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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 245 412 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.96% 20.45% 13.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 21.28% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 160 343 333
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,350 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 3,304 1,936 2,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.43% 96.08% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 1,469 2,423
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of 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 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 33 (13.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP PSCD
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.61%) Azure
2 40 (16.33%) AWS
3 25 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.71%) GCP
7 13 (5.31%) Serverless
8 12 (4.90%) dbt
9 10 (4.08%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.67%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.27%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.86%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.86%) Azure Storage
13 6 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.45%) PaaS
14 5 (2.04%) GitHub
14 5 (2.04%) SaaS
15 4 (1.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.35%) Wireless
2 9 (3.67%) Broadband
3 8 (3.27%) DNS
4 7 (2.86%) DHCP
5 6 (2.45%) Firewall
5 6 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.04%) VPN
7 4 (1.63%) Network Security
7 4 (1.63%) WAN
8 3 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.22%) LAN
8 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.82%) BGP
9 2 (0.82%) OSPF
9 2 (0.82%) SAN
10 1 (0.41%) 3G
10 1 (0.41%) Internet
10 1 (0.41%) Intranet
10 1 (0.41%) MPLS
10 1 (0.41%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.20%) Power BI
2 22 (8.98%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.08%) Metabase
5 7 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.22%) Big Data
8 3 (1.22%) Tableau
9 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.82%) Power Query
10 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (0.41%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.41%) Flink
10 1 (0.41%) Metadata
10 1 (0.41%) MS Access
10 1 (0.41%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Visual Studio
2 9 (3.67%) Burp Suite
2 9 (3.67%) Metasploit
3 6 (2.45%) JIRA
3 6 (2.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (2.45%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.04%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) Postman
6 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
General
1 101 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 92 (37.55%) Finance
3 66 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.16%) Law
5 10 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.27%) Banking
8 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.86%) Legal
9 6 (2.45%) Front Office
10 5 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.04%) Marketing
10 5 (2.04%) Retail
11 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Games
13 2 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.41%) Billing
14 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (19.59%) Analyst
1 48 (19.59%) Senior
2 22 (8.98%) Developer
3 20 (8.16%) Support Analyst
3 20 (8.16%) Support Engineer
4 19 (7.76%) IT Support
5 14 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
5 14 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (5.31%) Lead
6 13 (5.31%) Systems Support Analyst
7 12 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
7 12 (4.90%) IT Analyst
7 12 (4.90%) IT Engineer
7 12 (4.90%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 11 (4.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 11 (4.49%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) IT Support Analyst
8 11 (4.49%) Systems Analyst
9 10 (4.08%) Financial Analyst
9 10 (4.08%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.98%) .NET
2 8 (3.27%) gRPC
3 7 (2.86%) WPF
4 4 (1.63%) Flask
4 4 (1.63%) React
4 4 (1.63%) REST
5 3 (1.22%) Django
5 3 (1.22%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.22%) LangChain
6 2 (0.82%) Blazor
6 2 (0.82%) HTML
6 2 (0.82%) Kafka
6 2 (0.82%) LlamaIndex
6 2 (0.82%) Node.js
6 2 (0.82%) Pandas
6 2 (0.82%) PySpark
6 2 (0.82%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.82%) Web Services
6 2 (0.82%) XML
6 2 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 19 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (5.31%) Cyber Defence
5 12 (4.90%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.86%) Over-the-Top Content
9 7 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (2.86%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (2.45%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.45%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.45%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.04%) Equities
11 5 (2.04%) Photography
11 5 (2.04%) Video Editing
12 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.29%) Windows
2 10 (4.08%) Linux
2 10 (4.08%) Windows 10
3 7 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.82%) CentOS
5 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.82%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.22%) Agile
2 49 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (19.59%) Mentoring
4 41 (16.73%) Coaching
5 37 (15.10%) CI/CD
6 33 (13.47%) AI
7 32 (13.06%) Analytics
7 32 (13.06%) Creative Thinking
7 32 (13.06%) ITIL
8 31 (12.65%) DevOps
9 30 (12.24%) Migration
10 29 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (10.61%) Business Strategy
12 26 (10.61%) Customer Service
13 23 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (9.39%) Internal Audit
13 23 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (8.98%) Business Transformation
15 21 (8.57%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.20%) Python
2 67 (27.35%) SQL
3 47 (19.18%) PowerShell
4 19 (7.76%) C#
4 19 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.12%) Bash
6 10 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.86%) Go
7 7 (2.86%) Scala
8 6 (2.45%) Java
9 4 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.22%) C++
11 2 (0.82%) PHP
11 2 (0.82%) VBA
11 2 (0.82%) VC++
12 1 (0.41%) ABAP
12 1 (0.41%) Perl
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) RPG
12 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (19.18%) Degree
2 18 (7.35%) CCSAM
2 18 (7.35%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (7.35%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (7.35%) CREST Certified
2 18 (7.35%) OSCP
3 10 (4.08%) CISSP
3 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.67%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.04%) CISA
7 5 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.22%) CCNP
9 3 (1.22%) CISM
9 3 (1.22%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.53%) GDPR
2 16 (6.53%) NIST
3 9 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.45%) QA
5 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.22%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) EMIR
6 2 (0.82%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.82%) GAAP
6 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.82%) IFRS
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
6 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.82%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) Basel II
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (6.53%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.49%) Docker
3 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.94%) Terraform
2 9 (3.67%) Nessus
3 7 (2.86%) Grafana
3 7 (2.86%) Kibana
4 6 (2.45%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.82%) Ansible
7 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.41%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.67%) Databricks
4 7 (2.86%) CyberArk
4 7 (2.86%) Dell
4 7 (2.86%) Oracle
4 7 (2.86%) Typelevel
5 6 (2.45%) Google
6 4 (1.63%) SAP
7 3 (1.22%) Adobe
7 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.22%) VMware
8 2 (0.82%) BT
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco
8 2 (0.82%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.82%) JDA
8 2 (0.82%) McAfee
8 2 (0.82%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.41%) Aderant
9 1 (0.41%) Intapp