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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 268 294
Rank change year-on-year -57 +26 -35
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 328 261 258
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.04% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 153 169
10th Percentile £263 £308 £335
25th Percentile £399 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £650 £628
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 7
10th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £20.97
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -12.73% +101.32%
75th Percentile £40.33 £47.12 £49.37
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.20 £75.09
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £22.42 £27.50
% change year-on-year +13.61% -18.49% +101.32%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -39 142 £500 +5.26% 106
Midlands -26 62 £463 -0.32% 30
North of England -98 58 £475 +22.42% 41
West Midlands -29 55 £463 +3.01% 24
Yorkshire -42 34 £500 +28.87% 9
South East -57 34 £538 +7.50% 45
North West -65 23 £408 +16.57% 27
South West -33 18 £400 -23.81% 22
East of England -21 9 £400 -20.00% 11
East Midlands -8 7 - - 6
North East -42 1 £400 -38.46% 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 20 (6.10%) Confluence
2 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.44%) SAS
5 4 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.91%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.61%) Apache
7 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.61%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (7.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Maple
Business Applications
1 16 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) iTrent
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle BRM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.56%) Azure
2 46 (14.02%) AWS
3 44 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (12.80%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.93%) GitHub
6 23 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (4.57%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.27%) OneDrive
10 13 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.66%) Serverless
12 11 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.35%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (3.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (12.20%) DNS
2 33 (10.06%) Firewall
3 24 (7.32%) DHCP
4 18 (5.49%) VPN
5 15 (4.57%) Network Security
6 13 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.05%) LAN
7 10 (3.05%) SAN
7 10 (3.05%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.44%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.44%) WAN
9 7 (2.13%) NAS
9 7 (2.13%) Wireless
10 6 (1.83%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.22%) HTTP
12 3 (0.91%) MPLS
12 3 (0.91%) NGFW
12 3 (0.91%) VLAN
13 2 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.57%) Power BI
2 13 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.05%) MySQL
4 9 (2.74%) Metadata
5 7 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.13%) Pentaho
6 5 (1.52%) Db2
6 5 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.61%) KDB
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.61%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (17.68%) JIRA
2 18 (5.49%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.27%) GitLab
4 13 (3.96%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.13%) Git
6 4 (1.22%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.22%) Maven
7 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) Introscope
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 144 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.87%) Finance
3 51 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.32%) Banking
6 12 (3.66%) Legal
7 11 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.44%) Law
8 8 (2.44%) Retail
9 7 (2.13%) Front Office
9 7 (2.13%) Military
10 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.22%) Local Government
11 4 (1.22%) Police
12 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (12.80%) Support Engineer
2 30 (9.15%) Analyst
3 24 (7.32%) Senior
4 23 (7.01%) Architect
4 23 (7.01%) Incident Manager
4 23 (7.01%) IT Support
4 23 (7.01%) Service Manager
5 20 (6.10%) Lead
6 16 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (4.88%) IT Engineer
6 16 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (4.88%) Major Incident Manager
7 15 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (4.57%) Consultant
8 12 (3.66%) Scrum Master
9 11 (3.35%) Support Analyst
10 10 (3.05%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.74%) Applications Support
11 9 (2.74%) Developer
11 9 (2.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.66%) REST
2 10 (3.05%) Middleware
3 9 (2.74%) AWS CDK
3 9 (2.74%) Web Services
4 8 (2.44%) CSS
4 8 (2.44%) LDAP
5 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.83%) .NET
6 6 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.83%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.83%) XML
7 5 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
7 5 (1.52%) SOAP
7 5 (1.52%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.52%) Spring
8 4 (1.22%) Ajax
8 4 (1.22%) HTML
8 4 (1.22%) jQuery
8 4 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.22%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.18%) Data Centre
4 15 (4.57%) CMDB
5 13 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.35%) PKI
8 9 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.44%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.13%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.83%) Replication
11 6 (1.83%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.52%) Clustering
12 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (30.79%) Windows
2 47 (14.33%) Linux
3 33 (10.06%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.79%) Unix
5 13 (3.96%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.44%) Android
6 8 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.13%) zOS
8 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.91%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (48.48%) ITIL
2 105 (32.01%) ITSM
3 95 (28.96%) Service Management
4 90 (27.44%) Change Management
4 90 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 82 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 73 (22.26%) Agile
6 73 (22.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (19.21%) DevOps
8 63 (19.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 55 (16.77%) Service Delivery
10 47 (14.33%) CI/CD
11 40 (12.20%) Decision-Making
12 32 (9.76%) Customer Service
12 32 (9.76%) Migration
13 31 (9.45%) Incident Response
14 28 (8.54%) Major Incident Management
14 28 (8.54%) Runbook
15 27 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.20%) SQL
2 38 (11.59%) Python
3 37 (11.28%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.93%) Java
5 20 (6.10%) Bash
6 14 (4.27%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.96%) C#
8 6 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.52%) JCL
10 4 (1.22%) Go
10 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) PHP
11 2 (0.61%) REXX
11 2 (0.61%) VBScript
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Jython
12 1 (0.30%) Magik
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (32.62%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.54%) Degree
4 27 (8.23%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.66%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.35%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.13%) CCNA
8 7 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.83%) MCSE
9 6 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.52%) CISSP
10 5 (1.52%) PMP
10 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.22%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.33%) SLA
2 12 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.13%) GDPR
5 7 (2.13%) NIST
6 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.52%) GRC
7 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.91%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.61%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (20.73%) Active Directory
2 25 (7.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.40%) Docker
4 13 (3.96%) NFS
5 11 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.83%) vSphere
7 5 (1.52%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.91%) Firmware
9 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.61%) UAG
10 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.61%) XenApp
10 2 (0.61%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 24 (7.32%) Terraform
2 19 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.49%) SCCM
4 17 (5.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.27%) Ansible
6 11 (3.35%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.44%) Grafana
8 7 (2.13%) SCOM
9 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
10 5 (1.52%) Podman
10 5 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.22%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
11 4 (1.22%) Istio
12 3 (0.91%) Rancher
13 2 (0.61%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.61%) Avamar
13 2 (0.61%) CASB
13 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (25.61%) ServiceNow
2 67 (20.43%) Microsoft
3 35 (10.67%) VMware
4 23 (7.01%) Cisco
5 22 (6.71%) Oracle
6 21 (6.40%) Remedy
7 14 (4.27%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.35%) SAP
8 11 (3.35%) Splunk
9 9 (2.74%) HP
10 8 (2.44%) Citrix
10 8 (2.44%) Denodo
10 8 (2.44%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.44%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.13%) Brocade
11 7 (2.13%) Dell
11 7 (2.13%) IBM
11 7 (2.13%) Sybase
12 6 (1.83%) Google
12 6 (1.83%) Salesforce