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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 279 319
Rank change year-on-year -71 +40 -51
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 92 108 151
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.89% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.94% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 78 98 102
10th Percentile £49,100 £38,500 £40,485
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £50,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,500 £104,625
England median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -7.65%

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 19,505 11,484 17,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.89% 94.28% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 7,251 11,771
10th Percentile £40,800 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 August 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 August 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 -17 21 £62,500 -3.85% 6
West London -18 5 £85,000 +36.00% 3
South 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 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) JBoss
3 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.04%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (16.30%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.78%) AWS
5 9 (9.78%) SaaS
6 7 (7.61%) OneDrive
7 6 (6.52%) IaaS
7 6 (6.52%) PaaS
8 5 (5.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (5.43%) GCP
9 3 (3.26%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (2.17%) Datadog
10 2 (2.17%) dbt
10 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) Firewall
1 14 (15.22%) TCP/IP
2 13 (14.13%) DNS
2 13 (14.13%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (11.96%) WAN
4 10 (10.87%) LAN
4 10 (10.87%) Network Security
5 9 (9.78%) VPN
6 6 (6.52%) DHCP
7 4 (4.35%) Wireless
8 3 (3.26%) ADSL
9 2 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.17%) HTTP
9 2 (2.17%) HTTPS
9 2 (2.17%) Internet
9 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (2.17%) Wireless Security
10 1 (1.09%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.09%) NGFW
10 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) Power BI
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.09%) Db2
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (3.26%) GCC
3 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.09%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) NetBeans
General
1 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.65%) Finance
3 16 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.30%) Banking
5 8 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.70%) Law
6 6 (6.52%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.35%) Games
7 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 2 (2.17%) Front Office
9 2 (2.17%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (11.96%) Applications Support
2 9 (9.78%) Applications Manager
2 9 (9.78%) Applications Support Manager
2 9 (9.78%) Lead
2 9 (9.78%) Network Engineer
2 9 (9.78%) Senior
2 9 (9.78%) Support Manager
3 8 (8.70%) Analyst
4 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.61%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Incident Manager
5 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Manager
5 6 (6.52%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.52%) Major Incident Manager
5 6 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Network Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) JWT
1 3 (3.26%) OAuth
1 3 (3.26%) OAuth2
1 3 (3.26%) SAML
2 2 (2.17%) .NET
2 2 (2.17%) Kafka
2 2 (2.17%) OpenID
2 2 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (1.09%) EDI
3 1 (1.09%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.09%) HTML
3 1 (1.09%) IDoc
3 1 (1.09%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.09%) JDBC
3 1 (1.09%) JSON
3 1 (1.09%) JSP
3 1 (1.09%) Servlets
3 1 (1.09%) Spring
3 1 (1.09%) Struts
3 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.43%) AS400
4 5 (5.43%) iSeries
4 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
6 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.09%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.09%) Derivative
7 1 (1.09%) Equities
7 1 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.09%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.83%) Windows
2 11 (11.96%) Windows Server
3 9 (9.78%) Linux
4 4 (4.35%) Unix
5 3 (3.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) ITIL
2 50 (54.35%) Service Management
3 44 (47.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 40 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (36.96%) Change Management
6 32 (34.78%) ITSM
7 29 (31.52%) Incident Management
8 24 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (22.83%) Service Delivery
10 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (16.30%) Agile
11 15 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (16.30%) Incident Response
11 15 (16.30%) Major Incident Management
12 12 (13.04%) Release Management
12 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 11 (11.96%) Business Continuity
14 10 (10.87%) Coaching
14 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
1 10 (10.87%) Python
2 6 (6.52%) SQL
3 5 (5.43%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) Bash
5 3 (3.26%) Perl
6 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (18.48%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.35%) CCNP
3 4 (4.35%) CISSP
3 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.35%) PMP
4 3 (3.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.26%) CCSP
4 3 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.17%) MOS
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CCNA
6 1 (1.09%) CFA
6 1 (1.09%) CRISC
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.91%) SLA
2 5 (5.43%) PMO
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.09%) COBIT
5 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.17%) Docker
4 2 (2.17%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.35%) Terraform
4 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.09%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.09%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.09%) QRadar
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.09%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) ServiceNow
3 13 (14.13%) VMware
4 11 (11.96%) Cisco
5 7 (7.61%) Zscaler
6 4 (4.35%) HP
6 4 (4.35%) Meraki
6 4 (4.35%) Splunk
6 4 (4.35%) Varonis
7 3 (3.26%) Google
7 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.17%) Acronis
8 2 (2.17%) Arista
8 2 (2.17%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.17%) Netskope
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle
9 1 (1.09%) Citrix
9 1 (1.09%) SAP
9 1 (1.09%) Sybase