Problem Management Contracts in Sheffield

Problem Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 33 38 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 17 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.33% 4.49% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 4.84% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile £360 £505 -
25th Percentile £368 £554 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -13.85% +52.22%
75th Percentile £389 £576 -
90th Percentile £466 £579 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £380 £430 £650
% change year-on-year -11.63% -33.85% +52.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in Sheffield

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 9 (52.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
1 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
1 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle Database
2 9 (52.94%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Backup Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Database Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) IT Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Project Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Quality Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Change Management
2 12 (70.59%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (64.71%) Migration
3 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (64.71%) Translating Business Requirements
4 10 (58.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (52.94%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.76%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) OO
7 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) Service Management
7 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Software Licensing
7 2 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (11.76%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Oracle
2 9 (52.94%) Commvault
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Snow
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft