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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 295 412 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.51% 18.86% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 19.70% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 185 309 327
10th Percentile £31,750 £40,467 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £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 £105,500 £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 2,614 2,091 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.24% 95.74% 92.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,844 1,519 2,484
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £59,875 £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 £117,950 £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 16 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 16 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 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.36%) 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 21 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.71%) 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
1 101 (34.24%) Azure
2 49 (16.61%) AWS
3 35 (11.86%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.76%) GCP
7 14 (4.75%) dbt
8 12 (4.07%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.73%) Serverless
10 9 (3.05%) GitHub
11 8 (2.71%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.37%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.37%) Azure Storage
12 7 (2.37%) Google Workspace
13 6 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.69%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.69%) SaaS
14 5 (1.69%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.10%) Wireless
2 14 (4.75%) DHCP
3 13 (4.41%) DNS
4 12 (4.07%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.39%) Broadband
6 9 (3.05%) WAN
7 8 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.37%) LAN
9 6 (2.03%) Firewall
10 5 (1.69%) 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%) 4G
12 2 (0.68%) DOCSIS
12 2 (0.68%) DSL
12 2 (0.68%) GPON
12 2 (0.68%) NAS
12 2 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.19%) Power BI
2 30 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (3.73%) Metabase
6 8 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.36%) 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%) MS Access
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.07%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (4.07%) TeamCity
1 12 (4.07%) Visual Studio
2 11 (3.73%) JIRA
3 9 (3.05%) Burp Suite
3 9 (3.05%) Metasploit
4 7 (2.37%) 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 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 119 (40.34%) Finance
3 82 (27.80%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.83%) Legal
5 24 (8.14%) Law
6 22 (7.46%) Banking
6 22 (7.46%) Retail
7 11 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.36%) Advertising
10 4 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.36%) Front Office
10 4 (1.36%) Marketing
10 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.36%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.02%) Billing
12 2 (0.68%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.61%) Analyst
2 45 (15.25%) Senior
3 28 (9.49%) Support Engineer
4 26 (8.81%) Developer
5 23 (7.80%) Lead
6 19 (6.44%) IT Support
7 16 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.42%) Support Analyst
8 14 (4.75%) Digital Analyst
8 14 (4.75%) Senior Analyst
8 14 (4.75%) Systems Support Analyst
9 13 (4.41%) Consultant
9 13 (4.41%) Service Manager
10 12 (4.07%) Senior Digital Analyst
10 12 (4.07%) Technical Support
11 11 (3.73%) Applications Support
11 11 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (3.73%) Security Analyst
11 11 (3.73%) Systems Analyst
11 11 (3.73%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.17%) .NET
2 10 (3.39%) React
3 7 (2.37%) Flask
3 7 (2.37%) gRPC
3 7 (2.37%) Node.js
3 7 (2.37%) WPF
4 6 (2.03%) Django
4 6 (2.03%) FastAPI
5 5 (1.69%) Kafka
5 5 (1.69%) LangChain
6 4 (1.36%) CSS
6 4 (1.36%) HTML
6 4 (1.36%) REST
6 4 (1.36%) RESTful
6 4 (1.36%) XML
7 3 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.02%) Middleware
7 3 (1.02%) PySpark
7 3 (1.02%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (6.78%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.41%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.07%) Cyber Defence
5 12 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.05%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.71%) CMDB
9 6 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.03%) Over-the-Top Content
9 6 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (1.69%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.36%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.19%) Windows
2 10 (3.39%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.05%) Linux
3 9 (3.05%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.03%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.36%) 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 (24.75%) Agile
2 64 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (21.02%) AI
4 55 (18.64%) Mentoring
5 54 (18.31%) Analytics
6 46 (15.59%) Coaching
7 41 (13.90%) CI/CD
8 40 (13.56%) DevOps
9 39 (13.22%) Creative Thinking
9 39 (13.22%) ITIL
10 37 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (9.49%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (9.15%) Migration
15 26 (8.81%) Business Strategy
15 26 (8.81%) Decision-Making
15 26 (8.81%) User Experience
16 25 (8.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (31.19%) Python
2 89 (30.17%) SQL
3 43 (14.58%) PowerShell
4 21 (7.12%) Bash
4 21 (7.12%) C#
4 21 (7.12%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.75%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.71%) Java
7 7 (2.37%) C++
7 7 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.03%) Go
8 6 (2.03%) Scala
9 4 (1.36%) VBA
10 3 (1.02%) VC++
11 2 (0.68%) C
11 2 (0.68%) Perl
11 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.34%) RPG
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (15.25%) Degree
2 18 (6.10%) CCSAM
2 18 (6.10%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (6.10%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (6.10%) CREST Certified
2 18 (6.10%) OSCP
3 14 (4.75%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.71%) CISSP
4 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.37%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.03%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.69%) CISA
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 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.78%) GDPR
3 16 (5.42%) NIST
4 11 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.03%) 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%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (5.08%) Docker
2 13 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.44%) Terraform
2 9 (3.05%) Grafana
2 9 (3.05%) Nessus
3 8 (2.71%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.37%) Kibana
5 6 (2.03%) Ansible
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.68%) ArcSight ESM
8 2 (0.68%) QRadar
8 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.34%) Ambari
9 1 (0.34%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.34%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.34%) WSUS
9 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.46%) Databricks
3 17 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.73%) Oracle
5 9 (3.05%) Google
6 8 (2.71%) CyberArk
7 6 (2.03%) Typelevel
7 6 (2.03%) VMware
8 5 (1.69%) HP
8 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.69%) SAP
9 4 (1.36%) Dell
9 4 (1.36%) McAfee
9 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.36%) 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