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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 193 393 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.03% 22.48% 15.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 23.42% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 128 344 273
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,500 £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 £78,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,375 £94,500
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 2,576 1,678 2,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.47% 96.00% 92.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 1,322 1,840
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,854
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -1.02%

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 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 16 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.55%) CMS
5 2 (1.04%) Drupal
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 26 (13.47%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.18%) Autodesk Flame
2 10 (5.18%) Baselight
3 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
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 6 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.07%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.55%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PSCD
5 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.54%) Azure
2 29 (15.03%) AWS
3 24 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.22%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.66%) GCP
6 9 (4.66%) SaaS
7 6 (3.11%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.11%) OCI
8 5 (2.59%) PaaS
8 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.59%) Serverless
9 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.07%) GitHub
9 4 (2.07%) IaaS
9 4 (2.07%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.11%) Firewall
1 6 (3.11%) Network Security
1 6 (3.11%) VPN
2 4 (2.07%) BGP
2 4 (2.07%) DHCP
2 4 (2.07%) DNS
2 4 (2.07%) OSPF
2 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.55%) Intranet
3 3 (1.55%) MPLS
3 3 (1.55%) VLAN
3 3 (1.55%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) Broadband
4 2 (1.04%) Internet
4 2 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.52%) IGMP
5 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.52%) VoIP
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) Power BI
2 6 (3.11%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.07%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.04%) Big Data
4 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.04%) MySQL
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.52%) KDB
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.22%) JIRA
2 5 (2.59%) Git
3 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.52%) JMeter
5 1 (0.52%) Mocha
5 1 (0.52%) Postman
5 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.20%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (27.98%) Finance
4 51 (26.42%) Law
5 12 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.22%) Marketing
6 11 (5.70%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.18%) French Language
8 9 (4.66%) Banking
8 9 (4.66%) Front Office
8 9 (4.66%) Games
8 9 (4.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.59%) Legal
10 4 (2.07%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Retail
12 2 (1.04%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Publishing
12 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (17.62%) Senior
2 31 (16.06%) Analyst
3 20 (10.36%) Developer
4 18 (9.33%) Post-Production Engineer
5 15 (7.77%) Support Analyst
6 14 (7.25%) Consultant
7 11 (5.70%) Senior Manager
8 10 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) IT Support
8 10 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.66%) Desktop Analyst
9 9 (4.66%) Desktop Support
9 9 (4.66%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 9 (4.66%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Junior
11 7 (3.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.11%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.70%) HTML
1 11 (5.70%) Terraform
2 7 (3.63%) React
3 5 (2.59%) .NET
3 5 (2.59%) Next.js
4 4 (2.07%) REST
5 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.04%) CSS
5 2 (1.04%) CSS3
5 2 (1.04%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.04%) gRPC
5 2 (1.04%) HTML5
5 2 (1.04%) Node.js
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.04%) Playwright
5 2 (1.04%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.04%) RESTful
5 2 (1.04%) Spring
5 2 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.88%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.25%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.22%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.22%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.18%) Driving Licence
5 10 (5.18%) Web Conferencing
6 9 (4.66%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (3.63%) Photography
7 7 (3.63%) Video Editing
8 6 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.11%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.59%) Equities
10 4 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.47%) Windows
2 18 (9.33%) Linux
3 16 (8.29%) Windows 10
4 9 (4.66%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (20.21%) Agile
3 29 (15.03%) Decision-Making
4 27 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (13.47%) Post-Production
6 24 (12.44%) ITIL
6 24 (12.44%) Workflow
7 23 (11.92%) AI
7 23 (11.92%) CI/CD
7 23 (11.92%) Customer Service
8 22 (11.40%) Line Management
8 22 (11.40%) Storytelling
9 21 (10.88%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.36%) Analytics
10 20 (10.36%) Software Engineering
11 19 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (9.84%) DevOps
11 19 (9.84%) Mentoring
12 18 (9.33%) Coaching
13 16 (8.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.69%) Python
2 34 (17.62%) SQL
3 24 (12.44%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.70%) C#
6 10 (5.18%) Java
7 6 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.59%) Bash
9 4 (2.07%) C++
9 4 (2.07%) Scala
10 3 (1.55%) R
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 2 (1.04%) Go
11 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.04%) VBA
12 1 (0.52%) ABAP
12 1 (0.52%) Elm
12 1 (0.52%) Julia
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (26.94%) Degree
2 15 (7.77%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.66%) CISSP
5 9 (4.66%) MBA
6 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.59%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.59%) ACCA
7 5 (2.59%) CIMA
8 4 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.07%) CISM
9 3 (1.55%) CEH
9 3 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.55%) CRISC
10 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.99%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.66%) GDPR
4 8 (4.15%) QA
5 5 (2.59%) NIST
6 4 (2.07%) IFRS
7 3 (1.55%) GRC
7 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.04%) COBIT
8 2 (1.04%) GAAP
8 2 (1.04%) NCSC
9 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.52%) MiFID
9 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.70%) Docker
3 9 (4.66%) GPFS
3 9 (4.66%) StorNext
4 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.07%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) SAP
3 16 (8.29%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.70%) Oracle
5 9 (4.66%) Autodesk
5 9 (4.66%) Avid
5 9 (4.66%) Google
6 7 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.59%) Dell
8 4 (2.07%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco
9 2 (1.04%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.04%) Databricks
9 2 (1.04%) JDA
9 2 (1.04%) Sony
9 2 (1.04%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.52%) Arista
10 1 (0.52%) Concur
10 1 (0.52%) FIS
10 1 (0.52%) OneTrust