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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 302 448 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.57% 18.32% 11.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 19.08% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 198 302 304
10th Percentile £35,575 £37,975 £38,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,813 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
75th Percentile £89,688 £89,688 £91,875
90th Percentile £102,550 £105,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -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 2,438 2,348 2,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 85.36% 96.03% 93.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,741 1,553 2,524
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,575
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £108,750 £118,550 £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 27 February 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 27 February 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 9 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (0.99%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.66%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 101 (33.44%) Azure
2 49 (16.23%) AWS
3 33 (10.93%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.30%) GCP
7 13 (4.30%) dbt
8 12 (3.97%) Serverless
9 11 (3.64%) GitHub
9 11 (3.64%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.65%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.32%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.32%) Azure Storage
11 7 (2.32%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.66%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.66%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.66%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.96%) Wireless
2 14 (4.64%) DHCP
3 13 (4.30%) DNS
4 12 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.98%) Broadband
5 9 (2.98%) WAN
6 8 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (2.32%) Firewall
7 7 (2.32%) LAN
8 5 (1.66%) VoIP
9 3 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.99%) SAN
9 3 (0.99%) VPN
10 2 (0.66%) 3G
10 2 (0.66%) DOCSIS
10 2 (0.66%) DSL
10 2 (0.66%) PPP
10 2 (0.66%) RTP
10 2 (0.66%) SNMP
10 2 (0.66%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.93%) Power BI
3 21 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (3.31%) Metabase
6 8 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.32%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.32%) Tableau
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.99%) Big Data
10 3 (0.99%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.66%) Metadata
11 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.66%) MySQL
11 2 (0.66%) Power Query
12 1 (0.33%) MS Access
12 1 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (3.97%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (3.97%) TeamCity
2 11 (3.64%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.31%) JIRA
4 9 (2.98%) Burp Suite
4 9 (2.98%) Git
4 9 (2.98%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) NUnit
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 119 (39.40%) Finance
2 118 (39.07%) Social Skills
3 82 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.60%) Law
4 29 (9.60%) Legal
5 24 (7.95%) Banking
6 21 (6.95%) Retail
7 12 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.99%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.66%) Billing
13 4 (1.32%) Advertising
13 4 (1.32%) Front Office
13 4 (1.32%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.33%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (15.23%) Senior
2 44 (14.57%) Analyst
3 34 (11.26%) Developer
4 25 (8.28%) Lead
4 25 (8.28%) Support Engineer
5 18 (5.96%) Consultant
6 16 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.30%) IT Support
7 15 (4.97%) Support Analyst
8 14 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (4.30%) Systems Support Analyst
10 12 (3.97%) Architect
10 12 (3.97%) Service Manager
11 11 (3.64%) Applications Support
11 11 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.64%) Security Analyst
11 11 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.31%) Digital Analyst
12 10 (3.31%) Finance Systems Analyst
12 10 (3.31%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.26%) .NET
2 14 (4.64%) React
3 9 (2.98%) Flask
4 8 (2.65%) Django
4 8 (2.65%) FastAPI
4 8 (2.65%) RESTful
5 7 (2.32%) Node.js
5 7 (2.32%) WPF
6 6 (1.99%) CSS
6 6 (1.99%) gRPC
6 6 (1.99%) HTML
7 5 (1.66%) Kafka
7 5 (1.66%) LangChain
7 5 (1.66%) Middleware
8 4 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.32%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.32%) CSS3
8 4 (1.32%) HTML5
8 4 (1.32%) REST
8 4 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (6.62%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.64%) Virtual Team
5 13 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.98%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (2.98%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.65%) CMDB
10 8 (2.65%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.32%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.99%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.99%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.66%) Over-the-Top Content
13 5 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
14 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.99%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.93%) Windows
2 11 (3.64%) Linux
3 10 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.99%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.99%) CentOS
8 3 (0.99%) Unix
8 3 (0.99%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.66%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.15%) Agile
2 69 (22.85%) AI
3 68 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (17.88%) Analytics
5 49 (16.23%) Mentoring
6 42 (13.91%) DevOps
7 40 (13.25%) CI/CD
7 40 (13.25%) Coaching
8 36 (11.92%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (11.59%) Creative Thinking
10 34 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (11.26%) ITIL
10 34 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (10.26%) Migration
12 30 (9.93%) Decision-Making
12 30 (9.93%) User Experience
13 29 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (9.27%) Collaborative Culture
15 25 (8.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 88 (29.14%) Python
2 84 (27.81%) SQL
3 38 (12.58%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.62%) C#
5 21 (6.95%) Bash
6 15 (4.97%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.97%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.64%) Java
8 8 (2.65%) C++
9 7 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.66%) Go
10 5 (1.66%) Scala
10 5 (1.66%) VBA
11 3 (0.99%) VC++
12 2 (0.66%) C
12 2 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.33%) RPG
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (15.56%) Degree
2 19 (6.29%) OSCP
3 18 (5.96%) CCSAM
3 18 (5.96%) CHECK Team Leader
3 18 (5.96%) CHECK Team Member
3 18 (5.96%) CREST Certified
4 16 (5.30%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.66%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.66%) CISSP
8 4 (1.32%) CISM
9 3 (0.99%) CCNA
9 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.62%) GDPR
1 20 (6.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.97%) NIST
3 11 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.98%) QA
5 8 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.99%) EMIR
6 3 (0.99%) ITGC
6 3 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.99%) WCAG
7 2 (0.66%) GRC
7 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.30%) Docker
3 8 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.66%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
7 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (6.62%) Terraform
2 9 (2.98%) Grafana
2 9 (2.98%) Nessus
3 8 (2.65%) Ansible
4 7 (2.32%) Kibana
4 7 (2.32%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.66%) ArcSight ESM
7 2 (0.66%) Puppet
7 2 (0.66%) QRadar
7 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.33%) Podman
8 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.62%) Databricks
3 17 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.97%) Oracle
5 9 (2.98%) Google
6 8 (2.65%) CyberArk
6 8 (2.65%) VMware
7 6 (1.99%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.99%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.66%) HP
8 5 (1.66%) SAP
8 5 (1.66%) Typelevel
9 4 (1.32%) Dell
9 4 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.32%) McAfee
9 4 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.99%) Adobe
10 3 (0.99%) Apple
10 3 (0.99%) Splunk
11 2 (0.66%) ArcSight