Problem Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Problem Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Problem Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 104
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 46 25 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.30% 1.33% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.48% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 8
10th Percentile £213 £126 -
25th Percentile £280 £151 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £375 £281
Median % change year-on-year +28.60% +33.33% -19.06%
75th Percentile £653 £445 £533
90th Percentile £672 £527 £645
England median daily rate £490 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.47 £20.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +27.33% -64.75% +315.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,006 1,694 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.68% 89.87% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,078 993
10th Percentile £315 £255 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 113 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%
75th Percentile £45.00 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Problem Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the West Midlands

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Problem Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Shropshire -41 13 £660 +63.98% 3
Solihull -8 8 £488 +121.59% 1
Coventry -14 8 £225 +2.27% 4
Birmingham 0 6 £380 +162.07% 17
Warwickshire -13 6 £477 +0.42% 2
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £250 - 1
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (17.39%) Confluence
1 8 (17.39%) SAS
2 2 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) GitHub
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 8 (17.39%) AWS CodePipeline
3 8 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 8 (17.39%) Serverless
3 8 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (13.04%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (13.04%) VPN
2 3 (6.52%) DHCP
2 3 (6.52%) DNS
3 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.17%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) Network Security
4 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) WAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Metadata
2 8 (17.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Pentaho
2 8 (17.39%) Power BI
3 4 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.17%) Db2
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Bitbucket
1 8 (17.39%) GitLab
1 8 (17.39%) Jenkins
1 8 (17.39%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 31 (67.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Data Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Scrum Master
3 6 (13.04%) Consultant
3 6 (13.04%) Help Desk Support
3 6 (13.04%) Help Desk Support Technician
3 6 (13.04%) Help Desk Technician
3 6 (13.04%) Support Technician
4 4 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Citrix Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) AWS CDK
3 2 (4.35%) FIDO
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) Django
4 1 (2.17%) Flask
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.17%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.39%) Autonomous Agent
2 8 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 6 (13.04%) Smartphone
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (8.70%) Private Cloud
4 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) BYOD
5 2 (4.35%) Clustering
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.35%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Android
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
3 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) SUSE
5 1 (2.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Agile
2 18 (39.13%) ITIL
3 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.96%) DevOps
4 16 (34.78%) Test Automation
5 14 (30.43%) Migration
6 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (26.09%) Architecture Governance
8 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (23.91%) Decision-Making
8 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (21.74%) Analytics
9 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
9 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (21.74%) ITSM
10 9 (19.57%) AI
10 9 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (19.57%) Data Modelling
10 9 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (19.57%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Java
2 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (2.17%) ABAP
5 1 (2.17%) JCL
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (45.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (4.35%) CCNA
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) MCSE
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (4.35%) RHCA
6 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (17.39%) SLA
3 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.52%) NIST
5 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.35%) vSphere
3 2 (4.35%) XenApp
3 2 (4.35%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) SCCM
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (4.35%) Podman
4 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Cisco
2 8 (17.39%) Denodo
3 6 (13.04%) Canon
3 6 (13.04%) VMware
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle
5 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.35%) Citrix
6 2 (4.35%) Dell
6 2 (4.35%) HP
6 2 (4.35%) Veeam
7 1 (2.17%) BMC
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) Kaseya
7 1 (2.17%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.17%) Remedy
7 1 (2.17%) SAP
7 1 (2.17%) Tanium