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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 290 260
Rank change year-on-year +53 -30 +66
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 133 136 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 0.87% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.93% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 98 91 152
10th Percentile £36,600 £41,250 £33,868
25th Percentile £46,563 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +4.17%

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 12,131 14,686 16,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.15% 94.41% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,756 8,093 13,294
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +35 30 £65,000 +8.33% 6
West London +3 4 £60,000 -
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 24 (18.05%) SharePoint
2 17 (12.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.51%) Confluence
4 4 (3.01%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (3.01%) Shopify
3 3 (2.26%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.75%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.08%) Azure
2 42 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (17.29%) Entra ID
4 18 (13.53%) OneDrive
5 10 (7.52%) AWS
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.01%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (3.01%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.01%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.01%) Boomi
8 4 (3.01%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.01%) SaaS
8 4 (3.01%) Serverless
8 4 (3.01%) Workato
9 3 (2.26%) Slack
10 2 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) WAN
2 18 (13.53%) Firewall
3 17 (12.78%) SD-WAN
3 17 (12.78%) VPN
4 16 (12.03%) Wireless
5 11 (8.27%) DHCP
5 11 (8.27%) DNS
6 10 (7.52%) TCP/IP
7 9 (6.77%) LAN
8 8 (6.02%) Wireshark
9 6 (4.51%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (3.76%) WAAS
11 4 (3.01%) Network Security
12 2 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (1.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (1.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.75%) DMARC
13 1 (0.75%) DMVPN
13 1 (0.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.26%) MySQL
1 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.01%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (7.52%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) GitLab
3 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (61.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (37.59%) Finance
3 28 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.04%) Law
5 15 (11.28%) Banking
6 14 (10.53%) Legal
7 10 (7.52%) Front Office
8 9 (6.77%) Telecoms
9 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (6.02%) Retail
10 7 (5.26%) Games
10 7 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (3.01%) Back Office
12 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.75%) Billing
14 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Analyst
2 22 (16.54%) Support Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Problem Manager
3 18 (13.53%) Senior
4 17 (12.78%) Support Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Applications Support
5 15 (11.28%) Lead
6 10 (7.52%) Incident Manager
6 10 (7.52%) IT Support
6 10 (7.52%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) IT Manager
7 9 (6.77%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Service Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Incident and Problem Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Support Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) 1st Line Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Incident and Problem Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) .NET
1 5 (3.76%) REST
1 5 (3.76%) SOAP
1 5 (3.76%) Web Services
2 4 (3.01%) JSON
2 4 (3.01%) RESTful
2 4 (3.01%) WPF
2 4 (3.01%) XML
3 3 (2.26%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.50%) CSS
4 2 (1.50%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.75%) OAuth
5 1 (0.75%) OpenID
5 1 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.29%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.02%) CMDB
4 11 (8.27%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.77%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (4.51%) Fat Client
6 6 (4.51%) Thin Client
6 6 (4.51%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.01%) EPoS
8 4 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (3.01%) iPad
8 4 (3.01%) iPhone
8 4 (3.01%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.26%) Derivative
9 3 (2.26%) Equities
9 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 47 (35.34%) Windows
2 25 (18.80%) Windows Server
3 23 (17.29%) Windows 10
4 13 (9.77%) Linux
5 9 (6.77%) Apple iOS
6 7 (5.26%) Unix
7 5 (3.76%) Android
7 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.89%) ITIL
2 53 (39.85%) Root Cause Analysis
3 49 (36.84%) Service Management
4 45 (33.83%) Incident Management
5 44 (33.08%) Change Management
6 40 (30.08%) ITSM
6 40 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (27.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (25.56%) Service Delivery
9 26 (19.55%) Customer Service
10 21 (15.79%) Agile
11 19 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (12.03%) Analytics
13 15 (11.28%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.28%) Runbook
14 14 (10.53%) Coaching
14 14 (10.53%) DevOps
15 13 (9.77%) AI
15 13 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
15 13 (9.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.79%) SQL
2 16 (12.03%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) PowerShell
4 11 (8.27%) C#
5 7 (5.26%) Java
6 6 (4.51%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.01%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (10.53%) Degree
2 8 (6.02%) CCNP
2 8 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) CCNA
5 5 (3.76%) JNCIA
5 5 (3.76%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.50%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (22.56%) SLA
2 10 (7.52%) GDPR
3 9 (6.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.26%) GRC
4 7 (5.26%) QA
5 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.50%) COBIT
System Software
1 29 (21.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.52%) Firmware
4 5 (3.76%) Docker
4 5 (3.76%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.02%) SCCM
3 7 (5.26%) Ansible
4 4 (3.01%) Grafana
4 4 (3.01%) Kibana
4 4 (3.01%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.75%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (0.75%) CASB
6 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (35.34%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.30%) Cisco
3 24 (18.05%) ServiceNow
4 15 (11.28%) VMware
5 14 (10.53%) Meraki
6 12 (9.02%) Remedy
7 11 (8.27%) BMC
8 10 (7.52%) CheckPoint
9 9 (6.77%) Palo Alto
9 9 (6.77%) SolarWinds
10 7 (5.26%) Apple
11 6 (4.51%) Acronis
11 6 (4.51%) Datto
11 6 (4.51%) Oracle
12 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.76%) HP
12 5 (3.76%) IBM
12 5 (3.76%) Juniper
12 5 (3.76%) SAP
12 5 (3.76%) Yealink