Problem Management Contracts in England

Problem Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Problem Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 250 258
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 250 345 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.94% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.09% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 200 292
10th Percentile £300 £300 £272
25th Percentile £388 £384 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £638
90th Percentile £646 £577 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.22% -7.01% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 41 43
10th Percentile £21.79 £13.29 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.50 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £39.05 £22.50 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +73.53% +64.71% -5.79%
75th Percentile £47.22 £25.00 £35.63
90th Percentile £54.25 £27.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +6.67% +64.71% -5.79%

All Process and 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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in England

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +29 84 £500 +13.64% 43
North of England -6 68 £378 -23.00% 76
North West +3 42 £388 -21.35% 37
South West +31 29 £488 -6.25% 25
West Midlands +18 25 £453 -4.63% 30
Midlands +11 25 £453 -4.63% 57
Yorkshire +8 25 £375 -12.79% 33
East of England +27 20 £458 +30.93% 41
South East +27 17 £475 +5.56% 107
North East -1 1 £421 -13.64% 7
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (9.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.00%) Skype for Business
3 12 (4.80%) SharePoint
4 11 (4.40%) Confluence
5 9 (3.60%) Mattermost
6 6 (2.40%) NetWeaver
7 5 (2.00%) IIS
7 5 (2.00%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.60%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (1.20%) JBoss
9 3 (1.20%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.80%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.80%) CMS
10 2 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.20%) InfoPath
1 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) SAP IBP
2 4 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.80%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.40%) Endur
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (11.60%) Azure
2 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
2 17 (6.80%) PowerApps
3 16 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.80%) AWS
5 11 (4.40%) SaaS
6 10 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.80%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.40%) GitHub
8 6 (2.40%) IaaS
9 5 (2.00%) ShareGate
10 4 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.60%) PaaS
10 4 (1.60%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.20%) Datadog
11 3 (1.20%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.80%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.00%) Firewall
2 16 (6.40%) SAN
3 15 (6.00%) Skype
4 14 (5.60%) LAN
4 14 (5.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (5.60%) WAN
5 10 (4.00%) VPN
5 10 (4.00%) Wireless
6 9 (3.60%) DNS
6 9 (3.60%) Softphone
6 9 (3.60%) Unified Communications
6 9 (3.60%) WebEx
7 7 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.40%) DHCP
8 6 (2.40%) NAS
8 6 (2.40%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.40%) SMTP
9 5 (2.00%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.00%) SSH
9 5 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) Oracle Database
2 11 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (2.80%) SAP HANA
4 6 (2.40%) SAP BW
5 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.60%) DB2
7 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.20%) MySQL
7 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.80%) DTS
8 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.80%) IMS/DB
8 2 (0.80%) Power BI
8 2 (0.80%) Tableau
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 13 (5.20%) Jenkins
1 13 (5.20%) JIRA
2 11 (4.40%) Git
3 5 (2.00%) Postman
4 3 (1.20%) GitLab
4 3 (1.20%) Maven
5 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) Toad
6 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 98 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 71 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (19.60%) Finance
4 28 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.60%) Banking
6 17 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.40%) Back Office
10 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.40%) Law
11 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.60%) Legal
13 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.80%) Billing
14 2 (0.80%) Front Office
14 2 (0.80%) Marketing
14 2 (0.80%) Retail
15 1 (0.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 29 (11.60%) Analyst
2 26 (10.40%) Service Manager
3 16 (6.40%) Support Engineer
4 15 (6.00%) Lead
5 13 (5.20%) Administrator
5 13 (5.20%) Consultant
6 12 (4.80%) Delivery Manager
6 12 (4.80%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.40%) Messaging Engineer
8 10 (4.00%) Architect
8 10 (4.00%) Availability Manager
8 10 (4.00%) Backup Engineer
8 10 (4.00%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 10 (4.00%) Capacity Manager
8 10 (4.00%) Senior
8 10 (4.00%) Service Delivery Manager
8 10 (4.00%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.60%) Commvault Engineer
9 9 (3.60%) Messaging Support
9 9 (3.60%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.20%) Web Services
2 9 (3.60%) XMPP
3 8 (3.20%) CSS
4 7 (2.80%) Ajax
4 7 (2.80%) HTML
4 7 (2.80%) REST
4 7 (2.80%) SOAP
4 7 (2.80%) XML
5 6 (2.40%) LDAP
5 6 (2.40%) Middleware
5 6 (2.40%) SAP Basis
5 6 (2.40%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.00%) J2EE
7 4 (1.60%) .NET
7 4 (1.60%) Bootstrap
7 4 (1.60%) Node.js
7 4 (1.60%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (0.80%) pytest
8 2 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.40%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.20%) CMDB
4 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.60%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.40%) Blackberry
6 6 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.00%) Replication
7 5 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.60%) Clustering
8 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.60%) Handset
9 3 (1.20%) Digital Signage
9 3 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Licensing
10 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.80%) Windows
2 35 (14.00%) Linux
3 24 (9.60%) Unix
4 11 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.40%) Android
5 6 (2.40%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.00%) CentOS
7 4 (1.60%) AIX
7 4 (1.60%) Solaris
7 4 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.80%) HPUX
9 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (52.40%) ITIL
2 94 (37.60%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (28.40%) Change Management
4 68 (27.20%) Service Management
5 61 (24.40%) Agile
6 54 (21.60%) Incident Management
7 42 (16.80%) ITSM
8 39 (15.60%) Configuration Management
9 36 (14.40%) DevOps
9 36 (14.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (14.40%) Migration
9 36 (14.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 35 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
10 35 (14.00%) Service Delivery
11 33 (13.20%) Process Improvement
12 31 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.60%) Mentoring
15 21 (8.40%) Translating Business Requirements
16 19 (7.60%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.60%) SQL
2 23 (9.20%) PowerShell
3 18 (7.20%) Python
4 9 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.20%) Java
6 5 (2.00%) ActionScript
6 5 (2.00%) ActionScript 2.0
7 3 (1.20%) Bash
7 3 (1.20%) C
7 3 (1.20%) C#
7 3 (1.20%) Perl
7 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.80%) REXX
9 1 (0.40%) ABAP
9 1 (0.40%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) Groovy
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 40 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
4 18 (7.20%) Degree
5 11 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.20%) CCNA
7 7 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CCIE
9 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.20%) PMP
10 2 (0.80%) CCNP
10 2 (0.80%) ISACA
10 2 (0.80%) SANS
10 2 (0.80%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.20%) SLA
2 5 (2.00%) QA
3 4 (1.60%) ISO 22301
3 4 (1.60%) ISO 31000
3 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) ITGC
System Software
1 35 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.40%) Docker
4 5 (2.00%) Firmware
5 4 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.80%) KVM
7 2 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.80%) vSphere
8 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.40%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 13 (5.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (4.80%) Ansible
3 10 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.00%) Puppet
4 9 (3.60%) SCOM
5 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.40%) SCCM
6 6 (2.40%) Terraform
7 5 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.60%) Grafana
8 4 (1.60%) Podman
9 3 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.80%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.40%) ServiceNow
3 34 (13.60%) Cisco
4 23 (9.20%) VMware
5 21 (8.40%) Red Hat
6 18 (7.20%) Oracle
7 12 (4.80%) SAP
8 10 (4.00%) Commvault
8 10 (4.00%) IBM
8 10 (4.00%) Splunk
9 7 (2.80%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.80%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.40%) HP
10 6 (2.40%) NetApp
10 6 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.40%) Remedy
11 5 (2.00%) IBM Sterling
11 5 (2.00%) Snow
12 4 (1.60%) Clearswift