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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 249 257
Rank change year-on-year -66 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 303 248 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.00% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.10% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 145 205
10th Percentile £263 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -6.63%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £523
90th Percentile £671 £642 £585
UK median daily rate £476 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 38
10th Percentile £18.71 £22.36 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.81 £40.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +80.40% +64.71%
75th Percentile £52.27 £47.12 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £52.00 £32.20
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £24.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +8.79% +6.67% +64.71%

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 36,560 22,594 31,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.33% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,106 14,607 20,685
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,294 1,062 2,382
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.27 £37.34
% change year-on-year +67.37% -29.66% +6.69%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -36 113 £515 +8.42% 28
North of England -68 62 £475 +25.83% 16
Midlands -23 61 £463 +3.01% 21
West Midlands -21 60 £463 +3.01% 10
Yorkshire -42 39 £500 +33.33% 8
South West -26 30 £463 -5.13% 5
South East -44 30 £393 -17.26% 31
North West -55 22 £401 -2.79% 6
East of England -39 5 £400 -11.11% 13
North East -32 1 £400 -4.99% 2
East Midlands - 1 £163 - 11
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 (5.28%) Confluence
1 16 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.63%) SAS
3 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.32%) IIS
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.99%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.66%) Apache
6 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (5.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) iTrent
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 63 (20.79%) Azure
2 46 (15.18%) Entra ID
3 38 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (11.88%) AWS
5 26 (8.58%) GitHub
6 21 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.61%) OneDrive
8 15 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (4.95%) Microsoft Copilot
9 13 (4.29%) Serverless
10 12 (3.96%) GCP
10 12 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.63%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.63%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.92%) Firewall
2 21 (6.93%) DNS
3 14 (4.62%) DHCP
3 14 (4.62%) VPN
4 11 (3.63%) Network Security
5 9 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.64%) LAN
7 7 (2.31%) WAN
8 6 (1.98%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.65%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (1.65%) MPLS
9 5 (1.65%) SAN
9 5 (1.65%) Wireless
10 4 (1.32%) NetScaler
10 4 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.99%) Internet
11 3 (0.99%) NAS
11 3 (0.99%) NGFW
11 3 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.63%) Power BI
2 10 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.64%) Metadata
3 8 (2.64%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.98%) MySQL
5 5 (1.65%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.65%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.99%) Pentaho
6 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.66%) KDB
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.66%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (19.14%) JIRA
2 18 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.95%) GitLab
4 12 (3.96%) Bitbucket
5 11 (3.63%) Git
6 4 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.33%) Introscope
7 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 118 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.41%) Finance
3 40 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.25%) Banking
6 13 (4.29%) Legal
7 12 (3.96%) Law
8 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.31%) Retail
10 6 (1.98%) Military
10 6 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.32%) Police
13 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.99%) Front Office
13 3 (0.99%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Local Government
14 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (12.54%) Service Manager
2 27 (8.91%) Analyst
3 26 (8.58%) Architect
4 22 (7.26%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.93%) Lead
6 20 (6.60%) Senior
7 19 (6.27%) IT Support
8 14 (4.62%) Incident Manager
9 13 (4.29%) Consultant
10 12 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
10 12 (3.96%) Developer
10 12 (3.96%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (3.96%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.63%) Administrator
11 11 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Network Engineer
12 9 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.64%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.64%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.62%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (2.97%) AWS CDK
2 9 (2.97%) Middleware
3 7 (2.31%) .NET
4 6 (1.98%) REST
4 6 (1.98%) SAP Basis
5 5 (1.65%) Spring
6 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.32%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.32%) CSS
6 4 (1.32%) J2EE
6 4 (1.32%) jQuery
6 4 (1.32%) Loki
6 4 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.32%) Sass
6 4 (1.32%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.32%) Web Services
7 3 (0.99%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.95%) CMDB
4 13 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.64%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.31%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.98%) Replication
10 5 (1.65%) Clustering
10 5 (1.65%) PKI
10 5 (1.65%) Smartphone
11 4 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.32%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.11%) Windows
2 46 (15.18%) Linux
3 21 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.94%) Unix
5 7 (2.31%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.31%) zOS
6 6 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.65%) Android
8 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (47.85%) ITIL
2 84 (27.72%) ITSM
3 82 (27.06%) Service Management
4 81 (26.73%) Change Management
5 72 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (23.10%) Root Cause Analysis
7 66 (21.78%) Incident Management
8 61 (20.13%) Agile
9 60 (19.80%) DevOps
10 53 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (15.84%) Service Delivery
13 46 (15.18%) CI/CD
14 33 (10.89%) Observability
15 32 (10.56%) Decision-Making
15 32 (10.56%) Incident Response
16 28 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (8.58%) Scrum
18 25 (8.25%) Customer Service
19 23 (7.59%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.87%) PowerShell
2 34 (11.22%) SQL
3 25 (8.25%) Python
4 18 (5.94%) Bash
5 17 (5.61%) Java
6 11 (3.63%) C#
7 8 (2.64%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.65%) Go
8 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.65%) JCL
9 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.66%) Perl
10 2 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) REXX
10 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Jython
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) SOQL
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (38.28%) Security Cleared
2 94 (31.02%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.23%) DV Cleared
4 21 (6.93%) Degree
5 11 (3.63%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.98%) CCNA
9 6 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.65%) MCSE
11 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.99%) CCNP
12 3 (0.99%) PMP
12 3 (0.99%) RHCA
13 2 (0.66%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.18%) SLA
2 10 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.64%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.31%) GDPR
5 6 (1.98%) NIST
6 5 (1.65%) GRC
7 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.66%) QA
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (15.84%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.26%) Docker
3 16 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.97%) NFS
5 8 (2.64%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.65%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.99%) Firmware
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.66%) XenApp
9 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (6.93%) Terraform
2 18 (5.94%) SCCM
3 17 (5.61%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.95%) Ansible
4 15 (4.95%) Grafana
5 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.30%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.98%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.32%) Istio
9 4 (1.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.99%) Rancher
11 2 (0.66%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.66%) Avamar
11 2 (0.66%) CASB
11 2 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (21.45%) ServiceNow
2 55 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.58%) Oracle
4 23 (7.59%) Remedy
5 19 (6.27%) VMware
6 18 (5.94%) Cisco
7 14 (4.62%) Splunk
8 12 (3.96%) SAP
9 9 (2.97%) Broadcom
9 9 (2.97%) Dell
10 8 (2.64%) Citrix
10 8 (2.64%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.31%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.31%) BMC
11 7 (2.31%) Brocade
11 7 (2.31%) Denodo
11 7 (2.31%) IBM
12 6 (1.98%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.65%) HP
13 5 (1.65%) SolarWinds