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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 293 418 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.62% 18.89% 12.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.41% 19.74% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 184 304 323
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,175 £38,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,959
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,375 £115,000
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 2,568 2,118 2,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.28% 95.71% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,816 1,498 2,498
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,448
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £105,000 £118,750 £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 13 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 13 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 -3 1 £112,500 -6.25%
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 7 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.37%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (6.48%) 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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (33.79%) Azure
2 48 (16.38%) AWS
3 35 (11.95%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.12%) GCP
7 14 (4.78%) dbt
8 12 (4.10%) 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
14 5 (1.71%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.71%) SaaS
14 5 (1.71%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
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 6 (2.05%) Firewall
10 5 (1.71%) VoIP
11 3 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (1.02%) SAN
11 3 (1.02%) VPN
12 2 (0.68%) 3G
12 2 (0.68%) DOCSIS
12 2 (0.68%) DSL
12 2 (0.68%) PPP
12 2 (0.68%) RTP
12 2 (0.68%) SNMP
12 2 (0.68%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.26%) Power BI
2 30 (10.24%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.75%) Metabase
6 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.02%) Big Data
9 3 (1.02%) Tableau
10 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.68%) Metadata
10 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.68%) MySQL
10 2 (0.68%) Power Query
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (4.10%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (4.10%) TeamCity
1 12 (4.10%) Visual Studio
2 11 (3.75%) JIRA
3 9 (3.07%) Burp Suite
3 9 (3.07%) Metasploit
4 7 (2.39%) Git
5 2 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.68%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.34%) GitLab
6 1 (0.34%) NUnit
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 121 (41.30%) Finance
2 119 (40.61%) Social Skills
3 82 (27.99%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.90%) Legal
5 24 (8.19%) Law
6 23 (7.85%) Banking
7 22 (7.51%) Retail
8 11 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.37%) Advertising
14 4 (1.37%) Front Office
14 4 (1.37%) Marketing
14 4 (1.37%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.02%) Billing
16 2 (0.68%) Games
17 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.72%) Analyst
2 44 (15.02%) Senior
3 27 (9.22%) Support Engineer
4 26 (8.87%) Developer
5 23 (7.85%) Lead
6 18 (6.14%) IT Support
7 16 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.46%) Support Analyst
8 14 (4.78%) Digital Analyst
8 14 (4.78%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (4.78%) Systems Support Analyst
9 13 (4.44%) Consultant
9 13 (4.44%) Service Manager
10 12 (4.10%) Senior Digital Analyst
10 12 (4.10%) Technical Support
11 11 (3.75%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 11 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) IT Analyst
11 11 (3.75%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.24%) .NET
2 10 (3.41%) React
3 7 (2.39%) Flask
3 7 (2.39%) gRPC
3 7 (2.39%) Node.js
3 7 (2.39%) WPF
4 6 (2.05%) Django
4 6 (2.05%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.71%) Kafka
5 5 (1.71%) LangChain
6 4 (1.37%) CSS
6 4 (1.37%) HTML
6 4 (1.37%) PySpark
6 4 (1.37%) REST
6 4 (1.37%) RESTful
6 4 (1.37%) XML
7 3 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.02%) Middleware
7 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.19%) 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 5 (1.71%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.37%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.92%) Windows
2 10 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.07%) Linux
3 9 (3.07%) Windows 10
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 73 (24.91%) Agile
2 63 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (21.16%) AI
4 55 (18.77%) Analytics
5 53 (18.09%) Mentoring
6 45 (15.36%) Coaching
7 41 (13.99%) CI/CD
8 40 (13.65%) DevOps
9 39 (13.31%) Creative Thinking
10 38 (12.97%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (12.63%) ITIL
12 35 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (9.56%) Collaborative Culture
16 27 (9.22%) Migration
17 26 (8.87%) Business Strategy
17 26 (8.87%) Decision-Making
17 26 (8.87%) User Experience
18 25 (8.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (31.40%) Python
2 89 (30.38%) SQL
3 42 (14.33%) PowerShell
4 21 (7.17%) Bash
4 21 (7.17%) C#
5 20 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.73%) Java
8 7 (2.39%) C++
8 7 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.05%) Go
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%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.34%) RPG
13 1 (0.34%) Ruby
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%) CISSP
5 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.05%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.71%) CISA
7 5 (1.71%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.02%) CCNA
8 3 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.02%) CISM
8 3 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.48%) GDPR
3 16 (5.46%) NIST
4 12 (4.10%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.05%) QA
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%) GRC
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%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 14 (4.78%) Docker
2 13 (4.44%) 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 18 (6.14%) 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%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.34%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 70 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.85%) Databricks
3 17 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.75%) Oracle
5 8 (2.73%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.39%) Google
7 6 (2.05%) Typelevel
7 6 (2.05%) VMware
8 5 (1.71%) HP
8 5 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.71%) SAP
9 4 (1.37%) Dell
9 4 (1.37%) McAfee
9 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.02%) Adobe
10 3 (1.02%) Apple
10 3 (1.02%) Splunk
11 2 (0.68%) ArcSight
11 2 (0.68%) LogLogic