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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 259 316
Rank change year-on-year -83 +57 -61
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 317 266 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.96% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.05% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 144 143
10th Percentile £245 £305 £325
25th Percentile £363 £365 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £464 £484
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -4.08% -3.20%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £555
90th Percentile £670 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £489 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +8.61% -7.02% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 5
10th Percentile £16.53 £15.50 £30.45
25th Percentile £20.72 £17.22 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £20.42 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% -64.02% +315.41%
75th Percentile £49.80 £31.71 £58.49
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £18.90 £56.75
% change year-on-year +34.77% -66.70% +315.41%

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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -68 122 £450 -7.69% 148
Midlands -16 64 £475 +18.09% 29
North of England -96 64 £475 +13.10% 59
West Midlands -24 52 £476 +18.41% 18
South East -53 39 £538 +4.88% 52
Yorkshire -35 36 £500 +11.11% 14
North West -71 27 £420 +19.87% 37
East Midlands -3 12 £238 -63.46% 11
South West -46 12 £350 -33.33% 16
East of England -30 9 £400 -20.00% 28
North East -41 1 £400 -38.46% 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 16 (5.05%) Confluence
2 14 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.10%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.47%) SAS
5 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.63%) CMS
7 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.63%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.32%) CICS
8 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.32%) IBM Transformation Extender
Applications
1 25 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Maple
Business Applications
1 13 (4.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) iTrent
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.08%) Azure
2 46 (14.51%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (14.20%) AWS
4 37 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.94%) GitHub
6 17 (5.36%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.73%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (3.47%) Serverless
11 10 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.15%) SaaS
11 10 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (2.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.51%) DNS
2 27 (8.52%) DHCP
3 26 (8.20%) Firewall
4 18 (5.68%) VPN
5 13 (4.10%) Network Security
6 12 (3.79%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.79%) Wireless
7 10 (3.15%) WAN
8 9 (2.84%) SAN
9 8 (2.52%) Kerberos
10 7 (2.21%) LAN
11 6 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.58%) NAS
13 4 (1.26%) HTTP
13 4 (1.26%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.95%) VLAN
14 3 (0.95%) VoIP
15 2 (0.63%) Internet
15 2 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.73%) Power BI
3 10 (3.15%) Data Lake
3 10 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.15%) Metadata
3 10 (3.15%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.84%) Pentaho
5 6 (1.89%) Db2
6 5 (1.58%) MySQL
7 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.63%) KDB
9 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 37 (11.67%) JIRA
2 14 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.79%) GitLab
4 10 (3.15%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.52%) Git
6 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 148 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.61%) Finance
3 49 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.94%) Banking
6 14 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.47%) Legal
8 11 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.84%) Front Office
10 8 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.21%) Law
12 5 (1.58%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.26%) Police
13 4 (1.26%) Retail
14 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.95%) Local Government
14 3 (0.95%) Military
14 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (12.93%) Support Engineer
2 34 (10.73%) Analyst
3 29 (9.15%) Architect
4 23 (7.26%) Lead
5 22 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (6.62%) Senior
7 20 (6.31%) Incident Manager
8 15 (4.73%) Service Manager
9 14 (4.42%) Consultant
9 14 (4.42%) Major Incident Manager
10 12 (3.79%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.79%) IT Support
11 11 (3.47%) Administrator
12 10 (3.15%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (3.15%) Scrum Master
12 10 (3.15%) Server Engineer
13 9 (2.84%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.62%) Terraform
2 15 (4.73%) Middleware
3 14 (4.42%) REST
4 8 (2.52%) LDAP
4 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (2.21%) AWS CDK
6 6 (1.89%) .NET
6 6 (1.89%) SOAP
6 6 (1.89%) Web Services
7 5 (1.58%) Ajax
7 5 (1.58%) CSS
7 5 (1.58%) HTML
7 5 (1.58%) JSON
7 5 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (1.58%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.58%) XML
8 4 (1.26%) Django
8 4 (1.26%) FIDO
8 4 (1.26%) Flask
8 4 (1.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.57%) Onboarding
2 17 (5.36%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.47%) PKI
7 10 (3.15%) CMDB
7 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.84%) Autonomous Agent
9 8 (2.52%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.89%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.58%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.26%) Clustering
12 4 (1.26%) SCADA
13 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (31.23%) Windows
2 38 (11.99%) Linux
3 36 (11.36%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.05%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.42%) Unix
6 12 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (3.47%) Android
8 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.89%) zOS
9 5 (1.58%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.95%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (46.37%) ITIL
2 107 (33.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 106 (33.44%) ITSM
4 94 (29.65%) Service Management
5 90 (28.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (26.50%) Incident Management
7 79 (24.92%) Change Management
8 77 (24.29%) Agile
9 68 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (20.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 57 (17.98%) Service Delivery
12 55 (17.35%) DevOps
13 47 (14.83%) CI/CD
14 42 (13.25%) Runbook
15 39 (12.30%) Decision-Making
16 35 (11.04%) Observability
17 32 (10.09%) Major Incident Management
18 30 (9.46%) Incident Response
18 30 (9.46%) Migration
19 28 (8.83%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.51%) Python
2 41 (12.93%) PowerShell
3 37 (11.67%) SQL
4 28 (8.83%) Java
5 19 (5.99%) Bash
6 13 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.52%) C#
7 8 (2.52%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.58%) JCL
9 4 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.95%) VBScript
11 2 (0.63%) Bicep
11 2 (0.63%) Magik
11 2 (0.63%) REXX
11 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) ABAP
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 104 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 76 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.46%) Degree
4 21 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.84%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.21%) CCNA
8 7 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.89%) MCSE
10 5 (1.58%) CISSP
10 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.26%) RHCA
12 3 (0.95%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.83%) SLA
2 14 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.58%) COBIT
4 5 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.26%) NIST
6 3 (0.95%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.63%) GRC
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) SEPA
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (21.45%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.62%) Docker
4 15 (4.73%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.79%) NFS
6 11 (3.47%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.21%) vSphere
8 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.26%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.95%) Firmware
10 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.63%) UAG
11 2 (0.63%) XenApp
11 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.05%) Ansible
2 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (4.73%) SCCM
3 15 (4.73%) vCenter Server
4 12 (3.79%) SCOM
5 5 (1.58%) Grafana
5 5 (1.58%) Podman
6 4 (1.26%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 3 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.63%) Istio
8 2 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (22.40%) ServiceNow
2 67 (21.14%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.04%) VMware
4 23 (7.26%) Cisco
5 22 (6.94%) Oracle
6 17 (5.36%) Broadcom
6 17 (5.36%) Remedy
7 15 (4.73%) Splunk
8 12 (3.79%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.15%) Denodo
9 10 (3.15%) SAP
10 9 (2.84%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.52%) HP
12 7 (2.21%) IBM
13 6 (1.89%) Canon
13 6 (1.89%) Citrix
13 6 (1.89%) Dell
13 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.89%) Sybase
14 5 (1.58%) Red Hat