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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 269 258
Rank change year-on-year -58 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 317 250 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.94% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.04% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 146 208
10th Percentile £263 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -6.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £530
90th Percentile £671 £641 £608
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 28
10th Percentile £18.71 £20.83 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £14.17
Median hourly rate £22.48 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.05% +50.00% +83.02%
75th Percentile £52.27 £47.12 £25.38
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.50 £45.72
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +6.10% -4.00% +83.02%

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 37,664 24,142 31,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.95% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 15,518 20,682
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,366 1,213 2,290
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.88 £16.08
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -3.62%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -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 6 July 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 July 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 July 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 -49 120 £508 +6.84% 38
North of England -79 65 £500 +33.33% 28
Midlands -25 64 £463 +2.10% 15
West Midlands -24 61 £469 +4.40% 8
Yorkshire -38 39 £500 +32.45% 9
South East -38 31 £445 -11.00% 27
South West -14 28 £400 -9.86% 8
North West -62 25 £401 +23.38% 17
East of England -37 6 £400 -11.11% 9
East Midlands -17 3 £163 -75.00% 7
North East -36 1 £400 -4.99% 2
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 (5.68%) Confluence
2 12 (3.79%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.47%) SAS
4 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.26%) IIS
5 4 (1.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.95%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.32%) CMS
8 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.32%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 18 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 18 (5.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) iTrent
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (19.56%) Azure
2 49 (15.46%) Entra ID
3 39 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (11.67%) AWS
5 21 (6.62%) GitHub
6 19 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (4.73%) OneDrive
9 13 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (3.79%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.79%) Serverless
11 11 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
11 11 (3.47%) IaaS
11 11 (3.47%) Power Platform
11 11 (3.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.20%) DNS
1 26 (8.20%) Firewall
2 17 (5.36%) DHCP
3 14 (4.42%) VPN
4 11 (3.47%) Network Security
5 9 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.52%) SAN
7 7 (2.21%) Kerberos
7 7 (2.21%) LAN
8 6 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (1.89%) NAS
8 6 (1.89%) WAN
9 5 (1.58%) Wireless
10 4 (1.26%) MPLS
11 3 (0.95%) Internet
11 3 (0.95%) NGFW
11 3 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.95%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.95%) VLAN
12 2 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.47%) Power BI
2 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.52%) Metadata
4 8 (2.52%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.89%) MySQL
6 5 (1.58%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (1.58%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.26%) Db2
8 3 (0.95%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.95%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.63%) KDB
9 2 (0.63%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.63%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 59 (18.61%) JIRA
2 16 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.10%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.79%) GitLab
5 9 (2.84%) Git
6 4 (1.26%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) Introscope
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 125 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.92%) Finance
3 42 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.89%) Banking
6 13 (4.10%) Legal
7 9 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.84%) Law
8 8 (2.52%) Retail
9 7 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Military
11 5 (1.58%) Front Office
11 5 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.26%) Police
13 3 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.95%) Local Government
14 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (11.36%) Service Manager
2 30 (9.46%) Support Engineer
3 29 (9.15%) Analyst
4 23 (7.26%) Architect
5 22 (6.94%) Lead
6 20 (6.31%) Incident Manager
6 20 (6.31%) Senior
7 19 (5.99%) IT Support
8 16 (5.05%) Consultant
9 14 (4.42%) Major Incident Manager
10 12 (3.79%) Developer
10 12 (3.79%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.47%) Administrator
11 11 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.84%) Help Desk Support
12 9 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.84%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.42%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (2.84%) .NET
2 9 (2.84%) AWS CDK
2 9 (2.84%) Middleware
3 7 (2.21%) LDAP
4 6 (1.89%) REST
4 6 (1.89%) SAP Basis
5 5 (1.58%) Spring
6 4 (1.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.26%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.26%) CSS
6 4 (1.26%) FIDO
6 4 (1.26%) J2EE
6 4 (1.26%) jQuery
6 4 (1.26%) Loki
6 4 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.26%) Sass
6 4 (1.26%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.68%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.36%) CMDB
4 12 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.15%) PKI
7 9 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.52%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.21%) Mainframe
9 7 (2.21%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.89%) Replication
10 6 (1.89%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.58%) Clustering
12 4 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.95%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 76 (23.97%) Windows
2 44 (13.88%) Linux
3 21 (6.62%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.99%) Unix
5 7 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.21%) zOS
6 6 (1.89%) Android
6 6 (1.89%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.32%) AIX
10 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (48.58%) ITIL
2 97 (30.60%) ITSM
3 88 (27.76%) Service Management
4 81 (25.55%) Change Management
5 79 (24.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (22.40%) Incident Management
7 66 (20.82%) Root Cause Analysis
8 64 (20.19%) Agile
8 64 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (16.40%) DevOps
11 51 (16.09%) Service Delivery
12 39 (12.30%) CI/CD
13 37 (11.67%) Decision-Making
14 32 (10.09%) Incident Response
15 28 (8.83%) Customer Service
16 27 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (8.20%) Scrum
18 24 (7.57%) Asset Management
18 24 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.36%) SQL
2 34 (10.73%) PowerShell
3 24 (7.57%) Python
4 15 (4.73%) Java
5 14 (4.42%) Bash
6 13 (4.10%) C#
7 8 (2.52%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.58%) JCL
9 4 (1.26%) Go
9 4 (1.26%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.63%) Perl
11 2 (0.63%) PHP
11 2 (0.63%) REXX
11 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) Jython
12 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 112 (35.33%) Security Cleared
2 92 (29.02%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.41%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.20%) Degree
5 14 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.47%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.89%) CCNA
9 6 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.58%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.26%) MCSE
11 4 (1.26%) PMP
11 4 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.95%) CISSP
12 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.95%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.56%) SLA
2 11 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.52%) GDPR
3 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.89%) NIST
6 5 (1.58%) GRC
7 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.63%) QA
9 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.05%) Docker
4 12 (3.79%) NFS
5 8 (2.52%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.58%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.95%) Firmware
10 2 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.63%) XenApp
10 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.32%) UAG
Systems Management
1 20 (6.31%) Terraform
2 19 (5.99%) SCCM
3 13 (4.10%) Ansible
4 11 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.52%) Grafana
6 7 (2.21%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.58%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.26%) Istio
9 4 (1.26%) Podman
9 4 (1.26%) SCOM
10 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.95%) Rancher
10 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.63%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.63%) CASB
11 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 77 (24.29%) ServiceNow
2 60 (18.93%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.89%) Remedy
4 24 (7.57%) VMware
5 23 (7.26%) Oracle
6 20 (6.31%) Cisco
7 12 (3.79%) SAP
8 11 (3.47%) Broadcom
9 10 (3.15%) Splunk
10 8 (2.52%) Citrix
11 7 (2.21%) BMC
11 7 (2.21%) Brocade
11 7 (2.21%) Dell
11 7 (2.21%) Denodo
11 7 (2.21%) IBM
12 6 (1.89%) Canon
12 6 (1.89%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.89%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.89%) Sybase
13 5 (1.58%) Salesforce