Problem-Solving Jobs in London

Problem Solving
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 12 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,638 3,413 3,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.56% 13.69% 11.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.44% 15.39% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 2,149 2,425
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £111,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% -10.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,305 22,176 29,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 95.90% 88.92% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,037 16,123 21,593
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Central London +4 514 £68,750 +10.00% 1,176
West London +54 151 £40,000 -27.27% 301
South London +4 137 £38,500 -23.00% 78
East London 0 57 £80,000 +73.91% 306
North London -6 36 £50,000 +60.00% 22
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 105 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 74 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.63%) Confluence
4 35 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.87%) Apache
6 22 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.61%) CMS
7 16 (0.61%) OpenEdge
8 13 (0.49%) nginx
9 9 (0.34%) IIS
10 6 (0.23%) WordPress
11 5 (0.19%) Luigi
12 4 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) Drupal
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) Traefik
13 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 120 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.72%) Maya
4 19 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 8 (0.30%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.30%) Trello
9 7 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 7 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.23%) InDesign
10 6 (0.23%) Sketch
11 3 (0.11%) CapCut
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.038%) Houdini
13 1 (0.038%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 53 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.23%) Endur
8 5 (0.19%) Exchequer
8 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.15%) Maximo
9 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.15%) Relativity
9 4 (0.15%) Shopify
10 3 (0.11%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.11%) Magento
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 610 (23.12%) Azure
2 437 (16.57%) AWS
3 224 (8.49%) GCP
4 194 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 189 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 170 (6.44%) SaaS
7 139 (5.27%) Serverless
8 100 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 89 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 74 (2.81%) GitHub
11 72 (2.73%) Entra ID
12 71 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
13 57 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (1.86%) OneDrive
15 43 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (1.33%) PowerApps
17 31 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 31 (1.18%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.10%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 327 (12.40%) Broadband
2 121 (4.59%) Firewall
3 96 (3.64%) VPN
4 57 (2.16%) Network Security
5 52 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 51 (1.93%) DNS
7 49 (1.86%) LAN
7 49 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 45 (1.71%) WAN
9 26 (0.99%) Wireless
10 25 (0.95%) DHCP
11 23 (0.87%) VoIP
12 22 (0.83%) VLAN
13 20 (0.76%) MPLS
14 15 (0.57%) Internet
14 15 (0.57%) OSPF
14 15 (0.57%) WebEx
15 14 (0.53%) BGP
15 14 (0.53%) HTTP
16 11 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (5.69%) Power BI
2 102 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 84 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 80 (3.03%) Tableau
6 72 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 61 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 39 (1.48%) Data Lake
8 39 (1.48%) MySQL
9 35 (1.33%) Big Data
10 29 (1.10%) MongoDB
11 23 (0.87%) Metadata
12 22 (0.83%) RDBMS
13 20 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.68%) BigQuery
16 17 (0.64%) Hadoop
16 17 (0.64%) KDB
Development Applications
1 155 (5.88%) Git
2 111 (4.21%) JIRA
3 67 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.02%) Selenium
5 22 (0.83%) IntelliJ
6 19 (0.72%) JUnit
7 16 (0.61%) Postman
8 15 (0.57%) GitLab
8 15 (0.57%) Maven
9 12 (0.45%) Gradle
9 12 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.42%) Vite
11 10 (0.38%) JMeter
12 9 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 9 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.34%) webpack
13 8 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (0.30%) Babel
General
1 1,394 (52.84%) Social Skills
2 949 (35.97%) Analytical Skills
3 895 (33.93%) Finance
4 322 (12.21%) Law
5 317 (12.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 281 (10.65%) Banking
7 239 (9.06%) Marketing
8 162 (6.14%) Games
9 125 (4.74%) Retail
10 118 (4.47%) Legal
11 117 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
12 101 (3.83%) Public Sector
13 90 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
14 71 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 67 (2.54%) Manufacturing
16 53 (2.01%) Front Office
17 48 (1.82%) Financial Institution
18 43 (1.63%) Advertising
19 40 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
20 37 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 533 (20.20%) Senior
2 378 (14.33%) Lead
3 319 (12.09%) Developer
4 308 (11.68%) Analyst
5 180 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 108 (4.09%) Architect
7 103 (3.90%) Consultant
8 88 (3.34%) Lead Software Engineer
9 78 (2.96%) Data Engineer
10 73 (2.77%) IT Manager
11 72 (2.73%) IT Support
11 72 (2.73%) Support Engineer
12 69 (2.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 68 (2.58%) Data Analyst
14 66 (2.50%) Senior Developer
15 63 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
16 60 (2.27%) Support Analyst
17 58 (2.20%) Business Analyst
17 58 (2.20%) Systems Engineer
18 56 (2.12%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (5.99%) React
2 126 (4.78%) REST
3 120 (4.55%) .NET
4 105 (3.98%) GraphQL
5 97 (3.68%) RESTful
6 89 (3.37%) HTML
7 85 (3.22%) CSS
8 73 (2.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 67 (2.54%) WebGL
10 61 (2.31%) Kafka
11 52 (1.97%) AngularJS
11 52 (1.97%) Node.js
12 37 (1.40%) Web Services
13 36 (1.36%) Flask
14 34 (1.29%) SOAP
15 32 (1.21%) Spring
16 31 (1.18%) Django
17 30 (1.14%) .NET Framework
18 27 (1.02%) JSON
19 26 (0.99%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 181 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
2 130 (4.93%) Cloud Native
3 87 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 78 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 73 (2.77%) Animation
6 64 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 60 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 58 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 56 (2.12%) Data Structures
10 48 (1.82%) Mobile App
11 47 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 40 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 40 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 30 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 29 (1.10%) Mobile Games
15 24 (0.91%) Derivative
16 23 (0.87%) Driving Licence
16 23 (0.87%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 230 (8.72%) Windows
2 108 (4.09%) Linux
3 101 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 62 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 50 (1.90%) Unix
6 33 (1.25%) Android
7 31 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.19%) zOS
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.11%) CentOS
14 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.11%) VMS
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Vista
15 2 (0.076%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (24.68%) Agile
2 543 (20.58%) Mentoring
3 444 (16.83%) Computer Science
4 383 (14.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 378 (14.33%) Roadmaps
6 360 (13.65%) CI/CD
7 319 (12.09%) Analytics
8 316 (11.98%) Software Engineering
9 290 (10.99%) Project Management
10 284 (10.77%) DevOps
11 283 (10.73%) High Availability
12 281 (10.65%) Product Management
13 257 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 239 (9.06%) Decision-Making
15 230 (8.72%) Machine Learning
16 210 (7.96%) ITIL
17 190 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
18 189 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
19 187 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
20 185 (7.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 575 (21.80%) Python
2 442 (16.76%) SQL
3 223 (8.45%) Java
4 194 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 187 (7.09%) TypeScript
6 146 (5.53%) C#
7 92 (3.49%) PowerShell
8 67 (2.54%) HLSL
9 58 (2.20%) Bash
10 51 (1.93%) Kotlin
11 46 (1.74%) C++
12 34 (1.29%) Go
13 31 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 21 (0.80%) Swift
15 19 (0.72%) C
15 19 (0.72%) Objective-C
16 16 (0.61%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.57%) VBA
18 14 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 808 (30.63%) Degree
2 331 (12.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (4.47%) PhD
4 92 (3.49%) Master's Degree
5 91 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 73 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 71 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 71 (2.69%) PMP
8 70 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 67 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (2.39%) CISSP
11 60 (2.27%) SC Cleared
12 52 (1.97%) CCNA
13 43 (1.63%) AWS Certification
14 42 (1.59%) CCNP
15 34 (1.29%) DBS Check
16 29 (1.10%) DV Cleared
17 28 (1.06%) CISM
18 24 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 19 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (5.95%) QA
2 76 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 72 (2.73%) GDPR
4 67 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.55%) NIST
7 38 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 37 (1.40%) SLA
9 31 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 18 (0.68%) GRC
12 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.45%) PMO
15 11 (0.42%) PMBOK
16 8 (0.30%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.27%) NCSC
17 7 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.23%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 165 (6.25%) Docker
2 152 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 53 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.45%) vSphere
7 11 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.42%) XenApp
8 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.30%) Firmware
10 4 (0.15%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.076%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.076%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.076%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.038%) ACF2
12 1 (0.038%) HDFS
12 1 (0.038%) RACF
12 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.038%) Xen
Systems Management
1 193 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 156 (5.91%) Terraform
3 64 (2.43%) Ansible
4 61 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (1.52%) Grafana
6 25 (0.95%) Nagios
6 25 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.68%) SCCM
8 11 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.34%) Puppet
11 8 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (0.27%) RSA Archer
13 6 (0.23%) Argo
13 6 (0.23%) Nessus
14 5 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.19%) PaperCut
14 5 (0.19%) QRadar
15 4 (0.15%) Packer
15 4 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 500 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.72%) Google
3 114 (4.32%) Databricks
4 89 (3.37%) Adobe
5 81 (3.07%) SAP
6 80 (3.03%) Oracle
7 79 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 78 (2.96%) Cisco
9 74 (2.81%) VMware
10 68 (2.58%) Salesforce
11 37 (1.40%) Citrix
12 31 (1.18%) Splunk
13 29 (1.10%) Apple
14 28 (1.06%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.02%) IBM
16 25 (0.95%) Meraki
16 25 (0.95%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.68%) Dell
18 17 (0.64%) Okta
18 17 (0.64%) Progress