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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 296 408 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.08% 19.57% 13.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.81% 20.38% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 183 319 330
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
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 2,739 2,002 2,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 84.02% 96.02% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 1,499 2,485
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,850
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £102,500 £120,000 £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 26 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 26 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 -2 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 8 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) 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 PSCD
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 98 (33.11%) Azure
2 47 (15.88%) AWS
3 36 (12.16%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.41%) GCP
7 15 (5.07%) dbt
8 13 (4.39%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.72%) Serverless
10 9 (3.04%) GitHub
11 8 (2.70%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.36%) Azure Event Grid
12 7 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.36%) Azure Storage
12 7 (2.36%) Google Workspace
13 6 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.03%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.69%) SaaS
15 4 (1.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.08%) Wireless
2 14 (4.73%) DHCP
3 13 (4.39%) DNS
4 12 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.38%) Broadband
6 9 (3.04%) WAN
7 8 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.36%) LAN
9 5 (1.69%) Firewall
9 5 (1.69%) VoIP
10 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.01%) SAN
10 3 (1.01%) VPN
11 2 (0.68%) 3G
11 2 (0.68%) ADSL
11 2 (0.68%) DOCSIS
11 2 (0.68%) DSL
11 2 (0.68%) IPv4
11 2 (0.68%) IPv6
11 2 (0.68%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.49%) Power BI
2 29 (9.80%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.05%) Metabase
5 9 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Tableau
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.68%) Metadata
10 2 (0.68%) MySQL
10 2 (0.68%) Power Query
11 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.34%) Flink
11 1 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 13 (4.39%) Visual Studio
2 10 (3.38%) JIRA
3 9 (3.04%) Burp Suite
3 9 (3.04%) Metasploit
3 9 (3.04%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.04%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.03%) 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
1 127 (42.91%) Social Skills
2 119 (40.20%) Finance
3 80 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.46%) Legal
5 23 (7.77%) Banking
6 22 (7.43%) Law
6 22 (7.43%) Retail
7 12 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Advertising
11 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.35%) Front Office
11 4 (1.35%) Marketing
11 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.68%) Billing
12 2 (0.68%) Games
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (16.89%) Analyst
2 46 (15.54%) Senior
3 28 (9.46%) Support Engineer
4 27 (9.12%) Developer
5 23 (7.77%) Lead
6 20 (6.76%) IT Support
7 18 (6.08%) Support Analyst
8 16 (5.41%) Graduate
9 15 (5.07%) Systems Support Analyst
10 14 (4.73%) Digital Analyst
10 14 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.39%) Service Manager
12 12 (4.05%) Architect
12 12 (4.05%) Consultant
12 12 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.05%) Financial Analyst
12 12 (4.05%) IT Support Analyst
12 12 (4.05%) Systems Analyst
12 12 (4.05%) Systems Support
12 12 (4.05%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.78%) .NET
2 8 (2.70%) React
3 7 (2.36%) Flask
3 7 (2.36%) gRPC
3 7 (2.36%) WPF
4 6 (2.03%) Django
4 6 (2.03%) FastAPI
4 6 (2.03%) Node.js
5 5 (1.69%) LangChain
6 4 (1.35%) CSS
6 4 (1.35%) HTML
6 4 (1.35%) Kafka
6 4 (1.35%) XML
7 3 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.01%) PySpark
7 3 (1.01%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.01%) REST
7 3 (1.01%) RESTful
7 3 (1.01%) XSLT
8 2 (0.68%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.12%) Onboarding
2 23 (7.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (6.76%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.05%) Cyber Defence
5 10 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.38%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.70%) CMDB
8 6 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.03%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.16%) Windows
2 10 (3.38%) Linux
2 10 (3.38%) Windows 10
2 10 (3.38%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.03%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.01%) CentOS
6 3 (1.01%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.68%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.68%) Unix
8 1 (0.34%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.34%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (23.31%) Agile
2 65 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 60 (20.27%) AI
4 55 (18.58%) Mentoring
5 52 (17.57%) Analytics
6 45 (15.20%) Coaching
7 43 (14.53%) ITIL
8 39 (13.18%) Creative Thinking
9 37 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 37 (12.50%) DevOps
10 36 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.46%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (9.46%) Migration
15 26 (8.78%) Business Strategy
15 26 (8.78%) Decision-Making
16 25 (8.45%) Full-Stack Development
17 24 (8.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 93 (31.42%) Python
2 89 (30.07%) SQL
3 44 (14.86%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.09%) Bash
6 20 (6.76%) C#
7 12 (4.05%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.70%) Java
9 7 (2.36%) C++
9 7 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.03%) Go
10 6 (2.03%) Scala
11 4 (1.35%) VBA
12 3 (1.01%) VC++
13 2 (0.68%) C
13 2 (0.68%) Perl
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) ABAP
14 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.34%) RPG
Qualifications
1 49 (16.55%) Degree
2 18 (6.08%) CCSAM
2 18 (6.08%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (6.08%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (6.08%) CREST Certified
2 18 (6.08%) OSCP
3 13 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.36%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.36%) CISSP
6 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.69%) CISA
7 5 (1.69%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.01%) CCNA
8 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.01%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.76%) GDPR
1 20 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.07%) NIST
3 11 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 6 (2.03%) QA
6 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.01%) EMIR
7 3 (1.01%) ITGC
7 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.01%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (5.07%) Docker
2 14 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.72%) 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 18 (6.08%) Terraform
2 9 (3.04%) Grafana
2 9 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.04%) Nessus
3 7 (2.36%) Kibana
4 6 (2.03%) Ansible
4 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.01%) 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%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.34%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 75 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.76%) Databricks
2 20 (6.76%) ServiceNow
3 12 (4.05%) Oracle
4 8 (2.70%) CyberArk
4 8 (2.70%) Dell
4 8 (2.70%) Google
5 6 (2.03%) Typelevel
5 6 (2.03%) VMware
6 5 (1.69%) HP
6 5 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.35%) McAfee
7 4 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.35%) SAP
8 3 (1.01%) Adobe
8 3 (1.01%) Apple
8 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.01%) Splunk
9 2 (0.68%) iManage
9 2 (0.68%) OneTrust