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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 194 403 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 5.75% 22.43% 15.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 23.39% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 130 346 289
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,875 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,125 £95,500
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -6.81%

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 2,705 1,723 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.22% 95.88% 92.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,962 1,345 1,914
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £42,574
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,000 £73,400
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +0.82% -2.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 29 August 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 (7.73%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.12%) Confluence
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 30 (15.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.61%) Autodesk Flame
3 7 (3.61%) Baselight
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 4 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.06%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.03%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.52%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.52%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.49%) Azure
2 29 (14.95%) AWS
3 24 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.67%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.64%) GCP
7 8 (4.12%) SaaS
8 7 (3.61%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.09%) OCI
9 6 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.58%) PaaS
11 4 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.06%) GitHub
11 4 (2.06%) IaaS
11 4 (2.06%) Serverless
11 4 (2.06%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) Firewall
1 6 (3.09%) Network Security
2 5 (2.58%) VPN
3 4 (2.06%) BGP
3 4 (2.06%) OSPF
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) DNS
4 3 (1.55%) Intranet
4 3 (1.55%) MPLS
4 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.55%) VLAN
5 2 (1.03%) Broadband
5 2 (1.03%) Internet
5 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.52%) IGMP
6 1 (0.52%) Multicast
6 1 (0.52%) VoIP
6 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.22%) Power BI
2 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.03%) Big Data
6 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.03%) Metabase
6 2 (1.03%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (5.15%) JIRA
2 5 (2.58%) Git
3 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Mocha
6 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 104 (53.61%) Social Skills
2 69 (35.57%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (30.41%) Finance
4 44 (22.68%) Law
5 12 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.15%) Banking
7 9 (4.64%) French Language
7 9 (4.64%) Front Office
7 9 (4.64%) Marketing
8 8 (4.12%) Games
8 8 (4.12%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.58%) Legal
10 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.06%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.06%) Retail
12 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.03%) Private Banking
13 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (18.56%) Analyst
2 35 (18.04%) Senior
3 21 (10.82%) Developer
4 15 (7.73%) Support Analyst
5 14 (7.22%) Post-Production Engineer
6 13 (6.70%) Consultant
7 11 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.67%) IT Support
8 10 (5.15%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 9 (4.64%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (4.64%) Senior Manager
10 8 (4.12%) Desktop Analyst
10 8 (4.12%) Desktop Support
10 8 (4.12%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 8 (4.12%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.61%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.19%) Terraform
2 8 (4.12%) HTML
3 6 (3.09%) React
4 5 (2.58%) REST
5 4 (2.06%) .NET
5 4 (2.06%) Next.js
6 2 (1.03%) CSS
6 2 (1.03%) CSS3
6 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.03%) gRPC
6 2 (1.03%) HTML5
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.03%) Playwright
6 2 (1.03%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.03%) Spring
6 2 (1.03%) Web Services
7 1 (0.52%) JPA
7 1 (0.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (8.25%) Onboarding
3 14 (7.22%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.70%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.15%) Web Conferencing
6 9 (4.64%) Driving Licence
7 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.61%) Photography
8 7 (3.61%) Video Editing
9 6 (3.09%) Biopharmaceutical
9 6 (3.09%) Data Structures
9 6 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.09%) Hedge funds
9 6 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.58%) Equities
11 4 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.40%) Windows
2 15 (7.73%) Linux
3 14 (7.22%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (20.10%) Agile
3 27 (13.92%) Customer Service
3 27 (13.92%) ITIL
4 26 (13.40%) Decision-Making
5 25 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
7 22 (11.34%) Post-Production
7 22 (11.34%) Workflow
8 21 (10.82%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (10.31%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.31%) Computer Science
10 19 (9.79%) Coaching
11 18 (9.28%) AI
11 18 (9.28%) Analytics
11 18 (9.28%) DevOps
11 18 (9.28%) Line Management
11 18 (9.28%) Storytelling
12 17 (8.76%) Software Engineering
13 15 (7.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.20%) Python
2 41 (21.13%) SQL
3 28 (14.43%) PowerShell
4 20 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.15%) C#
5 10 (5.15%) Java
6 6 (3.09%) Bash
7 5 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.06%) C++
8 4 (2.06%) R
8 4 (2.06%) Scala
9 2 (1.03%) Bicep
9 2 (1.03%) Go
9 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.03%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) Cypher
10 1 (0.52%) Elm
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Julia
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 47 (24.23%) Degree
2 13 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.67%) CISSP
3 11 (5.67%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.09%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.09%) MBA
7 4 (2.06%) ACCA
7 4 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.06%) CIMA
7 4 (2.06%) CISA
7 4 (2.06%) CISM
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.55%) CRISC
8 3 (1.55%) SSCP
9 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.34%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.64%) NIST
4 8 (4.12%) GDPR
4 8 (4.12%) QA
5 4 (2.06%) IFRS
5 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.55%) GRC
7 2 (1.03%) COBIT
7 2 (1.03%) GAAP
7 2 (1.03%) NCSC
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.52%) MiFID
8 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (9.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.67%) Docker
3 6 (3.09%) GPFS
3 6 (3.09%) StorNext
3 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (30.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.25%) SAP
3 15 (7.73%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.67%) Oracle
5 9 (4.64%) Google
6 6 (3.09%) Autodesk
6 6 (3.09%) Avid
7 5 (2.58%) Dell
7 5 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.06%) Cisco
9 2 (1.03%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.03%) Databricks
9 2 (1.03%) JDA
9 2 (1.03%) Sony
9 2 (1.03%) Typelevel
10 1 (0.52%) Arista
10 1 (0.52%) Concur
10 1 (0.52%) FIS
10 1 (0.52%) OneTrust