Problem Management Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Problem Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.58% - 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £401 £375 £493
% change year-on-year +6.93% -23.94% -1.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 153 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.52% 84.07% 71.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 98 76
10th Percentile £144 £129 £176
25th Percentile £198 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £420
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +5.95% -16.00%
75th Percentile £569 £573 £513
90th Percentile £675 £682 £594
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 10
10th Percentile £17.09 - £16.37
25th Percentile £24.72 £12.21 £19.14
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £27.69
Median % change year-on-year +46.71% -37.52% +38.44%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £39.06
90th Percentile - - £54.00
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £26.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +72.58% -25.50% +9.80%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
Liverpool - 2 £550 - 1
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident and Problem Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Problem Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) Ribbon
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk