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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 238 240
Rank change year-on-year -85 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 286 263 362
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.08% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.18% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 162 218
10th Percentile £306 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £388 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.22% -11.43%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £500
90th Percentile £671 £644 £597
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 46
10th Percentile - £23.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.69 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +73.53% +64.71%
75th Percentile £48.51 £46.47 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £33.63
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.13% +73.53% +64.71%

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 34,525 22,234 32,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.79% 91.21% 86.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,016 14,552 21,077
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,153 931 2,253
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.66 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -48 113 £500 - 26
Midlands -42 56 £463 -5.03% 19
North of England -66 55 £463 +23.33% 23
West Midlands -31 53 £463 -5.03% 14
Yorkshire -37 36 £488 +30.00% 16
South East -33 30 £392 -13.00% 18
South West -30 28 £463 -5.13% 8
North West -60 18 £401 +0.12% 5
East of England -50 3 £400 -12.71% 10
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 5
North East -16 1 £400 -4.99% 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 17 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.55%) Confluence
3 11 (3.85%) SAS
4 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.75%) Apache
6 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.40%) IIS
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.98%) Azure
2 39 (13.64%) AWS
3 36 (12.59%) Entra ID
4 32 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (8.74%) GitHub
6 21 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.59%) GCP
9 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Copilot
10 12 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (4.20%) OneDrive
11 10 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.50%) Datadog
11 10 (3.50%) Serverless
12 9 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.80%) AWS CodePipeline
13 8 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.09%) Firewall
2 19 (6.64%) DNS
3 15 (5.24%) Network Security
4 12 (4.20%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.50%) DHCP
6 9 (3.15%) VPN
7 6 (2.10%) LAN
7 6 (2.10%) WAN
8 5 (1.75%) MPLS
8 5 (1.75%) NetScaler
8 5 (1.75%) SAN
9 4 (1.40%) Broadband
9 4 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.40%) Wireless
10 3 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.05%) Internet
10 3 (1.05%) NAS
10 3 (1.05%) SSL
11 2 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.15%) Power BI
3 8 (2.80%) Metadata
3 8 (2.80%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.10%) MySQL
4 6 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.40%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.05%) Pentaho
7 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.70%) KDB
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 53 (18.53%) JIRA
2 16 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.90%) GitLab
4 13 (4.55%) Git
5 9 (3.15%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.40%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.40%) Maven
7 3 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) Introscope
8 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 96 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.57%) Finance
3 38 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.49%) Banking
6 15 (5.24%) Law
7 12 (4.20%) Legal
8 8 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.45%) Retail
10 6 (2.10%) Military
10 6 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.40%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.40%) Local Government
11 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Police
12 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 37 (12.94%) Service Manager
2 28 (9.79%) Analyst
3 26 (9.09%) Architect
4 20 (6.99%) Senior
5 18 (6.29%) Support Engineer
6 17 (5.94%) IT Support
6 17 (5.94%) Lead
7 14 (4.90%) Incident Manager
8 13 (4.55%) IT Engineer
9 12 (4.20%) Consultant
9 12 (4.20%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.85%) Developer
10 11 (3.85%) Service Analyst
11 10 (3.50%) Administrator
12 9 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Scrum Master
12 9 (3.15%) Service Desk Analyst
12 9 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.80%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
1 11 (3.85%) Middleware
2 7 (2.45%) .NET
2 7 (2.45%) REST
3 6 (2.10%) AWS CDK
3 6 (2.10%) Kafka
4 5 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.75%) Spring
5 4 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.40%) Bootstrap
5 4 (1.40%) CSS
5 4 (1.40%) J2EE
5 4 (1.40%) jQuery
5 4 (1.40%) Loki
5 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.40%) SAP Basis
5 4 (1.40%) Sass
5 4 (1.40%) Spring MVC
5 4 (1.40%) Web Services
6 3 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.94%) CMDB
2 16 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.20%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.10%) Replication
10 5 (1.75%) Clustering
10 5 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.40%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.40%) PKI
12 3 (1.05%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 56 (19.58%) Windows
2 48 (16.78%) Linux
3 21 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 19 (6.64%) Unix
5 8 (2.80%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.45%) zOS
7 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) AIX
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (49.30%) ITIL
2 83 (29.02%) Service Management
3 82 (28.67%) Change Management
4 77 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
5 72 (25.17%) ITSM
6 64 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (21.33%) Incident Management
8 59 (20.63%) DevOps
9 53 (18.53%) Agile
10 50 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (16.43%) Service Delivery
12 46 (16.08%) CI/CD
12 46 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (13.64%) Observability
14 30 (10.49%) Incident Response
15 29 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (9.44%) Decision-Making
17 21 (7.34%) Data Modelling
18 20 (6.99%) Scrum
19 19 (6.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.99%) PowerShell
1 40 (13.99%) SQL
2 26 (9.09%) Python
3 21 (7.34%) Bash
4 17 (5.94%) Java
5 11 (3.85%) C#
6 8 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 8 (2.80%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.45%) Go
8 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.40%) JCL
10 2 (0.70%) Perl
10 2 (0.70%) PHP
10 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.35%) Jython
11 1 (0.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.35%) REXX
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (39.51%) Security Cleared
2 92 (32.17%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.19%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.59%) Degree
5 10 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.80%) SAFe Agilist
7 7 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.10%) CCNA
8 6 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.75%) MCSE
10 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.05%) CCNP
11 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.05%) RHCA
11 3 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.69%) SLA
2 10 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.80%) GDPR
4 7 (2.45%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.10%) GRC
6 4 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.40%) NIST
7 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (14.34%) Active Directory
2 24 (8.39%) Docker
3 15 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.80%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.10%) NFS
6 4 (1.40%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.05%) XenApp
7 3 (1.05%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.34%) Terraform
3 19 (6.64%) Grafana
4 16 (5.59%) Ansible
5 13 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.85%) SCCM
7 6 (2.10%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.40%) Istio
9 4 (1.40%) Podman
9 4 (1.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.05%) Rancher
10 3 (1.05%) WSUS
11 2 (0.70%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.70%) Avamar
11 2 (0.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 63 (22.03%) ServiceNow
2 44 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.14%) Oracle
4 20 (6.99%) VMware
5 19 (6.64%) Splunk
6 17 (5.94%) Remedy
7 12 (4.20%) Cisco
8 10 (3.50%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.50%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.15%) BMC
9 9 (3.15%) Citrix
10 8 (2.80%) SAP
11 7 (2.45%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.45%) Denodo
11 7 (2.45%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.10%) Brocade
12 6 (2.10%) Dell
12 6 (2.10%) IBM
13 4 (1.40%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.40%) Google