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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 311 288
Rank change year-on-year +70 -23 +36
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 150 123 203
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 0.83% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.87% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 108 86 162
10th Percentile £31,900 £46,563 £39,325
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £75,625 £69,656 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £101,250
England median annual salary £59,225 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.68% +10.00% +5.26%

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 13,591 14,139 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.12% 95.64% 91.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 7,800 15,724
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,113 £39,206
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
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 £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +29 40 £62,000 -0.80% 7
West London -3 3 £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 31 (20.67%) SharePoint
2 24 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.67%) Anypoint
4 2 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (9.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.67%) Shopify
3 3 (2.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.67%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (33.33%) Azure
3 25 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 25 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 11 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (6.00%) AWS
6 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Functions
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Storage
6 7 (4.67%) SaaS
6 7 (4.67%) Serverless
7 6 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.67%) Boomi
9 4 (2.67%) iPaaS
9 4 (2.67%) Workato
10 3 (2.00%) Slack
11 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.67%) VPN
2 21 (14.00%) WAN
3 19 (12.67%) SD-WAN
4 16 (10.67%) Firewall
4 16 (10.67%) TCP/IP
5 14 (9.33%) DHCP
5 14 (9.33%) DNS
6 13 (8.67%) Wireless
7 8 (5.33%) LAN
8 6 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (4.00%) Wireshark
9 5 (3.33%) WAAS
10 3 (2.00%) ADSL
10 3 (2.00%) Network Security
10 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.00%) MySQL
3 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.00%) Power BI
3 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 59 (39.33%) Finance
3 32 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.33%) Law
5 13 (8.67%) Banking
5 13 (8.67%) Legal
6 9 (6.00%) Games
7 8 (5.33%) Front Office
7 8 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.00%) Retail
10 4 (2.67%) Back Office
10 4 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 27 (18.00%) Analyst
2 25 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 23 (15.33%) Senior
4 18 (12.00%) Problem Manager
5 16 (10.67%) Lead
6 14 (9.33%) Service Manager
6 14 (9.33%) Support Analyst
7 13 (8.67%) Applications Support
7 13 (8.67%) Incident Manager
8 12 (8.00%) IT Support
9 11 (7.33%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (7.33%) Network Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Service Delivery Manager
10 9 (6.00%) 1st Line Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (6.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) IT Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Incident and Problem Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.67%) .NET
1 7 (4.67%) WPF
2 5 (3.33%) REST
3 4 (2.67%) JSON
3 4 (2.67%) RESTful
3 4 (2.67%) SOAP
3 4 (2.67%) Web Services
3 4 (2.67%) XML
4 3 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.33%) CSS
5 2 (1.33%) HTML
6 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.67%) OAuth
6 1 (0.67%) OpenID
6 1 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (8.00%) CMDB
4 10 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 9 (6.00%) Fat Client
5 9 (6.00%) Thin Client
5 9 (6.00%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.67%) iPad
6 4 (2.67%) iPhone
6 4 (2.67%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.00%) Derivative
7 3 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.00%) EPoS
7 3 (2.00%) Equities
7 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (40.67%) Windows
2 34 (22.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 12 (8.00%) Apple iOS
5 10 (6.67%) Linux
6 7 (4.67%) Unix
7 5 (3.33%) Android
8 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.33%) Solaris
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (60.67%) ITIL
2 61 (40.67%) Service Management
3 52 (34.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 49 (32.67%) Incident Management
4 49 (32.67%) Service Delivery
5 46 (30.67%) ITSM
6 45 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (28.00%) Change Management
8 40 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.33%) Customer Service
10 23 (15.33%) Proactive Management
11 20 (13.33%) Agile
12 19 (12.67%) AI
12 19 (12.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (12.67%) Runbook
12 19 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (12.00%) Analytics
14 16 (10.67%) Coaching
14 16 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (10.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.00%) SQL
2 17 (11.33%) Python
3 15 (10.00%) C#
4 13 (8.67%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.67%) Java
6 7 (4.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.00%) C++
8 3 (2.00%) Rust
9 1 (0.67%) Bash
9 1 (0.67%) Korn
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (15.33%) Degree
2 8 (5.33%) CCNP
2 8 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.33%) CCNA
4 5 (3.33%) JNCIA
4 5 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.33%) MCSE
6 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (1.33%) MOS
6 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.33%) PMP
7 1 (0.67%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (26.00%) SLA
2 9 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.33%) GDPR
4 7 (4.67%) GRC
5 2 (1.33%) COBIT
5 2 (1.33%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.67%) Firmware
4 4 (2.67%) Docker
4 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.00%) SCCM
3 7 (4.67%) Ansible
3 7 (4.67%) Grafana
3 7 (4.67%) Kibana
4 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.67%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (0.67%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 54 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.00%) ServiceNow
3 22 (14.67%) Cisco
4 14 (9.33%) Remedy
5 13 (8.67%) BMC
5 13 (8.67%) VMware
6 10 (6.67%) Meraki
7 9 (6.00%) Acronis
7 9 (6.00%) Apple
7 9 (6.00%) Datto
8 8 (5.33%) CheckPoint
9 7 (4.67%) Oracle
9 7 (4.67%) SolarWinds
10 6 (4.00%) Palo Alto
10 6 (4.00%) SAP
11 5 (3.33%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.33%) IBM
11 5 (3.33%) Juniper
11 5 (3.33%) Logitech
11 5 (3.33%) Yealink