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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 265 284
Rank change year-on-year -70 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 330 258 267
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.93% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 151 171
10th Percentile £263 £306 £345
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -7.69% -6.25%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £650 £615
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 8
10th Percentile £17.72 £20.22 £14.17
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £22.67
Median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -11.93% +99.49%
75th Percentile £44.09 £47.12 £44.81
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.20 £70.94
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £22.42 £27.25
% change year-on-year +13.61% -17.74% +99.49%

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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -12 138 £500 +5.26% 54
Midlands -22 67 £475 +2.37% 20
West Midlands -25 61 £475 +5.79% 15
North of England -82 60 £475 +22.42% 34
Yorkshire -41 36 £500 +28.87% 10
South East -53 33 £519 +3.75% 35
North West -78 23 £408 +16.57% 20
South West -42 19 £400 -23.81% 16
East of England -18 8 £400 -20.00% 8
East Midlands -7 6 - - 5
North East -39 1 £400 -38.46% 4
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 12 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.33%) SAS
3 11 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.21%) IIS
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.91%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 25 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Maple
Business Applications
1 17 (5.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) iTrent
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.33%) Azure
2 49 (14.85%) AWS
3 43 (13.03%) Entra ID
3 43 (13.03%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.88%) GitHub
5 23 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.24%) OneDrive
9 13 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.64%) Serverless
11 11 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.52%) DNS
2 32 (9.70%) Firewall
3 22 (6.67%) DHCP
4 17 (5.15%) VPN
5 13 (3.94%) Network Security
5 13 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.03%) LAN
6 10 (3.03%) SAN
7 9 (2.73%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.42%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.42%) WAN
9 7 (2.12%) NAS
10 6 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.82%) Wireless
11 4 (1.21%) HTTP
12 3 (0.91%) MPLS
12 3 (0.91%) NGFW
12 3 (0.91%) VLAN
13 2 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.55%) Power BI
2 13 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.03%) MySQL
4 9 (2.73%) Metadata
5 8 (2.42%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.12%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.12%) Pentaho
7 5 (1.52%) Db2
7 5 (1.52%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.61%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 57 (17.27%) JIRA
2 18 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.24%) GitLab
4 13 (3.94%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.12%) Git
6 4 (1.21%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.21%) Maven
7 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) Introscope
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 141 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.42%) Finance
3 49 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.97%) Banking
6 11 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.33%) Legal
6 11 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.42%) Law
8 8 (2.42%) Retail
9 7 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.12%) Military
10 6 (1.82%) Front Office
11 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.21%) Local Government
11 4 (1.21%) Police
12 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 38 (11.52%) Support Engineer
2 29 (8.79%) Analyst
3 28 (8.48%) Architect
4 24 (7.27%) Senior
4 24 (7.27%) Service Manager
5 23 (6.97%) Incident Manager
6 21 (6.36%) Lead
7 20 (6.06%) IT Support
8 16 (4.85%) Major Incident Manager
9 15 (4.55%) Consultant
9 15 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.94%) IT Engineer
11 13 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (3.64%) Scrum Master
12 12 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.03%) Developer
13 10 (3.03%) Network Engineer
13 10 (3.03%) Support Analyst
14 9 (2.73%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.64%) REST
2 10 (3.03%) Middleware
3 9 (2.73%) AWS CDK
3 9 (2.73%) Web Services
4 8 (2.42%) CSS
4 8 (2.42%) LDAP
4 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (2.12%) .NET
6 6 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.82%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.82%) XML
7 5 (1.52%) SOAP
7 5 (1.52%) Spring
8 4 (1.21%) Ajax
8 4 (1.21%) HTML
8 4 (1.21%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.21%) jQuery
8 4 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.21%) Software Packaging
8 4 (1.21%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.85%) CMDB
5 12 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.33%) PKI
7 10 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.42%) Mainframe
9 8 (2.42%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.12%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.82%) Replication
11 6 (1.82%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.52%) Clustering
12 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (29.39%) Windows
2 45 (13.64%) Linux
3 31 (9.39%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.45%) Unix
5 10 (3.03%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.12%) Android
7 7 (2.12%) zOS
8 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (47.88%) ITIL
2 104 (31.52%) ITSM
3 92 (27.88%) Service Management
4 87 (26.36%) Change Management
4 87 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 82 (24.85%) Incident Management
6 75 (22.73%) Agile
7 72 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (18.79%) DevOps
10 60 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
11 56 (16.97%) Service Delivery
12 45 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 39 (11.82%) Decision-Making
14 33 (10.00%) Incident Response
15 31 (9.39%) Customer Service
16 30 (9.09%) Migration
17 28 (8.48%) Major Incident Management
18 26 (7.88%) Scrum
19 25 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.82%) SQL
2 33 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 33 (10.00%) Python
3 23 (6.97%) Java
4 18 (5.45%) Bash
5 13 (3.94%) C#
6 12 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.52%) JCL
9 4 (1.21%) Go
9 4 (1.21%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.61%) Bicep
10 2 (0.61%) Perl
10 2 (0.61%) PHP
10 2 (0.61%) REXX
11 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.30%) Jython
11 1 (0.30%) Magik
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 86 (26.06%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.48%) Degree
3 28 (8.48%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.94%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.12%) CCNA
8 7 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.82%) MCSE
10 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.52%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.21%) CISSP
11 4 (1.21%) PMP
11 4 (1.21%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.64%) SLA
2 12 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.12%) GDPR
5 6 (1.82%) NIST
6 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.52%) GRC
7 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.91%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.61%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.06%) Docker
4 13 (3.94%) NFS
5 11 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.03%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.52%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (1.52%) vSphere
8 4 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.91%) Firmware
9 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.61%) UAG
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.61%) XenApp
10 2 (0.61%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (6.97%) Terraform
2 18 (5.45%) SCCM
3 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
4 16 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.24%) Ansible
6 11 (3.33%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.42%) Grafana
8 7 (2.12%) SCOM
9 6 (1.82%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.52%) Podman
10 5 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.21%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
11 4 (1.21%) Istio
12 3 (0.91%) Rancher
13 2 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.61%) CASB
13 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (26.06%) ServiceNow
2 65 (19.70%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.00%) VMware
4 25 (7.58%) Oracle
5 23 (6.97%) Cisco
6 22 (6.67%) Remedy
7 14 (4.24%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.33%) Denodo
8 11 (3.33%) SAP
9 10 (3.03%) Splunk
10 9 (2.73%) HP
11 8 (2.42%) Citrix
11 8 (2.42%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.42%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.12%) Brocade
12 7 (2.12%) Dell
12 7 (2.12%) IBM
12 7 (2.12%) Sybase
13 6 (1.82%) Google
13 6 (1.82%) Salesforce