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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 290 330
Rank change year-on-year -4 +40 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 111 104 189
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.52% 0.85% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.89% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 87 89 136
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £40,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -17.46% +36.96%
75th Percentile £90,625 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £75,000 £103,125
England median annual salary £61,110 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.76% +2.94%

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 17,339 11,707 21,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.38% 95.83% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,856 6,973 16,061
10th Percentile £40,808 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,300 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 0 34 £62,500 -3.85% 7
West London - 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 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (37.84%) Azure
2 33 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (18.02%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.61%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.81%) OneDrive
6 11 (9.91%) SaaS
7 8 (7.21%) Serverless
8 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Event Grid
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Functions
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.60%) AWS
9 4 (3.60%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.70%) GCP
11 2 (1.80%) Datadog
11 2 (1.80%) IaaS
11 2 (1.80%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.80%) PaaS
11 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) VPN
2 11 (9.91%) TCP/IP
3 10 (9.01%) WAN
4 8 (7.21%) DNS
4 8 (7.21%) Firewall
5 7 (6.31%) DHCP
5 7 (6.31%) SD-WAN
6 6 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (4.50%) ADSL
8 4 (3.60%) Wireless
9 3 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (2.70%) LAN
9 3 (2.70%) Network Security
9 3 (2.70%) WAAS
10 2 (1.80%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.80%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.90%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Power BI
2 8 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.90%) Db2
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.90%) MySQL
5 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.90%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) NetBeans
3 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (40.54%) Finance
2 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.71%) Banking
5 8 (7.21%) Law
6 6 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.60%) Games
8 4 (3.60%) Legal
9 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.70%) Front Office
9 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Support Engineer
2 15 (13.51%) Analyst
3 14 (12.61%) Lead
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 12 (10.81%) Applications Support
5 12 (10.81%) Incident Manager
6 11 (9.91%) Applications Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Major Incident Manager
8 9 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Problem Analyst
9 8 (7.21%) Service Delivery Manager
9 8 (7.21%) Service Manager
10 7 (6.31%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) IT Manager
12 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 5 (4.50%) Junior
12 5 (4.50%) Network Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) .NET
2 7 (6.31%) WPF
3 3 (2.70%) REST
4 2 (1.80%) Kafka
5 1 (0.90%) EDI
5 1 (0.90%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.90%) HTML
5 1 (0.90%) IDoc
5 1 (0.90%) J2EE
5 1 (0.90%) JDBC
5 1 (0.90%) JSON
5 1 (0.90%) JSP
5 1 (0.90%) JWT
5 1 (0.90%) OAuth
5 1 (0.90%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.90%) SAML
5 1 (0.90%) Servlets
5 1 (0.90%) Spring
5 1 (0.90%) Struts
5 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
1 9 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.60%) CMDB
2 4 (3.60%) Fat Client
2 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.60%) Thin Client
3 3 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.80%) Web3
5 1 (0.90%) AS400
5 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.90%) TM Forum
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.33%) Windows
2 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.61%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.31%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.50%) Linux
6 3 (2.70%) Android
7 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (65.77%) ITIL
2 47 (42.34%) Service Management
3 41 (36.94%) Root Cause Analysis
4 38 (34.23%) Service Delivery
5 35 (31.53%) Incident Management
6 34 (30.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (27.03%) ITSM
9 22 (19.82%) Change Management
10 21 (18.92%) Proactive Management
11 19 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (13.51%) Agile
13 14 (12.61%) CI/CD
13 14 (12.61%) Major Incident Management
13 14 (12.61%) Runbook
13 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (11.71%) DevOps
15 12 (10.81%) Coaching
16 11 (9.91%) Cost Management
16 11 (9.91%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) SQL
2 14 (12.61%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.11%) C#
4 8 (7.21%) Python
5 7 (6.31%) Java
6 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 3 (2.70%) C++
7 3 (2.70%) Rust
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) Korn
8 1 (0.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (27.03%) Degree
2 7 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.41%) CCNP
3 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.60%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (3.60%) MOS
5 4 (3.60%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.60%) PMP
6 3 (2.70%) CCNA
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.80%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.80%) MCSE
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.22%) SLA
2 5 (4.50%) PMO
3 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.70%) GRC
5 2 (1.80%) COBIT
5 2 (1.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.50%) Firmware
4 2 (1.80%) Docker
5 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.11%) Grafana
3 8 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (6.31%) Kibana
4 7 (6.31%) SCCM
5 6 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (5.41%) Ansible
6 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.80%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.80%) Terraform
8 1 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.90%) QRadar
8 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.62%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.01%) VMware
4 9 (8.11%) Cisco
5 6 (5.41%) Varonis
6 5 (4.50%) Remedy
7 4 (3.60%) Acronis
7 4 (3.60%) Apple
7 4 (3.60%) BMC
7 4 (3.60%) Datto
8 3 (2.70%) Citrix
8 3 (2.70%) Meraki
8 3 (2.70%) SAP
8 3 (2.70%) Splunk
9 2 (1.80%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.80%) Juniper
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle
9 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.80%) Sybase