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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 185 381 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 6.57% 22.62% 14.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 23.58% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 121 330 254
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,125
Central London median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.54% - -7.14%

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 2,273 1,616 2,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.72% 95.96% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,667 1,282 1,786
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,100 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +0.69%

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 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 (8.11%) Confluence
2 14 (7.57%) SharePoint
3 11 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.16%) CMS
5 3 (1.62%) Drupal
6 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Apache
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (9.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.95%) Autodesk Flame
2 11 (5.95%) Baselight
3 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.54%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.54%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.62%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.62%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.54%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.59%) Azure
2 26 (14.05%) AWS
3 20 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.49%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.41%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.86%) SaaS
7 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.24%) GCP
8 6 (3.24%) OCI
9 5 (2.70%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.70%) GitHub
9 5 (2.70%) PaaS
9 5 (2.70%) Serverless
10 4 (2.16%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.16%) IaaS
10 4 (2.16%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.16%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.62%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.32%) VPN
2 7 (3.78%) Firewall
3 6 (3.24%) DHCP
3 6 (3.24%) DNS
3 6 (3.24%) Network Security
3 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.70%) Wireless
5 4 (2.16%) BGP
5 4 (2.16%) OSPF
6 3 (1.62%) Intranet
6 3 (1.62%) MPLS
6 3 (1.62%) VLAN
7 2 (1.08%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (1.08%) Internet
7 2 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.54%) IGMP
8 1 (0.54%) VoIP
8 1 (0.54%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.41%) Power BI
2 7 (3.78%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.08%) Big Data
5 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.08%) MySQL
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.08%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.08%) Tableau
6 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.54%) KDB
6 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (8.65%) JIRA
2 8 (4.32%) Git
3 5 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (0.54%) JMeter
4 1 (0.54%) Mocha
4 1 (0.54%) Postman
4 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 89 (48.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (35.68%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (29.19%) Finance
3 54 (29.19%) Law
4 15 (8.11%) Marketing
5 14 (7.57%) Manufacturing
6 12 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (5.95%) Banking
8 10 (5.41%) French Language
9 9 (4.86%) Games
10 8 (4.32%) Front Office
11 6 (3.24%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.70%) Legal
13 4 (2.16%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.62%) Publishing
14 3 (1.62%) Retail
14 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
15 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (20.54%) Senior
2 31 (16.76%) Analyst
3 19 (10.27%) Post-Production Engineer
4 17 (9.19%) Developer
5 16 (8.65%) Consultant
6 13 (7.03%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.95%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Junior
10 8 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Desktop Analyst
10 8 (4.32%) Desktop Support
10 8 (4.32%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 8 (4.32%) IT Support
10 8 (4.32%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.78%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.11%) HTML
2 9 (4.86%) React
2 9 (4.86%) Terraform
3 5 (2.70%) Next.js
3 5 (2.70%) REST
4 4 (2.16%) .NET
5 3 (1.62%) CSS
5 3 (1.62%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.62%) Node.js
6 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.08%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.08%) CSS3
6 2 (1.08%) Django
6 2 (1.08%) HTML5
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.08%) Playwright
6 2 (1.08%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.08%) RESTful
6 2 (1.08%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.03%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.49%) Biopharmaceutical
5 10 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.86%) Web Conferencing
7 8 (4.32%) Driving Licence
7 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.24%) Hedge funds
8 6 (3.24%) Photography
8 6 (3.24%) Video Editing
9 5 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.16%) Equities
11 3 (1.62%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.62%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.62%) Social Media
11 3 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.89%) Windows
2 19 (10.27%) Linux
3 15 (8.11%) Windows 10
4 10 (5.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.08%) Unix
7 1 (0.54%) Android
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (22.70%) Agile
3 36 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (17.84%) Decision-Making
5 26 (14.05%) Post-Production
6 25 (13.51%) Analytics
7 24 (12.97%) Workflow
8 23 (12.43%) AI
8 23 (12.43%) CI/CD
8 23 (12.43%) Line Management
8 23 (12.43%) Storytelling
9 22 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (10.81%) Roadmaps
10 20 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 19 (10.27%) Coaching
11 19 (10.27%) DevOps
12 18 (9.73%) Computer Science
12 18 (9.73%) Customer Service
13 16 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (8.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.76%) Python
2 29 (15.68%) SQL
3 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.32%) C#
6 7 (3.78%) Java
6 7 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.24%) Bash
8 3 (1.62%) C++
8 3 (1.62%) R
9 2 (1.08%) Bicep
9 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.08%) Scala
9 2 (1.08%) VBA
10 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.54%) Groovy
10 1 (0.54%) Julia
10 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.54%) SOQL
10 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (26.49%) Degree
2 14 (7.57%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.49%) MBA
4 11 (5.95%) CISSP
4 11 (5.95%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.70%) ACCA
8 5 (2.70%) CIMA
8 5 (2.70%) CISM
9 4 (2.16%) CEH
10 3 (1.62%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.08%) CCNA
11 2 (1.08%) CCNP
11 2 (1.08%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.14%) Accessibility
2 17 (9.19%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.41%) GDPR
4 7 (3.78%) QA
5 5 (2.70%) NIST
6 4 (2.16%) IFRS
6 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.62%) GRC
8 2 (1.08%) COBIT
8 2 (1.08%) GAAP
8 2 (1.08%) NCSC
9 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.54%) MiFID
9 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.41%) GPFS
2 10 (5.41%) StorNext
3 9 (4.86%) Docker
4 5 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.70%) Ansible
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.54%) Argo
4 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.54%) SCCM
4 1 (0.54%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 48 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.65%) SAP
3 11 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.41%) Autodesk
4 10 (5.41%) Avid
4 10 (5.41%) Oracle
5 9 (4.86%) Google
6 8 (4.32%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.16%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.16%) Cisco
8 3 (1.62%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.08%) Sony
10 1 (0.54%) Adobe
10 1 (0.54%) Apple
10 1 (0.54%) Dell
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.54%) Sophos
10 1 (0.54%) SunGard