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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 295 327
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 102 107 183
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.47% 0.88% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.92% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 83 93 132
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £40,400
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -14.75% +32.61%
75th Percentile £90,625 £69,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £78,750 £104,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +17.65% -0.68% -1.25%

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 17,860 11,657 21,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.95% 95.43% 89.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,210 7,102 15,835
10th Percentile £40,802 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £123,725 £117,500
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 28 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 28 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 -9 34 £62,500 -3.85% 5
West London - 1 £80,000 - 2
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 14 (13.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.98%) JBoss
3 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.20%) Azure
2 30 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.78%) OneDrive
5 11 (10.78%) SaaS
6 6 (5.88%) Serverless
7 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Event Grid
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Storage
7 5 (4.90%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.92%) AWS
9 2 (1.96%) Datadog
9 2 (1.96%) GCP
9 2 (1.96%) IaaS
9 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.96%) PaaS
9 2 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.76%) VPN
2 10 (9.80%) TCP/IP
2 10 (9.80%) WAN
3 7 (6.86%) DNS
3 7 (6.86%) Firewall
3 7 (6.86%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.88%) DHCP
4 6 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 5 (4.90%) ADSL
6 4 (3.92%) LAN
6 4 (3.92%) Network Security
6 4 (3.92%) Wireless
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.96%) Wireless Security
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.98%) HSRP
8 1 (0.98%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.98%) NGFW
8 1 (0.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) Power BI
2 6 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.98%) Db2
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.96%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.96%) GCC
2 2 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.98%) Git
3 1 (0.98%) NetBeans
General
1 38 (37.25%) Finance
2 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.75%) Banking
5 8 (7.84%) Law
6 6 (5.88%) Games
6 6 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Legal
8 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Front Office
9 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.98%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (14.71%) Support Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Analyst
3 12 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 11 (10.78%) Lead
5 10 (9.80%) Senior
6 9 (8.82%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (7.84%) Incident Manager
7 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Major Incident Manager
8 7 (6.86%) Problem Analyst
8 7 (6.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Service Delivery Manager
8 7 (6.86%) Service Manager
9 6 (5.88%) IT Manager
10 5 (4.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Applications Manager
10 5 (4.90%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) .NET
2 5 (4.90%) WPF
3 3 (2.94%) REST
4 2 (1.96%) Kafka
5 1 (0.98%) EDI
5 1 (0.98%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.98%) HTML
5 1 (0.98%) IDoc
5 1 (0.98%) J2EE
5 1 (0.98%) JDBC
5 1 (0.98%) JSON
5 1 (0.98%) JSP
5 1 (0.98%) JWT
5 1 (0.98%) OAuth
5 1 (0.98%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.98%) SAML
5 1 (0.98%) Servlets
5 1 (0.98%) Spring
5 1 (0.98%) Struts
5 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.92%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.92%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.92%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.96%) Web3
6 1 (0.98%) AS400
6 1 (0.98%) Clustering
6 1 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) iSeries
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.43%) Windows
2 16 (15.69%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.78%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.90%) Linux
5 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.67%) ITIL
2 48 (47.06%) Service Management
3 39 (38.24%) Root Cause Analysis
4 35 (34.31%) Incident Management
5 34 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (32.35%) Service Delivery
7 28 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (26.47%) Change Management
9 26 (25.49%) ITSM
10 17 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (16.67%) Proactive Management
10 17 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (14.71%) Agile
11 15 (14.71%) Major Incident Management
12 12 (11.76%) CI/CD
12 12 (11.76%) Coaching
13 11 (10.78%) DevOps
13 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 11 (10.78%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.73%) SQL
2 11 (10.78%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.86%) C#
3 7 (6.86%) Java
3 7 (6.86%) Python
4 4 (3.92%) Bash
5 3 (2.94%) C++
5 3 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.98%) Korn
6 1 (0.98%) Perl
6 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Degree
2 5 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.92%) CCNP
3 4 (3.92%) MOS
3 4 (3.92%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.92%) PMP
4 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.96%) CISSP
5 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.96%) MCSE
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (1.96%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.98%) CCSP
6 1 (0.98%) CRISC
6 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.65%) SLA
2 5 (4.90%) PMO
3 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.98%) COBIT
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (24.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.96%) Docker
4 1 (0.98%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.98%) Firmware
4 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (6.86%) Grafana
4 6 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (4.90%) Kibana
6 4 (3.92%) Ansible
6 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.94%) SCCM
8 2 (1.96%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.96%) Terraform
9 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.98%) QRadar
9 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (36.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.59%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.82%) VMware
4 6 (5.88%) Varonis
5 5 (4.90%) Acronis
5 5 (4.90%) Cisco
6 4 (3.92%) Apple
6 4 (3.92%) Datto
6 4 (3.92%) Meraki
7 3 (2.94%) BMC
7 3 (2.94%) Citrix
7 3 (2.94%) Remedy
7 3 (2.94%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.96%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.96%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.96%) Oracle
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.96%) SAP
8 2 (1.96%) Sybase