Problem Management Contracts in England

Problem Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 264 270
Rank change year-on-year +35 +6 +23
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 376 526 728
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.04% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.15% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 332 459
10th Percentile £313 £269 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +6.06% +23.75%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £575
90th Percentile £598 £713 £651
UK median daily rate £474 £490 £485
% change year-on-year -3.37% +1.03% +19.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 56 91
10th Percentile £13.29 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%
75th Percentile £25.00 £65.00 £21.05
90th Percentile £47.68 £65.75 £37.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Problem Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -9 120 £440 -20.00% 34
North of England +40 88 £493 +12.05% 29
South East +1 54 £450 -13.46% 35
North West +2 51 £493 +16.00% 15
South West +35 41 £520 +30.00% 12
Yorkshire +38 35 £430 -21.82% 10
Midlands +14 34 £450 -14.29% 17
East of England -4 31 £350 -36.36% 11
West Midlands +19 26 £450 -16.67% 11
East Midlands +19 8 - - 6
North East - 2 £488 - 5
Problem Management
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Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.72%) Confluence
3 10 (2.66%) NetWeaver
4 7 (1.86%) IIS
5 5 (1.33%) Apache
5 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.80%) Appian
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 21 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.66%) SAP IBP
2 4 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.53%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.83%) Azure
2 41 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (5.59%) AWS
4 18 (4.79%) GitHub
5 10 (2.66%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.66%) SaaS
6 8 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.86%) Azure Functions
7 7 (1.86%) Mimecast
7 7 (1.86%) Serverless
8 6 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (1.60%) GCP
9 5 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.06%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.80%) PaaS
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.91%) Firewall
2 23 (6.12%) DHCP
2 23 (6.12%) DNS
3 20 (5.32%) VPN
4 19 (5.05%) LAN
5 18 (4.79%) WAN
6 16 (4.26%) Wireless
7 10 (2.66%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (2.13%) IPsec
9 7 (1.86%) MPLS
10 6 (1.60%) BGP
10 6 (1.60%) OSPF
10 6 (1.60%) VXLAN
11 5 (1.33%) Internet
11 5 (1.33%) SAN
11 5 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.33%) VLAN
12 4 (1.06%) Cisco Wireless
12 4 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.66%) SAP BW
1 10 (2.66%) SAP HANA
1 10 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.13%) Power BI
3 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.86%) Metadata
4 6 (1.60%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.33%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.27%) GIS
7 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.27%) MySQL
7 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (5.85%) JIRA
2 16 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.80%) Git
4 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.53%) JMeter
4 2 (0.53%) Selenium
4 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 145 (38.56%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.74%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (16.49%) Finance
4 45 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (4.52%) Banking
7 16 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.72%) Legal
9 13 (3.46%) Front Office
10 8 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.60%) Back Office
11 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.33%) French Language
12 5 (1.33%) Marketing
13 4 (1.06%) Arabic Language
13 4 (1.06%) Electronics
13 4 (1.06%) German Language
13 4 (1.06%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.80%) Billing
15 2 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 61 (16.22%) Analyst
2 34 (9.04%) Problem Manager
3 28 (7.45%) Service Analyst
4 27 (7.18%) Senior
4 27 (7.18%) Service Desk Analyst
5 26 (6.91%) Incident Manager
6 22 (5.85%) Service Manager
7 19 (5.05%) IT Support
7 19 (5.05%) Storage Manager
8 17 (4.52%) Administrator
8 17 (4.52%) Availability Manager
8 17 (4.52%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 17 (4.52%) Capacity Manager
8 17 (4.52%) Consultant
8 17 (4.52%) Support Specialist
9 16 (4.26%) ITIL Manager
9 16 (4.26%) Support Analyst
10 15 (3.99%) Call Centre Analyst
10 15 (3.99%) Customer Analyst
10 15 (3.99%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.99%) YAML
2 10 (2.66%) SAP Basis
2 10 (2.66%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (1.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.06%) LDAP
5 3 (0.80%) CSS
5 3 (0.80%) HTML
5 3 (0.80%) Middleware
5 3 (0.80%) Web Services
6 2 (0.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.53%) Kafka
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.53%) RESTful
6 2 (0.53%) XMPP
7 1 (0.27%) ISPF
7 1 (0.27%) OpenLayers
7 1 (0.27%) React Native
7 1 (0.27%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.59%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.72%) Virtual Team
4 12 (3.19%) PKI
5 10 (2.66%) CMDB
6 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.06%) AS400
9 4 (1.06%) Clustering
9 4 (1.06%) Handset
9 4 (1.06%) Replication
10 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.53%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.53%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.53%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.88%) Windows
2 48 (12.77%) Linux
3 26 (6.91%) Windows Server
4 20 (5.32%) zOS
5 16 (4.26%) Unix
6 12 (3.19%) Apple iOS
6 12 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.06%) Android
10 3 (0.80%) VMS
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (52.39%) ITIL
2 141 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (31.38%) Incident Management
4 112 (29.79%) Service Management
5 77 (20.48%) Change Management
6 62 (16.49%) Agile
7 54 (14.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 52 (13.83%) Mentoring
9 48 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (12.77%) Decision-Making
9 48 (12.77%) Service Delivery
10 44 (11.70%) ITSM
11 43 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (10.37%) Knowledge Management
13 37 (9.84%) Customer Service
14 35 (9.31%) Data Analysis
15 31 (8.24%) Statistics
16 29 (7.71%) Project Management
17 28 (7.45%) Quality Management
17 28 (7.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (7.71%) PowerShell
1 29 (7.71%) Python
2 19 (5.05%) JCL
3 16 (4.26%) REXX
3 16 (4.26%) SQL
4 8 (2.13%) Swift
5 4 (1.06%) Java
5 4 (1.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.27%) Bash
7 1 (0.27%) C
7 1 (0.27%) C++
7 1 (0.27%) Go
7 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 112 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 90 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.64%) Degree
4 24 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.79%) MCP
6 15 (3.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.13%) CCNP
9 8 (2.13%) SAP Certification
10 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.06%) CCNA
11 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.80%) MCSE
13 2 (0.53%) CCIE
13 2 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.53%) Dell Certification
13 2 (0.53%) HNC
13 2 (0.53%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.57%) SLA
2 7 (1.86%) QA
3 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.06%) GDPR
3 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.80%) IASME
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (10.11%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.05%) Time Sharing Option
3 18 (4.79%) NFS
4 7 (1.86%) Firmware
4 7 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.80%) Docker
5 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 3 (0.80%) XenApp
6 2 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (5.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 19 (5.05%) Ansible
3 17 (4.52%) SCCM
4 8 (2.13%) Control-M
5 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.60%) SysTrack
5 6 (1.60%) Terraform
6 4 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.06%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.80%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.53%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.53%) Nagios
8 2 (0.53%) SCOM
8 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.53%) vRealize
8 2 (0.53%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 32 (8.51%) Citrix
4 31 (8.24%) Dell
5 26 (6.91%) SAP
6 24 (6.38%) IBM
7 23 (6.12%) Broadcom
8 19 (5.05%) Cisco
9 18 (4.79%) Brocade
9 18 (4.79%) CA
10 13 (3.46%) HP
10 13 (3.46%) Remedy
10 13 (3.46%) VMware
11 11 (2.93%) F5
12 8 (2.13%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.13%) Okta
13 7 (1.86%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.86%) NetApp
14 6 (1.60%) Avaya
14 6 (1.60%) Red Hat