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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 257 254
Rank change year-on-year -58 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 245 246 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.94% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.04% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 136 204
10th Percentile £218 £248 £272
25th Percentile £325 £412 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £474 £457
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +3.56% -3.69%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £673 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £465 £472 £465
% change year-on-year -1.54% +1.57% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.38 £55.87 -
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +300.74% -27.38%
75th Percentile £24.83 £68.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £26.25 £70.00 £29.45
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £14.16
% change year-on-year -63.36% +300.74% -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 29,282 23,546 33,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.63% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,474 22,202
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £639 £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 1,833 746 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.01 £61.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -57 77 £488 -2.50% 17
North of England -53 52 £455 +1.11% 17
South East -12 42 £350 -18.98% 23
Midlands -29 40 £356 +65.70% 24
South West -11 32 £575 +4.55% 14
West Midlands -27 31 £325 +51.16% 16
North West -37 28 £325 -31.22% 6
Yorkshire -42 24 £550 +22.22% 9
East Midlands - 9 £413 - 8
East of England -45 4 £275 -39.99% 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 34 (13.88%) SharePoint
2 19 (7.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (6.12%) Confluence
3 15 (6.12%) Skype for Business
4 7 (2.86%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.86%) Mattermost
5 6 (2.45%) SAS
6 4 (1.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.41%) CICS
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) IIS
8 1 (0.41%) iPlanet
8 1 (0.41%) JBoss
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (8.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.22%) assyst
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.63%) Azure
1 53 (21.63%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (11.43%) Entra ID
2 28 (11.43%) OneDrive
3 18 (7.35%) AWS
4 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Copilot
5 12 (4.90%) GCP
6 10 (4.08%) Datadog
6 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.08%) SaaS
7 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.27%) GitHub
9 6 (2.45%) PaaS
10 5 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.04%) Serverless
11 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.22%) IaaS
12 3 (1.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.98%) DNS
2 18 (7.35%) Skype
3 14 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.31%) Firewall
4 13 (5.31%) VPN
5 9 (3.67%) DHCP
6 8 (3.27%) Network Security
6 8 (3.27%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.45%) Internet
7 6 (2.45%) NetScaler
8 5 (2.04%) Broadband
8 5 (2.04%) WAN
8 5 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.63%) LAN
10 3 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (1.22%) SAN
10 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.22%) SSH
10 3 (1.22%) VoIP
10 3 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.67%) Metadata
2 9 (3.67%) Metadata Repository
3 8 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.22%) Power BI
6 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.41%) GIS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.80%) JIRA
2 10 (4.08%) Git
3 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.04%) GitLab
5 3 (1.22%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.22%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.82%) JUnit
6 2 (0.82%) Mockito
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.41%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.94%) Finance
3 43 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.80%) Banking
4 24 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.67%) Law
9 8 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.63%) Marketing
11 4 (1.63%) Military
11 4 (1.63%) Retail
12 3 (1.22%) Electronics
12 3 (1.22%) Local Government
13 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (26.53%) Analyst
2 41 (16.73%) Support Analyst
3 31 (12.65%) Service Manager
4 26 (10.61%) IT Support
5 19 (7.76%) Architect
6 17 (6.94%) Operations Analyst
7 16 (6.53%) Operational Support Analyst
7 16 (6.53%) Operations Support Analyst
8 15 (6.12%) IT Analyst
8 15 (6.12%) Lead
9 14 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
10 13 (5.31%) Consultant
10 13 (5.31%) Senior
10 13 (5.31%) Service Analyst
11 10 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
12 9 (3.67%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.67%) Incident Manager
13 8 (3.27%) Developer
13 8 (3.27%) SharePoint Analyst
13 8 (3.27%) SharePoint Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Graph
1 10 (4.08%) REST
2 8 (3.27%) Middleware
3 6 (2.45%) Kafka
4 5 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.22%) .NET
5 3 (1.22%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.82%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.82%) ADO
6 2 (0.82%) LDAP
6 2 (0.82%) RESTful
6 2 (0.82%) SAML
6 2 (0.82%) WireMock
6 2 (0.82%) XMPP
7 1 (0.41%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.41%) ISPF
7 1 (0.41%) OAuth
7 1 (0.41%) OpenID
7 1 (0.41%) React
7 1 (0.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.71%) CMDB
4 10 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.67%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.04%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.04%) PKI
8 5 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.22%) Tandem
10 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.63%) Windows
2 26 (10.61%) Linux
3 15 (6.12%) Windows 10
4 12 (4.90%) Unix
5 11 (4.49%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.04%) Android
7 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.22%) CentOS
8 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.82%) Debian
9 2 (0.82%) VMS
9 2 (0.82%) zOS
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (61.63%) ITIL
2 78 (31.84%) Service Management
3 77 (31.43%) ITSM
4 74 (30.20%) Change Management
5 67 (27.35%) Root Cause Analysis
6 64 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (23.67%) Incident Management
8 45 (18.37%) Service Delivery
9 39 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (15.51%) DevOps
11 33 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (13.06%) Agile
13 31 (12.65%) Observability
14 30 (12.24%) Information Security
15 25 (10.20%) Customer Service
16 24 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (9.39%) Project Management
18 22 (8.98%) CI/CD
19 20 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
19 20 (8.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.27%) PowerShell
2 36 (14.69%) SQL
3 22 (8.98%) Python
4 10 (4.08%) Bash
4 10 (4.08%) Java
5 8 (3.27%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.22%) Go
6 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.41%) C#
7 1 (0.41%) CLIST
7 1 (0.41%) Groovy
7 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.41%) JCL
7 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.41%) REXX
7 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (33.47%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (15.92%) Degree
4 20 (8.16%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.67%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.04%) MCDST
9 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.63%) MCSE
10 4 (1.63%) PMP
11 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.82%) CCNP
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.80%) SLA
2 5 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 3 (1.22%) GRC
4 3 (1.22%) QA
5 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (26.12%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.12%) Docker
3 5 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 1 (0.41%) XenApp
5 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 24 (9.80%) SCCM
2 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.53%) Kubernetes
4 15 (6.12%) HP SiteScope
4 15 (6.12%) SCOM
5 12 (4.90%) Grafana
6 8 (3.27%) Ansible
6 8 (3.27%) Terraform
7 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.22%) WSUS
10 2 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.41%) OMEGAMON
11 1 (0.41%) Puppet
11 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (37.55%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.06%) ServiceNow
3 29 (11.84%) Remedy
3 29 (11.84%) Splunk
4 18 (7.35%) Cisco
4 18 (7.35%) Oracle
5 11 (4.49%) AppDynamics
6 8 (3.27%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.86%) BMC
8 6 (2.45%) Citrix
8 6 (2.45%) SAP
9 5 (2.04%) IBM
9 5 (2.04%) iManage
9 5 (2.04%) Mitel
9 5 (2.04%) VMware
10 3 (1.22%) Datto
10 3 (1.22%) Dell
10 3 (1.22%) IFS