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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 242 239
Rank change year-on-year -77 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 286 251 362
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.13% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 144 207
10th Percentile £306 £266 £300
25th Percentile £401 £388 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -7.01%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £530
90th Percentile £671 £649 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 53
10th Percentile - £23.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £14.16
Median hourly rate £20.79 £45.00 £14.49
Median % change year-on-year -53.80% +210.67% -15.98%
75th Percentile £26.11 £68.13 £25.00
90th Percentile £36.83 £70.00 £37.60
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £45.00 £14.49
% change year-on-year -53.80% +210.67% -15.98%

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 33,181 22,150 32,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 90.86% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,274 14,593 21,355
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,050 865 2,166
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.99 £12.89
25th Percentile £19.48 £19.00 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.95 £70.44
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -46 114 £500 - 24
Midlands -37 51 £450 -14.12% 21
North of England -74 49 £465 +24.83% 20
West Midlands -30 46 £463 -11.74% 17
South West -13 37 £575 +27.78% 7
South East -42 34 £370 -17.78% 28
Yorkshire -34 32 £500 +33.33% 9
North West -59 16 £401 +23.38% 11
East Midlands - 5 £413 - 4
East of England -52 4 £338 -25.00% 6
North East -14 1 £400 -4.99%
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 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.94%) Confluence
3 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (3.50%) SAS
5 5 (1.75%) Apache
6 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.35%) CICS
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.35%) IIS
9 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) assyst
5 1 (0.35%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 61 (21.33%) Azure
2 38 (13.29%) Entra ID
3 35 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (10.84%) AWS
5 22 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.59%) GCP
6 16 (5.59%) GitHub
7 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (4.90%) OneDrive
9 11 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.50%) Datadog
11 7 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.45%) IaaS
11 7 (2.45%) Serverless
12 6 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.10%) PaaS
13 5 (1.75%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.75%) Snowflake
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.79%) Firewall
2 15 (5.24%) Network Security
3 12 (4.20%) DNS
4 11 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.85%) VPN
5 6 (2.10%) Broadband
5 6 (2.10%) LAN
5 6 (2.10%) NetScaler
5 6 (2.10%) WAN
5 6 (2.10%) Wireless
6 5 (1.75%) MPLS
6 5 (1.75%) SAN
7 4 (1.40%) DHCP
7 4 (1.40%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.05%) Internet
8 3 (1.05%) NAS
8 3 (1.05%) Skype
8 3 (1.05%) SSL
8 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.15%) Metadata
2 9 (3.15%) Metadata Repository
3 8 (2.80%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.10%) MySQL
4 6 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.75%) Power BI
5 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.40%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 50 (17.48%) JIRA
2 14 (4.90%) Git
3 10 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.80%) GitLab
5 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.40%) Maven
6 3 (1.05%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.05%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) Mockito
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) Introscope
8 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 81 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.83%) Finance
3 37 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.14%) Banking
4 29 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.50%) Law
5 10 (3.50%) Legal
6 9 (3.15%) Retail
7 7 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.75%) Military
8 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.40%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.40%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.35%) International Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (14.69%) Service Manager
2 33 (11.54%) Analyst
3 27 (9.44%) Architect
4 23 (8.04%) IT Support
5 20 (6.99%) Senior
6 19 (6.64%) Lead
7 17 (5.94%) Support Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) Consultant
9 14 (4.90%) IT Engineer
10 13 (4.55%) Developer
10 13 (4.55%) Support Analyst
11 12 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Service Analyst
13 10 (3.50%) Incident Manager
14 9 (3.15%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.15%) Service Desk Analyst
14 9 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.24%) REST
2 12 (4.20%) Microsoft Graph
3 10 (3.50%) Middleware
4 6 (2.10%) .NET
4 6 (2.10%) Kafka
5 5 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.75%) Spring
6 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.40%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.40%) CSS
6 4 (1.40%) J2EE
6 4 (1.40%) jQuery
6 4 (1.40%) SAP Basis
6 4 (1.40%) Sass
6 4 (1.40%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.40%) Web Services
7 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.05%) Loki
7 3 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.94%) CMDB
2 14 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.10%) Replication
9 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) PKI
10 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.70%) Clustering
12 2 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (20.28%) Windows
2 40 (13.99%) Linux
3 17 (5.94%) Unix
4 16 (5.59%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.75%) zOS
7 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.05%) CentOS
8 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.70%) Android
9 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.70%) VMS
10 1 (0.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (51.05%) ITIL
2 97 (33.92%) Service Management
3 96 (33.57%) Change Management
4 80 (27.97%) ITSM
4 80 (27.97%) Root Cause Analysis
5 71 (24.83%) Incident Management
6 60 (20.98%) DevOps
7 55 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (17.13%) Service Delivery
10 48 (16.78%) Agile
11 42 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (13.29%) Observability
13 37 (12.94%) CI/CD
14 26 (9.09%) Incident Response
15 23 (8.04%) Data Modelling
16 21 (7.34%) Data Protection
16 21 (7.34%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (6.64%) Decision-Making
17 19 (6.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.13%) PowerShell
2 40 (13.99%) SQL
3 27 (9.44%) Python
4 16 (5.59%) Java
5 15 (5.24%) Bash
6 10 (3.50%) C#
7 8 (2.80%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.45%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.10%) Go
10 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.05%) JCL
12 2 (0.70%) Perl
12 2 (0.70%) PHP
12 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) CLIST
13 1 (0.35%) Jython
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.35%) REXX
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 107 (37.41%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.47%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.44%) DV Cleared
4 23 (8.04%) Degree
5 8 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.75%) A+ Certification
8 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.75%) CCNA
8 5 (1.75%) CCNP
8 5 (1.75%) MCSE
9 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.05%) PMP
10 3 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.29%) SLA
2 9 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.45%) GDPR
4 6 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.75%) GRC
6 4 (1.40%) NIST
7 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.70%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.70%) QA
9 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.29%) Docker
3 7 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.05%) NFS
5 3 (1.05%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
7 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.94%) Grafana
3 16 (5.59%) Terraform
4 12 (4.20%) Ansible
5 11 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.50%) SCCM
7 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.10%) Cisco Prime
9 4 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.05%) Istio
10 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.05%) WSUS
11 2 (0.70%) Avamar
11 2 (0.70%) CASB
11 2 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.70%) Rancher
11 2 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 56 (19.58%) ServiceNow
2 55 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.14%) Oracle
4 18 (6.29%) Remedy
5 17 (5.94%) Splunk
6 14 (4.90%) Cisco
7 12 (4.20%) VMware
8 10 (3.50%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.50%) Atlassian
9 9 (3.15%) BMC
9 9 (3.15%) SAP
10 8 (2.80%) Citrix
10 8 (2.80%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.80%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.75%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.40%) Brocade
12 4 (1.40%) Dell
12 4 (1.40%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.40%) Google
12 4 (1.40%) Talend