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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 288 345
Rank change year-on-year -42 +57 -45
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 97 114 167
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.44% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.96% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 81 101 118
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -14.75% +29.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £88,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +13.24% +3.96% -3.81%

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 18,338 11,915 20,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.31% 94.81% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 7,431 14,970
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £122,500 £117,850
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 13 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 13 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 -8 29 £60,000 -7.69% 11
West London - 4 £82,500 - 4
South London +17 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 (11.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) JBoss
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.03%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.11%) Azure
2 25 (25.77%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.43%) Entra ID
3 14 (14.43%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.31%) SaaS
5 7 (7.22%) OneDrive
6 5 (5.15%) IaaS
6 5 (5.15%) Mimecast
6 5 (5.15%) PaaS
7 4 (4.12%) AWS
7 4 (4.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.09%) Serverless
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.06%) Datadog
9 2 (2.06%) GCP
9 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) VPN
2 10 (10.31%) Firewall
2 10 (10.31%) TCP/IP
2 10 (10.31%) WAN
2 10 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (8.25%) DNS
4 6 (6.19%) LAN
5 5 (5.15%) ADSL
6 4 (4.12%) DHCP
6 4 (4.12%) Network Security
6 4 (4.12%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.12%) Wireless
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (2.06%) Wireless Security
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (1.03%) HSRP
8 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.03%) SSL
8 1 (1.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) Db2
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.06%) GCC
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) NetBeans
General
1 30 (30.93%) Finance
2 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Law
6 6 (6.19%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.12%) Games
7 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.09%) Front Office
8 3 (3.09%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (12.37%) Applications Support
2 11 (11.34%) Analyst
3 10 (10.31%) Support Engineer
4 9 (9.28%) Lead
5 8 (8.25%) Applications Manager
5 8 (8.25%) Applications Support Manager
5 8 (8.25%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (8.25%) Incident Manager
5 8 (8.25%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) Support Manager
6 7 (7.22%) Major Incident Manager
6 7 (7.22%) Service Delivery Manager
6 7 (7.22%) Service Manager
7 6 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) IT Manager
8 5 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Problem Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) .NET
2 2 (2.06%) Kafka
2 2 (2.06%) REST
2 2 (2.06%) WPF
3 1 (1.03%) EDI
3 1 (1.03%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) IDoc
3 1 (1.03%) J2EE
3 1 (1.03%) JDBC
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) JSP
3 1 (1.03%) JWT
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth
3 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.03%) SAML
3 1 (1.03%) Servlets
3 1 (1.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.03%) Struts
3 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Data Centre
1 7 (7.22%) Security Posture
2 6 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.12%) AS400
4 4 (4.12%) iSeries
4 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.06%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.06%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.06%) Web3
7 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.03%) CMDB
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Windows
2 10 (10.31%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.22%) Linux
3 7 (7.22%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (67.01%) ITIL
2 51 (52.58%) Service Management
3 40 (41.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (41.24%) Root Cause Analysis
4 33 (34.02%) Change Management
4 33 (34.02%) Incident Management
4 33 (34.02%) Service Delivery
5 28 (28.87%) ITSM
6 26 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (15.46%) Major Incident Management
10 14 (14.43%) Agile
11 13 (13.40%) Proactive Management
12 11 (11.34%) Coaching
12 11 (11.34%) Release Management
13 10 (10.31%) Business Continuity
13 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
14 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) PowerShell
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 7 (7.22%) Java
2 7 (7.22%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) C#
4 3 (3.09%) Bash
4 3 (3.09%) C++
4 3 (3.09%) Rust
5 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (22.68%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) CCNP
3 4 (4.12%) MOS
3 4 (4.12%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.12%) PMP
4 3 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.06%) CISSP
5 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.06%) MCSE
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.03%) CFA
6 1 (1.03%) CRISC
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) SLA
2 5 (5.15%) PMO
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.03%) COBIT
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (22.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) Docker
5 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.12%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.06%) DatAdvantage
6 2 (2.06%) Kibana
6 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.06%) SCCM
6 2 (2.06%) Terraform
7 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.03%) QRadar
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (34.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.59%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.31%) VMware
4 5 (5.15%) Cisco
4 5 (5.15%) Varonis
5 4 (4.12%) Meraki
6 3 (3.09%) Acronis
6 3 (3.09%) Citrix
6 3 (3.09%) Splunk
6 3 (3.09%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.06%) Apple
7 2 (2.06%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.06%) Datto
7 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.03%) Concur
8 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) Exabeam
8 1 (1.03%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto