Problem Management Job Trends in London

Problem Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Problem Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 288 327
Rank change year-on-year -47 +39 -48
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 91 112 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.91% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.96% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 77 101 109
10th Percentile £45,200 £38,500 £40,170
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £49,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £90,000 £102,000
England median annual salary £50,101 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% -5.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Problem Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,788 11,631 18,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.47% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12,806 7,382 12,961
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in London

Problem Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Problem Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem Management in London

Problem Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -13 23 £57,500 -11.54% 8
West London -15 5 £85,000 +36.00% 3
South London +3 1 £80,000 -
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.99%) SaaS
6 6 (6.59%) AWS
6 6 (6.59%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) PaaS
7 5 (5.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.49%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.30%) GCP
8 3 (3.30%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.20%) Datadog
9 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (13.19%) Firewall
2 12 (13.19%) TCP/IP
2 12 (13.19%) VPN
3 11 (12.09%) DNS
4 10 (10.99%) WAN
5 8 (8.79%) LAN
6 7 (7.69%) Network Security
7 5 (5.49%) ADSL
7 5 (5.49%) DHCP
8 4 (4.40%) Wireless
9 2 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.20%) Wireless Security
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.10%) HSRP
10 1 (1.10%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.10%) NGFW
10 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Power BI
2 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.10%) Db2
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) GCC
3 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) NetBeans
General
1 22 (24.18%) Finance
2 21 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.48%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Law
6 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Front Office
7 3 (3.30%) Games
7 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.20%) Advertising
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (10.99%) Applications Support
2 9 (9.89%) Lead
3 8 (8.79%) Analyst
3 8 (8.79%) Applications Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Applications Support Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Support Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Incident Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Manager
5 6 (6.59%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Network Engineer
5 6 (6.59%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.49%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Network Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) .NET
1 2 (2.20%) JWT
1 2 (2.20%) Kafka
1 2 (2.20%) OAuth
1 2 (2.20%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.20%) REST
1 2 (2.20%) SAML
2 1 (1.10%) EDI
2 1 (1.10%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.10%) HTML
2 1 (1.10%) IDoc
2 1 (1.10%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (1.10%) JDBC
2 1 (1.10%) JSON
2 1 (1.10%) JSP
2 1 (1.10%) OpenID
2 1 (1.10%) Servlets
2 1 (1.10%) Spring
2 1 (1.10%) Struts
2 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.49%) AS400
4 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) iSeries
4 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.20%) CMDB
6 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.20%) Web3
7 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.10%) Derivative
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Equities
7 1 (1.10%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Windows
2 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.79%) Linux
4 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.30%) Unix
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) ITIL
2 52 (57.14%) Service Management
3 43 (47.25%) Root Cause Analysis
4 42 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (37.36%) ITSM
6 33 (36.26%) Change Management
7 30 (32.97%) Incident Management
8 26 (28.57%) Service Delivery
9 24 (26.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (18.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (17.58%) Major Incident Management
13 14 (15.38%) Agile
14 12 (13.19%) Business Continuity
14 12 (13.19%) Release Management
15 11 (12.09%) Coaching
15 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
16 10 (10.99%) Incident Response
16 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 9 (9.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
1 9 (9.89%) Python
2 8 (8.79%) SQL
3 7 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (4.40%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) C++
5 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) Rust
6 1 (1.10%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.40%) CCNP
3 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.40%) PMP
4 3 (3.30%) CISSP
5 2 (2.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.20%) CCSP
5 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.20%) MOS
5 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CFA
6 1 (1.10%) CRISC
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.37%) SLA
2 5 (5.49%) PMO
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) COBIT
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.40%) Ansible
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.30%) Terraform
5 2 (2.20%) Grafana
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.10%) QRadar
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.58%) ServiceNow
3 12 (13.19%) VMware
4 8 (8.79%) Cisco
5 6 (6.59%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.40%) Meraki
6 4 (4.40%) Varonis
7 3 (3.30%) Splunk
8 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.20%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.10%) Arista
9 1 (1.10%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.10%) Concur
9 1 (1.10%) ConnectWise
9 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.10%) FXall
9 1 (1.10%) LogRhythm