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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 286 296
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 -35
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 327 241 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.87% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.95% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 128 151
10th Percentile £244 £263 £331
25th Percentile £390 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
75th Percentile £564 £541 £572
90th Percentile £674 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.67% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 5
10th Percentile £16.79 - £38.10
25th Percentile £21.70 £15.50 £55.87
Median hourly rate £25.47 £20.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.33% -64.75% +315.41%
75th Percentile £31.82 £26.05 £58.49
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £17.62 £56.75
% change year-on-year +44.54% -68.95% +315.41%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -52 128 £439 -12.20% 128
Midlands -10 62 £475 +18.16% 39
North of England -84 61 £500 +11.11% 66
South East -30 47 £538 +2.38% 56
West Midlands -23 46 £482 +19.96% 24
Yorkshire -22 36 £500 +7.70% 20
North West -73 25 £525 +40.00% 40
East Midlands 0 16 £425 -34.62% 15
East of England -21 13 £800 +60.00% 28
South West -39 9 £350 -33.33% 24
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 16 (4.89%) Confluence
2 15 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.06%) SAS
5 6 (1.83%) CMS
6 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.92%) IIS
7 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.61%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.61%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.31%) CICS
9 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.31%) IBM Transformation Extender
Applications
1 23 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Maple
Business Applications
1 13 (3.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.92%) SAP BRIM
2 3 (0.92%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.92%) SAP FI-CA
3 2 (0.61%) SAP PSCD
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.31%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.49%) Azure
2 49 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (13.76%) AWS
4 35 (10.70%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.42%) GitHub
6 16 (4.89%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.59%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (3.06%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.06%) GCP
9 10 (3.06%) Serverless
9 10 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (15.29%) DNS
2 30 (9.17%) DHCP
3 25 (7.65%) Firewall
4 19 (5.81%) VPN
5 17 (5.20%) TCP/IP
5 17 (5.20%) WAN
6 14 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (3.98%) LAN
7 13 (3.98%) Network Security
8 12 (3.67%) SAN
9 9 (2.75%) Wireless
10 8 (2.45%) Kerberos
11 7 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (1.83%) NAS
13 5 (1.53%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.22%) H.323
14 4 (1.22%) HTTP
14 4 (1.22%) VoIP
15 3 (0.92%) VLAN
16 2 (0.61%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.59%) Power BI
3 10 (3.06%) Data Lake
3 10 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.06%) Metadata
3 10 (3.06%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.75%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.53%) Db2
5 5 (1.53%) MySQL
6 4 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.61%) KDB
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.31%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (9.48%) JIRA
2 13 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.36%) GitLab
4 9 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.45%) Git
6 4 (1.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.31%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 150 (45.87%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.74%) Finance
3 50 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.73%) Banking
6 15 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.67%) Front Office
9 9 (2.75%) Legal
10 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.14%) Law
12 6 (1.83%) Retail
13 4 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.22%) Police
14 3 (0.92%) Billing
14 3 (0.92%) Local Government
14 3 (0.92%) Military
14 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (12.23%) Support Engineer
2 34 (10.40%) Analyst
3 29 (8.87%) Architect
4 25 (7.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (6.12%) Lead
6 19 (5.81%) Applications Support
6 19 (5.81%) Incident Manager
6 19 (5.81%) Senior
7 16 (4.89%) Consultant
8 15 (4.59%) Service Manager
9 13 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (3.98%) Major Incident Manager
10 12 (3.67%) Administrator
10 12 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.67%) Server Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.06%) IT Support
13 9 (2.75%) Developer
13 9 (2.75%) Scrum Master
13 9 (2.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.42%) Terraform
2 16 (4.89%) Middleware
3 15 (4.59%) REST
4 12 (3.67%) .NET
5 8 (2.45%) LDAP
6 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.83%) JSON
7 6 (1.83%) SOAP
7 6 (1.83%) Web Services
8 5 (1.53%) Ajax
8 5 (1.53%) CSS
8 5 (1.53%) Django
8 5 (1.53%) Flask
8 5 (1.53%) HTML
8 5 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.53%) Software Packaging
8 5 (1.53%) XML
9 4 (1.22%) FIDO
9 4 (1.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 20 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.98%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.06%) CMDB
7 10 (3.06%) PKI
8 9 (2.75%) Autonomous Agent
9 8 (2.45%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.83%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.83%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.53%) Clustering
13 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
14 3 (0.92%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 107 (32.72%) Windows
2 43 (13.15%) Windows Server
3 39 (11.93%) Linux
4 16 (4.89%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.59%) Unix
6 13 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (3.67%) Android
8 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.83%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.83%) zOS
10 5 (1.53%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.92%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.31%) SUSE
13 1 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (45.87%) ITIL
2 112 (34.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 101 (30.89%) ITSM
4 95 (29.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 90 (27.52%) Service Management
6 89 (27.22%) Incident Management
7 74 (22.63%) Change Management
8 73 (22.32%) Root Cause Analysis
9 72 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (21.41%) Agile
11 60 (18.35%) Service Delivery
12 47 (14.37%) DevOps
13 46 (14.07%) CI/CD
14 42 (12.84%) Runbook
15 36 (11.01%) Observability
16 34 (10.40%) Decision-Making
16 34 (10.40%) Major Incident Management
16 34 (10.40%) Migration
17 33 (10.09%) Incident Response
18 31 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.68%) Python
2 42 (12.84%) PowerShell
3 40 (12.23%) SQL
4 27 (8.26%) Java
5 19 (5.81%) Bash
6 14 (4.28%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.67%) C#
7 12 (3.67%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.22%) JCL
8 4 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.92%) Bicep
9 3 (0.92%) VBScript
10 2 (0.61%) Go
10 2 (0.61%) Magik
10 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.61%) REXX
11 1 (0.31%) ABAP
11 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.31%) SOQL
11 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 70 (21.41%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.56%) Degree
4 21 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (3.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.45%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.53%) CISSP
10 5 (1.53%) MCSE
11 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.92%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.92%) CCNA
12 3 (0.92%) CISM
12 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.76%) SLA
2 14 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.53%) COBIT
5 4 (1.22%) NIST
5 4 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.92%) GDPR
7 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.61%) GRC
7 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) QA
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.31%) ITGC
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) SEPA
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (20.18%) Active Directory
2 33 (10.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.81%) Docker
4 16 (4.89%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.67%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.06%) NFS
7 7 (2.14%) vSphere
8 5 (1.53%) Firmware
9 4 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.92%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.61%) UAG
11 2 (0.61%) XenApp
11 2 (0.61%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.89%) vCenter Server
3 15 (4.59%) SCCM
4 13 (3.98%) SCOM
5 12 (3.67%) Ansible
6 5 (1.53%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (1.53%) Grafana
7 4 (1.22%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.22%) Podman
8 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.61%) Istio
9 2 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 64 (19.57%) ServiceNow
3 40 (12.23%) VMware
4 25 (7.65%) Cisco
5 24 (7.34%) Oracle
6 17 (5.20%) Remedy
7 14 (4.28%) Broadcom
8 13 (3.98%) SolarWinds
9 12 (3.67%) SAP
9 12 (3.67%) Splunk
10 9 (2.75%) Denodo
10 9 (2.75%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.45%) HP
12 7 (2.14%) Citrix
12 7 (2.14%) IBM
13 6 (1.83%) Canon
13 6 (1.83%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.53%) Dell
14 5 (1.53%) Sybase
15 4 (1.22%) Salesforce