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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 186 389 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.72% 22.67% 15.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 23.59% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 124 336 278
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £36,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,813 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £95,750
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 2,615 1,649 2,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.36% 96.10% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 1,291 1,861
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,414
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
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 4 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 15 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.30%) Confluence
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Drupal
5 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 26 (13.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.76%) Autodesk Flame
2 7 (3.76%) Baselight
2 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.54%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.54%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.54%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.59%) AWS
1 29 (15.59%) Azure
2 23 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (6.99%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.91%) OneDrive
5 9 (4.84%) GCP
6 8 (4.30%) SaaS
7 6 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.23%) OCI
8 5 (2.69%) PaaS
8 5 (2.69%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.69%) Serverless
9 4 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.15%) GitHub
9 4 (2.15%) IaaS
9 4 (2.15%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Firewall
1 6 (3.23%) Network Security
1 6 (3.23%) VPN
2 4 (2.15%) BGP
2 4 (2.15%) DHCP
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) OSPF
2 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.61%) Intranet
3 3 (1.61%) MPLS
3 3 (1.61%) VLAN
3 3 (1.61%) Wireless
4 2 (1.08%) Broadband
4 2 (1.08%) Internet
4 2 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.54%) IGMP
5 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.54%) VoIP
5 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.91%) Power BI
2 6 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.08%) Big Data
4 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.54%) KDB
5 1 (0.54%) Metadata
5 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.54%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) JIRA
2 5 (2.69%) Git
3 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.54%) JMeter
5 1 (0.54%) Mocha
5 1 (0.54%) Postman
5 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 98 (52.69%) Social Skills
2 67 (36.02%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (29.03%) Finance
4 44 (23.66%) Law
5 12 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.38%) French Language
7 9 (4.84%) Banking
7 9 (4.84%) Front Office
7 9 (4.84%) Games
7 9 (4.84%) Marketing
8 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.15%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.15%) Legal
10 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.61%) Retail
12 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (18.28%) Senior
2 33 (17.74%) Analyst
3 20 (10.75%) Developer
4 15 (8.06%) Post-Production Engineer
5 14 (7.53%) Support Analyst
6 13 (6.99%) Consultant
7 10 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.38%) IT Support
8 9 (4.84%) Senior Manager
8 9 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Desktop Analyst
9 8 (4.30%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.30%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 8 (4.30%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.30%) Junior
10 7 (3.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.76%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) Terraform
2 8 (4.30%) HTML
3 7 (3.76%) React
4 5 (2.69%) Next.js
5 4 (2.15%) .NET
5 4 (2.15%) REST
6 2 (1.08%) CSS
6 2 (1.08%) CSS3
6 2 (1.08%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.08%) gRPC
6 2 (1.08%) HTML5
6 2 (1.08%) Node.js
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.08%) Playwright
6 2 (1.08%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.08%) RESTful
6 2 (1.08%) Spring
6 2 (1.08%) Web Services
7 1 (0.54%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.29%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.38%) Web Conferencing
5 9 (4.84%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.76%) Photography
7 7 (3.76%) Video Editing
8 6 (3.23%) Biopharmaceutical
8 6 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.23%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.69%) Equities
10 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.44%) Windows
2 15 (8.06%) Linux
2 15 (8.06%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (20.97%) Agile
3 25 (13.44%) Decision-Making
3 25 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (12.90%) Customer Service
4 24 (12.90%) ITIL
5 23 (12.37%) Post-Production
5 23 (12.37%) Workflow
6 22 (11.83%) CI/CD
6 22 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
7 21 (11.29%) Computer Science
8 19 (10.22%) AI
8 19 (10.22%) DevOps
8 19 (10.22%) Line Management
8 19 (10.22%) Software Engineering
8 19 (10.22%) Storytelling
9 18 (9.68%) Analytics
9 18 (9.68%) Coaching
10 15 (8.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.97%) Python
2 35 (18.82%) SQL
3 24 (12.90%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.60%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.91%) C#
6 10 (5.38%) Java
7 6 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.69%) Bash
9 4 (2.15%) C++
9 4 (2.15%) Scala
10 3 (1.61%) R
11 2 (1.08%) Bicep
11 2 (1.08%) Go
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) ABAP
12 1 (0.54%) Elm
12 1 (0.54%) Julia
12 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (26.34%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) CISSP
3 11 (5.91%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.23%) MBA
7 5 (2.69%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.15%) ACCA
8 4 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.15%) CIMA
8 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.15%) CISM
9 3 (1.61%) CEH
9 3 (1.61%) CISA
9 3 (1.61%) CRISC
10 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.37%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.84%) GDPR
4 8 (4.30%) NIST
4 8 (4.30%) QA
5 4 (2.15%) IFRS
5 4 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.61%) GRC
7 2 (1.08%) COBIT
7 2 (1.08%) GAAP
7 2 (1.08%) NCSC
8 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.54%) MiFID
8 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.91%) Docker
3 6 (3.23%) GPFS
3 6 (3.23%) StorNext
3 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.15%) Ansible
3 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.14%) SAP
3 15 (8.06%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.91%) Oracle
5 9 (4.84%) Google
6 6 (3.23%) Autodesk
6 6 (3.23%) Avid
6 6 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.69%) Dell
8 4 (2.15%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.15%) Cisco
9 2 (1.08%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.08%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) JDA
9 2 (1.08%) Sony
9 2 (1.08%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.54%) FIS
10 1 (0.54%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.54%) UiPath