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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 272 289
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 -28
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 336 259 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.94% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.03% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 150 170
10th Percentile £263 £306 £344
25th Percentile £400 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -6.47%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £650 £616
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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -26 144 £500 +5.26% 59
Midlands -16 68 £475 +2.37% 19
West Midlands -20 61 £475 +5.79% 15
North of England -100 58 £475 +22.42% 27
Yorkshire -37 34 £500 +28.87% 6
South East -46 34 £538 +7.50% 33
North West -72 23 £408 +16.57% 17
South West -39 18 £400 -23.81% 12
East of England -17 9 £400 -20.00% 7
East Midlands -8 7 - - 4
North East -43 1 £400 -38.46% 4
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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 13 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.27%) SAS
3 11 (3.27%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.89%) NetWeaver
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.60%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.60%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.30%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Maple
Business Applications
1 17 (5.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.60%) 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 79 (23.51%) Azure
2 51 (15.18%) AWS
3 44 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (12.80%) Entra ID
5 26 (7.74%) GitHub
6 23 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (4.46%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.17%) OneDrive
10 13 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (3.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.57%) Serverless
12 11 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.27%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (2.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.90%) DNS
2 33 (9.82%) Firewall
3 24 (7.14%) DHCP
4 18 (5.36%) VPN
5 15 (4.46%) Network Security
6 13 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (2.98%) LAN
7 10 (2.98%) SAN
7 10 (2.98%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.38%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.38%) WAN
9 7 (2.08%) NAS
9 7 (2.08%) Wireless
10 6 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.19%) HTTP
12 3 (0.89%) MPLS
12 3 (0.89%) NGFW
12 3 (0.89%) VLAN
13 2 (0.60%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.46%) Power BI
2 13 (3.87%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.98%) MySQL
4 9 (2.68%) Metadata
5 8 (2.38%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.08%) Pentaho
7 5 (1.49%) Db2
7 5 (1.49%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.60%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 58 (17.26%) JIRA
2 18 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.17%) GitLab
4 13 (3.87%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.08%) Git
6 4 (1.19%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.19%) Maven
7 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) Introscope
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 146 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.32%) Finance
3 51 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.14%) Banking
6 12 (3.57%) Legal
7 11 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.38%) Law
8 8 (2.38%) Retail
9 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.08%) Front Office
9 7 (2.08%) Military
10 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.19%) Local Government
10 4 (1.19%) Police
11 3 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 30 (8.93%) Analyst
3 29 (8.63%) Architect
4 24 (7.14%) Senior
5 23 (6.85%) Incident Manager
5 23 (6.85%) IT Support
5 23 (6.85%) Service Manager
6 21 (6.25%) Lead
7 16 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (4.76%) IT Engineer
7 16 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (4.76%) Major Incident Manager
8 15 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.46%) Consultant
9 12 (3.57%) Scrum Master
9 12 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.27%) Support Analyst
11 10 (2.98%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (2.98%) Developer
11 10 (2.98%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.57%) REST
2 10 (2.98%) Middleware
3 9 (2.68%) AWS CDK
3 9 (2.68%) Web Services
4 8 (2.38%) CSS
4 8 (2.38%) LDAP
5 7 (2.08%) .NET
5 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.79%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.79%) XML
7 5 (1.49%) Jakarta EE
7 5 (1.49%) SOAP
7 5 (1.49%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.49%) Spring
8 4 (1.19%) Ajax
8 4 (1.19%) HTML
8 4 (1.19%) jQuery
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.19%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.76%) CMDB
5 13 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.27%) PKI
8 10 (2.98%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.68%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.68%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.38%) Mainframe
11 7 (2.08%) Autonomous Agent
12 6 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.79%) Replication
12 6 (1.79%) Smartphone
13 5 (1.49%) Clustering
13 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (30.06%) Windows
2 47 (13.99%) Linux
3 33 (9.82%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.65%) Unix
5 13 (3.87%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.38%) Android
6 8 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.08%) zOS
8 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.89%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (47.62%) ITIL
2 107 (31.85%) ITSM
3 95 (28.27%) Service Management
4 94 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (27.08%) Change Management
6 84 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 77 (22.92%) Agile
8 75 (22.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 65 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
11 63 (18.75%) DevOps
12 59 (17.56%) Service Delivery
13 47 (13.99%) CI/CD
14 40 (11.90%) Decision-Making
15 32 (9.52%) Customer Service
15 32 (9.52%) Migration
16 31 (9.23%) Incident Response
17 29 (8.63%) Major Incident Management
18 28 (8.33%) Runbook
19 27 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (12.20%) SQL
2 38 (11.31%) Python
3 37 (11.01%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.74%) Java
5 20 (5.95%) Bash
6 14 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.87%) C#
8 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.49%) JCL
10 4 (1.19%) Go
10 4 (1.19%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
11 2 (0.60%) REXX
11 2 (0.60%) VBScript
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Jython
12 1 (0.30%) Magik
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (33.63%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.63%) Degree
4 27 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.27%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.08%) CCNA
9 7 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.79%) MCSE
10 6 (1.79%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.49%) CISSP
11 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.49%) PMP
11 5 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.29%) SLA
2 12 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.08%) GDPR
4 7 (2.08%) NIST
5 5 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.49%) GRC
6 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.89%) COBIT
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.60%) QA
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (20.24%) Active Directory
2 25 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.25%) Docker
4 13 (3.87%) NFS
5 11 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.79%) vSphere
7 5 (1.49%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.89%) Firmware
9 3 (0.89%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.60%) UAG
10 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.60%) XenApp
10 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 24 (7.14%) Terraform
2 19 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.65%) SCCM
3 17 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.17%) Ansible
5 11 (3.27%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.38%) Grafana
7 7 (2.08%) SCOM
8 6 (1.79%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.49%) Podman
9 5 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.19%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.19%) Istio
11 3 (0.89%) Rancher
12 2 (0.60%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.60%) Avamar
12 2 (0.60%) CASB
12 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (25.60%) ServiceNow
2 67 (19.94%) Microsoft
3 35 (10.42%) VMware
4 26 (7.74%) Oracle
5 23 (6.85%) Cisco
6 22 (6.55%) Remedy
7 14 (4.17%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.27%) Denodo
8 11 (3.27%) SAP
8 11 (3.27%) Splunk
9 9 (2.68%) HP
10 8 (2.38%) Citrix
10 8 (2.38%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.38%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.08%) Brocade
11 7 (2.08%) Dell
11 7 (2.08%) IBM
11 7 (2.08%) Sybase
12 6 (1.79%) Google
12 6 (1.79%) Salesforce