Problem Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Problem Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Problem Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 181 188
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 32 66 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.72% 0.91% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.10% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 18 49 70
10th Percentile £29,925 £28,501 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +14.13% +5.75%
75th Percentile £50,000 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £52,567 £69,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% +5.79% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Problem Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Problem Management in the West Midlands

Problem Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem Management in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Problem Management in the West Midlands

Problem Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem Management in the West Midlands

Problem Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Birmingham +23 14 £46,000 -13.21% 7
Warwickshire -15 11 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Staffordshire +20 3 £27,500 -3.51% 1
Herefordshire - 2 - - 4
Shropshire - 1 - - 4
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (12.50%) Route 53
5 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) VPN
3 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 4 (12.50%) VLAN
4 4 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (6.25%) DHCP
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Advertising
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 8 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Support Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Support Team Leader
5 3 (9.38%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Malware Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.38%) iPad
2 3 (9.38%) iPhone
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) ITIL
2 13 (40.63%) Incident Management
3 11 (34.38%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Change Management
5 8 (25.00%) Compliance Management
6 7 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) ITSM
7 6 (18.75%) Major Incident Management
7 6 (18.75%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (18.75%) SIEM
7 6 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (15.63%) Asset Management
8 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
8 5 (15.63%) Line Management
8 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 4 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) Bash
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) Perl
2 2 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (28.13%) CISA
3 9 (28.13%) CISM
3 9 (28.13%) CISSP
3 9 (28.13%) GIAC
3 9 (28.13%) ISACA
3 9 (28.13%) SANS
4 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.25%) Degree
6 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) MCSA
7 1 (3.13%) CCNA
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) GRC
1 8 (25.00%) JSP 440
1 8 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) COBIT
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) BitLocker
2 6 (18.75%) Firmware
3 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) SCCM
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (15.63%) Nessus
3 4 (12.50%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 2 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Apple
2 6 (18.75%) HP
2 6 (18.75%) MobileIron
2 6 (18.75%) Tenable
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
4 3 (9.38%) McAfee
4 3 (9.38%) Remedy
5 2 (6.25%) ArcSight
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Sybase
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki