Problem Management Job Trends in the South East

Problem Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Problem Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 214 276
Rank change year-on-year -37 +62 -30
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 45 56 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.80% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 31 23 100
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,625 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £56,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £60,000 £56,275
England median annual salary £61,110 £50,500 £52,250
% change year-on-year +21.01% -3.35% +2.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,405 7,030 14,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.47% 90.21% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 7,342 3,380 10,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,969 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Problem Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Problem Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Problem Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Problem Management

Problem Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem Management in the South East

Problem Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -21 15 £75,000 +50.00% 5
Thames Valley -6 12 £57,250 +43.13% 5
Buckinghamshire - 10 £57,500 - 1
Surrey -20 9 £95,000 +58.33% 1
Kent -23 9 £95,000 +102.13% 2
Oxfordshire -3 1 £59,500 +25.26% 2
Berkshire -15 1 £46,000 +38.35% 2
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.78%) PowerApps
5 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (8.89%) Nutanix
7 3 (6.67%) PaaS
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) DHCP
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.22%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
3 1 (2.22%) SMTP
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) VSAN
3 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Git
General
1 18 (40.00%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) French Language
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Senior
2 9 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Applications Support
3 8 (17.78%) Applications Support Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) ITIL Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Service Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Service Desk Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Service Desk Support
3 8 (17.78%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Windows Support Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) Clustering
1 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
1 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Windows
2 6 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) FreeBSD
3 1 (2.22%) OpenBSD
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) ITIL
2 17 (37.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (28.89%) Project Management
4 12 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 12 (26.67%) Incident Management
4 12 (26.67%) ITSM
5 11 (24.44%) Project Delivery
6 10 (22.22%) Asset Management
7 9 (20.00%) Change Management
7 9 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
7 9 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (17.78%) Application Packaging
8 8 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Service Management
11 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
11 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (8.89%) Analytical Thinking
12 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) SQL
2 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Hyper-V
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.22%) KVM
4 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (17.78%) SCCM
3 7 (15.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.22%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.78%) Palo Alto
3 8 (17.78%) Qualys
4 5 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix
5 1 (2.22%) Dell
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) NetApp
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Veeam