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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 284 320
Rank change year-on-year -75 +36 -60
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 98 103 144
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.86% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.92% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 78 85 92
10th Percentile £50,525 £38,500 £40,485
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £100,000 £94,500
England median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -9.09%

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 20,476 11,250 17,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.84% 94.14% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13,847 7,132 10,494
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 14 £65,000 -7.14% 13
West London -11 8 £85,000 +36.00% 6
South London - 2 £80,000 - 3
North London - 1 £50,000 - 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 11 (11.22%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) JBoss
3 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) Azure
2 21 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.20%) OneDrive
5 9 (9.18%) AWS
5 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.12%) IaaS
6 6 (6.12%) PaaS
6 6 (6.12%) SaaS
7 5 (5.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.10%) GCP
8 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.04%) Datadog
8 2 (2.04%) dbt
8 2 (2.04%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) DNS
1 14 (14.29%) Firewall
1 14 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.22%) WAN
3 10 (10.20%) LAN
3 10 (10.20%) VPN
3 10 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (9.18%) Network Security
5 7 (7.14%) DHCP
6 3 (3.06%) Wireless
7 2 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (2.04%) HTTP
7 2 (2.04%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.04%) Internet
7 2 (2.04%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.02%) BGP
8 1 (1.02%) NGFW
8 1 (1.02%) OSPF
8 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) Power BI
1 8 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.02%) Db2
2 1 (1.02%) GIS
2 1 (1.02%) MySQL
2 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) GCC
3 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.02%) Git
4 1 (1.02%) NetBeans
4 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Finance
3 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.27%) Banking
5 8 (8.16%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.14%) Games
6 7 (7.14%) Law
7 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.08%) Advertising
9 4 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.04%) Back Office
11 2 (2.04%) Front Office
12 1 (1.02%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.02%) Legal
12 1 (1.02%) Marketing
12 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (12.24%) Lead
2 11 (11.22%) Applications Support
3 10 (10.20%) Senior
4 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Network Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Analyst
5 7 (7.14%) Applications Manager
5 7 (7.14%) Applications Support Manager
5 7 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Support Manager
6 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (6.12%) IT Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Change Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Network Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Release Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) JWT
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.06%) SAML
3 2 (2.04%) .NET
3 2 (2.04%) Kafka
3 2 (2.04%) OpenID
3 2 (2.04%) REST
4 1 (1.02%) EDI
4 1 (1.02%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.02%) HTML
4 1 (1.02%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.02%) JDBC
4 1 (1.02%) JSON
4 1 (1.02%) JSP
4 1 (1.02%) Servlets
4 1 (1.02%) Spring
4 1 (1.02%) Struts
4 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.10%) AS400
4 5 (5.10%) iSeries
4 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.08%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.08%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.04%) CMDB
6 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.02%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.02%) Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Windows
2 13 (13.27%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.20%) Linux
4 5 (5.10%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.08%) Unix
5 4 (4.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (59.18%) ITIL
2 48 (48.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (47.96%) Root Cause Analysis
4 46 (46.94%) Service Management
5 32 (32.65%) ITSM
6 31 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (28.57%) Change Management
8 24 (24.49%) Incident Management
9 20 (20.41%) Service Delivery
10 17 (17.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (15.31%) Agile
11 15 (15.31%) Incident Response
11 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.27%) Business Continuity
13 12 (12.24%) Coaching
13 12 (12.24%) Major Incident Management
14 11 (11.22%) Release Management
15 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
16 9 (9.18%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) Python
2 9 (9.18%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.18%) SQL
3 5 (5.10%) Java
4 4 (4.08%) Bash
5 3 (3.06%) Perl
6 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.08%) CISSP
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (3.06%) CCNP
5 3 (3.06%) CCSP
6 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.04%) MOS
6 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CFA
7 1 (1.02%) CRISC
7 1 (1.02%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.45%) SLA
2 4 (4.08%) PMO
3 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) COBIT
4 2 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (26.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.04%) Docker
4 2 (2.04%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.02%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.02%) Firmware
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.10%) Ansible
3 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.04%) Grafana
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.02%) QRadar
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.02%) SCOM
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (1.02%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.35%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.24%) VMware
4 10 (10.20%) Cisco
5 7 (7.14%) Zscaler
6 5 (5.10%) Acronis
7 4 (4.08%) Apple
7 4 (4.08%) Datto
7 4 (4.08%) HP
7 4 (4.08%) Splunk
8 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.06%) Google
8 3 (3.06%) Meraki
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle
8 3 (3.06%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.04%) Arista
9 2 (2.04%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.04%) Netskope
9 2 (2.04%) Varonis
10 1 (1.02%) ConnectWise