Problem-Solving Jobs in the City of London

Problem Solving
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +23
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 468 481 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 13.95% 10.39% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.15% 10.91% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 332 378 564
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,425 £41,550
25th Percentile £47,188 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.90% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,250 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.57% +1.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,090 4,410 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.07% 95.23% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,446 3,687 5,616
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,515 £45,506
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 - 2 £98,750 -
Problem-Solving
Central London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (7.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.91%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.78%) CMS
4 10 (2.14%) Apache
5 8 (1.71%) Confluence
6 7 (1.50%) IIS
7 6 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.07%) Drupal
8 5 (1.07%) SAS
9 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.43%) JBoss
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.21%) WildFly
10 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.71%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.85%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.85%) Blender
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.85%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.71%) SDL Web 8
2 4 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.21%) Relativity
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (22.22%) Azure
2 100 (21.37%) AWS
3 52 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (8.97%) Power Platform
5 37 (7.91%) SaaS
6 32 (6.84%) Entra ID
7 26 (5.56%) Serverless
7 26 (5.56%) WhatsApp
8 22 (4.70%) GCP
9 16 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 14 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.78%) Google Sheets
12 12 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.56%) Google Workspace
13 11 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.14%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.92%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.98%) Firewall
2 24 (5.13%) DNS
3 15 (3.21%) Internet
4 12 (2.56%) Network Security
5 10 (2.14%) IPsec
5 10 (2.14%) VPN
6 9 (1.92%) NAS
6 9 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (1.92%) Wireless
7 8 (1.71%) Broadband
8 6 (1.28%) DHCP
8 6 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.28%) WebEx
9 5 (1.07%) LAN
9 5 (1.07%) SNMP
9 5 (1.07%) SSL
9 5 (1.07%) WAN
10 4 (0.85%) Telepresence
10 4 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.40%) SQL Server
1 44 (9.40%) Tableau
2 40 (8.55%) Power BI
3 20 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (2.99%) MySQL
6 13 (2.78%) GIS
6 13 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.56%) Redis
8 11 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.71%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.71%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (1.28%) Metadata
12 4 (0.85%) Flink
12 4 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 68 (14.53%) Git
2 22 (4.70%) JIRA
3 13 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.14%) GitLab
6 9 (1.92%) NUnit
6 9 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (1.92%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.71%) git-flow
7 8 (1.71%) Moq
7 8 (1.71%) Sourcetree
7 8 (1.71%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.07%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.64%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.64%) Selenium
10 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 263 (56.20%) Social Skills
2 202 (43.16%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (23.93%) Finance
4 46 (9.83%) Retail
5 38 (8.12%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (5.56%) Marketing
7 22 (4.70%) Legal
8 19 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.63%) Law
9 17 (3.63%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.21%) Games
11 13 (2.78%) Back Office
12 11 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.14%) Advertising
14 8 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.50%) Banking
16 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.07%) Automotive
17 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 96 (20.51%) Senior
2 78 (16.67%) Developer
3 70 (14.96%) Analyst
4 33 (7.05%) Lead
5 32 (6.84%) Consultant
6 30 (6.41%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.98%) Architect
8 26 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.70%) Senior Analyst
9 22 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 20 (4.27%) Senior Developer
11 17 (3.63%) Applications Support
11 17 (3.63%) Senior Data Analyst
12 14 (2.99%) C# Developer
12 14 (2.99%) Full Stack Developer
12 14 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) Power BI Developer
13 13 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 13 (2.78%) Digital Transformation
13 13 (2.78%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (9.62%) HTML
2 43 (9.19%) React
3 39 (8.33%) .NET
3 39 (8.33%) CSS
4 37 (7.91%) RESTful
5 22 (4.70%) Web Services
6 21 (4.49%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.06%) SOAP
8 16 (3.42%) ASP.NET
8 16 (3.42%) Node.js
9 15 (3.21%) GraphQL
10 14 (2.99%) .NET Framework
11 13 (2.78%) XML
12 11 (2.35%) REST
12 11 (2.35%) Spring
13 10 (2.14%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (2.14%) Entity Framework
14 9 (1.92%) jQuery
15 8 (1.71%) Django
15 8 (1.71%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.40%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.35%) Life Science
6 11 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.71%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.28%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.07%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.07%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 76 (16.24%) Windows
2 41 (8.76%) Windows Server
3 18 (3.85%) Linux
4 14 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.92%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.07%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.85%) Android
9 4 (0.85%) Unix
10 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.21%) AIX
12 1 (0.21%) Debian
12 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (24.36%) Agile
2 83 (17.74%) Computer Science
3 63 (13.46%) Analytics
4 57 (12.18%) DevOps
4 57 (12.18%) Software Engineering
5 53 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
5 53 (11.32%) Data Analysis
6 51 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (10.47%) Visualisation
8 48 (10.26%) Scrum
9 44 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (8.76%) ITIL
10 41 (8.76%) Mentoring
11 40 (8.55%) Decision-Making
12 39 (8.33%) User Experience
13 35 (7.48%) Full Stack Development
13 35 (7.48%) Project Management
14 34 (7.26%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (7.05%) Microservices
16 32 (6.84%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 131 (27.99%) SQL
2 97 (20.73%) Python
3 52 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 43 (9.19%) C#
5 36 (7.69%) Java
6 19 (4.06%) T-SQL
6 19 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.99%) Bash
8 14 (2.99%) C++
9 13 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (2.14%) Go
11 8 (1.71%) Apex Code
11 8 (1.71%) XPath
12 5 (1.07%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.85%) R
13 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.85%) SOQL
13 4 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (32.05%) Degree
2 62 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (5.98%) DBS Check
4 25 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (5.34%) Security Cleared
5 19 (4.06%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.50%) CISSP
9 6 (1.28%) CISA
10 5 (1.07%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.07%) GIAC
10 5 (1.07%) MCSA
11 4 (0.85%) CISM
11 4 (0.85%) CSPO
11 4 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.56%) QA
2 25 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (4.70%) SLA
4 9 (1.92%) NIST
5 8 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.71%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.71%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.50%) COBIT
7 6 (1.28%) ISO 9001
8 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.07%) NCSC
8 5 (1.07%) PMO
9 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.85%) WCAG
10 3 (0.64%) GDPR
10 3 (0.64%) GRC
10 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.43%) FISMA
11 2 (0.43%) GLBA
11 2 (0.43%) ITGC
System Software
1 54 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 36 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (5.98%) Docker
4 10 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) LXC
9 1 (0.21%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.21%) pfSense
9 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.91%) Terraform
3 15 (3.21%) vCenter Server
4 8 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.50%) Ansible
6 5 (1.07%) Packer
6 5 (1.07%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.43%) CASB
8 2 (0.43%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.43%) SCCM
9 1 (0.21%) Avamar
9 1 (0.21%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.21%) WMI
Vendors
1 107 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.62%) Google
3 36 (7.69%) VMware
4 25 (5.34%) Oracle
5 24 (5.13%) Databricks
6 17 (3.63%) Cisco
7 14 (2.99%) Adobe
8 12 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.35%) Apple
10 9 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.71%) Aderant
11 8 (1.71%) Cognizant
12 6 (1.28%) Citrix
12 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.07%) iManage
13 5 (1.07%) NetApp
13 5 (1.07%) SolidFire
13 5 (1.07%) Veeam
14 4 (0.85%) Dell