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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 229 403 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.44% 20.76% 14.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 21.54% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 146 343 346
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.89% -1.85%
75th Percentile £90,938 £90,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £111,875
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 3,365 1,871 2,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.91% 96.39% 90.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,435 1,416 2,357
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,321
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £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 10 June 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 10 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (12.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.44%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) SAP SCM
2 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.95%) Azure
2 36 (15.72%) AWS
3 20 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (8.73%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 14 (6.11%) GCP
6 13 (5.68%) Serverless
7 9 (3.93%) dbt
8 8 (3.49%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.49%) OneDrive
8 8 (3.49%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.06%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.06%) Azure Event Grid
9 7 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.06%) Azure Storage
10 6 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.62%) PaaS
10 6 (2.62%) SaaS
11 5 (2.18%) GitHub
12 4 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.86%) Wireless
2 9 (3.93%) Broadband
3 7 (3.06%) Firewall
4 6 (2.62%) DNS
4 6 (2.62%) Network Security
5 5 (2.18%) DHCP
6 4 (1.75%) BGP
6 4 (1.75%) OSPF
6 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.75%) VPN
7 3 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.31%) MPLS
7 3 (1.31%) VLAN
7 3 (1.31%) WAN
8 2 (0.87%) Intranet
8 2 (0.87%) LAN
8 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.30%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.42%) Power BI
3 9 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.49%) Metabase
5 7 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.31%) Big Data
8 3 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.44%) MySQL
9 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.93%) Burp Suite
1 9 (3.93%) Metasploit
1 9 (3.93%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.62%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.18%) Git
3 5 (2.18%) JIRA
3 5 (2.18%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.87%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 95 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 86 (37.55%) Finance
3 63 (27.51%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.17%) Law
5 8 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.06%) Banking
6 7 (3.06%) Legal
7 6 (2.62%) Front Office
7 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Marketing
8 5 (2.18%) Retail
9 3 (1.31%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.87%) Games
10 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (20.96%) Senior
2 42 (18.34%) Analyst
3 19 (8.30%) Developer
3 19 (8.30%) Support Engineer
4 17 (7.42%) IT Support
4 17 (7.42%) Support Analyst
5 13 (5.68%) Digital Analyst
5 13 (5.68%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (5.24%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 11 (4.80%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 11 (4.80%) Lead
8 10 (4.37%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (4.37%) IT Analyst
8 10 (4.37%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.37%) Security Analyst
8 10 (4.37%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.37%) Systems Analyst
9 9 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.30%) .NET
2 8 (3.49%) gRPC
3 7 (3.06%) WPF
4 5 (2.18%) React
4 5 (2.18%) REST
5 4 (1.75%) LangChain
6 3 (1.31%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.31%) Flask
6 3 (1.31%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.87%) CSS
7 2 (0.87%) Django
7 2 (0.87%) HTML
7 2 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
7 2 (0.87%) Node.js
7 2 (0.87%) Pandas
7 2 (0.87%) RESTful
7 2 (0.87%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.87%) Web Services
8 1 (0.44%) CrewAI
8 1 (0.44%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.17%) Mobile App
2 19 (8.30%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.68%) Cyber Defence
5 12 (5.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (4.37%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.93%) Web Conferencing
8 8 (3.49%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.06%) Over-the-Top Content
9 7 (3.06%) Video\Live Streaming
10 6 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.62%) Photography
10 6 (2.62%) Video Editing
11 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.18%) Equities
11 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
11 5 (2.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.97%) Windows
2 11 (4.80%) Linux
3 9 (3.93%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.44%) Unix
7 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.83%) Agile
2 46 (20.09%) Mentoring
3 42 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 41 (17.90%) Coaching
5 36 (15.72%) CI/CD
6 31 (13.54%) Creative Thinking
7 29 (12.66%) ITIL
8 28 (12.23%) DevOps
9 27 (11.79%) AI
9 27 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (11.35%) Customer Service
10 26 (11.35%) Migration
11 25 (10.92%) Business Strategy
12 24 (10.48%) Analytics
13 23 (10.04%) Internal Audit
14 22 (9.61%) Business Transformation
14 22 (9.61%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (9.17%) Application Security
15 21 (9.17%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (28.38%) Python
2 59 (25.76%) SQL
3 44 (19.21%) PowerShell
4 19 (8.30%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.86%) C#
6 16 (6.99%) Bash
7 10 (4.37%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.06%) Go
8 7 (3.06%) Scala
9 6 (2.62%) Java
10 3 (1.31%) Bicep
10 3 (1.31%) C++
11 2 (0.87%) PHP
11 2 (0.87%) R
12 1 (0.44%) ABAP
12 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
12 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (19.21%) Degree
2 18 (7.86%) CCSAM
2 18 (7.86%) CHECK Team Leader
2 18 (7.86%) CHECK Team Member
2 18 (7.86%) CREST Certified
2 18 (7.86%) OSCP
3 11 (4.80%) CISSP
4 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.49%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.62%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.18%) CISA
7 5 (2.18%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.75%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.31%) ACCA
9 3 (1.31%) CCNP
9 3 (1.31%) CIMA
9 3 (1.31%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.68%) GDPR
2 12 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.24%) NIST
3 9 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.62%) QA
5 4 (1.75%) IFRS
6 3 (1.31%) SLA
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.87%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.87%) GAAP
7 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.87%) NCSC
7 2 (0.87%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.44%) EMIR
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.68%) Docker
3 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.42%) Terraform
2 9 (3.93%) Nessus
3 7 (3.06%) Grafana
3 7 (3.06%) Kibana
3 7 (3.06%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.44%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.44%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 64 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.11%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.49%) Oracle
4 7 (3.06%) Databricks
4 7 (3.06%) Google
4 7 (3.06%) Typelevel
5 6 (2.62%) Dell
5 6 (2.62%) SAP
6 4 (1.75%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.31%) Adobe
7 3 (1.31%) VMware
8 2 (0.87%) BT
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco
8 2 (0.87%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.87%) JDA
8 2 (0.87%) McAfee
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.44%) Arista
9 1 (0.44%) Qualtrics