Problem Management Contract Job Trends

Problem Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 254 262
Rank change year-on-year -82 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 334 307 395
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 1.05% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.15% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 183 234
10th Percentile £263 £316 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £577 £538 £524
90th Percentile £671 £601 £597
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £448 £488
% change year-on-year +3.35% -8.21% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 39
10th Percentile £18.69 - £13.29
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.84 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.11 £24.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% +6.67% +64.71%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.39 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.42 £29.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £17.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +211.97% -20.93% +64.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the UK

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem Management over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem Management in the UK

Problem Management
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. 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
England -63 300 £475 +5.56% 79
UK excluding London -83 200 £463 +3.35% 72
London -46 109 £500 - 22
Work from Home -30 102 £490 +13.90% 41
North of England -80 63 £465 +22.37% 13
Midlands -31 61 £463 +3.01% 19
West Midlands -26 60 £463 +3.01% 11
Yorkshire -37 40 £500 +33.33% 7
South West -21 30 £463 -11.90% 4
South East -46 30 £393 -17.26% 20
North West -61 22 £401 +0.12% 6
Scotland -28 19 £500 +11.11% 3
East of England -36 5 £400 -11.11% 9
Wales -13 3 £750 +106.90% 3
North East -28 1 £400 -4.99%
East Midlands - 1 £163 - 8

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.79%) Confluence
3 11 (3.29%) SAS
4 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.20%) IIS
5 4 (1.20%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.90%) NetWeaver
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (5.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) iTrent
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Primavera
5 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 73 (21.86%) Azure
2 48 (14.37%) Entra ID
3 43 (12.87%) AWS
4 40 (11.98%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (8.38%) GitHub
6 21 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (5.09%) GCP
9 16 (4.79%) OneDrive
10 15 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (3.89%) Serverless
12 12 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.59%) Power Platform
12 12 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (3.29%) AWS CodePipeline
13 11 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.98%) Firewall
2 27 (8.08%) DNS
3 18 (5.39%) DHCP
4 16 (4.79%) VPN
5 12 (3.59%) LAN
5 12 (3.59%) WAN
6 11 (3.29%) Network Security
7 9 (2.69%) SAN
7 9 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.69%) Wireless
8 8 (2.40%) MPLS
8 8 (2.40%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.40%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.10%) VLAN
10 6 (1.80%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.20%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.90%) Broadband
12 3 (0.90%) Internet
12 3 (0.90%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.59%) Power BI
2 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.40%) Metadata
4 8 (2.40%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.10%) MySQL
6 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.50%) Metadata Repository
7 5 (1.50%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.90%) Pentaho
9 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.90%) Tableau
10 2 (0.60%) MaxDB
10 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 60 (17.96%) JIRA
2 20 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.09%) GitLab
4 16 (4.79%) Git
5 12 (3.59%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.20%) Jaeger
6 4 (1.20%) Maven
7 3 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) Introscope
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
General
1 133 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 82 (24.55%) Finance
3 48 (14.37%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.57%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.98%) Banking
6 20 (5.99%) Legal
7 17 (5.09%) Law
8 13 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.69%) Retail
10 6 (1.80%) Military
10 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.20%) Police
13 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.90%) Front Office
13 3 (0.90%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
14 2 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (11.08%) Service Manager
2 32 (9.58%) Analyst
3 30 (8.98%) Support Engineer
4 26 (7.78%) Architect
5 22 (6.59%) Lead
5 22 (6.59%) Senior
6 19 (5.69%) IT Support
7 17 (5.09%) Administrator
8 15 (4.49%) Consultant
8 15 (4.49%) Incident Manager
8 15 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.19%) IT Engineer
9 14 (4.19%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) Developer
10 13 (3.89%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.59%) Scrum Master
12 9 (2.69%) Incident Analyst
12 9 (2.69%) Problem Analyst
12 9 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Graph
1 14 (4.19%) Middleware
2 9 (2.69%) AWS CDK
3 8 (2.40%) REST
4 7 (2.10%) .NET
4 7 (2.10%) Spring
5 6 (1.80%) SAP Basis
5 6 (1.80%) Software Packaging
6 4 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.20%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.20%) CSS
6 4 (1.20%) J2EE
6 4 (1.20%) jQuery
6 4 (1.20%) Loki
6 4 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.20%) Sass
6 4 (1.20%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.20%) Web Services
7 3 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.09%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.79%) CMDB
5 12 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.10%) Clustering
10 7 (2.10%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.10%) Smartphone
11 6 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.80%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.80%) PKI
11 6 (1.80%) Replication
12 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 70 (20.96%) Windows
2 58 (17.37%) Linux
3 22 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 21 (6.29%) Unix
5 14 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.99%) zOS
7 7 (2.10%) Android
7 7 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.50%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.90%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (47.01%) ITIL
2 97 (29.04%) Change Management
3 88 (26.35%) ITSM
4 87 (26.05%) Service Management
5 86 (25.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (23.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 70 (20.96%) DevOps
8 69 (20.66%) Agile
8 69 (20.66%) Incident Management
9 62 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 55 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (16.17%) Service Delivery
12 53 (15.87%) CI/CD
13 39 (11.68%) Observability
14 37 (11.08%) Decision-Making
15 33 (9.88%) Incident Response
16 31 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 27 (8.08%) Scrum
19 22 (6.59%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (13.17%) PowerShell
2 36 (10.78%) SQL
3 35 (10.48%) Python
4 27 (8.08%) Bash
5 20 (5.99%) Java
6 13 (3.89%) C#
7 8 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.10%) Go
8 7 (2.10%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.50%) JCL
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) PHP
11 2 (0.60%) REXX
11 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) Jython
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 131 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 104 (31.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.48%) DV Cleared
4 23 (6.89%) Degree
5 11 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.29%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (2.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.80%) CCNA
8 6 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.50%) MCSE
10 4 (1.20%) CCNP
10 4 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.90%) PMP
11 3 (0.90%) RHCA
12 2 (0.60%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.87%) SLA
2 12 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.40%) GDPR
3 8 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.80%) GRC
4 6 (1.80%) NIST
5 4 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.90%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) COBIT
8 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (15.57%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.68%) Docker
3 16 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.89%) NFS
5 8 (2.40%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.50%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.90%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.60%) XenApp
9 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (7.49%) Terraform
2 24 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 22 (6.59%) Grafana
4 17 (5.09%) Ansible
4 17 (5.09%) SCCM
5 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.69%) Cisco Prime
7 6 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.20%) Istio
9 4 (1.20%) Podman
10 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.90%) Rancher
10 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.60%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.60%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (20.96%) ServiceNow
2 54 (16.17%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.68%) Oracle
4 22 (6.59%) Cisco
4 22 (6.59%) Remedy
5 19 (5.69%) Splunk
5 19 (5.69%) VMware
6 14 (4.19%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.59%) SAP
8 11 (3.29%) Dell
8 11 (3.29%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.99%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.69%) Broadcom
10 9 (2.69%) IBM
11 8 (2.40%) BMC
11 8 (2.40%) Citrix
11 8 (2.40%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.10%) Aruba
12 7 (2.10%) Brocade
12 7 (2.10%) Fortinet