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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 182 366 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.88% 22.05% 14.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.47% 23.00% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 119 318 246
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,925 £38,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £109,000 £115,000 £100,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -3.57%

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 2,148 1,591 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.21% 95.84% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,272 1,737
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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 8 October 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 (8.24%) Confluence
2 14 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.20%) CMS
5 3 (1.65%) Drupal
6 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.55%) Apache
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (9.34%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.04%) Autodesk Flame
2 11 (6.04%) Baselight
3 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.55%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.55%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.65%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.65%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.55%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.84%) Azure
2 25 (13.74%) AWS
3 21 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.49%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.95%) SaaS
7 7 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.30%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.30%) OCI
9 5 (2.75%) GCP
9 5 (2.75%) GitHub
9 5 (2.75%) PaaS
9 5 (2.75%) Serverless
10 4 (2.20%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.20%) IaaS
10 4 (2.20%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) VPN
2 7 (3.85%) DHCP
2 7 (3.85%) DNS
2 7 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.30%) Firewall
3 6 (3.30%) Wireless
4 5 (2.75%) Network Security
5 4 (2.20%) BGP
5 4 (2.20%) OSPF
5 4 (2.20%) VLAN
6 3 (1.65%) Intranet
6 3 (1.65%) MPLS
7 2 (1.10%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (1.10%) Internet
7 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.55%) IGMP
8 1 (0.55%) LAN
8 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.49%) Power BI
2 7 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.10%) Big Data
5 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.10%) MySQL
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.10%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.10%) Tableau
6 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.55%) KDB
6 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) JIRA
2 7 (3.85%) Git
3 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (0.55%) JMeter
4 1 (0.55%) Mocha
4 1 (0.55%) Postman
4 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 88 (48.35%) Social Skills
2 65 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (30.22%) Law
4 51 (28.02%) Finance
5 15 (8.24%) Marketing
6 14 (7.69%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (6.04%) Banking
9 10 (5.49%) French Language
10 9 (4.95%) Games
11 8 (4.40%) Front Office
12 6 (3.30%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.75%) Legal
14 3 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.65%) Publishing
14 3 (1.65%) Retail
14 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (19.23%) Senior
2 30 (16.48%) Analyst
3 19 (10.44%) Consultant
3 19 (10.44%) Post-Production Engineer
4 17 (9.34%) Developer
5 11 (6.04%) Senior Manager
5 11 (6.04%) Support Analyst
6 10 (5.49%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.95%) Junior
7 9 (4.95%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Desktop Analyst
8 8 (4.40%) Desktop Support
8 8 (4.40%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 8 (4.40%) IT Support
9 7 (3.85%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.85%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.30%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.24%) HTML
2 9 (4.95%) React
2 9 (4.95%) Terraform
3 5 (2.75%) Next.js
3 5 (2.75%) REST
4 4 (2.20%) .NET
5 3 (1.65%) CSS
5 3 (1.65%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.65%) Node.js
6 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.10%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.10%) CSS3
6 2 (1.10%) Django
6 2 (1.10%) HTML5
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.10%) Playwright
6 2 (1.10%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.10%) RESTful
6 2 (1.10%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.59%) Biopharmaceutical
3 12 (6.59%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.95%) Web Conferencing
6 8 (4.40%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.30%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.30%) Photography
8 6 (3.30%) Video Editing
9 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.65%) Equities
11 3 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.65%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.65%) Social Media
11 3 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.09%) Windows
2 18 (9.89%) Linux
3 15 (8.24%) Windows 10
4 10 (5.49%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (23.08%) Agile
3 35 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (18.68%) Decision-Making
5 26 (14.29%) Post-Production
6 24 (13.19%) AI
6 24 (13.19%) Workflow
7 23 (12.64%) Analytics
7 23 (12.64%) Line Management
7 23 (12.64%) Storytelling
8 22 (12.09%) CI/CD
9 19 (10.44%) Coaching
9 19 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (10.44%) DevOps
9 19 (10.44%) Roadmaps
9 19 (10.44%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.89%) Customer Service
11 17 (9.34%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.24%) User Stories
13 14 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.48%) Python
2 28 (15.38%) SQL
3 15 (8.24%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.40%) C#
6 7 (3.85%) Java
6 7 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.30%) Bash
8 3 (1.65%) C++
8 3 (1.65%) R
9 2 (1.10%) Bicep
9 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.10%) Scala
9 2 (1.10%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.55%) Julia
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) SOQL
10 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (27.47%) Degree
2 14 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.59%) MBA
4 11 (6.04%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.95%) CISSP
5 9 (4.95%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.75%) ACCA
8 5 (2.75%) CIMA
9 4 (2.20%) CEH
9 4 (2.20%) CISM
10 3 (1.65%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.65%) CCNA
10 3 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.10%) CCNP
11 2 (1.10%) GIAC
11 2 (1.10%) ICAEW
11 2 (1.10%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.95%) GDPR
4 6 (3.30%) QA
5 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.20%) NIST
6 3 (1.65%) GRC
6 3 (1.65%) IFRS
7 2 (1.10%) NCSC
8 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.55%) COBIT
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) GAAP
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.55%) MiFID
8 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.49%) GPFS
2 10 (5.49%) StorNext
3 9 (4.95%) Docker
4 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.75%) Ansible
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.55%) Argo
4 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.55%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 48 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.79%) SAP
3 11 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.49%) Autodesk
4 10 (5.49%) Avid
4 10 (5.49%) Oracle
5 9 (4.95%) Google
6 8 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.20%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.20%) Cisco
8 3 (1.65%) Databricks
9 2 (1.10%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.10%) Sony
10 1 (0.55%) Adobe
10 1 (0.55%) Citrix
10 1 (0.55%) IBM
10 1 (0.55%) JDA
10 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.55%) Sophos
10 1 (0.55%) SunGard