Problem Management Contracts in London

Problem Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 273 265
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +50
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 106 118 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.66% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.75% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 82 180
10th Percentile £381 £335 £300
25th Percentile £414 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% +2.33%
75th Percentile £587 £500 £675
90th Percentile £650 £575 £739
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.88 - -
25th Percentile £37.81 £55.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +4.35% +63.93%
75th Percentile £45.31 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £46.63 - -
England median hourly rate £39.05 £22.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +73.53% +64.71% -5.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in London

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in London

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in London

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in London

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -6 12 £575 +26.03% 1
West London - 5 £350 - 2
South London - 1 - - 7
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.77%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.83%) IIS
4 3 (2.83%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.89%) Apache
5 2 (1.89%) CMS
5 2 (1.89%) JBoss
5 2 (1.89%) NetWeaver
5 2 (1.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.83%) AutoCAD
2 3 (2.83%) InfoPath
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.94%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.75%) AWS
2 21 (19.81%) IaaS
3 19 (17.92%) PaaS
4 16 (15.09%) Snowflake
5 14 (13.21%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (7.55%) Azure
7 7 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.72%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.83%) GitHub
10 3 (2.83%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.83%) ShareGate
11 2 (1.89%) Datadog
11 2 (1.89%) dbt
11 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.94%) BigCommerce
12 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) DNS
1 4 (3.77%) HTTPS
1 4 (3.77%) SSH
1 4 (3.77%) SSL
1 4 (3.77%) VPN
2 3 (2.83%) SAN
3 2 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.89%) DHCP
3 2 (1.89%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.89%) LAN
3 2 (1.89%) MPLS
3 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.89%) WAN
4 1 (0.94%) HTTP
4 1 (0.94%) SWIFTNet
4 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (14.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.77%) DB2
3 4 (3.77%) MySQL
3 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.89%) Flink
4 2 (1.89%) IMS/DB
4 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.89%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.94%) Power BI
5 1 (0.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Git
1 3 (2.83%) JIRA
1 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.89%) GitLab
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) Maven
General
1 39 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (19.81%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Legal
9 3 (2.83%) Law
9 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.89%) Front Office
10 2 (1.89%) Military
10 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.94%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.94%) International Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Police
11 1 (0.94%) Retail
11 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.26%) Analyst
1 13 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (10.38%) Lead
3 9 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (7.55%) Administrator
5 7 (6.60%) Applications Support
5 7 (6.60%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.60%) Service Manager
6 6 (5.66%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.66%) Service Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.66%) Support Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Architect
8 4 (3.77%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Consultant
8 4 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (2.83%) Banking Analyst
9 3 (2.83%) Product Manager
9 3 (2.83%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (1.89%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Web Services
2 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.77%) Bootstrap
3 4 (3.77%) CSS
3 4 (3.77%) J2EE
3 4 (3.77%) Middleware
3 4 (3.77%) REST
3 4 (3.77%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (2.83%) Ajax
4 3 (2.83%) Node.js
4 3 (2.83%) SOAP
4 3 (2.83%) XML
5 2 (1.89%) jQuery
5 2 (1.89%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) RESTful
5 2 (1.89%) SAP Basis
5 2 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.89%) Sass
5 2 (1.89%) Spring
5 2 (1.89%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.66%) CMDB
3 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.77%) Derivative
4 3 (2.83%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.83%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.83%) Wiki
5 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.89%) Equities
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.89%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.70%) Windows
2 15 (14.15%) Unix
3 10 (9.43%) Linux
4 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.89%) CentOS
6 1 (0.94%) Android
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) VMS
6 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (32.08%) ITIL
3 26 (24.53%) Incident Management
4 23 (21.70%) Service Management
5 21 (19.81%) Change Management
6 20 (18.87%) Agile
6 20 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
7 19 (17.92%) Cloud Security
8 16 (15.09%) Service Delivery
9 15 (14.15%) Containerisation
9 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (13.21%) ITSM
10 14 (13.21%) Process Improvement
11 13 (12.26%) Knowledge Transfer
12 10 (9.43%) Configuration Management
12 10 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (9.43%) Migration
12 10 (9.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) Python
2 12 (11.32%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) Java
3 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.77%) ActionScript
4 4 (3.77%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.89%) C
6 2 (1.89%) REXX
7 1 (0.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.94%) Korn
7 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) Degree
4 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) CBAP
7 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.94%) IIBA
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.94%) MCSE
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.94%) ISO 31000
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.94%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.94%) Docker
4 1 (0.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) Terraform
2 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.89%) Ansible
3 2 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.89%) Puppet
3 2 (1.89%) SCCM
4 1 (0.94%) Control-M
4 1 (0.94%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 17 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.15%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.43%) IBM
4 8 (7.55%) Cisco
5 7 (6.60%) VMware
6 6 (5.66%) Oracle
7 5 (4.72%) SAP
8 4 (3.77%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (3.77%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.89%) Aruba
10 2 (1.89%) Citrix
10 2 (1.89%) Confluent
10 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.89%) Remedy
10 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.89%) Sun
11 1 (0.94%) Nexthink