Problem Management Contracts in the North of England

Problem Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 140 183
Rank change year-on-year +36 +43 -47
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 83 72 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.78% 1.27% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.40% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 42
10th Percentile £403 £344 £183
25th Percentile £425 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £440 £444
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -0.90% +121.99%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £475
90th Percentile £536 £675 £536
England median daily rate £465 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 8
10th Percentile - £31.25 £14.77
25th Percentile £12.53 £47.19 £19.43
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +172.25% +9.77%
75th Percentile £26.66 - £28.75
90th Percentile £26.80 - £29.43
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
North of England

Problem Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

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 9 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 May 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
North West -1 46 £493 +14.32% 14
Yorkshire +40 35 £430 -8.51% 12
North East - 2 £488 - 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 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.87%) GitHub
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.20%) Azure
3 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) Intranet
2 1 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.20%) DHCP
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) NAS
2 1 (1.20%) SAN
2 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) Data Mining
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.20%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
General
1 47 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.02%) Finance
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Billing
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) Storage Manager
2 15 (18.07%) Problem Manager
3 12 (14.46%) Availability Manager
3 12 (14.46%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 12 (14.46%) Capacity Manager
4 11 (13.25%) Analyst
5 6 (7.23%) Senior
6 5 (6.02%) Data Scientist
6 5 (6.02%) Service Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Operations Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Service Manager
9 2 (2.41%) Project Coordinator
9 2 (2.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) YAML
2 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.61%) CSS
2 3 (3.61%) HTML
2 3 (3.61%) LDAP
3 2 (2.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.20%) React Native
4 1 (1.20%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.20%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Management Information System
2 14 (16.87%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.87%) Virtual Team
3 6 (7.23%) CMDB
4 3 (3.61%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.69%) Linux
1 18 (21.69%) zOS
2 2 (2.41%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (60.24%) Service Management
2 37 (44.58%) ITIL
2 37 (44.58%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (43.37%) Mentoring
4 28 (33.73%) Quality Management
4 28 (33.73%) Statistics
5 26 (31.33%) Agile
6 20 (24.10%) Project Management
7 19 (22.89%) Incident Management
8 18 (21.69%) Storage Management
9 17 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (19.28%) Capacity Management
10 16 (19.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (19.28%) Time Management
11 15 (18.07%) Availability Management
12 14 (16.87%) Virtual Team Management
13 13 (15.66%) Cost Management
13 13 (15.66%) Proactive Monitoring
13 13 (15.66%) Software Testing
14 12 (14.46%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) Python
2 17 (20.48%) JCL
3 14 (16.87%) REXX
4 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.82%) SQL
6 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 30 (36.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 5 (6.02%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.41%) MCSE
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) CCNA
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) IASME
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (20.48%) NFS
1 17 (20.48%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 14 (16.87%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.20%) Nagios
4 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (21.69%) Broadcom
1 18 (21.69%) Dell
1 18 (21.69%) IBM
2 17 (20.48%) Brocade
2 17 (20.48%) CA
3 12 (14.46%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.82%) SAP
6 3 (3.61%) Kofax
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) Citrix
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) HP
7 1 (1.20%) Meraki
7 1 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.20%) Veeam