Problem Management Contracts in the South West

Problem Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 84 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 27 41 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.61% 1.28% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.54% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 21
10th Percentile £263 £425 £363
25th Percentile £300 £441 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +30.00% +3.23%
75th Percentile £594 £628 £638
90th Percentile £601 £638 £650
England median daily rate £450 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -3.22% -11.43% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 5
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.54% -
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 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +31 20 £600 +15.38% 4
Bristol +16 3 £300 -50.00% 4
Somerset -3 3 £275 - 5
Gloucestershire +14 1 £230 -45.88% 7
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (74.07%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (40.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (29.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Service Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Availability Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Capacity and Availability Manager
2 10 (37.04%) Capacity Manager
3 2 (7.41%) Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Firewall Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Network Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Problem Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Report Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Service Level Manager
4 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) CentOS
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) ITIL
2 20 (74.07%) Service Management
3 18 (66.67%) Quality Management
3 18 (66.67%) Statistics
4 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (37.04%) Availability Management
5 10 (37.04%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 10 (37.04%) Planning and Forecasting
5 10 (37.04%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (33.33%) Capacity Management
6 9 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
6 9 (33.33%) Time Management
7 8 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (29.63%) Data Analysis
8 7 (25.93%) Service Catalogue
9 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
10 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 3 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.70%) Puppet
1 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Sophos
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy