%) Unix
5 9 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.16%) zOS
8 6 (1.85%) Android
9 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.31%) AIX
11 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (48.46%) ITIL
2 104 (32.10%) ITSM
3 93 (28.70%) Service Management
4 85 (26.23%) Change Management
5 83 (25.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 73 (22.53%) Agile
8 72 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (19.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 58 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (17.28%) DevOps
12 52 (16.05%) Service Delivery
13 42 (12.96%) CI/CD
14 36 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 35 (10.80%) Incident Response
16 29 (8.95%) Customer Service
17 28 (8.64%) Major Incident Management
17 28 (8.64%) Migration
18 26 (8.02%) Scrum
18 26 (8.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.80%) SQL
2 33 (10.19%) PowerShell
3 29 (8.95%) Python
4 21 (6.48%) Java
5 17 (5.25%) Bash
6 13 (4.01%) C#
7 12 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.85%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.54%) JCL
10 4 (1.23%) Go
10 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.62%) Bicep
11 2 (0.62%) Perl
11 2 (0.62%) PHP
11 2 (0.62%) REXX
12 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.31%) Jython
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (32.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.95%) DV Cleared
4 27 (8.33%) Degree
5 13 (4.01%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.40%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (2.16%) CCNA
9 7 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.54%) MCSE
11 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.23%) CISSP
12 4 (1.23%) PMP
12 4 (1.23%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.58%) SLA
2 12 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.16%) GDPR
6 6 (1.85%) NIST
7 5 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.54%) GRC
8 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.93%) COBIT
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.62%) QA
10 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.86%) Docker
4 13 (4.01%) NFS
5 11 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.09%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.54%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (1.54%) vSphere
8 4 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.93%) Firmware
9 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.62%) UAG
10 2 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.62%) XenApp
10 2 (0.62%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.79%) Terraform
2 20 (6.17%) SCCM
3 16 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.01%) Ansible
5 11 (3.40%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.47%) Grafana
7 7 (2.16%) SCOM
8 6 (1.85%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.54%) Podman
9 5 (1.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.23%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.23%) Istio
11 3 (0.93%) Rancher
12 2 (0.62%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.62%) Avamar
12 2 (0.62%) CASB
12 2 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (25.93%) ServiceNow
2 62 (19.14%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.19%) VMware
4 24 (7.41%) Cisco
4 24 (7.41%) Oracle
5 21 (6.48%) Remedy
6 14 (4.32%) Broadcom
7 13 (4.01%) SAP
8 10 (3.09%) Splunk
9 9 (2.78%) Citrix
9 9 (2.78%) Denodo
9 9 (2.78%) HP
10 8 (2.47%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.16%) Brocade
11 7 (2.16%) Dell
11 7 (2.16%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.16%) IBM
11 7 (2.16%) Sybase
12 6 (1.85%) Canon
12 6 (1.85%) Salesforce