Problem Management Contracts in the North of England

Problem Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 101 100 143
Rank change year-on-year -1 +43 +21
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 66 88 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.00% 1.85% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.15% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 49
10th Percentile £244 £401 £321
25th Percentile £325 £421 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £493 £440
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +12.05% +0.47%
75th Percentile £473 £500 £650
90th Percentile £575 £551 £675
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - - £20.05
25th Percentile £37.80 £12.53 £36.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.12% -60.00% +172.25%
75th Percentile £43.39 £26.66 -
90th Percentile - £26.80 -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the North of England

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +8 42 £363 -26.42% 29
Yorkshire -5 22 £375 -12.79% 16
North East -1 1 £421 -13.64% 3
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (15.15%) Confluence
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (13.64%) Skype for Business
3 6 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 5 (7.58%) Mattermost
5 4 (6.06%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.61%) Azure
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.58%) SaaS
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.03%) AWS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.03%) CloudBees
4 2 (3.03%) GCP
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
4 2 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (3.03%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.52%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.64%) SAN
1 9 (13.64%) Skype
2 6 (9.09%) LAN
2 6 (9.09%) WAN
3 5 (7.58%) Softphone
3 5 (7.58%) Unified Communications
3 5 (7.58%) WebEx
3 5 (7.58%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (7.58%) Wireless
3 5 (7.58%) WLAN
4 4 (6.06%) PSTN
4 4 (6.06%) SMTP
5 2 (3.03%) NAS
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) DHCP
6 1 (1.52%) DNS
6 1 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Law
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Analyst
1 12 (18.18%) Backup Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Commvault Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Network Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Messaging Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Messaging Support
4 5 (7.58%) Messaging Support Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Operations Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Operations Support Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Collaboration Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Messaging Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Messaging Support Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Operational Support Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Operations Support Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) Service Manager
5 4 (6.06%) Support Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Management Information System
2 12 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 6 (9.09%) CMDB
4 5 (7.58%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (6.06%) Blackberry
5 4 (6.06%) Handset
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle Licensing
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Android
2 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.03%) AIX
3 2 (3.03%) CentOS
3 2 (3.03%) HPUX
3 2 (3.03%) Solaris
3 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (48.48%) ITIL
2 30 (45.45%) Change Management
3 28 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (25.76%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (21.21%) Agile
6 14 (21.21%) Migration
7 12 (18.18%) ITSM
7 12 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (15.15%) Data Migration
9 8 (12.12%) Service Management
10 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery
10 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (9.09%) Asset Management
12 5 (7.58%) B2B
12 5 (7.58%) Performance Metrics
12 5 (7.58%) Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (7.58%) Storage Management
12 5 (7.58%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.09%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) Python
4 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.03%) Bash
5 2 (3.03%) Java
5 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (1.52%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (37.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (9.09%) CCNA
4 6 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.03%) PMP
6 1 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) SLA
2 3 (4.55%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.55%) ISO 31000
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.09%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) KVM
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.58%) SCOM
2 5 (7.58%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (6.06%) NetBackup
4 3 (4.55%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (4.55%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.03%) Ansible
5 2 (3.03%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.03%) Grafana
5 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.52%) Nagios
6 1 (1.52%) SCCM
6 1 (1.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (24.24%) Cisco
3 12 (18.18%) Oracle
3 12 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 10 (15.15%) Commvault
5 7 (10.61%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.58%) Brocade
6 5 (7.58%) EMC
6 5 (7.58%) HP
6 5 (7.58%) Splunk
7 4 (6.06%) Clearswift
7 4 (6.06%) Ribbon
8 3 (4.55%) Veritas
9 2 (3.03%) Google
9 2 (3.03%) Snow
9 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.03%) VMware
10 1 (1.52%) Aruba
10 1 (1.52%) Nintex
10 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto