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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 264 254
Rank change year-on-year -64 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 221 235 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.88% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.99% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 129 199
10th Percentile £258 £240 £274
25th Percentile £325 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% -2.11%
75th Percentile £559 £585 £578
90th Percentile £653 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £461 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -2.89% +2.16% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £48.49 £13.35
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% -28.75%
75th Percentile £24.83 £69.06 £20.95
90th Percentile £26.25 £79.00 £56.03
UK median hourly rate £20.79 £60.87 £14.16
% change year-on-year -65.85% +329.89% -28.75%

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 27,375 23,793 32,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.27% 89.07% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,424 14,594 21,607
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,725 761 1,484
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.86 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -45 70 £475 -5.00% 18
North of England -48 51 £455 -0.27% 14
South East 0 37 £413 -5.93% 19
Midlands -27 32 £325 +51.16% 11
North West -38 31 £342 -26.95% 5
South West -18 24 £575 +4.55% 2
West Midlands -26 23 £306 +42.44% 7
Yorkshire -30 19 £465 +3.33% 7
East Midlands - 9 £419 - 4
East of England -29 7 £275 -38.89% 4
North East -7 1 £650 - 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 28 (12.67%) SharePoint
2 18 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (6.79%) Confluence
3 15 (6.79%) Skype for Business
4 7 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.17%) Mattermost
5 6 (2.71%) Apache
6 3 (1.36%) IIS
6 3 (1.36%) iPlanet
6 3 (1.36%) JBoss
6 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.90%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.90%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) CICS
8 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (13.57%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.36%) assyst
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.90%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.45%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.43%) Azure
2 46 (20.81%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (10.41%) AWS
4 22 (9.95%) OneDrive
5 17 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.43%) GCP
6 12 (5.43%) SaaS
7 10 (4.52%) Datadog
8 9 (4.07%) GitHub
8 9 (4.07%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.62%) PaaS
10 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.71%) Serverless
11 5 (2.26%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.26%) OCI
12 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.95%) DNS
2 18 (8.14%) Skype
3 14 (6.33%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.88%) Firewall
4 13 (5.88%) VPN
5 8 (3.62%) DHCP
5 8 (3.62%) Unified Communications
6 7 (3.17%) Network Security
6 7 (3.17%) WAN
7 6 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.26%) Broadband
8 5 (2.26%) Internet
8 5 (2.26%) NetScaler
9 4 (1.81%) LAN
9 4 (1.81%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.81%) Wireless
10 3 (1.36%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.36%) SAN
10 3 (1.36%) SSH
10 3 (1.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.26%) Metadata
3 5 (2.26%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (2.26%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.90%) Power BI
6 2 (0.90%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.90%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.45%) Flink
7 1 (0.45%) Looker
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (9.95%) JIRA
2 10 (4.52%) Git
3 9 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.71%) GitLab
5 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (1.36%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.36%) Liquibase
5 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.90%) JUnit
6 2 (0.90%) Mockito
7 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 100 (45.25%) Social Skills
2 69 (31.22%) Finance
3 43 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.12%) Banking
5 26 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.79%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.62%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.17%) Law
10 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.71%) Marketing
12 5 (2.26%) Electronics
13 4 (1.81%) Military
13 4 (1.81%) Retail
14 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.36%) Local Government
15 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.90%) Legal
15 2 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (27.60%) Analyst
2 42 (19.00%) Support Analyst
3 27 (12.22%) IT Support
4 17 (7.69%) Incident Manager
4 17 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 17 (7.69%) Service Manager
5 16 (7.24%) IT Analyst
5 16 (7.24%) Operational Support Analyst
5 16 (7.24%) Operations Support Analyst
6 15 (6.79%) IT Support Analyst
7 12 (5.43%) Consultant
7 12 (5.43%) Lead
7 12 (5.43%) Senior
8 11 (4.98%) Architect
9 10 (4.52%) Service Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) ITIL Manager
10 8 (3.62%) Service Desk Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) SharePoint Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) SharePoint Support
11 7 (3.17%) ITIL Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.52%) REST
2 9 (4.07%) Middleware
2 9 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.17%) Kafka
4 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.81%) LDAP
5 4 (1.81%) SAML
6 3 (1.36%) OAuth
6 3 (1.36%) OpenID
6 3 (1.36%) XML
7 2 (0.90%) .NET
7 2 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.90%) ADO
7 2 (0.90%) RESTful
7 2 (0.90%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (0.90%) WireMock
7 2 (0.90%) XMPP
8 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.45%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.60%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.14%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.52%) CMDB
4 9 (4.07%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.71%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.26%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.26%) PKI
7 5 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.36%) Tandem
10 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (25.34%) Windows
2 28 (12.67%) Linux
3 15 (6.79%) Unix
4 14 (6.33%) Windows 10
4 14 (6.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.71%) Android
6 4 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.36%) CentOS
7 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.90%) Debian
8 2 (0.90%) VMS
8 2 (0.90%) zOS
9 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (62.44%) ITIL
2 68 (30.77%) Change Management
3 63 (28.51%) Service Management
4 61 (27.60%) ITSM
5 59 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (26.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 48 (21.72%) Incident Management
7 45 (20.36%) DevOps
8 35 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (14.93%) Service Delivery
10 32 (14.48%) Agile
10 32 (14.48%) Information Security
11 27 (12.22%) Project Management
12 26 (11.76%) Observability
13 25 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (10.86%) Customer Service
15 23 (10.41%) CI/CD
16 21 (9.50%) Migration
17 20 (9.05%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.98%) PowerShell
2 37 (16.74%) SQL
3 27 (12.22%) Python
4 12 (5.43%) Bash
5 11 (4.98%) Shell Script
6 8 (3.62%) Java
7 4 (1.81%) Go
8 3 (1.36%) Groovy
9 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) CLIST
10 1 (0.45%) JCL
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) PromQL
10 1 (0.45%) REXX
10 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 41 (18.55%) Degree
4 18 (8.14%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.52%) A+ Certification
7 8 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.71%) MCP
10 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.26%) MCDST
10 5 (2.26%) MCSE
10 5 (2.26%) PMP
11 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.36%) CCNP
12 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.90%) MCSA
14 1 (0.45%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.86%) SLA
2 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) NIST
4 3 (1.36%) QA
5 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) GRC
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (28.05%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.69%) Docker
3 5 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.45%) XenApp
6 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (10.41%) SCCM
2 22 (9.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (6.79%) HP SiteScope
3 15 (6.79%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.79%) SCOM
4 14 (6.33%) Grafana
5 8 (3.62%) Ansible
5 8 (3.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.62%) Terraform
6 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.36%) CA Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.36%) CA Wily
6 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.36%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.36%) WSUS
7 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.45%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 86 (38.91%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.93%) Splunk
3 26 (11.76%) Remedy
4 22 (9.95%) Oracle
5 21 (9.50%) ServiceNow
6 19 (8.60%) Cisco
7 13 (5.88%) AppDynamics
8 12 (5.43%) Dynatrace
9 10 (4.52%) SAP
10 8 (3.62%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.62%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.17%) IBM
12 5 (2.26%) Citrix
12 5 (2.26%) iManage
12 5 (2.26%) Mitel
12 5 (2.26%) VMware
13 4 (1.81%) BMC
14 3 (1.36%) Broadcom
14 3 (1.36%) Dell
14 3 (1.36%) IFS