Problem Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 167 153 182
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 190 285 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 1.37% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.62% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 152 194
10th Percentile £263 £301 £263
25th Percentile £360 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £500 £530 £571
90th Percentile £578 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £468 £500
% change year-on-year -3.95% -6.30% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 47 53
10th Percentile - £13.29 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.50 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £32.30 £18.00 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +79.42% +31.77% -5.79%
75th Percentile £50.04 £25.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £62.02 £26.80 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.05 £22.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +73.53% +64.71% -5.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem Management in the UK excluding London

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -1 66 £375 -23.94% 79
North West +8 42 £363 -26.42% 42
Scotland +5 29 £445 -7.77% 20
South West +32 27 £488 -6.25% 26
West Midlands +13 25 £487 +8.22% 38
Midlands +13 25 £487 +8.22% 55
Yorkshire -5 22 £375 -12.79% 30
East of England +19 20 £458 +30.93% 37
South East +12 19 £450 - 74
Wales +3 4 £363 +20.83% 8
North East -1 1 £421 -13.64% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.32%) Confluence
3 11 (5.79%) Skype for Business
4 9 (4.74%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.63%) Mattermost
6 4 (2.11%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (2.11%) NetWeaver
7 2 (1.05%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.05%) IIS
8 1 (0.53%) JBoss
8 1 (0.53%) SAS
8 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.05%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.21%) Azure
2 14 (7.37%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.84%) AWS
4 12 (6.32%) PowerApps
5 11 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.74%) SaaS
7 5 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.63%) OCI
8 4 (2.11%) GitHub
8 4 (2.11%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.58%) GCP
9 3 (1.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.58%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.58%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.05%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.05%) CloudBees
10 2 (1.05%) Cohesity
10 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.47%) SAN
2 12 (6.32%) Firewall
3 11 (5.79%) LAN
3 11 (5.79%) Skype
3 11 (5.79%) WAN
4 9 (4.74%) Wireless
5 6 (3.16%) NAS
5 6 (3.16%) SMTP
5 6 (3.16%) VPN
6 5 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (2.63%) Softphone
6 5 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.63%) Unified Communications
6 5 (2.63%) WebEx
6 5 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.63%) WLAN
7 4 (2.11%) HTTP
7 4 (2.11%) Network Security
7 4 (2.11%) PSTN
8 2 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.37%) Oracle Database
2 13 (6.84%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (2.11%) SAP BW
4 4 (2.11%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.05%) DB2
6 2 (1.05%) DTS
6 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.05%) Power BI
6 2 (1.05%) Tableau
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Git
2 7 (3.68%) JIRA
3 6 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Maven
6 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 71 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 58 (30.53%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (19.47%) Finance
4 17 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.21%) Banking
7 8 (4.21%) Law
7 8 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.63%) Legal
9 4 (2.11%) Back Office
10 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.05%) Billing
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Electronics
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (12.63%) Service Manager
2 22 (11.58%) Analyst
3 14 (7.37%) Backup Engineer
4 12 (6.32%) Lead
5 11 (5.79%) Commvault Engineer
5 11 (5.79%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.26%) Availability Manager
6 10 (5.26%) Capacity and Availability Manager
6 10 (5.26%) Capacity Manager
6 10 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 9 (4.74%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (4.74%) Senior
8 8 (4.21%) Administrator
8 8 (4.21%) Consultant
8 8 (4.21%) Database Engineer
8 8 (4.21%) Technical Leader
9 7 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.68%) Messaging Engineer
9 7 (3.68%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (3.68%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.21%) Middleware
2 6 (3.16%) HTML
2 6 (3.16%) Web Services
3 5 (2.63%) XMPP
4 4 (2.11%) Ajax
4 4 (2.11%) CSS
4 4 (2.11%) LDAP
4 4 (2.11%) Loki
4 4 (2.11%) REST
4 4 (2.11%) SAP Basis
4 4 (2.11%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (2.11%) SOAP
4 4 (2.11%) XML
5 2 (1.05%) .NET
6 1 (0.53%) Flash
6 1 (0.53%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (0.53%) J2EE
6 1 (0.53%) Node.js
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.53%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.84%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.42%) CMDB
2 16 (8.42%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.74%) Replication
4 8 (4.21%) Clustering
5 6 (3.16%) Blackberry
5 6 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.11%) Handset
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Licensing
8 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.00%) Linux
2 29 (15.26%) Windows
3 16 (8.42%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.89%) Unix
5 8 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.16%) AIX
6 6 (3.16%) Solaris
6 6 (3.16%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.11%) Android
9 3 (1.58%) CentOS
10 2 (1.05%) HPUX
10 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.53%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (57.37%) ITIL
2 74 (38.95%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (31.05%) Change Management
4 46 (24.21%) Service Management
5 42 (22.11%) Agile
6 36 (18.95%) Incident Management
7 34 (17.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 33 (17.37%) Performance Tuning
9 29 (15.26%) Configuration Management
10 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (14.74%) ITSM
11 25 (13.16%) Service Delivery
12 24 (12.63%) DevOps
13 23 (12.11%) Migration
14 21 (11.05%) Capacity Management
14 21 (11.05%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (10.53%) Process Improvement
16 18 (9.47%) Mentoring
16 18 (9.47%) Quality Management
16 18 (9.47%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.79%) SQL
2 16 (8.42%) Python
3 14 (7.37%) Shell Script
4 13 (6.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.58%) Perl
7 2 (1.05%) Bash
7 2 (1.05%) C#
7 2 (1.05%) Java
7 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.53%) Groovy
8 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 45 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.37%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (5.79%) Degree
5 8 (4.21%) CCNA
5 8 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.58%) PMP
8 2 (1.05%) CISA
8 2 (1.05%) CISM
8 2 (1.05%) CISSP
8 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.05%) GIAC
8 2 (1.05%) ISACA
8 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.05%) SANS
8 2 (1.05%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.95%) SLA
2 4 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.58%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.58%) ISO 31000
3 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.05%) QA
5 1 (0.53%) COBIT
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) GRC
5 1 (0.53%) ITGC
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (12.11%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.68%) Docker
3 7 (3.68%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (3.16%) Firmware
5 4 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (1.05%) GPFS
7 2 (1.05%) KVM
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (7.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 12 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.26%) Ansible
4 8 (4.21%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (4.21%) Grafana
4 8 (4.21%) Terraform
5 7 (3.68%) Data Guard
6 6 (3.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (3.16%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.63%) Podman
7 5 (2.63%) SCOM
7 5 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.11%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (2.11%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle Flashback
9 3 (1.58%) HP Data Protector
9 3 (1.58%) Puppet
10 2 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 23 (12.11%) Red Hat
4 22 (11.58%) Oracle
5 20 (10.53%) Cisco
6 18 (9.47%) VMware
7 12 (6.32%) Commvault
7 12 (6.32%) Splunk
8 9 (4.74%) Veritas
9 8 (4.21%) Brocade
9 8 (4.21%) EMC
9 8 (4.21%) NetApp
10 7 (3.68%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.16%) HP
12 5 (2.63%) Dell
12 5 (2.63%) SAP
13 4 (2.11%) Clearswift
13 4 (2.11%) Google
13 4 (2.11%) Remedy
13 4 (2.11%) Sophos