Problem Management Contracts in Manchester

Problem Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 81 92
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +34
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 12 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.33% 0.97% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.12% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 9
10th Percentile £213 £313 £395
25th Percentile £394 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £473 £488
90th Percentile £825 £506 £525
North West median daily rate £388 £493 £440
% change year-on-year -21.35% +12.05% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.23% +300.49%
North West median hourly rate £43.86 £26.66 £53.75
% change year-on-year +64.50% -50.40% +289.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 1,248 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.49% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 848 1,195
10th Percentile £312 £321 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Manchester

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Manchester

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Manchester

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Manchester

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Salford -5 3 £800 - 1
Bolton - 1 £150 - 1
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Service Continuity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) ITIL
2 8 (66.67%) Change Management
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) ITSM
5 4 (33.33%) Service Management
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Service Continuity Management
7 2 (16.67%) DevOps
7 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (16.67%) PLM
7 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (25.00%) ISO 31000
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (8.33%) Nagios
1 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto