Problem Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Problem Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 120 119
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +27
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 14 15 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.70% 0.60% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.71% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 28
10th Percentile £313 £505 £409
25th Percentile £391 £522 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £656
90th Percentile £725 £653 £729
England median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 - -
England median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £13.66
% change year-on-year -64.75% +315.41% -19.65%

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 1,806 2,110 2,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.48% 83.93% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,209 1,886
10th Percentile £213 £303 £313
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £731 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 201 277
10th Percentile £15.25 £22.50 £21.64
25th Percentile £18.87 £46.25 £48.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.44 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Problem Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the South West over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the South West

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Problem Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Problem Management

Problem Management
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 16 October 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 +2 6 £525 -10.64% 2
Gloucestershire - 5 £325 - 4
Bristol - 2 £438 - 7
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) assyst
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) 802.11
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) Skype
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VoIP
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Electronics
3 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Marketing
3 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Incident Manager
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL Incident Manager
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) PC Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.14%) UAT Lead
3 1 (7.14%) UAT Test Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Voice Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) ITIL
2 10 (71.43%) Service Management
3 8 (57.14%) Service Catalogue
4 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) Compliance Audit
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (35.71%) ITSM
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
5 5 (35.71%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Software Licensing
6 4 (28.57%) Coaching
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
7 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
7 3 (21.43%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) MCSE
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) MCITP
4 1 (7.14%) MCP
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) MCTS
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Puppet
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Remedy
2 5 (35.71%) SAP
3 3 (21.43%) IFS
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow