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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 195 398 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.70% 22.17% 15.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 23.21% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 134 342 297
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,775 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,325 £97,500
Central London median annual salary £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% - -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 2,740 1,715 2,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.02% 95.54% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 1,331 1,937
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 27 August 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 15 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.10%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Drupal
5 1 (0.51%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 30 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.08%) Autodesk Flame
3 6 (3.08%) Baselight
4 1 (0.51%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.51%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.05%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.03%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.51%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.41%) Azure
2 28 (14.36%) AWS
3 24 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.64%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.62%) GCP
6 9 (4.62%) SaaS
7 7 (3.59%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.08%) OCI
8 6 (3.08%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.56%) PaaS
10 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.05%) GitHub
10 4 (2.05%) IaaS
10 4 (2.05%) Serverless
10 4 (2.05%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.54%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) Firewall
1 6 (3.08%) Network Security
2 5 (2.56%) VPN
3 4 (2.05%) BGP
3 4 (2.05%) OSPF
4 3 (1.54%) DHCP
4 3 (1.54%) DNS
4 3 (1.54%) Intranet
4 3 (1.54%) MPLS
4 3 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.54%) VLAN
5 2 (1.03%) Broadband
5 2 (1.03%) Internet
5 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.51%) IGMP
6 1 (0.51%) Multicast
6 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.69%) Power BI
2 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) Big Data
6 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.03%) Metabase
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.51%) KDB
7 1 (0.51%) Metadata
7 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) Git
3 4 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.54%) Postman
4 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.51%) JMeter
5 1 (0.51%) Mocha
5 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 106 (54.36%) Social Skills
2 69 (35.38%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (29.74%) Finance
4 44 (22.56%) Law
5 12 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.64%) Marketing
7 10 (5.13%) Banking
8 8 (4.10%) French Language
8 8 (4.10%) Front Office
8 8 (4.10%) Games
8 8 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.08%) Legal
9 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.56%) Retail
11 4 (2.05%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.03%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.46%) Analyst
2 35 (17.95%) Senior
3 20 (10.26%) Developer
4 15 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 13 (6.67%) Consultant
6 12 (6.15%) Post-Production Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.64%) IT Support
7 11 (5.64%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 9 (4.62%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (4.62%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.10%) Desktop Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.10%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Graduate
10 7 (3.59%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) Terraform
2 8 (4.10%) HTML
3 6 (3.08%) React
4 5 (2.56%) REST
5 4 (2.05%) .NET
5 4 (2.05%) Next.js
6 2 (1.03%) CSS
6 2 (1.03%) CSS3
6 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.03%) gRPC
6 2 (1.03%) HTML5
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.03%) Playwright
6 2 (1.03%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.03%) Spring
6 2 (1.03%) Web Services
7 1 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.51%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (8.72%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.18%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.67%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.13%) Web Conferencing
6 9 (4.62%) Driving Licence
7 8 (4.10%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.59%) Photography
8 7 (3.59%) Video Editing
9 6 (3.08%) Biopharmaceutical
9 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
9 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.56%) Equities
10 5 (2.56%) Hedge funds
11 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.33%) Windows
2 14 (7.18%) Linux
2 14 (7.18%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (20.00%) Agile
3 29 (14.87%) ITIL
4 27 (13.85%) Customer Service
5 26 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (12.82%) Decision-Making
7 23 (11.79%) Mentoring
8 21 (10.77%) Computer Science
8 21 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (10.77%) Workflow
9 20 (10.26%) Post-Production
10 19 (9.74%) CI/CD
10 19 (9.74%) Coaching
11 18 (9.23%) AI
11 18 (9.23%) DevOps
12 17 (8.72%) Analytics
13 16 (8.21%) Line Management
13 16 (8.21%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.21%) Storytelling
14 15 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.08%) Python
2 40 (20.51%) SQL
3 28 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 21 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.13%) Java
6 9 (4.62%) C#
7 7 (3.59%) Bash
8 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.05%) C++
9 4 (2.05%) R
9 4 (2.05%) Scala
10 2 (1.03%) Bicep
10 2 (1.03%) Go
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.03%) VBA
11 1 (0.51%) Cypher
11 1 (0.51%) Elm
11 1 (0.51%) Julia
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 48 (24.62%) Degree
2 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.64%) CISSP
3 11 (5.64%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.08%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.08%) MBA
7 4 (2.05%) ACCA
7 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.05%) CIMA
7 4 (2.05%) CISA
7 4 (2.05%) CISM
8 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.54%) CRISC
8 3 (1.54%) SSCP
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.74%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.62%) NIST
4 8 (4.10%) GDPR
4 8 (4.10%) QA
5 4 (2.05%) IFRS
5 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.54%) GRC
7 2 (1.03%) COBIT
7 2 (1.03%) GAAP
7 2 (1.03%) NCSC
7 2 (1.03%) SLA
8 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.51%) MiFID
8 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.64%) Docker
3 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) GPFS
4 5 (2.56%) StorNext
5 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.05%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.21%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.69%) SAP
4 11 (5.64%) Oracle
5 9 (4.62%) Google
6 5 (2.56%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.56%) Avid
6 5 (2.56%) Dell
6 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.05%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.05%) Cisco
8 2 (1.03%) BT
8 2 (1.03%) Darktrace
8 2 (1.03%) Databricks
8 2 (1.03%) JDA
8 2 (1.03%) Sony
8 2 (1.03%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.51%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.51%) UiPath