Problem Management Contracts in the South East

Problem Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Problem Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 139 181
Rank change year-on-year -9 +42 -28
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 53 72 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 1.27% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.42% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 52 54
10th Percentile £184 £274 £336
25th Percentile £300 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £494 £591 £509
90th Percentile £606 £650 £588
England median daily rate £465 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £39.58 £33.45 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £49.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £75.50 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.46% +259.10% -0.12%
75th Percentile £58.81 £78.56 £21.14
90th Percentile £62.53 £80.25 £23.74
England median hourly rate £22.50 £13.66 £14.50
% change year-on-year +64.71% -5.79% -31.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Problem Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 May 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 May 2024. 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 +14 38 £450 +8.32% 18
Buckinghamshire +26 19 £450 +8.32% 6
Berkshire -3 19 £350 -32.69% 8
Kent +11 6 £563 - 6
Surrey +11 6 £198 -62.38% 8
West Sussex 0 2 £193 -44.40%
Hampshire -12 1 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) Confluence
3 4 (7.55%) NetWeaver
4 3 (5.66%) Appian
5 2 (3.77%) Apache
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.43%) Azure
2 2 (3.77%) AWS
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.77%) PaaS
3 1 (1.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) DHCP
1 12 (22.64%) DNS
2 7 (13.21%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) VPN
3 5 (9.43%) TCP/IP
3 5 (9.43%) VLAN
3 5 (9.43%) Wireless
4 3 (5.66%) SAN
5 2 (3.77%) SSL
6 1 (1.89%) HTTP
6 1 (1.89%) Internet
6 1 (1.89%) RNC
6 1 (1.89%) SGSN
6 1 (1.89%) Skype
6 1 (1.89%) SNA
6 1 (1.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) SAP BW
1 4 (7.55%) SAP HANA
2 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.89%) GIS
3 1 (1.89%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.77%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JMeter
2 2 (3.77%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.32%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.55%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (11.32%) Analyst
1 6 (11.32%) Senior
2 5 (9.43%) Hardware Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) IT Support
2 5 (9.43%) IT Support Specialist
2 5 (9.43%) Network Specialist
2 5 (9.43%) Network Support
2 5 (9.43%) Network Support Specialist
2 5 (9.43%) Problem Manager
2 5 (9.43%) Server Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Support Specialist
3 4 (7.55%) Administrator
3 4 (7.55%) Consultant
3 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Lead
3 4 (7.55%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (7.55%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (7.55%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (5.66%) Azure Specialist
4 3 (5.66%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) SAP Basis
1 4 (7.55%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.77%) .NET
2 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) PKI
2 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Windows
2 10 (18.87%) Linux
3 5 (9.43%) Unix
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.77%) VMS
5 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) ITIL
2 19 (35.85%) Incident Management
3 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (28.30%) Change Management
5 14 (26.42%) Agile
6 8 (15.09%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.21%) Data Analysis
7 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (13.21%) Release Management
8 5 (9.43%) Break/Fix
8 5 (9.43%) Business Case
8 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.43%) Customer Experience
8 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
8 5 (9.43%) Service Management
9 4 (7.55%) Due Diligence
9 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (7.55%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
2 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.89%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) Degree
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (7.55%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.89%) APMP
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ISEB
5 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.89%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) NetBackup
2 3 (5.66%) SCCM
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.89%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.89%) Puppet
4 1 (1.89%) SCOM
4 1 (1.89%) vRealize
4 1 (1.89%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) ServiceNow
2 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.87%) HP
4 6 (11.32%) Dell
4 6 (11.32%) SAP
5 4 (7.55%) BT
6 3 (5.66%) 3PAR
6 3 (5.66%) NetApp
6 3 (5.66%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 3 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.66%) Veritas
7 2 (3.77%) McAfee
7 2 (3.77%) MobileIron
7 2 (3.77%) VMware
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco
8 1 (1.89%) Mapinfo
8 1 (1.89%) Nokia
8 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds