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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 258 260
Rank change year-on-year -76 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 303 243 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.96% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.05% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 144 203
10th Percentile £263 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £530
90th Percentile £670 £626 £608
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 32
10th Percentile £18.68 £22.36 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.50 £40.59 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.96% +62.36% +83.02%
75th Percentile £55.13 £47.12 £25.38
90th Percentile £67.84 £52.00 £39.10
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -4.00% +83.02%

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 37,112 23,092 31,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,409 14,893 20,664
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,320 1,127 2,324
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -53 113 £515 +8.42% 24
North of England -74 62 £500 +33.33% 16
Midlands -28 60 £463 +3.01% 13
West Midlands -30 59 £463 +3.01% 5
Yorkshire -28 38 £500 +32.45% 7
South West -22 29 £431 -2.82% 6
South East -48 29 £425 -15.00% 29
North West -67 23 £401 +23.38% 7
East of England -36 6 £400 -11.11% 9
North East -36 1 £400 -4.99% 2
East Midlands - 1 £163 - 8
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 (5.61%) Confluence
2 14 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.63%) SAS
4 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.32%) IIS
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.99%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.66%) Apache
7 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (5.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) iTrent
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.13%) Azure
2 48 (15.84%) Entra ID
3 38 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (11.22%) AWS
5 22 (7.26%) GitHub
6 20 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.61%) OneDrive
8 16 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (3.96%) Serverless
11 12 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.63%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.63%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.63%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.59%) Firewall
2 20 (6.60%) DNS
3 15 (4.95%) DHCP
3 15 (4.95%) VPN
4 11 (3.63%) Network Security
5 9 (2.97%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.64%) LAN
7 7 (2.31%) WAN
8 6 (1.98%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (1.98%) SAN
9 5 (1.65%) MPLS
9 5 (1.65%) Wireless
10 4 (1.32%) NAS
10 4 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.99%) Internet
11 3 (0.99%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.99%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.99%) NGFW
11 3 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.63%) Power BI
2 10 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.64%) Metadata
3 8 (2.64%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.98%) MySQL
4 6 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.65%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.65%) SAP HANA
6 3 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (0.99%) Pentaho
6 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.66%) Db2
7 2 (0.66%) KDB
7 2 (0.66%) MaxDB
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.66%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (19.14%) JIRA
2 16 (5.28%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.29%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.96%) GitLab
5 9 (2.97%) Git
6 4 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.33%) Introscope
7 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 119 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.74%) Finance
3 41 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.26%) Banking
6 13 (4.29%) Legal
7 11 (3.63%) Law
8 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.64%) Retail
10 7 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.98%) Military
12 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.32%) Police
14 3 (0.99%) Front Office
14 3 (0.99%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Local Government
15 2 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (12.21%) Service Manager
2 28 (9.24%) Analyst
3 24 (7.92%) Architect
4 22 (7.26%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.93%) Lead
6 19 (6.27%) IT Support
7 18 (5.94%) Incident Manager
7 18 (5.94%) Senior
8 13 (4.29%) Consultant
9 12 (3.96%) Developer
9 12 (3.96%) IT Engineer
9 12 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (3.96%) Major Incident Manager
9 12 (3.96%) Scrum Master
10 11 (3.63%) Administrator
10 11 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.97%) Network Engineer
11 9 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.97%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.62%) Microsoft Graph
2 9 (2.97%) AWS CDK
3 8 (2.64%) .NET
3 8 (2.64%) Middleware
4 6 (1.98%) REST
4 6 (1.98%) SAP Basis
5 5 (1.65%) Spring
6 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.32%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.32%) CSS
6 4 (1.32%) J2EE
6 4 (1.32%) jQuery
6 4 (1.32%) Loki
6 4 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.32%) Sass
6 4 (1.32%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.32%) Web Services
7 3 (0.99%) FIDO
7 3 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.93%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.28%) CMDB
3 16 (5.28%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.64%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.31%) PKI
7 7 (2.31%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.98%) Replication
8 6 (1.98%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.65%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.65%) Clustering
9 5 (1.65%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.99%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 65 (21.45%) Windows
2 43 (14.19%) Linux
3 20 (6.60%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.28%) Unix
5 7 (2.31%) zOS
6 6 (1.98%) Android
6 6 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.98%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (48.84%) ITIL
2 91 (30.03%) ITSM
3 84 (27.72%) Service Management
4 81 (26.73%) Change Management
5 75 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (22.44%) Incident Management
7 64 (21.12%) Root Cause Analysis
8 61 (20.13%) Agile
9 57 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 54 (17.82%) DevOps
10 54 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (16.17%) Service Delivery
12 40 (13.20%) CI/CD
13 36 (11.88%) Decision-Making
14 30 (9.90%) Incident Response
15 27 (8.91%) Customer Service
16 26 (8.58%) Scrum
16 26 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 25 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 24 (7.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (11.22%) PowerShell
2 33 (10.89%) SQL
3 22 (7.26%) Python
4 15 (4.95%) Java
5 14 (4.62%) Bash
6 12 (3.96%) C#
7 8 (2.64%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.65%) JCL
9 4 (1.32%) Go
10 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) Perl
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
11 2 (0.66%) REXX
11 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) Jython
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
12 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 111 (36.63%) Security Cleared
2 92 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.23%) DV Cleared
4 24 (7.92%) Degree
5 12 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.63%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.98%) CCNA
9 6 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.32%) MCSE
11 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.99%) CCNP
12 3 (0.99%) CISSP
12 3 (0.99%) PMP
12 3 (0.99%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.86%) SLA
2 10 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.64%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.31%) GDPR
5 5 (1.65%) GRC
5 5 (1.65%) NIST
6 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.66%) QA
8 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.33%) COBIT
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.61%) Docker
2 17 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.30%) NFS
4 8 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.65%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.99%) Firmware
7 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.66%) vSphere
8 2 (0.66%) XenApp
8 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (6.60%) Terraform
2 19 (6.27%) SCCM
3 12 (3.96%) Ansible
3 12 (3.96%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.97%) Grafana
6 7 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.98%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.32%) Istio
9 4 (1.32%) Podman
10 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.99%) Rancher
10 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.66%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.66%) Avamar
11 2 (0.66%) CA Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.66%) CASB
11 2 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 70 (23.10%) ServiceNow
2 56 (18.48%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.92%) Remedy
4 23 (7.59%) Oracle
5 20 (6.60%) Cisco
5 20 (6.60%) VMware
6 12 (3.96%) SAP
7 10 (3.30%) Splunk
8 9 (2.97%) Broadcom
9 8 (2.64%) Dell
10 7 (2.31%) BMC
10 7 (2.31%) Brocade
10 7 (2.31%) Citrix
10 7 (2.31%) Denodo
10 7 (2.31%) IBM
11 6 (1.98%) Canon
11 6 (1.98%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.65%) SolarWinds