Problem Management Contracts in Scotland

Problem Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 87 92 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 29 37 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.78% 1.67% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.88% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £368 £410 £404
25th Percentile £398 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +7.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £518 £600 £474
90th Percentile £588 £661 £582
UK median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.95% -6.30% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Scotland

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -2 20 £445 - 9
Edinburgh +13 9 £463 - 1
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) OCI
3 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.90%) IaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) MPLS
2 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) DB2
5 1 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (3.45%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 5 (17.24%) Law
5 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (10.34%) Legal
7 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Database Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Database Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Server Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Applications Support
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Linux Server Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Technician
6 1 (3.45%) Service Desk Technician
6 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Middleware
2 4 (13.79%) Loki
3 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.45%) Flash
3 1 (3.45%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (3.45%) J2EE
3 1 (3.45%) POSIX
3 1 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Clustering
2 4 (13.79%) Replication
3 3 (10.34%) CMDB
4 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.45%) NVMe
5 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 13 (44.83%) Windows
3 8 (27.59%) Unix
4 7 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (13.79%) AIX
6 4 (13.79%) Solaris
7 1 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) ITIL
2 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (24.14%) High Availability
3 7 (24.14%) Project Delivery
3 7 (24.14%) Service Management
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Change Management
4 6 (20.69%) Incident Management
4 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) SDLC
5 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Debt
6 4 (13.79%) Database Tuning
6 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.79%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (13.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (10.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (10.34%) Docker
4 2 (6.90%) GPFS
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Ansible
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Data Guard
3 4 (13.79%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (13.79%) Grafana
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Flashback
3 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (3.45%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (3.45%) Podman
5 1 (3.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Red Hat
1 9 (31.03%) VMware
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle
3 6 (20.69%) Dynatrace
3 6 (20.69%) Splunk
3 6 (20.69%) Veritas
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Dell
5 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (10.34%) IBM
7 2 (6.90%) Brocade
7 2 (6.90%) EMC
7 2 (6.90%) Google
7 2 (6.90%) NetApp
7 2 (6.90%) Sybase
8 1 (3.45%) Aruba
8 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.45%) Proofpoint
8 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.45%) Symantec