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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 255 244
Rank change year-on-year -61 -11 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 253 248 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.96% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.06% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 139 199
10th Percentile £263 £249 £300
25th Percentile £353 £413 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +1.51% -7.01%
75th Percentile £584 £585 £575
90th Percentile £652 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £496 £467 £475
% change year-on-year +6.32% -1.79% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 59
10th Percentile £15.50 £35.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.31 £55.87 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -64.75% +300.74% -27.38%
75th Percentile £21.00 £68.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £26.11 £70.00 £32.24
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £14.16
% change year-on-year -64.75% +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 30,350 23,294 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.25% 90.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,414 14,536 22,024
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £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 1,891 752 2,034
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.48 £72.68
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

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 22 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
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 22 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 -53 83 £500 - 20
North of England -63 49 £470 +4.44% 14
Midlands -18 45 £388 +16.02% 20
South East -12 40 £350 -21.35% 26
West Midlands -35 38 £363 +8.53% 13
South West -19 33 £575 +4.55% 13
Yorkshire -41 26 £550 +22.22% 8
North West -44 23 £342 -24.11% 3
East Midlands - 7 £413 - 7
East of England -46 4 £275 -38.89% 9
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 30 (11.86%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.93%) Confluence
4 9 (3.56%) SAS
4 9 (3.56%) Skype for Business
5 5 (1.98%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (1.58%) Mattermost
7 3 (1.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.79%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.40%) CICS
9 1 (0.40%) CMS
9 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 21 (8.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.40%) assyst
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 53 (20.95%) Azure
2 50 (19.76%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.46%) Entra ID
4 23 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 22 (8.70%) AWS
6 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Copilot
7 12 (4.74%) GCP
8 10 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.95%) Datadog
8 10 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.95%) SaaS
9 9 (3.56%) GitHub
10 6 (2.37%) PaaS
11 5 (1.98%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.98%) Serverless
12 4 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.19%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.19%) IaaS
13 3 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.30%) DNS
2 15 (5.93%) Firewall
3 14 (5.53%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.53%) VPN
4 12 (4.74%) Skype
5 9 (3.56%) DHCP
5 9 (3.56%) Network Security
6 8 (3.16%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.37%) Internet
7 6 (2.37%) NetScaler
7 6 (2.37%) WAN
8 5 (1.98%) Broadband
8 5 (1.98%) LAN
8 5 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.58%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.19%) MPLS
10 3 (1.19%) SSH
10 3 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.95%) Metadata
2 10 (3.95%) Metadata Repository
3 8 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.37%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (1.19%) Power BI
7 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.79%) MySQL
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.40%) Flink
8 1 (0.40%) GIS
8 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (11.07%) JIRA
2 9 (3.56%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) GitLab
3 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.19%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.19%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.79%) JUnit
5 2 (0.79%) Maven
5 2 (0.79%) Mockito
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 91 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.72%) Finance
3 40 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.49%) Banking
6 13 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.95%) Law
8 9 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.37%) Legal
10 6 (2.37%) Retail
11 5 (1.98%) Military
12 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.19%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.19%) Local Government
14 2 (0.79%) Marketing
14 2 (0.79%) Publishing
15 1 (0.40%) Electronics
15 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (20.16%) Analyst
2 36 (14.23%) Service Manager
3 31 (12.25%) Support Analyst
4 27 (10.67%) IT Support
5 26 (10.28%) Architect
6 16 (6.32%) Lead
7 13 (5.14%) IT Analyst
7 13 (5.14%) Senior
8 12 (4.74%) Consultant
8 12 (4.74%) IT Support Analyst
9 11 (4.35%) Incident Manager
10 10 (3.95%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.95%) Developer
10 10 (3.95%) Operational Support Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) Operations Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) Operations Support Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.16%) Service Desk Analyst
12 7 (2.77%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.74%) REST
2 11 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (3.16%) Middleware
4 6 (2.37%) Kafka
5 5 (1.98%) .NET
5 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.19%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.19%) Web Services
7 2 (0.79%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.79%) ADO
7 2 (0.79%) CSS
7 2 (0.79%) J2EE
7 2 (0.79%) jQuery
7 2 (0.79%) RESTful
7 2 (0.79%) Sass
7 2 (0.79%) Spring
7 2 (0.79%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.79%) WireMock
7 2 (0.79%) XML
7 2 (0.79%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (5.53%) CMDB
3 12 (4.74%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.56%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.37%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.98%) PKI
8 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.19%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.19%) Tandem
10 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.16%) Windows
2 24 (9.49%) Linux
3 15 (5.93%) Windows 10
4 13 (5.14%) Unix
5 9 (3.56%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.58%) Android
6 4 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.19%) CentOS
7 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.79%) Debian
8 2 (0.79%) VMS
8 2 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (57.31%) ITIL
2 82 (32.41%) Service Management
3 79 (31.23%) Change Management
4 77 (30.43%) ITSM
5 69 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 61 (24.11%) Incident Management
7 58 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (18.97%) Service Delivery
9 38 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (14.62%) DevOps
11 36 (14.23%) Agile
12 33 (13.04%) Observability
13 25 (9.88%) Incident Response
14 24 (9.49%) Customer Service
15 22 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (8.30%) CI/CD
17 20 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (7.91%) Data Modelling
18 19 (7.51%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.95%) PowerShell
2 32 (12.65%) SQL
3 22 (8.70%) Python
4 12 (4.74%) Java
5 11 (4.35%) Bash
6 7 (2.77%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.58%) Go
7 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.79%) C#
10 1 (0.40%) CLIST
10 1 (0.40%) JCL
10 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.40%) REXX
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (38.34%) Security Cleared
2 74 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.44%) Degree
4 24 (9.49%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.53%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.77%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.98%) MCDST
9 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.58%) MCSE
10 4 (1.58%) PMP
11 2 (0.79%) CCNP
11 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CCNA
12 1 (0.40%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.67%) SLA
2 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.58%) GDPR
3 4 (1.58%) GRC
4 3 (1.19%) QA
5 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.79%) NIST
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 55 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.53%) Docker
3 5 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.40%) XenApp
5 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (9.09%) SCCM
2 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.72%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.14%) Grafana
5 9 (3.56%) HP SiteScope
5 9 (3.56%) SCOM
6 8 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.16%) Terraform
7 7 (2.77%) Ansible
8 4 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.19%) WSUS
10 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
10 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 79 (31.23%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.00%) ServiceNow
3 25 (9.88%) Remedy
4 22 (8.70%) Splunk
5 20 (7.91%) Oracle
6 15 (5.93%) Cisco
7 10 (3.95%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.16%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.16%) BMC
9 7 (2.77%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.77%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.37%) Citrix
11 5 (1.98%) iManage
11 5 (1.98%) Mitel
12 4 (1.58%) IBM
12 4 (1.58%) SAP
12 4 (1.58%) VMware
13 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.19%) Talend