Problem Management Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Problem Management
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £286 - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £350 - -
90th Percentile £373 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £520
% change year-on-year +4.55% +5.77% +30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 290 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.41% 88.69% 85.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 197 230
10th Percentile £313 £377 £363
25th Percentile £413 £461 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £743 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 45
10th Percentile £16.85 £22.10 £16.79
25th Percentile £28.88 £26.12 £36.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +33.42% -18.80%
75th Percentile £67.92 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.17 £70.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.22% +18.18% -10.57%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Gloucester - 4 £325 - 2
Problem Management
South West

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Coaching
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (60.00%) Service Catalogue
3 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IFS
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft