Problem Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Problem Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 39 37
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 9 3 17
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.25% 0.96% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.04% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 14
10th Percentile £439 - £403
25th Percentile £488 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £587
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.49%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £575 - £589
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 688 288 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.82% 92.31% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 163 234
10th Percentile £317 £220 £388
25th Percentile £400 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -7.28% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in Sheffield

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Banking
3 5 (55.56%) Financial Institution
3 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Incident Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Major Incident Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Service Design Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Service Transition Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Transition Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Expert
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Transition Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Service Design
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Key Management
5 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCA
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
2 1 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk