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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 57 29 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.63% 1.71% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.93% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 16 7
10th Percentile £213 £248 £283
25th Percentile £336 £402 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -5.47% +25.00%
75th Percentile £656 £524 £499
90th Percentile £671 £538 £606
England median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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 £24.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.10% -12.73% +101.32%

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 2,980 1,500 1,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.44% 88.29% 81.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 942 1,035
10th Percentile £313 £235 £275
25th Percentile £406 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £625
90th Percentile £671 £668 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 107 59
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.14
25th Percentile £20.02 £14.91 £14.70
Median hourly rate £33.98 £24.34 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% +28.31% -29.74%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.43 £37.50
90th Percentile £71.56 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -48 16 £670 +49.22% 4
Solihull -11 11 £475 +115.91% 1
Warwickshire -5 10 £450 -5.26% 1
Coventry -17 8 £225 +2.27%
Birmingham -12 6 £463 +85.00% 8
Herefordshire - 4 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £250 -
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 (19.30%) Confluence
2 7 (12.28%) SAS
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 15 (26.32%) GitHub
4 12 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (19.30%) Amazon S3
5 11 (19.30%) AWS CodePipeline
5 11 (19.30%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (19.30%) Serverless
5 11 (19.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (14.04%) Entra ID
7 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
8 6 (10.53%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (10.53%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) DHCP
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) SSL
2 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (14.04%) Metadata
2 8 (14.04%) Power BI
3 6 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.53%) Pentaho
4 4 (7.02%) MySQL
5 3 (5.26%) SAP HANA
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.51%) Tableau
7 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) JIRA
2 11 (19.30%) Bitbucket
2 11 (19.30%) GitLab
2 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (64.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (8.77%) Finance
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Architect
2 11 (19.30%) Scrum Master
3 8 (14.04%) Consultant
4 7 (12.28%) Data Architect
4 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Support
5 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Support Technician
5 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Technician
5 6 (10.53%) Support Technician
6 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Administrator
9 2 (3.51%) Citrix Administrator
9 2 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.51%) Desktop Support
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) AWS CDK
2 3 (5.26%) SAP Basis
3 2 (3.51%) FIDO
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.28%) Private Cloud
3 6 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (10.53%) Autonomous Agent
3 6 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.53%) Smartphone
4 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) Replication
6 2 (3.51%) BYOD
6 2 (3.51%) Clustering
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.51%) PKI
6 2 (3.51%) SCADA
7 1 (1.75%) CMDB
7 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Windows
2 9 (15.79%) Linux
3 8 (14.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.53%) Android
5 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (47.37%) Agile
2 24 (42.11%) ITIL
3 18 (31.58%) DevOps
4 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
4 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
5 16 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (22.81%) Impact Analysis
9 12 (21.05%) Architecture Governance
9 12 (21.05%) Decision-Making
9 12 (21.05%) ITSM
9 12 (21.05%) Scrum
10 11 (19.30%) Backlog Refinement
10 11 (19.30%) Conflict Resolution
10 11 (19.30%) DevSecOps
10 11 (19.30%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (19.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) Java
2 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.77%) Python
4 4 (7.02%) Bash
4 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.02%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 31 (54.39%) SC Cleared
3 11 (19.30%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (7.02%) CCNA
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.02%) MCSE
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.02%) RHCA
5 4 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.04%) SLA
3 6 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (7.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.51%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
2 12 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.51%) vSphere
5 2 (3.51%) XenApp
5 2 (3.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Terraform
2 9 (15.79%) SCCM
3 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.02%) Ansible
5 4 (7.02%) Podman
6 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) Cisco
2 10 (17.54%) VMware
3 9 (15.79%) Oracle
4 7 (12.28%) Denodo
5 6 (10.53%) Canon
5 6 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 5 (8.77%) SAP
7 4 (7.02%) Atlassian
8 2 (3.51%) Citrix
8 2 (3.51%) Dell
8 2 (3.51%) HP
8 2 (3.51%) Informatica
8 2 (3.51%) Remedy
8 2 (3.51%) Veeam
9 1 (1.75%) BMC
9 1 (1.75%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.75%) Talend
9 1 (1.75%) Tanium