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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 252 424 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.23% 20.62% 13.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 21.47% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 166 351 329
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +12.00% -7.41%
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 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 3,266 1,975 2,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.68% 96.06% 91.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,348 1,488 2,449
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 - £122,500 £113,750
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 9 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 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 33 (13.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.40%) SAP PSCD
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 81 (32.14%) Azure
2 41 (16.27%) AWS
3 28 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (5.95%) GCP
7 14 (5.56%) dbt
8 13 (5.16%) Serverless
9 11 (4.37%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.57%) OneDrive
11 8 (3.17%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.78%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.78%) Azure Storage
13 6 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.38%) GitHub
13 6 (2.38%) PaaS
14 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.14%) Wireless
2 11 (4.37%) DNS
3 10 (3.97%) DHCP
4 9 (3.57%) Broadband
5 8 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.78%) Firewall
7 6 (2.38%) VPN
7 6 (2.38%) WAN
8 5 (1.98%) LAN
9 4 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.19%) Network Security
10 3 (1.19%) SAN
11 2 (0.79%) 3G
11 2 (0.79%) 4G
11 2 (0.79%) ADSL
11 2 (0.79%) NAS
11 2 (0.79%) SNMP
11 2 (0.79%) VDSL
12 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.11%) Power BI
2 23 (9.13%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.37%) Metabase
5 7 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
8 3 (1.19%) Tableau
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.79%) Power Query
10 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 1 (0.40%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.40%) Flink
10 1 (0.40%) Metadata
10 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.76%) Visual Studio
2 9 (3.57%) Burp Suite
2 9 (3.57%) Metasploit
3 7 (2.78%) JIRA
4 6 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.38%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.98%) Git
6 2 (0.79%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.40%) GitLab
General
1 106 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 96 (38.10%) Finance
3 65 (25.79%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.94%) Law
5 11 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.17%) Banking
9 7 (2.78%) Legal
10 6 (2.38%) Front Office
11 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Retail
12 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.59%) Marketing
13 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Advertising
14 2 (0.79%) Games
14 2 (0.79%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (19.84%) Analyst
1 50 (19.84%) Senior
2 24 (9.52%) Developer
3 22 (8.73%) IT Support
3 22 (8.73%) Support Engineer
4 21 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 14 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
5 14 (5.56%) Lead
5 14 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (5.56%) Systems Support Analyst
6 13 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (5.16%) IT Analyst
6 13 (5.16%) IT Engineer
7 12 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
7 12 (4.76%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 12 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
8 11 (4.37%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 11 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (4.37%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 11 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.73%) .NET
2 8 (3.17%) gRPC
3 7 (2.78%) WPF
4 6 (2.38%) React
5 5 (1.98%) Flask
6 4 (1.59%) Django
6 4 (1.59%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.59%) REST
7 3 (1.19%) CSS
7 3 (1.19%) HTML
7 3 (1.19%) LangChain
7 3 (1.19%) Node.js
8 2 (0.79%) Kafka
8 2 (0.79%) LDAP
8 2 (0.79%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (0.79%) PySpark
8 2 (0.79%) Vue
8 2 (0.79%) Web Services
8 2 (0.79%) XML
8 2 (0.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 20 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 16 (6.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (5.16%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (4.37%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.97%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.78%) Over-the-Top Content
8 7 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.98%) Equities
10 5 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
11 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.59%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.48%) Windows
2 12 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 11 (4.37%) Linux
4 8 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.19%) CentOS
7 3 (1.19%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.63%) Agile
2 51 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (18.65%) Mentoring
4 40 (15.87%) Coaching
5 37 (14.68%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.89%) AI
6 35 (13.89%) Analytics
7 34 (13.49%) ITIL
8 32 (12.70%) Creative Thinking
8 32 (12.70%) DevOps
9 31 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (11.90%) Migration
11 28 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (10.32%) Business Strategy
12 26 (10.32%) Customer Service
13 25 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.13%) Internal Audit
15 22 (8.73%) Business Transformation
16 21 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 78 (30.95%) Python
2 70 (27.78%) SQL
3 48 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 20 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.54%) C#
6 16 (6.35%) Bash
7 10 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.17%) Java
9 7 (2.78%) Go
9 7 (2.78%) Scala
10 5 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.19%) C++
12 2 (0.79%) Perl
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) VBA
12 2 (0.79%) VC++
13 1 (0.40%) ABAP
13 1 (0.40%) RPG
13 1 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (18.25%) Degree
2 18 (7.14%) CCSAM
2 18 (7.14%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (7.14%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (7.14%) CREST Certified
2 18 (7.14%) OSCP
3 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (3.97%) A+ Certification
4 10 (3.97%) CISSP
5 8 (3.17%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.98%) CISA
9 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.19%) CISM
10 3 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.19%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (6.75%) GDPR
3 16 (6.35%) NIST
4 9 (3.57%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.38%) QA
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.19%) SLA
7 2 (0.79%) EMIR
7 2 (0.79%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.79%) GAAP
7 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.79%) PMO
7 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.37%) Docker
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.75%) Terraform
2 9 (3.57%) Nessus
3 7 (2.78%) Grafana
3 7 (2.78%) Kibana
3 7 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.59%) Ansible
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.40%) ArcSight ESM
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.40%) QRadar
7 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.40%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (29.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 10 (3.97%) Databricks
4 8 (3.17%) CyberArk
4 8 (3.17%) Dell
4 8 (3.17%) Oracle
5 7 (2.78%) Google
5 7 (2.78%) Typelevel
6 6 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.59%) SAP
7 4 (1.59%) VMware
8 3 (1.19%) Adobe
8 3 (1.19%) McAfee
9 2 (0.79%) BT
9 2 (0.79%) HP
9 2 (0.79%) iManage
9 2 (0.79%) JDA
9 2 (0.79%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.79%) Splunk
10 1 (0.40%) Confluent