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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 284 325
Rank change year-on-year -48 +41 -34
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 91 114 161
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.40% 0.92% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.97% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 77 102 112
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £50,277
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £74,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.04% +24.58%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £88,750 £104,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

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 18,456 11,758 19,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.14% 94.62% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 12,670 7,394 14,146
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,503
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,463
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 £107,550 £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 20 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 20 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 26 £55,000 -15.38% 3
West London - 5 £85,000 - 3
South London +13 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 (12.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.19%) Entra ID
5 9 (9.89%) SaaS
6 6 (6.59%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) PaaS
7 5 (5.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.49%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.40%) AWS
9 3 (3.30%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.20%) Datadog
10 2 (2.20%) GCP
10 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.29%) VPN
2 11 (12.09%) TCP/IP
2 11 (12.09%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (10.99%) Firewall
4 9 (9.89%) DNS
4 9 (9.89%) WAN
5 6 (6.59%) LAN
6 5 (5.49%) ADSL
7 4 (4.40%) DHCP
7 4 (4.40%) Network Security
7 4 (4.40%) Wireless
8 3 (3.30%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.20%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (2.20%) Wireless Security
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (1.10%) Cisco Wireless
10 1 (1.10%) HSRP
10 1 (1.10%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.10%) NGFW
10 1 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) Db2
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) GCC
3 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) NetBeans
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
2 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Law
6 7 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.49%) Games
8 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.30%) Front Office
10 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.10%) Advertising
11 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (12.09%) Applications Support
2 9 (9.89%) Support Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Analyst
3 8 (8.79%) Applications Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Applications Support Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Incident Manager
3 8 (8.79%) Lead
3 8 (8.79%) Support Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Manager
5 6 (6.59%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Network Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Service Delivery Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Service Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Support
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) .NET
2 2 (2.20%) Kafka
2 2 (2.20%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) EDI
3 1 (1.10%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.10%) HTML
3 1 (1.10%) IDoc
3 1 (1.10%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.10%) JDBC
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) JSP
3 1 (1.10%) JWT
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.10%) SAML
3 1 (1.10%) Servlets
3 1 (1.10%) Spring
3 1 (1.10%) Struts
3 1 (1.10%) WPF
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.79%) Security Posture
3 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.49%) AS400
4 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) iSeries
4 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.49%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.20%) CMDB
5 2 (2.20%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.20%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.20%) Web3
6 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Equities
6 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Windows
2 9 (9.89%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.79%) Linux
4 4 (4.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.20%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.20%) Unix
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.03%) ITIL
2 51 (56.04%) Service Management
3 41 (45.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 37 (40.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (36.26%) ITSM
6 32 (35.16%) Change Management
7 29 (31.87%) Incident Management
8 27 (29.67%) Service Delivery
9 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (26.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (18.68%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (15.38%) Major Incident Management
12 13 (14.29%) Agile
13 12 (13.19%) Release Management
14 11 (12.09%) Business Continuity
15 10 (10.99%) Proactive Management
16 9 (9.89%) Coaching
16 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Management
17 8 (8.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
1 9 (9.89%) SQL
2 8 (8.79%) Python
3 7 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (4.40%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) C#
5 2 (2.20%) C++
5 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.40%) CCNP
3 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.40%) PMP
4 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.20%) CISSP
5 2 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.20%) MOS
6 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CCNA
6 1 (1.10%) CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) CISA
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) GIAC
6 1 (1.10%) MBA
6 1 (1.10%) RHCE
6 1 (1.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.37%) SLA
2 5 (5.49%) PMO
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) COBIT
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (4.40%) Ansible
4 3 (3.30%) Grafana
4 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.20%) Terraform
6 1 (1.10%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.10%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) QRadar
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.58%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.99%) VMware
4 5 (5.49%) Cisco
5 4 (4.40%) Meraki
5 4 (4.40%) Varonis
6 3 (3.30%) Acronis
6 3 (3.30%) Splunk
6 3 (3.30%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.20%) Apple
7 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.20%) Datto
7 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.10%) Concur
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Exabeam
8 1 (1.10%) FXall
8 1 (1.10%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto