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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 289 313
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -6
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 127 103 200
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 0.83% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.87% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 101 83 156
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £40,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £79,500 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +5.00%

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 16,461 11,906 21,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.66% 96.09% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,058 7,245 15,948
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 May 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 May 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 39 £55,000 -15.38% 8
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 22 (17.32%) SharePoint
2 21 (16.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (37.01%) Azure
2 45 (35.43%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (19.69%) Entra ID
4 21 (16.54%) OneDrive
5 10 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (7.87%) SaaS
6 8 (6.30%) Serverless
7 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.51%) Azure Event Grid
7 7 (5.51%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.51%) Azure Storage
7 7 (5.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.72%) AWS
9 4 (3.15%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.57%) Datadog
10 2 (1.57%) GCP
10 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.17%) VPN
2 16 (12.60%) TCP/IP
3 13 (10.24%) WAN
4 12 (9.45%) DHCP
4 12 (9.45%) DNS
4 12 (9.45%) Firewall
5 11 (8.66%) SD-WAN
6 7 (5.51%) Wireless
7 5 (3.94%) ADSL
7 5 (3.94%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (3.94%) Network Security
7 5 (3.94%) WAAS
7 5 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.57%) LAN
8 2 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.57%) Wireless Security
9 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (3.94%) Power BI
3 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.79%) MySQL
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 56 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 49 (38.58%) Finance
3 20 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.24%) Law
5 11 (8.66%) Banking
6 7 (5.51%) Games
6 7 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.94%) Legal
7 5 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Front Office
9 3 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (15.75%) Support Engineer
2 19 (14.96%) Analyst
3 17 (13.39%) Senior
4 13 (10.24%) Applications Support
5 12 (9.45%) Lead
6 10 (7.87%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Incident Manager
7 9 (7.09%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (7.09%) Problem Manager
8 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) Major Incident Manager
8 8 (6.30%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) Problem Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) Service Delivery Manager
8 8 (6.30%) Service Manager
9 7 (5.51%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (5.51%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) IT Support
9 7 (5.51%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) .NET
2 7 (5.51%) WPF
3 2 (1.57%) Kafka
4 1 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.79%) JSON
4 1 (0.79%) OAuth
4 1 (0.79%) OpenID
4 1 (0.79%) REST
4 1 (0.79%) SAML
4 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.02%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.66%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.30%) CMDB
3 8 (6.30%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (5.51%) Fat Client
4 7 (5.51%) Thin Client
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.36%) iPad
6 3 (2.36%) iPhone
6 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Clustering
7 2 (1.57%) Web3
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.79%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 49 (38.58%) Windows
2 27 (21.26%) Windows Server
3 21 (16.54%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.66%) Apple iOS
5 6 (4.72%) Linux
6 5 (3.94%) Android
7 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (63.78%) ITIL
2 53 (41.73%) Service Management
3 49 (38.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 46 (36.22%) Service Delivery
5 39 (30.71%) Incident Management
5 39 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (26.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (24.41%) ITSM
8 29 (22.83%) Change Management
9 24 (18.90%) Disaster Recovery
10 22 (17.32%) Proactive Management
11 17 (13.39%) Runbook
12 15 (11.81%) Cost Management
12 15 (11.81%) Customer Service
12 15 (11.81%) DevOps
12 15 (11.81%) Major Incident Management
12 15 (11.81%) Migration
13 14 (11.02%) AI
13 14 (11.02%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.17%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.02%) SQL
3 12 (9.45%) Python
4 9 (7.09%) C#
5 6 (4.72%) Java
6 3 (2.36%) Bash
6 3 (2.36%) C++
6 3 (2.36%) Rust
7 1 (0.79%) Korn
7 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (25.98%) Degree
2 9 (7.09%) CCNP
2 9 (7.09%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) CCNA
6 5 (3.94%) JNCIA
6 5 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (3.94%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.94%) PMP
7 4 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.15%) MOS
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.57%) MCSE
9 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.83%) SLA
2 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.51%) GRC
4 5 (3.94%) PMO
5 3 (2.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) COBIT
System Software
1 32 (25.20%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.87%) Firmware
4 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.57%) Docker
6 1 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.09%) Ansible
2 9 (7.09%) SCCM
2 9 (7.09%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (6.30%) Grafana
4 7 (5.51%) Kibana
5 6 (4.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.57%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (1.57%) Terraform
8 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.79%) QRadar
8 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (44.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.54%) ServiceNow
3 14 (11.02%) Cisco
4 13 (10.24%) VMware
5 10 (7.87%) Remedy
6 9 (7.09%) BMC
7 7 (5.51%) Acronis
7 7 (5.51%) Apple
7 7 (5.51%) Datto
8 6 (4.72%) Varonis
9 5 (3.94%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.94%) Juniper
10 3 (2.36%) CyberArk
10 3 (2.36%) Logitech
10 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.36%) Yealink
11 2 (1.57%) AlgoSec
11 2 (1.57%) Meraki
11 2 (1.57%) Splunk
11 2 (1.57%) Zscaler