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 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 100 74 92
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 60 27 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.86% 1.86% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.10% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 14 6
10th Percentile £218 £237 £278
25th Percentile £311 £402 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £449 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -2.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £568 £524 £488
90th Percentile £669 £538 -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £22.50
75th Percentile £67.84 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.11 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.13% +73.53% +64.71%

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 2,735 1,286 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.62% 88.69% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,789 815 1,106
10th Percentile £313 £202 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £676 £660 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 72 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £66.54 £31.19 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

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 11 June 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 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
Shropshire -46 18 £600 +32.45% 1
Warwickshire -6 17 £325 -34.67% 2
Solihull -4 11 £475 +115.91% 2
Coventry -17 6 £225 +5.88% 2
Birmingham -29 4 £463 +54.17% 4
Herefordshire - 3 - -
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 11 (18.33%) Confluence
2 10 (16.67%) SAS
3 2 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) AWS
2 22 (36.67%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) GitHub
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (18.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (18.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 11 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (18.33%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (18.33%) Serverless
4 11 (18.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 9 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (13.33%) GCP
6 8 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (11.67%) Datadog
8 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
10 4 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (11.67%) Metadata
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
4 5 (8.33%) Power BI
5 3 (5.00%) SAP HANA
6 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Pentaho
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.33%) Tableau
7 1 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
2 11 (18.33%) Bitbucket
2 11 (18.33%) GitLab
2 11 (18.33%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Architect
2 11 (18.33%) Scrum Master
3 8 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.67%) Data Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Help Desk Support
7 4 (6.67%) Help Desk Support Technician
7 4 (6.67%) Help Desk Technician
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Support Technician
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Lead
8 3 (5.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) SAS Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) AWS CDK
2 7 (11.67%) Middleware
3 3 (5.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.67%) FIDO
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (11.67%) Private Cloud
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.67%) Smartphone
7 3 (5.00%) Replication
8 2 (3.33%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (3.33%) Clustering
8 2 (3.33%) PKI
8 2 (3.33%) SCADA
9 1 (1.67%) CMDB
9 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
3 7 (11.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.67%) Android
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) ITIL
2 23 (38.33%) Agile
3 22 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (35.00%) DevOps
5 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 16 (26.67%) Impact Analysis
6 16 (26.67%) Scrum
7 15 (25.00%) Change Management
7 15 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
10 11 (18.33%) Backlog Refinement
10 11 (18.33%) DevSecOps
10 11 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
11 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.33%) Python
3 10 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (71.67%) SC Cleared
1 43 (71.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SAFe Agilist
3 9 (15.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (5.00%) CCNA
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) MCSE
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.00%) RHCA
4 3 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.67%) SLA
3 3 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Docker
2 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.33%) XenApp
5 2 (3.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.67%) Grafana
3 7 (11.67%) Prometheus
3 7 (11.67%) SCCM
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.00%) Ansible
5 3 (5.00%) Podman
6 2 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 7 (11.67%) AppDynamics
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco
3 7 (11.67%) Dynatrace
3 7 (11.67%) Splunk
3 7 (11.67%) VMware
4 6 (10.00%) Denodo
5 5 (8.33%) SAP
5 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.67%) Canon
6 4 (6.67%) Remedy
6 4 (6.67%) Talend
7 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (5.00%) BMC
8 2 (3.33%) Citrix
8 2 (3.33%) Informatica
9 1 (1.67%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.67%) Tanium