Problem Management Contracts in the South East

Problem Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +44
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 19 53 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.95% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.12% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 39 55
10th Percentile £137 £184 £266
25th Percentile £312 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -13.46% +16.85%
75th Percentile £491 £494 £600
90th Percentile £500 £611 £650
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £39.58 £21.60
25th Percentile £23.50 £43.81 £22.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £51.75 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.62% +5.08% +134.24%
75th Percentile £24.50 £58.81 £77.16
90th Percentile - £62.53 £79.68
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +24 18 £450 - 19
Berkshire +23 11 £450 +28.57% 6
Buckinghamshire +5 7 £274 -40.07% 7
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Akamai
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Datadog
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 3 (15.79%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 2 (10.53%) Wireless
4 1 (5.26%) PuTTY
4 1 (5.26%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DTS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) Toad
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Ajax
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
1 4 (21.05%) REST
1 4 (21.05%) SOAP
1 4 (21.05%) Web Services
1 4 (21.05%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) CMDB
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) ITIL
2 10 (52.63%) Incident Management
2 10 (52.63%) ITSM
3 7 (36.84%) Configuration Management
4 6 (31.58%) Change Management
5 5 (26.32%) IT Asset Management
5 5 (26.32%) Service Management
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
6 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Break/Fix
8 2 (10.53%) Operational Stability
8 2 (10.53%) Operations Management
8 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) BMC
2 3 (15.79%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Snow
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk