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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 266 303
Rank change year-on-year -71 +37 -54
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 316 265 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.96% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.06% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 144 142
10th Percentile £250 £305 £331
25th Percentile £363 £368 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £468 £484
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -3.40% -3.10%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £555
90th Percentile £671 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £489 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +8.61% -7.12% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 7
10th Percentile £16.27 £15.50 £25.95
25th Percentile £19.73 £18.09 £26.63
Median hourly rate £25.47 £22.42 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% -41.78% +181.84%
75th Percentile £52.65 £41.98 £58.05
90th Percentile £67.84 £48.63 £75.09
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £18.90 £38.50
% change year-on-year +34.77% -50.92% +181.84%

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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -59 124 £450 -10.00% 133
Midlands -16 63 £475 +18.09% 32
North of England -92 63 £475 +13.10% 53
West Midlands -17 53 £475 +18.16% 19
South East -35 39 £538 +2.38% 55
Yorkshire -24 35 £500 +11.11% 17
North West -81 27 £420 +19.87% 30
South West -49 12 £350 -33.33% 24
East Midlands -14 10 - - 13
East of England -31 9 £400 -20.00% 16
North East -39 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 17 (5.38%) Confluence
2 14 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.16%) SAS
5 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.63%) CMS
7 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.63%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.32%) Apache
8 1 (0.32%) CICS
8 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 25 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Maple
Business Applications
1 13 (4.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) iTrent
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.84%) Azure
2 47 (14.87%) AWS
3 46 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.71%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.59%) GitHub
6 17 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (5.38%) OneDrive
7 14 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (4.43%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (4.11%) Serverless
9 12 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (3.48%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (3.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.56%) DNS
2 27 (8.54%) DHCP
2 27 (8.54%) Firewall
3 18 (5.70%) VPN
4 13 (4.11%) Network Security
5 12 (3.80%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.80%) Wireless
6 10 (3.16%) WAN
7 8 (2.53%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.53%) SAN
8 7 (2.22%) LAN
9 6 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.58%) NAS
11 4 (1.27%) HTTP
11 4 (1.27%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.95%) VLAN
12 3 (0.95%) VoIP
13 2 (0.63%) Internet
13 2 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.43%) Power BI
3 9 (2.85%) Data Lake
3 9 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.85%) Metadata
3 9 (2.85%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.53%) Pentaho
5 6 (1.90%) Db2
5 6 (1.90%) MySQL
6 4 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.63%) KDB
8 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 39 (12.34%) JIRA
2 16 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.43%) GitLab
4 12 (3.80%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.53%) Git
6 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 146 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.30%) Finance
3 49 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.96%) Banking
6 13 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.48%) Legal
7 11 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.85%) Front Office
9 8 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.22%) Law
11 5 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.27%) Military
12 4 (1.27%) Police
12 4 (1.27%) Retail
13 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Local Government
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (12.97%) Support Engineer
2 35 (11.08%) Analyst
3 27 (8.54%) Architect
4 22 (6.96%) Lead
5 21 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (6.65%) Senior
6 20 (6.33%) Incident Manager
7 15 (4.75%) Service Manager
8 14 (4.43%) Consultant
8 14 (4.43%) Major Incident Manager
9 13 (4.11%) Applications Support
9 13 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.80%) IT Support
10 12 (3.80%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.48%) Administrator
11 11 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.16%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
13 9 (2.85%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.28%) Terraform
2 13 (4.11%) Middleware
2 13 (4.11%) REST
3 9 (2.85%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.53%) LDAP
4 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (1.90%) .NET
6 5 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (1.58%) SOAP
6 5 (1.58%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.58%) Web Services
7 4 (1.27%) Ajax
7 4 (1.27%) CSS
7 4 (1.27%) Django
7 4 (1.27%) FIDO
7 4 (1.27%) Flask
7 4 (1.27%) HTML
7 4 (1.27%) JSON
7 4 (1.27%) pytest
7 4 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.43%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.43%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.48%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.48%) PKI
7 9 (2.85%) CMDB
8 8 (2.53%) Autonomous Agent
8 8 (2.53%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.90%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.27%) Clustering
11 4 (1.27%) SCADA
12 3 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 99 (31.33%) Windows
2 39 (12.34%) Linux
3 35 (11.08%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.75%) Unix
6 12 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (3.48%) Android
8 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.90%) zOS
9 5 (1.58%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.95%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (46.52%) ITIL
2 107 (33.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 104 (32.91%) ITSM
4 91 (28.80%) Service Management
5 86 (27.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 85 (26.90%) Incident Management
7 79 (25.00%) Change Management
8 76 (24.05%) Agile
9 67 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (20.89%) Root Cause Analysis
11 56 (17.72%) DevOps
11 56 (17.72%) Service Delivery
12 48 (15.19%) CI/CD
13 41 (12.97%) Runbook
14 38 (12.03%) Decision-Making
15 34 (10.76%) Observability
16 32 (10.13%) Major Incident Management
17 31 (9.81%) Customer Service
18 30 (9.49%) Incident Response
18 30 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.56%) Python
2 42 (13.29%) PowerShell
3 38 (12.03%) SQL
4 27 (8.54%) Java
5 19 (6.01%) Bash
6 12 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.53%) C#
7 8 (2.53%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.58%) JCL
9 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.95%) VBScript
11 2 (0.63%) Bicep
11 2 (0.63%) Magik
11 2 (0.63%) REXX
11 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) ABAP
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) Perl
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 106 (33.54%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.86%) Degree
4 21 (6.65%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (3.48%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.22%) CCNA
9 7 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.90%) MCSE
11 5 (1.58%) CISSP
11 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.27%) RHCA
13 3 (0.95%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.56%) SLA
2 12 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.90%) COBIT
5 5 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.27%) NIST
7 3 (0.95%) GDPR
8 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.63%) GRC
8 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) QA
9 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.28%) Docker
4 15 (4.75%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.80%) NFS
6 11 (3.48%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.22%) vSphere
8 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.27%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.95%) Firmware
10 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.63%) UAG
11 2 (0.63%) XenApp
11 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.06%) Ansible
2 16 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.06%) SCCM
3 15 (4.75%) vCenter Server
4 12 (3.80%) SCOM
5 5 (1.58%) Grafana
5 5 (1.58%) Podman
6 4 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.63%) Istio
8 2 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (22.15%) ServiceNow
2 67 (21.20%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.08%) VMware
4 23 (7.28%) Cisco
5 22 (6.96%) Oracle
6 17 (5.38%) Broadcom
6 17 (5.38%) Remedy
7 15 (4.75%) Splunk
8 12 (3.80%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.85%) Denodo
9 9 (2.85%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.85%) SAP
10 8 (2.53%) HP
11 6 (1.90%) Canon
11 6 (1.90%) Citrix
11 6 (1.90%) Dell
11 6 (1.90%) IBM
11 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.90%) Sybase
12 5 (1.58%) Red Hat