Problem Management Contracts in the North West

Problem Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 88 98
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +40
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 42 48 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.14% 1.76% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.07% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 37
10th Percentile £228 £397 £310
25th Percentile £325 £437 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £493 £440
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +12.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £547 £495 £650
90th Percentile £600 £506 £675
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £38.73 £25.85 £27.25
25th Percentile £40.13 £26.37 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.86 £26.66 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.50% -50.40% +289.78%
75th Percentile £46.19 £26.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £46.75 £26.90 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,768 2,323 2,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.93% 85.19% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,453 1,917
10th Percentile £300 £307 £313
25th Percentile £391 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £679 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 264 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.55 £14.00 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.20 £26.46 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -24.41% +53.85%
75th Percentile £63.30 £46.18 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.73 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.85% - +50.00%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Cheshire +13 18 £325 -33.33% 26
Manchester +20 12 £473 +14.55% 44
Cumbria -10 11 £525 +6.49%
Lancashire - 1 - - 15
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (28.57%) Skype for Business
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (19.05%) Mattermost
4 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (9.52%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
3 5 (11.90%) SaaS
4 2 (4.76%) AWS
4 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.76%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Skype
2 8 (19.05%) Softphone
2 8 (19.05%) Unified Communications
2 8 (19.05%) WebEx
3 6 (14.29%) LAN
3 6 (14.29%) SAN
3 6 (14.29%) WAN
4 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (11.90%) Wireless
4 5 (11.90%) WLAN
5 4 (9.52%) PSTN
5 4 (9.52%) SMTP
6 2 (4.76%) NAS
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.38%) DHCP
7 1 (2.38%) DNS
7 1 (2.38%) Firewall
7 1 (2.38%) MPLS
7 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.38%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Legal
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
4 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Analyst
1 10 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Messaging Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Messaging Support
2 8 (19.05%) Messaging Support Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Operations Support Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Operational Support Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Operations Support Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Collaboration Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.14%) IT Services Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (14.29%) CMDB
3 5 (11.90%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (9.52%) Blackberry
4 4 (9.52%) Handset
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Android
2 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.76%) AIX
3 2 (4.76%) CentOS
3 2 (4.76%) HPUX
3 2 (4.76%) Solaris
3 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) ITIL
2 21 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (28.57%) Change Management
4 10 (23.81%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) ITSM
6 8 (19.05%) B2B
6 8 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (19.05%) Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 6 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.90%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (9.52%) Service Management
11 3 (7.14%) Configuration Management
11 3 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Python
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) Perl
4 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (30.95%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (14.29%) CCNA
4 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (11.90%) Degree
6 2 (4.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.76%) PMP
7 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 3 (7.14%) ISO 22301
2 3 (7.14%) ISO 31000
2 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.52%) Firmware
3 2 (4.76%) KVM
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) SCOM
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (11.90%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.14%) NetBackup
4 2 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (4.76%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.38%) Nagios
5 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 17 (40.48%) Cisco
3 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
4 8 (19.05%) Splunk
5 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (9.52%) Clearswift
6 4 (9.52%) Ribbon
7 3 (7.14%) Brocade
7 3 (7.14%) EMC
7 3 (7.14%) HP
8 2 (4.76%) Nintex
8 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.76%) Veritas
8 2 (4.76%) VMware
9 1 (2.38%) Aruba
9 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto