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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 195 393 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.15% 22.57% 15.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 23.50% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 128 343 275
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,800 £36,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,875 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £78,438
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,150 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 2,552 1,672 2,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.48% 96.04% 93.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,844 1,322 1,859
10th Percentile £46,975 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%

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 September 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 16 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.18%) Confluence
3 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.05%) CMS
5 3 (1.54%) Drupal
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.51%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 26 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.13%) Autodesk Flame
2 10 (5.13%) Baselight
3 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
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 8 (4.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.51%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.38%) Azure
2 27 (13.85%) AWS
3 24 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.15%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.62%) SaaS
7 8 (4.10%) GCP
8 6 (3.08%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.08%) OCI
9 5 (2.56%) PaaS
9 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.56%) Serverless
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%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) VPN
2 6 (3.08%) Firewall
2 6 (3.08%) Network Security
3 5 (2.56%) DHCP
3 5 (2.56%) DNS
3 5 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.05%) BGP
4 4 (2.05%) OSPF
4 4 (2.05%) Wireless
5 3 (1.54%) Intranet
5 3 (1.54%) MPLS
5 3 (1.54%) VLAN
6 2 (1.03%) Internet
6 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.51%) Broadband
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.51%) IGMP
7 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.51%) VoIP
7 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) Power BI
2 6 (3.08%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.03%) Big Data
4 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.03%) MySQL
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.51%) KDB
5 1 (0.51%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.69%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) Git
3 4 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
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%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 65 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (27.69%) Finance
3 54 (27.69%) Law
4 15 (7.69%) Marketing
5 14 (7.18%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (5.13%) French Language
8 9 (4.62%) Banking
8 9 (4.62%) Front Office
8 9 (4.62%) Games
9 5 (2.56%) Legal
10 4 (2.05%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Publishing
11 3 (1.54%) Retail
12 2 (1.03%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (17.95%) Senior
2 31 (15.90%) Analyst
3 19 (9.74%) Developer
4 18 (9.23%) Post-Production Engineer
5 15 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 14 (7.18%) Consultant
7 13 (6.67%) Senior Manager
8 11 (5.64%) IT Support
9 10 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Analyst
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Support
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 9 (4.62%) IT Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Junior
10 9 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.08%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.18%) HTML
2 11 (5.64%) Terraform
3 7 (3.59%) React
4 5 (2.56%) .NET
4 5 (2.56%) Next.js
5 4 (2.05%) REST
6 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET
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%) HTML5
6 2 (1.03%) Node.js
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%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.15%) Biopharmaceutical
3 12 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.13%) Driving Licence
4 10 (5.13%) Web Conferencing
5 7 (3.59%) Photography
5 7 (3.59%) Video Editing
6 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.08%) Hedge funds
6 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.56%) Equities
8 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.54%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.54%) Social Media
9 3 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.85%) Windows
2 18 (9.23%) Linux
3 17 (8.72%) Windows 10
4 9 (4.62%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (29.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (21.54%) Agile
3 32 (16.41%) Decision-Making
4 27 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (13.33%) AI
5 26 (13.33%) Post-Production
6 25 (12.82%) Workflow
7 24 (12.31%) ITIL
8 23 (11.79%) Customer Service
9 22 (11.28%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.28%) Line Management
9 22 (11.28%) Storytelling
10 21 (10.77%) Analytics
10 21 (10.77%) Computer Science
11 20 (10.26%) Coaching
11 20 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (9.74%) DevOps
12 19 (9.74%) Roadmaps
13 18 (9.23%) Mentoring
13 18 (9.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.46%) Python
2 34 (17.44%) SQL
3 24 (12.31%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.13%) C#
6 9 (4.62%) Java
7 5 (2.56%) Bash
7 5 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.54%) C++
8 3 (1.54%) R
8 3 (1.54%) Scala
9 2 (1.03%) Bicep
9 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.03%) VBA
10 1 (0.51%) ABAP
10 1 (0.51%) Julia
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (28.21%) Degree
2 18 (9.23%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.15%) MBA
5 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.62%) CISSP
7 8 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.56%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.56%) ACCA
9 5 (2.56%) CIMA
10 4 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.05%) CISM
11 3 (1.54%) CEH
11 3 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.54%) CRISC
12 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.85%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.13%) GDPR
4 8 (4.10%) QA
5 5 (2.56%) NIST
6 4 (2.05%) IFRS
7 3 (1.54%) GRC
7 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.03%) COBIT
8 2 (1.03%) GAAP
8 2 (1.03%) NCSC
9 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.51%) MiFID
9 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (10.77%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.62%) Docker
2 9 (4.62%) GPFS
2 9 (4.62%) StorNext
3 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.05%) Ansible
3 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.72%) SAP
3 16 (8.21%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.64%) Oracle
5 9 (4.62%) Autodesk
5 9 (4.62%) Avid
5 9 (4.62%) Google
6 8 (4.10%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.56%) Dell
8 4 (2.05%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) JDA
9 2 (1.03%) Sony
10 1 (0.51%) Arista
10 1 (0.51%) Concur
10 1 (0.51%) FIS
10 1 (0.51%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.51%) UiPath