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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 295 303
Rank change year-on-year -48 +8 -23
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 100 94 151
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.38% 0.81% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.86% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 77 78 92
10th Percentile £47,300 £38,500 £43,550
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £94,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,948
% change year-on-year -9.52% +3.05% -9.87%

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 21,008 10,938 16,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.64% 93.82% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,747 6,944 9,686
10th Percentile £40,829 £37,500 £41,336
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 October 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 October 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 -9 12 £70,000 - 12
West London -10 9 £85,000 +36.00% 1
South London - 5 £76,000 - 1
North London - 1 £50,000 -
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 (13.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) nginx
3 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) Azure
2 23 (23.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.00%) Entra ID
4 12 (12.00%) AWS
5 10 (10.00%) OneDrive
6 8 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.00%) IaaS
7 6 (6.00%) PaaS
8 5 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (5.00%) GCP
9 4 (4.00%) SaaS
10 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (2.00%) dbt
10 2 (2.00%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
11 1 (1.00%) OCI
11 1 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.00%) DNS
1 15 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 14 (14.00%) Firewall
3 12 (12.00%) VPN
4 11 (11.00%) WAN
5 10 (10.00%) LAN
5 10 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (9.00%) Network Security
7 8 (8.00%) DHCP
8 3 (3.00%) Wireless
9 2 (2.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.00%) HTTP
9 2 (2.00%) HTTPS
9 2 (2.00%) Internet
9 2 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (1.00%) NGFW
10 1 (1.00%) OSPF
10 1 (1.00%) SAN
10 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.00%) Power BI
3 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.00%) MySQL
5 2 (2.00%) GIS
5 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.00%) Db2
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) GCC
3 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.00%) Git
4 1 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (1.00%) NetBeans
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Finance
4 11 (11.00%) Banking
5 8 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Games
6 7 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.00%) Law
7 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.00%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Advertising
9 3 (3.00%) Back Office
9 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.00%) Front Office
11 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.00%) Legal
11 1 (1.00%) Marketing
11 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (14.00%) Lead
2 13 (13.00%) Senior
3 10 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Applications Manager
6 6 (6.00%) Applications Support Manager
6 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (6.00%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Support Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Change Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Network Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Release Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) JWT
1 3 (3.00%) OAuth
1 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (3.00%) SAML
1 3 (3.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) OpenID
2 2 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (1.00%) EDI
3 1 (1.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.00%) HTML
3 1 (1.00%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.00%) JDBC
3 1 (1.00%) JSON
3 1 (1.00%) JSP
3 1 (1.00%) Kafka
3 1 (1.00%) Servlets
3 1 (1.00%) Spring
3 1 (1.00%) Struts
3 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.00%) AS400
4 5 (5.00%) iSeries
4 5 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.00%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.00%) CMDB
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.00%) Windows
2 14 (14.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.00%) Linux
4 5 (5.00%) macOS
5 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 4 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.00%) ITIL
2 51 (51.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (48.00%) Service Management
4 47 (47.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 34 (34.00%) ITSM
6 33 (33.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (28.00%) Change Management
7 28 (28.00%) Incident Management
8 22 (22.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (21.00%) Service Delivery
10 16 (16.00%) Incident Response
11 15 (15.00%) Agile
12 13 (13.00%) Business Continuity
12 13 (13.00%) Major Incident Management
13 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.00%) Release Management
15 10 (10.00%) Coaching
15 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 10 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.00%) Python
1 9 (9.00%) SQL
2 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.00%) Java
3 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.00%) Perl
4 2 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (1.00%) C#
5 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) CISSP
4 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.00%) CCNP
4 3 (3.00%) CCSP
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.00%) MOS
6 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.00%) CFA
6 1 (1.00%) CIPD
6 1 (1.00%) CISA
6 1 (1.00%) CISM
6 1 (1.00%) MBA
6 1 (1.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) COBIT
3 2 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.00%) PMO
3 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.00%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.00%) Docker
5 1 (1.00%) Firmware
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.00%) Kibana
3 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.00%) QRadar
3 1 (1.00%) SCOM
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Sentry
3 1 (1.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (33.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.00%) VMware
4 10 (10.00%) Cisco
5 7 (7.00%) Zscaler
6 5 (5.00%) Acronis
7 4 (4.00%) Apple
7 4 (4.00%) Datto
7 4 (4.00%) HP
8 3 (3.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.00%) Google
8 3 (3.00%) Meraki
8 3 (3.00%) Oracle
8 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.00%) Splunk
9 2 (2.00%) Arista
9 2 (2.00%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.00%) ConnectWise
9 2 (2.00%) Netskope
10 1 (1.00%) Exabeam