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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 344 450 351
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.80% 15.99% 11.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.76% 16.88% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 267 282 307
10th Percentile £33,385 £37,750 £36,050
25th Percentile £50,500 £47,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -4.76%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £110,300 £100,000 £115,000
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 1,657 2,666 2,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 90.55% 94.71% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,758 2,589
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,625 £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 1 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 1 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 4 £87,500 +150.00%
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 19 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.20%) Confluence
4 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.58%) IIS
5 2 (0.58%) nginx
5 2 (0.58%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.29%) Luigi
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.16%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.58%) Endur
3 2 (0.58%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (27.33%) Azure
2 50 (14.53%) AWS
3 48 (13.95%) Power Platform
4 31 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (6.98%) GCP
6 20 (5.81%) SaaS
7 18 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.91%) GitHub
9 10 (2.91%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.62%) Power Automate
11 8 (2.33%) dbt
11 8 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 7 (2.03%) Serverless
13 6 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.45%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.62%) DHCP
1 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
1 9 (2.62%) WebEx
2 8 (2.33%) DNS
2 8 (2.33%) Firewall
2 8 (2.33%) WAN
3 6 (1.74%) LAN
3 6 (1.74%) VPN
3 6 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.45%) Modbus
4 5 (1.45%) Network Security
4 5 (1.45%) VoIP
5 3 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.58%) Broadband
6 2 (0.58%) DOCSIS
6 2 (0.58%) IPv4
6 2 (0.58%) IPv6
6 2 (0.58%) PPP
6 2 (0.58%) SAN
6 2 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.76%) Power BI
2 20 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.62%) ClickHouse
6 6 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.16%) Metabase
8 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.16%) Tableau
9 3 (0.87%) Big Data
9 3 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.87%) GIS
9 3 (0.87%) KDB
9 3 (0.87%) QGIS
10 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (5.81%) JIRA
2 12 (3.49%) Git
3 7 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (1.74%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.58%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) NUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 181 (52.62%) Social Skills
2 108 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (28.20%) Finance
4 38 (11.05%) Legal
5 35 (10.17%) Law
6 26 (7.56%) Banking
7 24 (6.98%) Retail
8 17 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (4.36%) Billing
11 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.74%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.74%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.74%) Marketing
14 5 (1.45%) German Language
14 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.87%) Advertising
16 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (14.83%) Developer
2 36 (10.47%) Senior
3 34 (9.88%) Analyst
4 32 (9.30%) Lead
5 31 (9.01%) Support Engineer
6 29 (8.43%) Graduate
7 26 (7.56%) Technical Support
8 22 (6.40%) Technical Engineer
8 22 (6.40%) Technical Support Engineer
9 20 (5.81%) Consultant
10 19 (5.52%) Graduate Technical Support
11 16 (4.65%) Architect
12 15 (4.36%) Graduate Support Engineer
12 15 (4.36%) Graduate Technical Engineer
13 14 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (4.07%) Service Manager
14 12 (3.49%) Data Engineer
14 12 (3.49%) IT Manager
14 12 (3.49%) Product Manager
15 11 (3.20%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.72%) .NET
2 24 (6.98%) React
3 20 (5.81%) RESTful
4 10 (2.91%) PySpark
5 9 (2.62%) Web Services
6 8 (2.33%) Kafka
6 8 (2.33%) Node.js
7 7 (2.03%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.03%) Django
7 7 (2.03%) Vue
8 6 (1.74%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.74%) Flask
9 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.45%) CSS
9 5 (1.45%) HTML
9 5 (1.45%) Middleware
10 4 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.16%) CSS3
10 4 (1.16%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.16%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.47%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.20%) Reinsurance
7 10 (2.91%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.33%) CMDB
8 8 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.33%) Market Risk
9 7 (2.03%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.03%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.16%) Derivative
12 3 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.56%) Windows
2 13 (3.78%) Windows 10
3 12 (3.49%) Linux
4 6 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.87%) Unix
7 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.58%) CentOS
8 2 (0.58%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.29%) AIX
9 1 (0.29%) Debian
9 1 (0.29%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.29%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.81%) Agile
2 83 (24.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 73 (21.22%) AI
4 50 (14.53%) Decision-Making
5 45 (13.08%) Analytics
6 44 (12.79%) Roadmaps
7 40 (11.63%) Mentoring
8 38 (11.05%) ITIL
9 37 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
10 36 (10.47%) DevOps
11 35 (10.17%) Machine Learning
11 35 (10.17%) Migration
12 34 (9.88%) Service Management
13 33 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (9.30%) User Experience
15 30 (8.72%) CI/CD
15 30 (8.72%) Microservices
16 29 (8.43%) Strategic Thinking
17 27 (7.85%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 96 (27.91%) Python
2 72 (20.93%) SQL
3 37 (10.76%) C#
4 34 (9.88%) Java
5 20 (5.81%) Bash
6 16 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 15 (4.36%) C++
8 12 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Go
12 2 (0.58%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) RPG
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) VC++
Qualifications
1 75 (21.80%) Degree
2 16 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.74%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.16%) PMP
8 3 (0.87%) A+ Certification
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.87%) CCNA
8 3 (0.87%) CISM
8 3 (0.87%) CISSP
8 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) PhD
8 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CBAP
9 2 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.65%) GDPR
2 13 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.91%) QA
5 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 7 (2.03%) SLA
7 6 (1.74%) NIST
8 4 (1.16%) WCAG
9 3 (0.87%) ITGC
9 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) COBIT
11 1 (0.29%) EMIR
11 1 (0.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.20%) Docker
4 8 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 14 (4.07%) Kubernetes
1 14 (4.07%) Terraform
2 13 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.49%) Ansible
4 4 (1.16%) Grafana
5 3 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.87%) Puppet
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.58%) ArcSight ESM
6 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) QRadar
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 2 (0.58%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.29%) Ambari
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 78 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.27%) Databricks
3 19 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.65%) VMware
5 15 (4.36%) Guidewire
6 14 (4.07%) Oracle
7 11 (3.20%) HP
8 10 (2.91%) Google
9 9 (2.62%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.33%) Apple
10 8 (2.33%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.74%) Hitachi
11 6 (1.74%) Intapp
12 5 (1.45%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.45%) SAP
13 3 (0.87%) Cisco
13 3 (0.87%) Dell
13 3 (0.87%) iManage
13 3 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.87%) Splunk