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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 191 399 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.76% 22.45% 15.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 23.42% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 127 344 290
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,825 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,375 £95,250
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -6.81%

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 2,659 1,704 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.24% 95.89% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 1,335 1,907
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.12% -2.08%
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 1 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 (7.85%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.19%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.66%) Autodesk Flame
3 7 (3.66%) Baselight
4 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.52%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.09%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.09%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.57%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.05%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.75%) Azure
2 30 (15.71%) AWS
3 23 (12.04%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.76%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.71%) GCP
7 8 (4.19%) SaaS
8 7 (3.66%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.14%) OCI
9 6 (3.14%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.62%) PaaS
11 4 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.09%) GitHub
11 4 (2.09%) IaaS
11 4 (2.09%) Serverless
11 4 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.14%) Firewall
1 6 (3.14%) Network Security
1 6 (3.14%) VPN
2 4 (2.09%) BGP
2 4 (2.09%) DHCP
2 4 (2.09%) DNS
2 4 (2.09%) OSPF
2 4 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.57%) Intranet
3 3 (1.57%) MPLS
3 3 (1.57%) VLAN
3 3 (1.57%) Wireless
4 2 (1.05%) Broadband
4 2 (1.05%) Internet
4 2 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.52%) IGMP
5 1 (0.52%) Multicast
5 1 (0.52%) VoIP
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.33%) Power BI
2 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.14%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.05%) Big Data
6 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.05%) Metabase
6 2 (1.05%) MySQL
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.05%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.52%) KDB
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.24%) JIRA
2 5 (2.62%) Git
3 4 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.05%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Mocha
6 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 102 (53.40%) Social Skills
2 68 (35.60%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (30.89%) Finance
4 45 (23.56%) Law
5 12 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.24%) Banking
6 10 (5.24%) French Language
7 9 (4.71%) Front Office
7 9 (4.71%) Games
7 9 (4.71%) Marketing
8 8 (4.19%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.62%) Legal
10 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.09%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.09%) Retail
12 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.85%) Analyst
2 34 (17.80%) Senior
3 21 (10.99%) Developer
4 15 (7.85%) Post-Production Engineer
4 15 (7.85%) Support Analyst
5 13 (6.81%) Consultant
6 11 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.76%) IT Support
7 10 (5.24%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.71%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.19%) Desktop Analyst
9 8 (4.19%) Desktop Support
9 8 (4.19%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 8 (4.19%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.19%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.19%) Junior
9 8 (4.19%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 7 (3.66%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.28%) Terraform
2 8 (4.19%) HTML
3 6 (3.14%) React
4 5 (2.62%) REST
5 4 (2.09%) .NET
5 4 (2.09%) Next.js
6 2 (1.05%) CSS
6 2 (1.05%) CSS3
6 2 (1.05%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.05%) gRPC
6 2 (1.05%) HTML5
6 2 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.05%) Playwright
6 2 (1.05%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.05%) RESTful
6 2 (1.05%) Spring
6 2 (1.05%) Web Services
7 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.81%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.24%) Web Conferencing
5 9 (4.71%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.66%) Photography
7 7 (3.66%) Video Editing
8 6 (3.14%) Biopharmaceutical
8 6 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.14%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.62%) Equities
10 4 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.61%) Windows
2 15 (7.85%) Linux
2 15 (7.85%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (20.42%) Agile
3 25 (13.09%) Customer Service
3 25 (13.09%) Decision-Making
3 25 (13.09%) ITIL
3 25 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (12.04%) Mentoring
4 23 (12.04%) Post-Production
4 23 (12.04%) Workflow
5 22 (11.52%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (10.47%) CI/CD
6 20 (10.47%) Computer Science
7 19 (9.95%) Coaching
7 19 (9.95%) Line Management
7 19 (9.95%) Storytelling
8 18 (9.42%) AI
8 18 (9.42%) DevOps
9 17 (8.90%) Analytics
9 17 (8.90%) Software Engineering
10 15 (7.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.99%) Python
2 39 (20.42%) SQL
3 26 (13.61%) PowerShell
4 18 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.24%) C#
5 10 (5.24%) Java
6 6 (3.14%) Bash
7 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.09%) C++
8 4 (2.09%) R
8 4 (2.09%) Scala
9 2 (1.05%) Bicep
9 2 (1.05%) Go
9 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.05%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (25.13%) Degree
2 13 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.76%) CISSP
3 11 (5.76%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.14%) MBA
7 5 (2.62%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.09%) ACCA
8 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.09%) CIMA
8 4 (2.09%) CISA
8 4 (2.09%) CISM
9 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.57%) CRISC
9 3 (1.57%) SSCP
10 2 (1.05%) CCNP
10 2 (1.05%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.04%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.71%) GDPR
3 9 (4.71%) NIST
4 8 (4.19%) QA
5 4 (2.09%) IFRS
5 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.57%) GRC
7 2 (1.05%) COBIT
7 2 (1.05%) GAAP
7 2 (1.05%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.52%) MiFID
8 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (9.95%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.76%) Docker
3 7 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.14%) GPFS
4 6 (3.14%) StorNext
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.09%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (29.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.90%) SAP
3 15 (7.85%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.76%) Oracle
5 9 (4.71%) Google
6 6 (3.14%) Autodesk
6 6 (3.14%) Avid
7 5 (2.62%) Dell
7 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.09%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.09%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.05%) Databricks
9 2 (1.05%) JDA
9 2 (1.05%) Sony
9 2 (1.05%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.52%) BT
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.52%) Sophos
10 1 (0.52%) VMware