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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 345 438 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 14.23% 16.68% 11.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.49% 17.44% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 256 270 295
10th Percentile £33,294 £37,450 £37,048
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,563 £86,250 £90,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £68,736 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.69% -10.34%

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 2,092 2,511 2,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 86.27% 95.62% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 1,592 2,448
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,425
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +1.35% -1.33%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -1 2 £100,000 -16.67%
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 15 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.16%) Confluence
4 3 (0.87%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.87%) IIS
5 2 (0.58%) CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.29%) Luigi
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.58%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Endur
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.57%) Azure
2 46 (13.33%) AWS
3 35 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 28 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (4.93%) GCP
7 13 (3.77%) SaaS
8 12 (3.48%) GitHub
9 11 (3.19%) Serverless
10 9 (2.61%) Power Automate
11 8 (2.32%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.03%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.03%) dbt
13 6 (1.74%) Azure Event Grid
13 6 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.74%) Azure Storage
13 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.74%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.77%) DHCP
1 13 (3.77%) DNS
2 11 (3.19%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.19%) Wireless
3 8 (2.32%) WAN
4 7 (2.03%) WebEx
4 7 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.74%) Firewall
5 6 (1.74%) LAN
6 5 (1.45%) Modbus
6 5 (1.45%) VoIP
6 5 (1.45%) VPN
7 3 (0.87%) Broadband
7 3 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.87%) SAN
8 2 (0.58%) 3G
8 2 (0.58%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.58%) IPv4
8 2 (0.58%) IPv6
8 2 (0.58%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.41%) Power BI
2 26 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.45%) ClickHouse
7 5 (1.45%) Metabase
7 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.87%) Tableau
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.58%) Big Data
10 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.58%) KDB
10 2 (0.58%) Metadata
10 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (3.77%) JIRA
2 12 (3.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 12 (3.48%) TeamCity
3 10 (2.90%) Git
4 6 (1.74%) Burp Suite
4 6 (1.74%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.58%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.29%) NUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 159 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 116 (33.62%) Finance
3 91 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.72%) Legal
5 34 (9.86%) Law
6 24 (6.96%) Banking
6 24 (6.96%) Retail
7 17 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.19%) Billing
9 8 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.16%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.87%) Advertising
14 3 (0.87%) Front Office
14 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (13.04%) Senior
2 41 (11.88%) Developer
3 37 (10.72%) Analyst
3 37 (10.72%) Support Engineer
4 31 (8.99%) Lead
5 23 (6.67%) Graduate
5 23 (6.67%) Technical Support
6 20 (5.80%) Technical Engineer
6 20 (5.80%) Technical Support Engineer
7 18 (5.22%) Consultant
8 17 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.64%) Graduate Technical Support
10 15 (4.35%) Applications Support
10 15 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.06%) Service Manager
12 13 (3.77%) Architect
12 13 (3.77%) Graduate Support Engineer
12 13 (3.77%) Graduate Technical Engineer
12 13 (3.77%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.30%) .NET
2 19 (5.51%) React
3 14 (4.06%) RESTful
4 8 (2.32%) Django
4 8 (2.32%) FastAPI
4 8 (2.32%) Flask
5 7 (2.03%) Node.js
5 7 (2.03%) PySpark
6 6 (1.74%) CSS
6 6 (1.74%) HTML
6 6 (1.74%) Web Services
6 6 (1.74%) WPF
7 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.45%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.45%) Kafka
7 5 (1.45%) Middleware
7 5 (1.45%) Vue
8 4 (1.16%) Pandas
8 4 (1.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.06%) Virtual Team
6 13 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.48%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.90%) Reinsurance
9 9 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.32%) CMDB
11 7 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.45%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.87%) FPGA
14 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.57%) Windows
2 12 (3.48%) Linux
2 12 (3.48%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.03%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.87%) CentOS
8 3 (0.87%) Unix
9 2 (0.58%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Debian
10 1 (0.29%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.99%) Agile
2 81 (23.48%) AI
3 76 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (15.94%) Analytics
5 49 (14.20%) Mentoring
6 41 (11.88%) DevOps
7 39 (11.30%) Decision-Making
8 38 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (10.72%) ITIL
10 36 (10.43%) Roadmaps
11 35 (10.14%) CI/CD
11 35 (10.14%) Migration
12 34 (9.86%) Machine Learning
13 33 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (9.28%) Coaching
14 32 (9.28%) User Experience
15 31 (8.99%) Business Intelligence
16 29 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (8.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (8.12%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 92 (26.67%) Python
2 81 (23.48%) SQL
3 33 (9.57%) C#
4 30 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.25%) Bash
6 21 (6.09%) Java
7 13 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.19%) C++
9 10 (2.90%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.16%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) VC++
13 1 (0.29%) Go
13 1 (0.29%) R
13 1 (0.29%) RPG
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (17.10%) Degree
2 18 (5.22%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.48%) OSCP
4 11 (3.19%) CCSAM
4 11 (3.19%) CHECK Team Leader
4 11 (3.19%) CHECK Team Member
4 11 (3.19%) CREST Certified
5 9 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMP
8 3 (0.87%) A+ Certification
8 3 (0.87%) CCNA
8 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.87%) CISM
8 3 (0.87%) CISSP
8 3 (0.87%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (5.22%) GDPR
3 13 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.77%) QA
4 12 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.90%) NIST
6 8 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 5 (1.45%) SLA
8 4 (1.16%) WCAG
9 3 (0.87%) ITGC
9 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.58%) EMIR
10 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) COBIT
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.90%) Docker
4 8 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.58%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) vCloud
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (5.80%) Terraform
2 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.90%) Ansible
4 9 (2.61%) Grafana
4 9 (2.61%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.74%) Kibana
5 6 (1.74%) Nessus
6 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.87%) Puppet
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.58%) ArcSight ESM
7 2 (0.58%) Argo
7 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.58%) QRadar
7 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.58%) WSUS
8 1 (0.29%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.25%) Databricks
3 16 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.06%) Oracle
5 13 (3.77%) VMware
6 11 (3.19%) Google
7 10 (2.90%) Guidewire
8 9 (2.61%) HP
9 8 (2.32%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.03%) Apple
10 7 (2.03%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.74%) Intapp
11 6 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.74%) SAP
12 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.16%) McAfee
14 3 (0.87%) Dell
14 3 (0.87%) Hitachi
14 3 (0.87%) iManage
14 3 (0.87%) Splunk