Problem Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Problem Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 106 68
Rank change year-on-year +20 -38 -16
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 26 37 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.35% 1.55% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.75% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 83
10th Percentile £380 £241 £402
25th Percentile £400 £350 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £540
90th Percentile £518 £650 £584
England median daily rate £468 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -10.76% +6.06% +22.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the West Midlands

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 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the West Midlands

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 26 April 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
Warwickshire +9 10 £513 +36.67%
Birmingham +2 9 £475 +18.75% 4
Shropshire +23 2 £400 -33.33% 1
Coventry +9 1 - -
Solihull -18 1 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £475 - 1
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
1 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
1 5 (19.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) LAN
1 6 (23.08%) WAN
2 2 (7.69%) Internet
2 2 (7.69%) Wireless
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
General
1 6 (23.08%) Back Office
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Law
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Support Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Technical Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Technical Support
1 6 (23.08%) Technical Support Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Incident Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Major Incident Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Hardware Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) AS400
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) ITIL
2 10 (38.46%) Incident Management
3 6 (23.08%) Batch Scheduling
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Runbook
4 5 (19.23%) Service Management
4 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (11.54%) Agile
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.54%) Data Science
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Dell Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) SLA
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) SysTrack
2 2 (7.69%) CEMLI
3 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 5 (19.23%) Citrix
2 5 (19.23%) New Relic
2 5 (19.23%) OpenAI
2 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.54%) HP
4 2 (7.69%) Dell
4 2 (7.69%) Fujitsu
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.85%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) Veritas