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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 275 303
Rank change year-on-year -60 +28 -55
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 315 260 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.95% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 147 156
10th Percentile £249 £310 £328
25th Percentile £365 £371 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -4.65% -2.25%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £653 £610
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 6
10th Percentile £16.12 £20.22 £25.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.57 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% -19.48% +141.58%
75th Percentile £52.65 £47.12 £53.93
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.45 £79.25
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £23.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.22% -28.03% +141.58%

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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -45 128 £456 -8.75% 115
North of England -94 63 £475 +22.42% 39
Midlands -25 60 £469 +5.34% 28
West Midlands -16 52 £469 +16.46% 16
South East -45 38 £538 +7.50% 60
Yorkshire -33 36 £500 +28.87% 10
North West -75 26 £408 +8.80% 25
South West -44 12 £350 -33.33% 22
East of England -23 10 £400 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -15 8 - - 12
North East -45 1 £400 -38.46% 5
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 18 (5.71%) Confluence
2 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.86%) SAS
5 4 (1.27%) IIS
5 4 (1.27%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.63%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.32%) Apache
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Maple
Business Applications
1 13 (4.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) iTrent
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
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 MM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.90%) Azure
2 48 (15.24%) AWS
3 46 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.75%) Entra ID
5 24 (7.62%) GitHub
6 18 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.40%) OneDrive
8 15 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.13%) Power Platform
9 13 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.81%) Serverless
11 11 (3.49%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (3.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.97%) DNS
2 29 (9.21%) Firewall
3 27 (8.57%) DHCP
4 19 (6.03%) VPN
5 14 (4.44%) Network Security
6 13 (4.13%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.17%) Wireless
8 9 (2.86%) LAN
8 9 (2.86%) WAN
9 8 (2.54%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.54%) SAN
10 6 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.59%) NAS
12 4 (1.27%) HTTP
13 3 (0.95%) VLAN
13 3 (0.95%) VoIP
14 2 (0.63%) Internet
14 2 (0.63%) OSPF
14 2 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.13%) Power BI
3 8 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.54%) Metadata
4 7 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.22%) MySQL
4 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.22%) Pentaho
5 5 (1.59%) Db2
6 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.63%) KDB
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.63%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (13.02%) JIRA
2 17 (5.40%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.44%) GitLab
4 13 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.22%) Git
6 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.63%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) Introscope
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) MSI
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 141 (44.76%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.00%) Finance
3 50 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.30%) Banking
6 14 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.17%) Legal
10 8 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.54%) Front Office
11 7 (2.22%) Law
12 5 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (1.59%) Military
13 4 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.27%) Police
13 4 (1.27%) Retail
14 3 (0.95%) Local Government
14 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (12.70%) Support Engineer
2 34 (10.79%) Analyst
3 23 (7.30%) Architect
4 21 (6.67%) Lead
4 21 (6.67%) Senior
5 20 (6.35%) Incident Manager
6 17 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.08%) Service Manager
8 15 (4.76%) Consultant
8 15 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.44%) IT Support
9 14 (4.44%) Major Incident Manager
10 12 (3.81%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.81%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.49%) IT Engineer
11 11 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (3.17%) Administrator
12 10 (3.17%) Support Analyst
13 9 (2.86%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.86%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.62%) Terraform
2 12 (3.81%) REST
3 11 (3.49%) Middleware
4 9 (2.86%) AWS CDK
5 8 (2.54%) LDAP
5 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.90%) .NET
6 6 (1.90%) Software Packaging
6 6 (1.90%) Web Services
7 5 (1.59%) CSS
7 5 (1.59%) SOAP
7 5 (1.59%) XML
8 4 (1.27%) Ajax
8 4 (1.27%) FIDO
8 4 (1.27%) HTML
8 4 (1.27%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.27%) SAP Basis
9 3 (0.95%) PySpark
9 3 (0.95%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.30%) Onboarding
2 19 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.49%) CMDB
6 11 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.49%) PKI
7 9 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.22%) Autonomous Agent
8 7 (2.22%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.90%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.59%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.27%) Clustering
11 4 (1.27%) SCADA
12 3 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 100 (31.75%) Windows
2 42 (13.33%) Linux
3 36 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.40%) Unix
4 17 (5.40%) Windows 10
5 11 (3.49%) Android
6 10 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.90%) zOS
9 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.95%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.32%) AIX
13 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (46.67%) ITIL
2 104 (33.02%) Continuous Improvement
2 104 (33.02%) ITSM
3 91 (28.89%) Service Management
4 85 (26.98%) Incident Management
5 83 (26.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 80 (25.40%) Change Management
7 76 (24.13%) Agile
8 67 (21.27%) Root Cause Analysis
9 65 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (18.10%) DevOps
11 56 (17.78%) Service Delivery
12 47 (14.92%) CI/CD
13 40 (12.70%) Runbook
14 37 (11.75%) Decision-Making
15 33 (10.48%) Customer Service
16 32 (10.16%) Major Incident Management
17 31 (9.84%) Observability
18 29 (9.21%) Incident Response
19 28 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.29%) Python
2 43 (13.65%) PowerShell
3 38 (12.06%) SQL
4 28 (8.89%) Java
5 21 (6.67%) Bash
6 13 (4.13%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.54%) C#
8 7 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.59%) JCL
9 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.95%) VBScript
11 2 (0.63%) Bicep
11 2 (0.63%) Go
11 2 (0.63%) Magik
11 2 (0.63%) REXX
12 1 (0.32%) ABAP
12 1 (0.32%) Jython
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 104 (33.02%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.21%) Degree
4 20 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.49%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.86%) 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 (1.59%) CISSP
11 5 (1.59%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.27%) PMP
12 4 (1.27%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.56%) SLA
2 10 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.90%) COBIT
4 5 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.27%) GDPR
5 4 (1.27%) NIST
6 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.95%) GRC
6 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.63%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.32%) SEPA
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (21.27%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.30%) Docker
4 13 (4.13%) NFS
4 13 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.81%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.22%) vSphere
7 5 (1.59%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.95%) Firmware
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.63%) UAG
9 2 (0.63%) XenApp
9 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.40%) SCCM
3 16 (5.08%) Ansible
3 16 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.13%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.17%) SCOM
6 6 (1.90%) Grafana
7 5 (1.59%) Podman
7 5 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.95%) Istio
10 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.63%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.63%) WSUS
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 71 (22.54%) ServiceNow
2 68 (21.59%) Microsoft
3 34 (10.79%) VMware
4 25 (7.94%) Oracle
5 23 (7.30%) Cisco
6 17 (5.40%) Remedy
7 16 (5.08%) Broadcom
8 14 (4.44%) Splunk
9 10 (3.17%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.86%) HP
11 8 (2.54%) Denodo
12 7 (2.22%) Dell
12 7 (2.22%) SAP
13 6 (1.90%) Canon
13 6 (1.90%) Citrix
13 6 (1.90%) IBM
13 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.90%) Sybase
14 5 (1.59%) Brocade