Problem Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Problem Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 103 112
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 15 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 1.33% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.54% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 19
10th Percentile £385 - £337
25th Percentile - £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year - +8.32% -6.64%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £509
90th Percentile £508 £501 £536
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £505
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.89% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £33.45
25th Percentile £23.50 - £49.13
Median hourly rate £24.00 £58.49 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -22.53% +344.12%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £78.56
90th Percentile - - £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £48.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -50.51% -35.77% +259.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,361 2,278 2,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 86.35% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1,253 1,759
10th Percentile £300 £220 £313
25th Percentile £407 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £501
% change year-on-year -2.15% +2.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 167 69
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £17.25
25th Percentile £14.51 £19.25 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -17.52% +213.20%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.85 £73.59
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.10
% change year-on-year -41.31% -8.83% +137.57%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the Thames Valley

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire +21 12 £475 +58.33% 8
Buckinghamshire -1 3 £274 -39.07% 12
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) PuTTY
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) Maven
1 1 (6.67%) Toad
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Major Incident Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Ajax
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) SOAP
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
1 4 (26.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) ITIL
2 9 (60.00%) ITSM
3 8 (53.33%) Incident Management
4 5 (33.33%) Change Management
4 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 5 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
4 5 (33.33%) Service Management
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
7 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Operational Stability
7 2 (13.33%) Operations Management
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) BMC
3 2 (13.33%) Remedy
4 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) McAfee
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Snow
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) VMware