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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 232 240
Rank change year-on-year -85 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 281 263 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.08% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.18% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 161 216
10th Percentile £306 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £388 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.22% -11.43%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £500
90th Percentile £670 £645 £598
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +4.44% -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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £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 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -41 111 £490 -2.00% 27
Midlands -41 55 £463 -5.03% 11
West Midlands -34 52 £463 -5.03% 8
North of England -73 52 £460 +22.67% 16
Yorkshire -35 34 £488 +30.00% 10
South East -44 30 £392 -13.00% 14
South West -33 28 £469 -3.85% 5
North West -61 17 £401 +0.12% 5
East of England -53 3 £400 -12.71% 8
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 3
North East -20 1 £400 -4.99% 1
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 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.63%) Confluence
3 11 (3.91%) SAS
4 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.78%) Apache
6 4 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.42%) IIS
6 4 (1.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.36%) CMS
9 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 61 (21.71%) Azure
2 38 (13.52%) AWS
3 36 (12.81%) Entra ID
4 34 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.54%) GitHub
6 21 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.69%) GCP
7 16 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 12 (4.27%) OneDrive
10 11 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.56%) Datadog
12 9 (3.20%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.20%) Serverless
13 8 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.49%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.25%) Firewall
2 18 (6.41%) DNS
3 15 (5.34%) Network Security
4 12 (4.27%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.56%) VPN
6 9 (3.20%) DHCP
7 6 (2.14%) LAN
7 6 (2.14%) NetScaler
7 6 (2.14%) WAN
8 5 (1.78%) MPLS
8 5 (1.78%) SAN
9 4 (1.42%) Broadband
9 4 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.42%) Wireless
10 3 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.07%) Internet
10 3 (1.07%) NAS
10 3 (1.07%) SSL
11 2 (0.71%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.20%) Power BI
3 8 (2.85%) Metadata
3 8 (2.85%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.14%) MySQL
4 6 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.78%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.42%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.07%) Pentaho
7 3 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (17.44%) JIRA
2 15 (5.34%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.63%) Git
4 12 (4.27%) GitLab
5 8 (2.85%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.42%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.42%) Maven
7 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) Introscope
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 91 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.05%) Finance
3 38 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 31 (11.03%) Banking
6 13 (4.63%) Law
7 12 (4.27%) Legal
8 8 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.49%) Retail
10 6 (2.14%) Military
10 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.42%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.42%) Local Government
11 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Police
13 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.36%) International Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (13.17%) Service Manager
2 28 (9.96%) Analyst
3 26 (9.25%) Architect
4 20 (7.12%) Senior
5 18 (6.41%) Support Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) IT Support
6 17 (6.05%) Lead
7 13 (4.63%) Incident Manager
7 13 (4.63%) IT Engineer
8 12 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (3.91%) Consultant
9 11 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (3.91%) Developer
9 11 (3.91%) Service Analyst
10 10 (3.56%) Administrator
11 9 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Service Desk Analyst
11 9 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.85%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (2.85%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.91%) Microsoft Graph
1 11 (3.91%) Middleware
2 8 (2.85%) REST
3 7 (2.49%) .NET
4 6 (2.14%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.14%) Kafka
5 5 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.78%) Spring
6 4 (1.42%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.42%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.42%) CSS
6 4 (1.42%) J2EE
6 4 (1.42%) jQuery
6 4 (1.42%) Loki
6 4 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.42%) SAP Basis
6 4 (1.42%) Sass
6 4 (1.42%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.42%) Web Services
7 3 (1.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.05%) CMDB
2 15 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.91%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.85%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.49%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.14%) Replication
10 5 (1.78%) Clustering
10 5 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.42%) PKI
12 3 (1.07%) Autonomous Agent
12 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.28%) Windows
2 45 (16.01%) Linux
3 21 (7.47%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.05%) Unix
5 10 (3.56%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.49%) zOS
7 5 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.71%) Debian
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (48.75%) ITIL
2 81 (28.83%) Service Management
3 80 (28.47%) Change Management
4 75 (26.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 71 (25.27%) ITSM
6 62 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (21.35%) Incident Management
8 58 (20.64%) DevOps
9 52 (18.51%) Agile
10 47 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (16.01%) Service Delivery
13 44 (15.66%) CI/CD
14 39 (13.88%) Observability
15 29 (10.32%) Incident Response
16 28 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (9.61%) Decision-Making
18 21 (7.47%) Data Modelling
19 19 (6.76%) Scrum
19 19 (6.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.59%) PowerShell
2 37 (13.17%) SQL
3 25 (8.90%) Python
4 20 (7.12%) Bash
5 16 (5.69%) Java
6 11 (3.91%) C#
7 8 (2.85%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.85%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.49%) Go
9 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.42%) JCL
11 2 (0.71%) Perl
11 2 (0.71%) PHP
11 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) Jython
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) REXX
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (39.86%) Security Cleared
2 91 (32.38%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.39%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.34%) Degree
5 10 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (2.49%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.14%) CCNA
7 6 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.78%) MCSE
9 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.07%) CCNP
10 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.07%) RHCA
10 3 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.95%) SLA
2 10 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.85%) GDPR
4 7 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.14%) GRC
6 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.42%) NIST
7 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.36%) COBIT
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (14.59%) Active Directory
2 23 (8.19%) Docker
3 14 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.14%) NFS
6 5 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.42%) Time Sharing Option
8 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.07%) XenApp
8 3 (1.07%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.47%) Terraform
3 18 (6.41%) Grafana
4 16 (5.69%) Ansible
5 12 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.27%) SCCM
6 6 (2.14%) Cisco Prime
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.42%) Istio
7 4 (1.42%) Podman
7 4 (1.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.07%) Rancher
8 3 (1.07%) WSUS
9 2 (0.71%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.71%) CASB
9 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (21.35%) ServiceNow
2 46 (16.37%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.32%) Oracle
4 19 (6.76%) VMware
5 17 (6.05%) Splunk
6 15 (5.34%) Remedy
7 13 (4.63%) Cisco
8 10 (3.56%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.56%) Citrix
9 9 (3.20%) BMC
10 8 (2.85%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.85%) SAP
11 7 (2.49%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.49%) Denodo
11 7 (2.49%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.14%) Brocade
12 6 (2.14%) Dell
12 6 (2.14%) IBM
13 5 (1.78%) Atlassian
14 4 (1.42%) Fortinet