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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 221 409 482
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.14% 21.27% 15.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 22.10% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 145 348 354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -8.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,250 £108,875
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -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 3,436 1,851 2,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.96% 96.26% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,504 1,414 2,333
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £41,250
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 2 July 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 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 29 (13.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.45%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.45%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.53%) Azure
2 34 (15.38%) AWS
3 20 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.24%) GCP
6 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.07%) dbt
7 9 (4.07%) Power Automate
7 9 (4.07%) Serverless
8 8 (3.62%) OneDrive
8 8 (3.62%) SaaS
9 7 (3.17%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.71%) OCI
10 6 (2.71%) PaaS
11 5 (2.26%) GitHub
12 4 (1.81%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.81%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.81%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.24%) Wireless
2 8 (3.62%) Broadband
3 7 (3.17%) Firewall
3 7 (3.17%) Network Security
4 5 (2.26%) DNS
5 4 (1.81%) BGP
5 4 (1.81%) DHCP
5 4 (1.81%) OSPF
6 3 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.36%) MPLS
6 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.36%) VLAN
6 3 (1.36%) VPN
6 3 (1.36%) WAN
7 2 (0.90%) Internet
7 2 (0.90%) Intranet
7 2 (0.90%) LAN
7 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) SAN
8 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.69%) Power BI
1 17 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.62%) Metabase
4 4 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.36%) Big Data
5 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.45%) KDB
7 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.07%) Visual Studio
2 8 (3.62%) Burp Suite
2 8 (3.62%) Metasploit
3 6 (2.71%) Git
4 4 (1.81%) JIRA
5 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
General
1 106 (47.96%) Social Skills
2 77 (34.84%) Finance
3 64 (28.96%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.95%) Law
5 9 (4.07%) Banking
5 9 (4.07%) Front Office
5 9 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.17%) Legal
7 7 (3.17%) Retail
8 6 (2.71%) Marketing
8 6 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.81%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Games
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (20.36%) Senior
2 42 (19.00%) Analyst
3 23 (10.41%) Developer
4 17 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 16 (7.24%) IT Support
5 16 (7.24%) Support Engineer
6 12 (5.43%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (5.43%) Digital Analyst
6 12 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (4.98%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 11 (4.98%) Consultant
7 11 (4.98%) Senior Digital Analyst
8 10 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.52%) IT Analyst
8 10 (4.52%) Systems Analyst
9 9 (4.07%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (4.07%) IT Support Analyst
9 9 (4.07%) Security Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.62%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.43%) .NET
2 7 (3.17%) gRPC
3 6 (2.71%) REST
4 5 (2.26%) React
5 4 (1.81%) FastAPI
5 4 (1.81%) Flask
5 4 (1.81%) WPF
6 3 (1.36%) Django
6 3 (1.36%) LangChain
6 3 (1.36%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.36%) RESTful
7 2 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.90%) Pandas
7 2 (0.90%) Spring
7 2 (0.90%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.90%) Web Services
8 1 (0.45%) SAML
8 1 (0.45%) XML
8 1 (0.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.60%) Onboarding
2 18 (8.14%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.79%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.43%) Cyber Defence
6 11 (4.98%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.07%) Security Posture
7 9 (4.07%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (3.17%) Over-the-Top Content
8 7 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.71%) Photography
9 6 (2.71%) Video Editing
10 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.26%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.26%) Equities
10 5 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.12%) Windows
2 11 (4.98%) Linux
3 8 (3.62%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) CentOS
7 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.27%) Agile
2 43 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 43 (19.46%) Mentoring
3 36 (16.29%) Coaching
4 32 (14.48%) CI/CD
5 29 (13.12%) ITIL
6 27 (12.22%) Customer Service
6 27 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (11.76%) Creative Thinking
8 25 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
9 23 (10.41%) Business Strategy
9 23 (10.41%) DevOps
10 21 (9.50%) AI
10 21 (9.50%) Collaborative Culture
10 21 (9.50%) Internal Audit
10 21 (9.50%) Migration
11 20 (9.05%) Software Engineering
12 19 (8.60%) Business Transformation
12 19 (8.60%) Computer Science
12 19 (8.60%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.15%) Python
2 54 (24.43%) SQL
3 39 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 18 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.79%) Bash
6 14 (6.33%) C#
7 8 (3.62%) Java
7 8 (3.62%) Scala
8 7 (3.17%) Go
8 7 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.81%) C++
10 2 (0.90%) Bicep
10 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) R
11 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.45%) Cypher
11 1 (0.45%) Elm
11 1 (0.45%) Julia
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (20.36%) Degree
2 16 (7.24%) CCSAM
2 16 (7.24%) CHECK Team Leader
2 16 (7.24%) CHECK Team Member
2 16 (7.24%) CREST Certified
2 16 (7.24%) OSCP
3 12 (5.43%) CISSP
4 10 (4.52%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.62%) A+ Certification
6 8 (3.62%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.26%) CISA
8 5 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.81%) CISM
9 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.36%) ACCA
10 3 (1.36%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.52%) GDPR
1 10 (4.52%) NIST
2 9 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.71%) QA
4 4 (1.81%) IFRS
5 3 (1.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.90%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.90%) GAAP
6 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.90%) NCSC
6 2 (0.90%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.45%) EMIR
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (7.24%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.79%) Docker
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (6.33%) Terraform
2 9 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.62%) Nessus
4 4 (1.81%) Grafana
4 4 (1.81%) Kibana
5 3 (1.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.45%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.45%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.43%) Oracle
4 8 (3.62%) Google
5 7 (3.17%) SAP
5 7 (3.17%) Typelevel
6 6 (2.71%) Dell
7 5 (2.26%) Databricks
7 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.81%) VMware
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) Adobe
10 2 (0.90%) BT
10 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.90%) Darktrace
10 2 (0.90%) JDA
10 2 (0.90%) McAfee
10 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.45%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.45%) Qualtrics