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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 286 263
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 +62
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 79 103 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.65% 0.59% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.67% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 67 163
10th Percentile £319 £321 £275
25th Percentile £408 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.22% +0.09%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £638
90th Percentile £679 £543 £710
England median daily rate £450 £465 £515
% change year-on-year -3.22% -9.71% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £36.88 - -
25th Percentile £37.81 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 - £57.50
75th Percentile £45.31 - £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 11,169 15,405 23,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 88.28% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,469 11,029 16,708
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £429 £446 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 318 263
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.00 £22.08
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -28.21% +9.86%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.25 £68.23 £82.45
England median hourly rate £28.08 £37.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -25.13% +1.99% +47.08%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -7 7 £575 +39.39% 2
West London - 6 £350 - 9
South London - 3 £613 - 4
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 (11.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.80%) IIS
3 3 (3.80%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.53%) JBoss
4 2 (2.53%) NetWeaver
4 2 (2.53%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.27%) CMS
5 1 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (1.27%) Mattermost
5 1 (1.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) AutoCAD
1 3 (3.80%) InfoPath
1 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) SAP BPC
1 2 (2.53%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.27%) Endur
2 1 (1.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.13%) Azure
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.33%) AWS
2 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.06%) OneDrive
3 4 (5.06%) Power Automate
3 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
4 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.80%) IaaS
4 3 (3.80%) ShareGate
5 2 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.53%) Datadog
5 2 (2.53%) GitHub
5 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.27%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) VPN
2 4 (5.06%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.06%) SSH
2 4 (5.06%) SSL
3 3 (3.80%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.80%) DNS
3 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 3 (3.80%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.80%) LAN
3 3 (3.80%) MPLS
3 3 (3.80%) SD-WAN
3 3 (3.80%) WAN
4 2 (2.53%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.53%) SAN
4 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.27%) Skype
5 1 (1.27%) Softphone
5 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) DB2
2 3 (3.80%) MySQL
2 3 (3.80%) SAP HANA
2 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.53%) IMS/DB
3 2 (2.53%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.53%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) Maven
2 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.27%) Git
General
1 34 (43.04%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Finance
3 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (20.25%) Banking
5 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (7.59%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.06%) Law
9 3 (3.80%) Legal
10 2 (2.53%) Back Office
10 2 (2.53%) Front Office
10 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.27%) French Language
11 1 (1.27%) International Banking
11 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (10.13%) Analyst
2 6 (7.59%) Administrator
2 6 (7.59%) Applications Support
2 6 (7.59%) Consultant
2 6 (7.59%) Service Manager
3 4 (5.06%) Architect
3 4 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (5.06%) Management Consultant
3 4 (5.06%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
3 4 (5.06%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (3.80%) Banking Analyst
4 3 (3.80%) Lead
4 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
4 3 (3.80%) Service Management Consultant
5 2 (2.53%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (2.53%) Data Engineer
5 2 (2.53%) IT Support
5 2 (2.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Web Services
2 4 (5.06%) J2EE
2 4 (5.06%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.80%) CSS
3 3 (3.80%) Middleware
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) SOAP
3 3 (3.80%) XML
4 2 (2.53%) .NET
4 2 (2.53%) JDBC
4 2 (2.53%) jQuery
4 2 (2.53%) Node.js
4 2 (2.53%) pytest
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.53%) Sass
4 2 (2.53%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.06%) CMDB
2 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.80%) Digital Signage
3 3 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.80%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Derivative
4 2 (2.53%) Equities
4 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Wiki
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.32%) Windows
2 12 (15.19%) Unix
3 10 (12.66%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.53%) CentOS
6 1 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.84%) ITIL
2 26 (32.91%) Service Management
3 22 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (26.58%) Change Management
4 21 (26.58%) Incident Management
5 16 (20.25%) Agile
6 15 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (17.72%) ITSM
7 14 (17.72%) Process Improvement
8 12 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (15.19%) Service Delivery
9 11 (13.92%) Migration
10 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.13%) DevOps
11 8 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (10.13%) Incident Response
11 8 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (10.13%) Project Management
11 8 (10.13%) Time Management
12 7 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.66%) SQL
2 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.33%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) ActionScript
4 4 (5.06%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.06%) Python
5 2 (2.53%) C
5 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.53%) REXX
6 1 (1.27%) ABAP
6 1 (1.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.27%) CBAP
7 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.27%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.27%) IIBA
7 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.27%) MCSE
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) SLA
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) GDPR
2 1 (1.27%) ISO 22301
2 1 (1.27%) ISO 31000
2 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) PMO
2 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.27%) Docker
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) Cisco Prime
1 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Ansible
2 2 (2.53%) Puppet
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.27%) SCCM
3 1 (1.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.46%) ServiceNow
3 11 (13.92%) Cisco
4 8 (10.13%) IBM
5 7 (8.86%) VMware
6 6 (7.59%) SAP
7 5 (6.33%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.06%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (3.80%) Aruba
9 3 (3.80%) Citrix
9 3 (3.80%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.80%) Oracle
9 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.53%) Databricks
10 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.53%) Sun
11 1 (1.27%) FactSet
11 1 (1.27%) GoldenSource
11 1 (1.27%) Snow