Problem Management Contracts in the North West

Problem Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Problem Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 96 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 +41 -16
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 46 56 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.65% 1.86% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.07% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 28
10th Percentile £394 £310 £303
25th Percentile £436 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -2.22% -9.09%
75th Percentile £497 £650 £500
90th Percentile £508 £675 £548
England median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £25.85 £23.25 £8.65
25th Percentile £26.37 £26.25 £10.39
Median hourly rate £26.66 £32.50 £13.79
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +135.68% -
75th Percentile £26.75 £38.75 £19.36
90th Percentile £26.90 £41.75 £24.99
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
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Cumbria - 29 £493 -
Manchester +11 12 £400 -8.57% 10
Cheshire -11 4 £488 +50.00% 2
Merseyside -11 1 - -
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.17%) Azure
2 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Intranet
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) NAS
3 1 (2.17%) SAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
1 1 (2.17%) SAP HANA
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
General
1 33 (71.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Problem Manager
2 12 (26.09%) Availability Manager
2 12 (26.09%) Capacity and Availability Manager
2 12 (26.09%) Capacity Manager
3 9 (19.57%) Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Incident Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Coordinator
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Operational Support Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Operations Support Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) React Native
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Management Information System
2 15 (32.61%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.52%) CMDB
4 2 (4.35%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
1 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) Service Management
2 33 (71.74%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (65.22%) Mentoring
4 29 (63.04%) Quality Management
4 29 (63.04%) Statistics
5 21 (45.65%) ITIL
6 17 (36.96%) Capacity Management
7 16 (34.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 16 (34.78%) Time Management
8 15 (32.61%) Availability Management
8 15 (32.61%) Virtual Team Management
9 13 (28.26%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
11 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
11 5 (10.87%) Project Management
12 4 (8.70%) Change Management
12 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
12 4 (8.70%) Information Management
12 4 (8.70%) Risk Management
12 4 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.52%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (71.74%) Security Cleared
2 31 (67.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (6.52%) IASME
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Nagios
1 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.70%) SAP
2 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco
3 1 (2.17%) Citrix
3 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.17%) HP
3 1 (2.17%) Meraki
3 1 (2.17%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (2.17%) Veeam