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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 289 320
Rank change year-on-year -53 +31 -44
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 97 101 152
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.38% 0.86% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.91% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 76 82 91
10th Percentile £50,375 £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £49,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,125 £75,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £100,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -9.34%

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 20,705 11,106 17,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.62% 94.14% 89.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,847 7,003 10,165
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,000 £41,000
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 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%

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 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 28 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 -6 14 £65,500 -6.43% 14
West London +1 9 £85,000 +36.00% 5
South London - 3 £80,000 - 2
North London - 1 £50,000 - 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 12 (12.37%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) JBoss
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.03%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.99%) Azure
2 22 (22.68%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (14.43%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.31%) OneDrive
5 8 (8.25%) AWS
5 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.19%) IaaS
6 6 (6.19%) PaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.15%) GCP
7 5 (5.15%) SaaS
8 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.06%) dbt
8 2 (2.06%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.03%) Datadog
9 1 (1.03%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.43%) DNS
1 14 (14.43%) Firewall
1 14 (14.43%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.34%) WAN
3 10 (10.31%) LAN
3 10 (10.31%) VPN
3 10 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (9.28%) Network Security
5 7 (7.22%) DHCP
6 3 (3.09%) Wireless
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (2.06%) HTTP
7 2 (2.06%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.06%) Internet
7 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.03%) NGFW
8 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.22%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) GIS
3 2 (2.06%) MySQL
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Db2
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 3 (3.09%) GCC
3 2 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) NetBeans
4 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Finance
3 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.22%) Games
7 6 (6.19%) Law
7 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Advertising
10 3 (3.09%) Back Office
10 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.06%) Front Office
12 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.03%) Legal
12 1 (1.03%) Marketing
12 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (13.40%) Lead
2 10 (10.31%) Applications Support
2 10 (10.31%) Senior
3 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (8.25%) Network Engineer
3 8 (8.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.22%) Analyst
4 7 (7.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Applications Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Applications Support Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Manager
5 6 (6.19%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Support Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Head of IT
6 5 (5.15%) Head of Operations
6 5 (5.15%) IT Support
6 5 (5.15%) Network Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Network Manager
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) JWT
1 3 (3.09%) OAuth
1 3 (3.09%) OAuth2
1 3 (3.09%) SAML
1 3 (3.09%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) .NET
2 2 (2.06%) Kafka
2 2 (2.06%) OpenID
2 2 (2.06%) REST
3 1 (1.03%) EDI
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) IDoc
3 1 (1.03%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.03%) JDBC
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) JSP
3 1 (1.03%) Servlets
3 1 (1.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.03%) Struts
3 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.19%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.15%) AS400
4 5 (5.15%) iSeries
4 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.12%) Fat Client
5 4 (4.12%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.06%) CMDB
6 2 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.03%) Derivative
7 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.80%) Windows
2 13 (13.40%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.31%) Linux
4 5 (5.15%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.70%) ITIL
2 49 (50.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (47.42%) Root Cause Analysis
4 43 (44.33%) Service Management
5 32 (32.99%) ITSM
6 31 (31.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (26.80%) Change Management
8 24 (24.74%) Incident Management
9 18 (18.56%) Service Delivery
10 17 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (15.46%) Incident Response
12 13 (13.40%) Agile
13 11 (11.34%) Business Continuity
13 11 (11.34%) Coaching
13 11 (11.34%) Major Incident Management
13 11 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (9.28%) Observability
15 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
15 9 (9.28%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 7 (7.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.15%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) Bash
5 3 (3.09%) Perl
6 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) CISSP
5 3 (3.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (3.09%) CCNP
5 3 (3.09%) CCSP
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.06%) MOS
7 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CCNA
7 1 (1.03%) CFA
7 1 (1.03%) CISA
7 1 (1.03%) CISM
7 1 (1.03%) GIAC
7 1 (1.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.68%) SLA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) COBIT
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) PMO
3 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (25.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.03%) Docker
5 1 (1.03%) Firmware
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.12%) Ansible
3 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.03%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.03%) QRadar
5 1 (1.03%) SCOM
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (1.03%) WMI
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.37%) VMware
4 10 (10.31%) Cisco
5 7 (7.22%) Zscaler
6 5 (5.15%) Acronis
7 4 (4.12%) Apple
7 4 (4.12%) Datto
7 4 (4.12%) HP
7 4 (4.12%) Splunk
8 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.09%) Google
8 3 (3.09%) Meraki
8 3 (3.09%) Oracle
8 3 (3.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.06%) Arista
9 2 (2.06%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.06%) Netskope
10 1 (1.03%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.03%) Exabeam