Problem-Solving Job Trends in the City of London

Problem Solving
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 293 409 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.27% 19.11% 13.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.02% 19.91% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 182 311 330
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,584 £37,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,750
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Problem-Solving 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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,658 2,054 2,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.09% 95.98% 92.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,874 1,499 2,482
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,147
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,375 £119,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the City of London region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
London Bridge -2 1 £112,500 -6.25% 1
Problem-Solving
Central London

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 8 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 23 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.34%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (34.13%) Azure
2 47 (16.04%) AWS
3 36 (12.29%) Power Platform
4 28 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.46%) GCP
7 15 (5.12%) dbt
8 13 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.75%) Serverless
10 9 (3.07%) GitHub
11 8 (2.73%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.39%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.39%) Azure Storage
12 7 (2.39%) Google Workspace
13 6 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.05%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.71%) SaaS
15 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
15 4 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.14%) Wireless
2 14 (4.78%) DHCP
3 13 (4.44%) DNS
4 12 (4.10%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.41%) Broadband
6 9 (3.07%) WAN
7 8 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.39%) LAN
9 5 (1.71%) Firewall
9 5 (1.71%) VoIP
10 3 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.02%) SAN
10 3 (1.02%) VPN
11 2 (0.68%) 3G
11 2 (0.68%) ADSL
11 2 (0.68%) DOCSIS
11 2 (0.68%) DSL
11 2 (0.68%) IPv4
11 2 (0.68%) IPv6
11 2 (0.68%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.60%) Power BI
2 30 (10.24%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.10%) Metabase
4 12 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.02%) Big Data
8 3 (1.02%) Tableau
9 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.68%) Metadata
9 2 (0.68%) MySQL
9 2 (0.68%) Power Query
10 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.34%) Flink
10 1 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 13 (4.44%) Visual Studio
2 12 (4.10%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (4.10%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.41%) JIRA
4 9 (3.07%) Burp Suite
4 9 (3.07%) Metasploit
5 6 (2.05%) Git
6 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) NUnit
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 123 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 119 (40.61%) Finance
3 80 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.56%) Legal
5 22 (7.51%) Banking
5 22 (7.51%) Retail
6 21 (7.17%) Law
7 12 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Advertising
11 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.37%) Front Office
11 4 (1.37%) Marketing
11 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.68%) Billing
12 2 (0.68%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (17.41%) Analyst
2 44 (15.02%) Senior
3 28 (9.56%) Support Engineer
4 25 (8.53%) Developer
5 24 (8.19%) Lead
6 20 (6.83%) IT Support
7 18 (6.14%) Support Analyst
8 15 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.12%) Systems Support Analyst
9 14 (4.78%) Digital Analyst
9 14 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (4.44%) Graduate
10 13 (4.44%) Service Manager
11 12 (4.10%) Consultant
11 12 (4.10%) Financial Analyst
11 12 (4.10%) IT Analyst
11 12 (4.10%) IT Support Analyst
11 12 (4.10%) Systems Analyst
11 12 (4.10%) Systems Support
11 12 (4.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.56%) .NET
2 8 (2.73%) React
3 7 (2.39%) Flask
3 7 (2.39%) gRPC
3 7 (2.39%) WPF
4 6 (2.05%) Django
4 6 (2.05%) FastAPI
4 6 (2.05%) Node.js
5 5 (1.71%) LangChain
6 4 (1.37%) CSS
6 4 (1.37%) HTML
6 4 (1.37%) Kafka
6 4 (1.37%) XML
7 3 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.02%) PySpark
7 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.02%) REST
7 3 (1.02%) RESTful
7 3 (1.02%) XSLT
8 2 (0.68%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.87%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (6.83%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.10%) Cyber Defence
5 12 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.07%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.73%) CMDB
9 6 (2.05%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 6 (2.05%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.37%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.60%) Windows
2 10 (3.41%) Windows 10
2 10 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.07%) Linux
4 6 (2.05%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.02%) CentOS
7 3 (1.02%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.68%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.68%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.34%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (23.89%) Agile
2 65 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 61 (20.82%) AI
4 55 (18.77%) Mentoring
5 53 (18.09%) Analytics
6 46 (15.70%) Coaching
7 41 (13.99%) ITIL
8 40 (13.65%) CI/CD
9 39 (13.31%) Creative Thinking
9 39 (13.31%) DevOps
10 36 (12.29%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.56%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (8.87%) Business Strategy
15 26 (8.87%) Decision-Making
15 26 (8.87%) Migration
16 25 (8.53%) Full-Stack Development
17 24 (8.19%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 92 (31.40%) Python
2 91 (31.06%) SQL
3 44 (15.02%) PowerShell
4 22 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.17%) Bash
6 19 (6.48%) C#
7 12 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.39%) C++
8 7 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.05%) Go
9 6 (2.05%) Java
9 6 (2.05%) Scala
10 4 (1.37%) VBA
11 3 (1.02%) VC++
12 2 (0.68%) C
12 2 (0.68%) Perl
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) ABAP
13 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) RPG
Qualifications
1 44 (15.02%) Degree
2 18 (6.14%) CCSAM
2 18 (6.14%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (6.14%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (6.14%) CREST Certified
2 18 (6.14%) OSCP
3 13 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.39%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.39%) CISSP
5 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.71%) CISA
6 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.02%) CCNA
7 3 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.83%) GDPR
1 20 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.12%) NIST
3 11 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 6 (2.05%) QA
6 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.02%) EMIR
7 3 (1.02%) ITGC
7 3 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.02%) SLA
8 2 (0.68%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.68%) PMO
8 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (5.12%) Docker
2 14 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.48%) Terraform
2 9 (3.07%) Grafana
2 9 (3.07%) Nessus
3 7 (2.39%) Kibana
3 7 (2.39%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.05%) Ansible
4 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.68%) ArcSight ESM
7 2 (0.68%) QRadar
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.34%) Ambari
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.17%) Databricks
3 18 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.75%) Oracle
5 8 (2.73%) CyberArk
5 8 (2.73%) Google
6 6 (2.05%) Typelevel
6 6 (2.05%) VMware
7 5 (1.71%) Dell
7 5 (1.71%) HP
7 5 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.71%) SAP
8 4 (1.37%) McAfee
8 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.02%) Adobe
9 3 (1.02%) Apple
9 3 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.02%) Splunk
10 2 (0.68%) iManage
10 2 (0.68%) OneTrust