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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 284 331
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 -35
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 94 114 163
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.42% 0.92% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.97% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 79 101 115
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £88,750 £103,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -3.81%

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 18,337 11,781 20,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.28% 94.66% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,558 7,403 14,459
10th Percentile £40,500 £40,542 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £122,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 17 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 17 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 -11 27 £55,000 -15.38% 3
West London - 5 £85,000 - 3
South London +9 1 £80,000 - 1
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 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.06%) JBoss
3 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Azure
2 23 (24.47%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.83%) Power Platform
4 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 9 (9.57%) SaaS
6 6 (6.38%) IaaS
6 6 (6.38%) PaaS
7 5 (5.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.32%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.26%) AWS
8 4 (4.26%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.13%) Datadog
9 2 (2.13%) GCP
9 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.13%) Serverless
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) VPN
2 11 (11.70%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.70%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (10.64%) Firewall
4 9 (9.57%) DNS
4 9 (9.57%) WAN
5 6 (6.38%) LAN
6 5 (5.32%) ADSL
7 4 (4.26%) DHCP
7 4 (4.26%) Network Security
7 4 (4.26%) Wireless
8 3 (3.19%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.13%) Wireless Security
10 1 (1.06%) BGP
10 1 (1.06%) EIGRP
10 1 (1.06%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.06%) SSL
10 1 (1.06%) VLAN
10 1 (1.06%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) Db2
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) GCC
3 2 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.06%) Git
4 1 (1.06%) NetBeans
General
1 27 (28.72%) Finance
2 24 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.89%) Banking
5 8 (8.51%) Law
6 7 (7.45%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Games
8 4 (4.26%) Front Office
8 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.13%) Legal
10 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Advertising
11 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (11.70%) Applications Support
2 10 (10.64%) Analyst
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
3 9 (9.57%) Support Engineer
4 8 (8.51%) Applications Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Applications Support Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Incident Manager
4 8 (8.51%) Support Manager
5 7 (7.45%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.45%) Major Incident Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (6.38%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Service Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Network Manager
7 5 (5.32%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Technical Support
7 5 (5.32%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) .NET
2 2 (2.13%) Kafka
2 2 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (1.06%) EDI
3 1 (1.06%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.06%) HTML
3 1 (1.06%) IDoc
3 1 (1.06%) J2EE
3 1 (1.06%) JDBC
3 1 (1.06%) JSON
3 1 (1.06%) JSP
3 1 (1.06%) JWT
3 1 (1.06%) OAuth
3 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.06%) SAML
3 1 (1.06%) Servlets
3 1 (1.06%) Spring
3 1 (1.06%) Struts
3 1 (1.06%) WPF
3 1 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
1 8 (8.51%) Onboarding
1 8 (8.51%) Security Posture
2 5 (5.32%) AS400
2 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.32%) iSeries
2 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) Fat Client
4 2 (2.13%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.13%) Web3
5 1 (1.06%) CMDB
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.06%) Derivative
5 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.47%) Windows
2 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.51%) Linux
4 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (67.02%) ITIL
2 52 (55.32%) Service Management
3 42 (44.68%) Root Cause Analysis
4 39 (41.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (35.11%) ITSM
6 32 (34.04%) Change Management
6 32 (34.04%) Incident Management
7 30 (31.91%) Service Delivery
8 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (18.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (15.96%) Major Incident Management
12 14 (14.89%) Agile
13 12 (12.77%) Proactive Management
13 12 (12.77%) Release Management
14 11 (11.70%) Business Continuity
15 10 (10.64%) Coaching
16 9 (9.57%) AI
16 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (9.57%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) SQL
2 8 (8.51%) Java
2 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.51%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) Bash
4 3 (3.19%) C#
4 3 (3.19%) C++
4 3 (3.19%) Rust
5 2 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (21.28%) Degree
2 5 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) CCNP
3 4 (4.26%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.26%) PMP
4 3 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.19%) MOS
5 2 (2.13%) CISSP
5 2 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CCNA
6 1 (1.06%) CCSP
6 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) MCSE
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.60%) SLA
2 5 (5.32%) PMO
3 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.06%) COBIT
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.32%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.13%) Docker
5 1 (1.06%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.26%) Ansible
4 3 (3.19%) Grafana
4 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.13%) Terraform
6 1 (1.06%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.06%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) QRadar
6 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.09%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.64%) VMware
4 5 (5.32%) Cisco
5 4 (4.26%) Meraki
5 4 (4.26%) Varonis
6 3 (3.19%) Acronis
6 3 (3.19%) Splunk
6 3 (3.19%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.13%) Apple
7 2 (2.13%) Citrix
7 2 (2.13%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.13%) Datto
7 2 (2.13%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.06%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.06%) Concur
8 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.06%) FXall
8 1 (1.06%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.06%) Palo Alto