Problem Management Contracts in England

Problem Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 256 266
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 355 503 713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 1.03% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.14% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 317 461
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £633 £575
90th Percentile £599 £718 £650
UK median daily rate £465 £490 £487
% change year-on-year -5.11% +0.62% +20.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 83
10th Percentile £13.29 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%
75th Percentile £25.00 £65.00 £21.22
90th Percentile £34.95 £65.75 £35.79
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Problem Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 -24 105 £440 -20.00% 39
North of England +43 83 £493 +12.05% 27
South East -1 53 £450 -11.76% 39
North West 0 46 £493 +14.32% 11
South West +29 42 £520 +18.86% 14
Yorkshire +38 35 £430 -8.51% 13
Midlands +26 35 £425 +11.84% 22
West Midlands +10 27 £425 -6.08% 10
East of England -8 27 £350 -36.36% 15
East Midlands +22 8 - - 12
North East - 2 £488 - 3
Problem Management
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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 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.94%) Confluence
3 10 (2.82%) NetWeaver
4 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.13%) IIS
6 3 (0.85%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Appian
6 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) SAP IBP
2 4 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.56%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.80%) Azure
2 31 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (5.92%) AWS
4 18 (5.07%) GitHub
5 11 (3.10%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.82%) SaaS
7 9 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.97%) Azure Functions
8 7 (1.97%) Serverless
9 6 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.69%) GCP
10 5 (1.41%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.41%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.13%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.85%) PaaS
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.04%) Firewall
2 21 (5.92%) DHCP
3 20 (5.63%) DNS
4 18 (5.07%) VPN
5 17 (4.79%) LAN
5 17 (4.79%) Wireless
6 16 (4.51%) WAN
7 8 (2.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (1.97%) IPsec
8 7 (1.97%) MPLS
8 7 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.69%) BGP
9 6 (1.69%) OSPF
9 6 (1.69%) VXLAN
10 5 (1.41%) Internet
10 5 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.41%) VLAN
11 4 (1.13%) Cisco Wireless
11 4 (1.13%) Intranet
11 4 (1.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.82%) SAP BW
1 10 (2.82%) SAP HANA
2 9 (2.54%) Power BI
2 9 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.69%) Metadata
4 6 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) GIS
7 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.28%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.28%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.48%) JIRA
2 16 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Git
4 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.56%) JMeter
4 2 (0.56%) Selenium
4 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 130 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (18.03%) Finance
4 43 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.07%) Banking
6 14 (3.94%) Legal
7 13 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.82%) Front Office
10 7 (1.97%) Back Office
10 7 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.13%) Marketing
11 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Billing
12 3 (0.85%) Electronics
12 3 (0.85%) French Language
13 2 (0.56%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Military
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (15.21%) Analyst
2 34 (9.58%) Problem Manager
3 26 (7.32%) Service Analyst
4 25 (7.04%) Senior
4 25 (7.04%) Service Desk Analyst
5 24 (6.76%) Incident Manager
6 20 (5.63%) Storage Manager
7 19 (5.35%) IT Support
7 19 (5.35%) Service Manager
8 17 (4.79%) Administrator
8 17 (4.79%) Availability Manager
8 17 (4.79%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 17 (4.79%) Capacity Manager
8 17 (4.79%) Consultant
9 15 (4.23%) Support Specialist
10 14 (3.94%) IT Support Specialist
10 14 (3.94%) Service Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.66%) Call Centre Analyst
11 13 (3.66%) Customer Analyst
11 13 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.23%) YAML
2 10 (2.82%) SAP Basis
2 10 (2.82%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (1.41%) .NET
3 5 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.13%) LDAP
5 3 (0.85%) CSS
5 3 (0.85%) HTML
5 3 (0.85%) Middleware
5 3 (0.85%) Web Services
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.56%) Kafka
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.56%) RESTful
6 2 (0.56%) XMPP
7 1 (0.28%) ISPF
7 1 (0.28%) OpenLayers
7 1 (0.28%) React Native
7 1 (0.28%) REST
7 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.86%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.94%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.66%) PKI
5 11 (3.10%) CMDB
6 8 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.13%) AS400
10 4 (1.13%) Clustering
10 4 (1.13%) Handset
10 4 (1.13%) Replication
11 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.59%) Windows
2 48 (13.52%) Linux
3 24 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.92%) zOS
5 16 (4.51%) Unix
6 11 (3.10%) Windows 10
7 10 (2.82%) Apple iOS
8 8 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.85%) VMS
12 2 (0.56%) Android
12 2 (0.56%) CentOS
13 1 (0.28%) AIX
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (50.42%) ITIL
2 124 (34.93%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (32.39%) Incident Management
4 101 (28.45%) Service Management
5 76 (21.41%) Change Management
6 64 (18.03%) Agile
7 51 (14.37%) Mentoring
8 44 (12.39%) Service Delivery
9 43 (12.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 42 (11.83%) ITSM
11 38 (10.70%) Decision-Making
12 36 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (9.86%) Customer Service
14 34 (9.58%) Data Analysis
15 32 (9.01%) Statistics
16 31 (8.73%) Project Management
17 28 (7.89%) Knowledge Management
17 28 (7.89%) Quality Management
18 26 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 28 (7.89%) Python
3 20 (5.63%) JCL
4 17 (4.79%) SQL
5 16 (4.51%) REXX
6 8 (2.25%) Swift
7 4 (1.13%) Java
7 4 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.85%) C#
9 1 (0.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.28%) C
9 1 (0.28%) C++
9 1 (0.28%) Go
9 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (29.01%) Security Cleared
2 80 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 40 (11.27%) Degree
4 24 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.51%) MCP
6 15 (4.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.25%) CCNP
9 8 (2.25%) SAP Certification
10 7 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.41%) MCSE
13 4 (1.13%) CCNA
14 2 (0.56%) CCIE
14 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.56%) Dell Certification
14 2 (0.56%) HNC
14 2 (0.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.58%) SLA
2 6 (1.69%) QA
3 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.13%) GDPR
3 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.85%) IASME
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (9.86%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.63%) Time Sharing Option
3 19 (5.35%) NFS
4 7 (1.97%) Firmware
4 7 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.85%) Docker
6 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.85%) vSphere
7 2 (0.56%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.56%) XenApp
8 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (6.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 19 (5.35%) Ansible
3 17 (4.79%) SCCM
4 8 (2.25%) Control-M
5 6 (1.69%) SysTrack
5 6 (1.69%) Terraform
6 4 (1.13%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.85%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.56%) CEMLI
8 2 (0.56%) SCOM
8 2 (0.56%) WSUS
9 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.28%) vRealize
9 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 65 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.24%) ServiceNow
3 32 (9.01%) Dell
4 26 (7.32%) Citrix
5 25 (7.04%) IBM
5 25 (7.04%) SAP
6 24 (6.76%) Broadcom
7 19 (5.35%) Brocade
7 19 (5.35%) CA
7 19 (5.35%) Cisco
8 13 (3.66%) HP
9 12 (3.38%) Remedy
10 11 (3.10%) F5
10 11 (3.10%) VMware
11 8 (2.25%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.25%) Okta
12 6 (1.69%) NetApp
12 6 (1.69%) Oracle
13 5 (1.41%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.41%) Red Hat