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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 268 299
Rank change year-on-year -64 +31 -44
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 322 265 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.95% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.05% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 156 167
10th Percentile £253 £309 £329
25th Percentile £393 £375 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £458 £484
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -5.42% -3.20%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £671 £650 £614
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.15% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 7
10th Percentile £16.45 £20.53 £20.97
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +17.44% +101.32%
75th Percentile £44.09 £47.12 £49.37
90th Percentile £67.84 £48.98 £75.09
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.10% -12.73% +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 38,847 25,245 28,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 90.81% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,107 16,076 18,544
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,555 1,444 1,611
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -35 138 £490 +0.51% 29
Midlands -20 61 £463 -0.32% 16
North of England -93 59 £475 +22.42% 19
West Midlands -27 54 £463 +3.01% 12
South East -44 36 £519 +3.75% 26
Yorkshire -30 35 £500 +28.87% 3
North West -67 23 £401 +14.57% 12
South West -43 14 £375 -28.57% 4
East of England -20 10 £400 -20.00% 7
East Midlands -15 7 - - 4
North East -42 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 (6.21%) Confluence
2 14 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.42%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.48%) SAS
5 4 (1.24%) IIS
6 3 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.93%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.62%) Apache
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.31%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (8.07%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Maple
Business Applications
1 15 (4.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) iTrent
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.98%) Azure
2 47 (14.60%) AWS
2 47 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (13.35%) Entra ID
4 26 (8.07%) GitHub
5 22 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (4.66%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.66%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.73%) Serverless
10 11 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.42%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (3.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.35%) DNS
2 33 (10.25%) Firewall
3 27 (8.39%) DHCP
4 19 (5.90%) VPN
5 16 (4.97%) Network Security
6 13 (4.04%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (3.73%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.11%) LAN
8 10 (3.11%) SAN
9 8 (2.48%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.48%) WAN
9 8 (2.48%) Wireless
10 7 (2.17%) NAS
11 6 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.24%) HTTP
13 3 (0.93%) MPLS
13 3 (0.93%) NGFW
13 3 (0.93%) VLAN
13 3 (0.93%) VoIP
14 2 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.66%) Power BI
2 13 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.80%) MySQL
4 8 (2.48%) Metadata
5 7 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.17%) Pentaho
6 5 (1.55%) Db2
6 5 (1.55%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.24%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.62%) KDB
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 54 (16.77%) JIRA
2 18 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.35%) GitLab
4 13 (4.04%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.17%) Git
6 4 (1.24%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.93%) Maven
7 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.31%) Introscope
8 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 144 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.29%) Finance
3 51 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.14%) Banking
6 12 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.73%) Legal
7 11 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.48%) Front Office
8 8 (2.48%) Law
9 7 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.17%) Retail
10 6 (1.86%) Military
11 4 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.24%) Local Government
11 4 (1.24%) Police
12 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (12.73%) Support Engineer
2 33 (10.25%) Analyst
3 24 (7.45%) Senior
4 22 (6.83%) Architect
5 21 (6.52%) IT Support
6 20 (6.21%) Incident Manager
6 20 (6.21%) Lead
7 18 (5.59%) Service Manager
8 16 (4.97%) Consultant
8 16 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (4.97%) IT Engineer
8 16 (4.97%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.35%) Major Incident Manager
11 12 (3.73%) Scrum Master
12 11 (3.42%) Support Analyst
13 10 (3.11%) Applications Support
14 9 (2.80%) Developer
14 9 (2.80%) IT Manager
14 9 (2.80%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.42%) REST
2 10 (3.11%) Middleware
3 9 (2.80%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.48%) LDAP
4 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Graph
4 8 (2.48%) Web Services
5 7 (2.17%) CSS
6 6 (1.86%) .NET
6 6 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (1.86%) SAP Basis
6 6 (1.86%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.55%) SOAP
7 5 (1.55%) XML
8 4 (1.24%) Ajax
8 4 (1.24%) FIDO
8 4 (1.24%) HTML
8 4 (1.24%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.24%) Loki
8 4 (1.24%) Spring
9 3 (0.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.76%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.35%) CMDB
4 14 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.42%) PKI
8 9 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.48%) Mainframe
10 7 (2.17%) Autonomous Agent
11 6 (1.86%) Replication
11 6 (1.86%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.55%) Clustering
12 5 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.55%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (31.99%) Windows
2 47 (14.60%) Linux
3 34 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.59%) Unix
5 15 (4.66%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.80%) Android
7 8 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.17%) zOS
9 4 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.31%) AIX
12 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (47.52%) ITIL
2 102 (31.68%) ITSM
3 92 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 91 (28.26%) Service Management
5 89 (27.64%) Change Management
6 81 (25.16%) Incident Management
7 74 (22.98%) Agile
7 74 (22.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 64 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (19.25%) DevOps
9 62 (19.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 54 (16.77%) Service Delivery
11 48 (14.91%) CI/CD
12 38 (11.80%) Decision-Making
13 33 (10.25%) Customer Service
14 32 (9.94%) Migration
14 32 (9.94%) Runbook
15 29 (9.01%) Data Protection
15 29 (9.01%) Incident Response
16 28 (8.70%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (12.73%) PowerShell
1 41 (12.73%) Python
2 39 (12.11%) SQL
3 26 (8.07%) Java
4 21 (6.52%) Bash
5 14 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.73%) C#
7 5 (1.55%) JCL
7 5 (1.55%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.24%) Go
8 4 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.93%) VBScript
10 2 (0.62%) Bicep
10 2 (0.62%) Perl
10 2 (0.62%) PHP
10 2 (0.62%) REXX
11 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) SOQL
11 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 100 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 76 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.01%) Degree
4 21 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.42%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.17%) CCNA
9 7 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.86%) MCSE
10 6 (1.86%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.55%) CISSP
11 5 (1.55%) PMP
11 5 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.24%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.60%) SLA
2 12 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.17%) GDPR
4 7 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.86%) NIST
6 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.55%) GRC
7 4 (1.24%) COBIT
8 3 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.62%) QA
10 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.52%) Docker
4 13 (4.04%) NFS
5 12 (3.73%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.17%) vSphere
8 5 (1.55%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.93%) Firmware
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.62%) UAG
11 2 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.62%) XenApp
11 2 (0.62%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.31%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 25 (7.76%) Terraform
2 19 (5.90%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.90%) SCCM
3 18 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (4.66%) Ansible
5 11 (3.42%) vCenter Server
6 8 (2.48%) Grafana
7 7 (2.17%) SCOM
8 6 (1.86%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.55%) Podman
9 5 (1.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.24%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.24%) Istio
11 3 (0.93%) Rancher
12 2 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.62%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.62%) Avamar
12 2 (0.62%) CASB
12 2 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 82 (25.47%) ServiceNow
2 70 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.18%) VMware
4 24 (7.45%) Cisco
5 21 (6.52%) Oracle
6 19 (5.90%) Remedy
7 14 (4.35%) Broadcom
8 12 (3.73%) Splunk
9 11 (3.42%) SAP
10 9 (2.80%) HP
11 8 (2.48%) Citrix
11 8 (2.48%) Denodo
11 8 (2.48%) Dynatrace
11 8 (2.48%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.17%) Brocade
12 7 (2.17%) Dell
12 7 (2.17%) IBM
12 7 (2.17%) Sybase
13 6 (1.86%) Google
13 6 (1.86%) Salesforce