Problem Management Contracts in the Midlands

Problem Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 86 99 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 25 34 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.31% 1.23% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.50% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 27
10th Percentile £214 £380 £244
25th Percentile £370 £400 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £527 £488 £600
90th Percentile £538 £518 £650
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +13 25 £487 +8.22% 20
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) QuarkXPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Power Platform
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (8.00%) NGFW
2 2 (8.00%) Wireless
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Lead
1 8 (32.00%) Technical Leader
2 4 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Service Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Quality Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Report Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Software Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Software Support Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
1 2 (8.00%) Middleware
1 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
1 16 (64.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (56.00%) Configuration Management
3 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
3 12 (48.00%) DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) OO
3 12 (48.00%) Process Improvement
3 12 (48.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) Change Management
4 6 (24.00%) ITIL
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Service Management
7 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.00%) CISA
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) CISM
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) GIAC
4 2 (8.00%) ISACA
4 2 (8.00%) SANS
4 2 (8.00%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) Tenable
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Quark