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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 127 94
Rank change year-on-year +15 -33 -18
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 29 31 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.98% 0.96% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.10% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 96
10th Percentile £278 £250 £219
25th Percentile £331 £263 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -4.52% +22.84%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £541
90th Percentile - £650 £586
England median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £23.25 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.38 £16.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +48.65% +35.78%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%

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 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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

Problem Management
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

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the Midlands

Problem Management
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

Problem Management
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 20 June 2024. 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 +11 21 £463 -7.50% 13
East Midlands +10 8 - - 14
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (27.59%) SaaS
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Functions
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) Wireless
3 2 (6.90%) Internet
4 1 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Legal
3 5 (17.24%) Back Office
4 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (27.59%) IT Manager
1 8 (27.59%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 8 (27.59%) IT Services Manager
1 8 (27.59%) Service Delivery Manager
1 8 (27.59%) Service Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Incident Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Major Incident Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Support Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Support
2 4 (13.79%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) AS400
1 2 (6.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) ITIL
2 13 (44.83%) Service Management
3 12 (41.38%) Change Management
4 10 (34.48%) Incident Management
5 8 (27.59%) Business Analysis
5 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
5 8 (27.59%) Information Security
5 8 (27.59%) IT Governance
5 8 (27.59%) ITSM
5 8 (27.59%) Migration
5 8 (27.59%) People Management
5 8 (27.59%) Performance Metrics
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Service Delivery
5 8 (27.59%) Service Delivery Management
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
6 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (17.24%) Process Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Runbook
6 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Swift
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Dell Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) SysTrack
2 2 (6.90%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) Okta
3 5 (17.24%) Citrix
3 5 (17.24%) New Relic
3 5 (17.24%) OpenAI
3 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
4 4 (13.79%) SAP
5 2 (6.90%) Dell
5 2 (6.90%) Fujitsu
5 2 (6.90%) HP
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) Sun