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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 333 438 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.75% 16.14% 11.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.77% 16.94% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 258 274 295
10th Percentile £31,775 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.16%
75th Percentile £88,438 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £114,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

All Process and 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 1,774 2,585 2,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 89.24% 95.28% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,697 2,525
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year - +1.35% -1.33%

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 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the City of London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 3 £87,500 -
Problem-Solving
Central 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 13 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.80%) Confluence
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.60%) Apache
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) nginx
5 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.30%) Luigi
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.60%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (27.33%) Azure
2 47 (14.11%) AWS
3 38 (11.41%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (6.61%) GCP
6 18 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.41%) SaaS
7 11 (3.30%) GitHub
8 9 (2.70%) Power Automate
9 8 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.40%) dbt
9 8 (2.40%) OneDrive
10 7 (2.10%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.80%) Serverless
12 5 (1.50%) Google Workspace
12 5 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.50%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.20%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.30%) DHCP
2 10 (3.00%) DNS
3 9 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.40%) WAN
5 7 (2.10%) Firewall
5 7 (2.10%) WebEx
5 7 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.80%) LAN
7 5 (1.50%) Modbus
7 5 (1.50%) VoIP
7 5 (1.50%) VPN
8 3 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.90%) Network Security
9 2 (0.60%) 3G
9 2 (0.60%) ADSL
9 2 (0.60%) Broadband
9 2 (0.60%) PPP
9 2 (0.60%) SAN
9 2 (0.60%) SNMP
9 2 (0.60%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.31%) Power BI
2 21 (6.31%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.10%) ClickHouse
7 6 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.50%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.20%) Metabase
10 3 (0.90%) Big Data
10 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.90%) GIS
10 3 (0.90%) KDB
10 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.90%) QGIS
10 3 (0.90%) Tableau
11 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.50%) JIRA
2 10 (3.00%) Git
3 8 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
3 8 (2.40%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.60%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) NUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 170 (51.05%) Social Skills
2 100 (30.03%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (28.83%) Finance
4 37 (11.11%) Legal
5 36 (10.81%) Law
6 25 (7.51%) Banking
7 24 (7.21%) Retail
8 17 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (4.20%) Billing
11 8 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.50%) German Language
13 5 (1.50%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.90%) Advertising
15 3 (0.90%) Back Office
15 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (13.81%) Developer
2 33 (9.91%) Senior
2 33 (9.91%) Support Engineer
3 32 (9.61%) Lead
4 31 (9.31%) Analyst
5 29 (8.71%) Graduate
6 27 (8.11%) Technical Support
7 23 (6.91%) Technical Engineer
7 23 (6.91%) Technical Support Engineer
8 20 (6.01%) Consultant
9 19 (5.71%) Graduate Technical Support
10 15 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.50%) Graduate Support Engineer
10 15 (4.50%) Graduate Technical Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) Architect
11 14 (4.20%) Service Manager
12 13 (3.90%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.60%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.21%) .NET
2 23 (6.91%) React
3 18 (5.41%) RESTful
4 10 (3.00%) PySpark
5 8 (2.40%) Django
5 8 (2.40%) Node.js
5 8 (2.40%) Web Services
6 7 (2.10%) FastAPI
6 7 (2.10%) Flask
6 7 (2.10%) Kafka
7 6 (1.80%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.80%) Vue
8 5 (1.50%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.50%) CSS
8 5 (1.50%) HTML
8 5 (1.50%) Middleware
9 4 (1.20%) CSS3
9 4 (1.20%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.20%) HTML5
9 4 (1.20%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.91%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.30%) Reinsurance
6 11 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.40%) CMDB
9 8 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.80%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.90%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.11%) Windows
2 12 (3.60%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.30%) Linux
4 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.80%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.20%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.90%) Unix
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 2 (0.60%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Debian
10 1 (0.30%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.30%) Solaris
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (29.73%) Agile
2 77 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (21.62%) AI
4 47 (14.11%) Analytics
5 42 (12.61%) Decision-Making
6 40 (12.01%) Roadmaps
7 37 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (11.11%) DevOps
8 36 (10.81%) ITIL
9 34 (10.21%) Machine Learning
10 33 (9.91%) Mentoring
11 32 (9.61%) Migration
12 31 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
12 31 (9.31%) Service Management
12 31 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (9.31%) User Experience
13 28 (8.41%) CI/CD
13 28 (8.41%) Computer Science
13 28 (8.41%) Strategic Thinking
14 27 (8.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 92 (27.63%) Python
2 69 (20.72%) SQL
3 34 (10.21%) C#
4 30 (9.01%) Java
5 20 (6.01%) Bash
5 20 (6.01%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.20%) C++
7 9 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.60%) VC++
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.30%) RPG
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (19.52%) Degree
2 17 (5.11%) Security Cleared
3 13 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.40%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.50%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.20%) PMP
8 3 (0.90%) A+ Certification
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.90%) CCNA
8 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.90%) CISM
8 3 (0.90%) CISSP
8 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) PhD
8 3 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.60%) GIAC
9 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.20%) GDPR
3 12 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.60%) QA
4 11 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 8 (2.40%) NIST
6 7 (2.10%) SLA
7 4 (1.20%) WCAG
8 3 (0.90%) ITGC
8 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.60%) EMIR
9 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) COBIT
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.00%) Docker
4 8 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.60%) vSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) vCloud
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (4.80%) Terraform
2 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.30%) Ansible
3 11 (3.30%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.20%) Grafana
5 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.90%) Puppet
5 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.60%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (0.60%) Argo
6 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.60%) QRadar
6 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) Kibana
7 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.21%) Databricks
3 19 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.90%) Guidewire
4 13 (3.90%) Oracle
4 13 (3.90%) VMware
5 10 (3.00%) Google
6 9 (2.70%) HP
6 9 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.80%) Apple
7 6 (1.80%) Intapp
7 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.80%) SAP
8 5 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.50%) Hitachi
8 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.90%) Dell
9 3 (0.90%) iManage
9 3 (0.90%) Splunk
10 2 (0.60%) ArcSight