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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 263 254
Rank change year-on-year -71 -9 -8
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 231 245 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.02% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 134 197
10th Percentile £258 £247 £278
25th Percentile £325 £413 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.06%
75th Percentile £560 £585 £575
90th Percentile £619 £650 £633
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.16% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.38 £55.87 £13.41
Median hourly rate £20.79 £60.87 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -65.85% +329.89% -27.38%
75th Percentile £24.83 £69.69 £23.75
90th Percentile £26.25 £73.00 £56.05
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £60.87 £14.16
% change year-on-year -65.85% +329.89% -27.38%

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 28,213 24,003 32,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.19% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,027 14,736 21,710
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £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 1,750 779 1,598
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.47 £75.00 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 72 £475 -7.32% 15
North of England -57 55 £455 -0.27% 19
South East +3 40 £350 -18.98% 17
Midlands -18 35 £325 +51.16% 13
North West -31 33 £358 -23.42% 9
West Midlands -25 26 £306 +42.44% 9
South West -14 25 £550 - 3
Yorkshire -39 22 £500 +11.11% 7
East Midlands - 9 £419 - 4
East of England -34 6 £275 -38.89% 3
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 32 (13.85%) SharePoint
2 18 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (6.49%) Confluence
3 15 (6.49%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.03%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.03%) Mattermost
5 6 (2.60%) Apache
6 3 (1.30%) IIS
6 3 (1.30%) iPlanet
6 3 (1.30%) JBoss
6 3 (1.30%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.87%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.87%) SAS
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (12.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (7.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.30%) assyst
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.87%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 57 (24.68%) Azure
2 51 (22.08%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (11.26%) OneDrive
4 22 (9.52%) AWS
4 22 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.19%) GCP
5 12 (5.19%) SaaS
6 10 (4.33%) Datadog
6 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 10 (4.33%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.46%) GitHub
7 8 (3.46%) PaaS
8 5 (2.16%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.16%) OCI
8 5 (2.16%) Serverless
9 4 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.30%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.52%) DNS
2 18 (7.79%) Skype
3 14 (6.06%) Firewall
3 14 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.06%) VPN
4 9 (3.90%) Network Security
5 8 (3.46%) DHCP
5 8 (3.46%) Unified Communications
5 8 (3.46%) WAN
6 6 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.16%) Broadband
7 5 (2.16%) Internet
7 5 (2.16%) LAN
7 5 (2.16%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.16%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.73%) Wireless
9 3 (1.30%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.30%) SAN
9 3 (1.30%) SSH
9 3 (1.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.16%) Metadata
3 5 (2.16%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (2.16%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.30%) Power BI
6 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.87%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.87%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 23 (9.96%) JIRA
2 10 (4.33%) Git
3 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.60%) GitLab
5 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.30%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (1.30%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.30%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.87%) JUnit
6 2 (0.87%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 100 (43.29%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.17%) Finance
3 44 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.12%) Banking
5 27 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.49%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.90%) Law
9 8 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.60%) Marketing
12 5 (2.16%) Electronics
13 4 (1.73%) Military
13 4 (1.73%) Retail
14 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.30%) Legal
14 3 (1.30%) Local Government
15 2 (0.87%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (27.27%) Analyst
2 42 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 27 (11.69%) IT Support
4 19 (8.23%) Service Manager
5 17 (7.36%) Operations Analyst
6 16 (6.93%) Incident Manager
6 16 (6.93%) IT Analyst
6 16 (6.93%) Operational Support Analyst
6 16 (6.93%) Operations Support Analyst
7 15 (6.49%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (5.63%) Lead
9 12 (5.19%) Architect
9 12 (5.19%) Consultant
10 11 (4.76%) Senior
10 11 (4.76%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
12 8 (3.46%) ITIL Manager
12 8 (3.46%) SharePoint Analyst
12 8 (3.46%) SharePoint Support
13 7 (3.03%) ITIL Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.33%) REST
2 9 (3.90%) Middleware
2 9 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (3.03%) Kafka
5 4 (1.73%) LDAP
5 4 (1.73%) SAML
6 3 (1.30%) OAuth
6 3 (1.30%) OpenID
6 3 (1.30%) XML
7 2 (0.87%) .NET
7 2 (0.87%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.87%) ADO
7 2 (0.87%) RESTful
7 2 (0.87%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.87%) WireMock
7 2 (0.87%) XMPP
8 1 (0.43%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.43%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.23%) Management Information System
2 18 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.76%) CMDB
4 10 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.90%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.60%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.16%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.16%) PKI
7 5 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.73%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.30%) Tandem
10 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.43%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.68%) Windows
2 28 (12.12%) Linux
3 15 (6.49%) Unix
3 15 (6.49%) Windows 10
4 14 (6.06%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.60%) Android
6 4 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.30%) CentOS
7 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.87%) Debian
8 2 (0.87%) VMS
8 2 (0.87%) zOS
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (61.90%) ITIL
2 68 (29.44%) Change Management
3 67 (29.00%) Service Management
4 66 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 65 (28.14%) ITSM
6 60 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (22.08%) Incident Management
8 44 (19.05%) DevOps
9 38 (16.45%) Service Delivery
10 37 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (13.85%) Agile
11 32 (13.85%) Information Security
12 30 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (12.55%) Observability
14 26 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (11.26%) Project Management
15 25 (10.82%) Customer Service
16 23 (9.96%) CI/CD
17 21 (9.09%) Migration
18 20 (8.66%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 56 (24.24%) PowerShell
2 36 (15.58%) SQL
3 26 (11.26%) Python
4 11 (4.76%) Bash
4 11 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.46%) Java
6 3 (1.30%) Go
6 3 (1.30%) Groovy
7 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.43%) C#
8 1 (0.43%) CLIST
8 1 (0.43%) JCL
8 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.43%) REXX
8 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (32.03%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.51%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.75%) Degree
4 19 (8.23%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.33%) A+ Certification
7 8 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.60%) MCP
10 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.16%) MCDST
10 5 (2.16%) MCSE
10 5 (2.16%) PMP
11 4 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.30%) CCNP
12 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.87%) MCSA
14 1 (0.43%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.96%) SLA
2 7 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 3 (1.30%) GRC
4 3 (1.30%) QA
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 64 (27.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.36%) Docker
3 5 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.30%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.43%) XenApp
6 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (9.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 23 (9.96%) SCCM
2 15 (6.49%) HP SiteScope
2 15 (6.49%) SCOM
3 14 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.63%) Grafana
5 8 (3.46%) Ansible
5 8 (3.46%) Terraform
6 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.30%) CA Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.30%) CA Wily
7 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.30%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.30%) WSUS
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.43%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.43%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (39.83%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.85%) Splunk
3 27 (11.69%) Remedy
4 24 (10.39%) ServiceNow
5 22 (9.52%) Oracle
6 19 (8.23%) Cisco
7 13 (5.63%) AppDynamics
8 12 (5.19%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.33%) SAP
10 8 (3.46%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.46%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.03%) BMC
11 7 (3.03%) IBM
12 5 (2.16%) Citrix
12 5 (2.16%) iManage
12 5 (2.16%) Mitel
12 5 (2.16%) VMware
13 3 (1.30%) Datto
13 3 (1.30%) IFS
13 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto