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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 200 407 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.05% 21.31% 15.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 22.20% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 139 345 337
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,300 £112,500 £105,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £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 3,174 1,833 2,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.17% 95.97% 91.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 1,414 2,246
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
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 - £120,875 £113,125
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 20 July 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 12 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 32 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.50%) Autodesk Flame
3 1 (0.50%) Baselight
3 1 (0.50%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.50%) Azure
2 31 (15.50%) AWS
3 24 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.50%) GCP
6 10 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.50%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.00%) dbt
8 8 (4.00%) SaaS
9 7 (3.50%) Azure AKS
10 6 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.00%) OCI
10 6 (3.00%) PaaS
10 6 (3.00%) Serverless
11 4 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.00%) GitHub
11 4 (2.00%) IaaS
12 3 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 3 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.00%) Broadband
2 7 (3.50%) Wireless
3 6 (3.00%) Firewall
3 6 (3.00%) Network Security
4 4 (2.00%) BGP
4 4 (2.00%) OSPF
5 3 (1.50%) DHCP
5 3 (1.50%) DNS
5 3 (1.50%) Intranet
5 3 (1.50%) MPLS
5 3 (1.50%) VLAN
5 3 (1.50%) VPN
6 2 (1.00%) Internet
6 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.00%) WAN
6 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.50%) IGMP
7 1 (0.50%) Multicast
7 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.50%) Power BI
2 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.50%) Metabase
5 4 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.50%) Big Data
6 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle Discoverer
7 2 (1.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.50%) KDB
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.50%) Git
3 4 (2.00%) JIRA
4 3 (1.50%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.50%) Metasploit
4 3 (1.50%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (53.50%) Social Skills
2 62 (31.00%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (30.50%) Finance
4 23 (11.50%) Law
5 9 (4.50%) Front Office
6 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.50%) Banking
7 7 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Legal
8 6 (3.00%) Marketing
9 5 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.50%) Retail
10 4 (2.00%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Advertising
12 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.00%) Games
12 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (19.50%) Analyst
2 37 (18.50%) Senior
3 24 (12.00%) Developer
4 18 (9.00%) Support Analyst
5 15 (7.50%) IT Support
6 14 (7.00%) Consultant
7 12 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 12 (6.00%) Support Engineer
8 11 (5.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (4.50%) IT Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Graduate
11 8 (4.00%) IT Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) gRPC
2 6 (3.00%) .NET
2 6 (3.00%) REST
3 4 (2.00%) React
4 3 (1.50%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.50%) Flask
4 3 (1.50%) RESTful
5 2 (1.00%) Django
5 2 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.00%) LangChain
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.00%) Pandas
5 2 (1.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.00%) Spring
5 2 (1.00%) Web Services
6 1 (0.50%) CSS3
6 1 (0.50%) JPA
6 1 (0.50%) jQuery
6 1 (0.50%) OAuth
6 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.50%) Mobile App
5 9 (4.50%) Web Conferencing
6 7 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (3.50%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.50%) Over-the-Top Content
6 7 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.00%) Photography
7 6 (3.00%) Video Editing
8 5 (2.50%) Equities
8 5 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.00%) Windows
2 10 (5.00%) Linux
2 10 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (18.50%) Agile
3 32 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 30 (15.00%) ITIL
5 27 (13.50%) Customer Service
6 26 (13.00%) CI/CD
6 26 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (12.50%) Coaching
8 22 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 19 (9.50%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.50%) Decision-Making
11 18 (9.00%) DevOps
11 18 (9.00%) Migration
12 17 (8.50%) Containerisation
13 16 (8.00%) Data Analysis
14 15 (7.50%) AI
14 15 (7.50%) Creative Thinking
15 14 (7.00%) Business Strategy
15 14 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 53 (26.50%) Python
2 45 (22.50%) SQL
3 33 (16.50%) PowerShell
4 19 (9.50%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.50%) C#
6 10 (5.00%) Bash
7 9 (4.50%) Java
8 8 (4.00%) Scala
9 7 (3.50%) Go
10 5 (2.50%) C++
10 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.50%) R
12 2 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (1.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.00%) VBA
13 1 (0.50%) Cypher
13 1 (0.50%) Elm
13 1 (0.50%) Julia
13 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 41 (20.50%) Degree
2 12 (6.00%) CISSP
3 10 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.00%) A+ Certification
4 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.50%) CCSAM
5 7 (3.50%) CHECK Team Leader
5 7 (3.50%) CHECK Team Member
5 7 (3.50%) CREST Certified
5 7 (3.50%) OSCP
6 6 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.00%) CISA
7 4 (2.00%) CISM
7 4 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.50%) ACCA
8 3 (1.50%) CIMA
8 3 (1.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) NIST
2 9 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.00%) GDPR
4 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.50%) QA
5 4 (2.00%) IFRS
6 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.50%) SLA
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.00%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.00%) GAAP
7 2 (1.00%) GRC
7 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) PMO
8 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) EMIR
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.50%) Docker
3 3 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) GPFS
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) StorNext
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (6.50%) Terraform
2 9 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.00%) Ansible
4 3 (1.50%) Nessus
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Kibana
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (33.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.00%) Oracle
4 9 (4.50%) Google
5 8 (4.00%) SAP
6 7 (3.50%) Typelevel
7 6 (3.00%) Dell
8 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.00%) Cisco
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) BT
10 2 (1.00%) Darktrace
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks
10 2 (1.00%) JDA
10 2 (1.00%) OneTrust
10 2 (1.00%) VMware
11 1 (0.50%) Arista
11 1 (0.50%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.50%) Meraki
11 1 (0.50%) Qualtrics