Problem-Solving Jobs in South London

Problem Solving
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +28
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 142 134 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 19.75% 15.11% 15.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.46% 15.93% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26 69 53
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,600 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -8.63%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 694 841 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 96.52% 94.81% 92.58%
Number of salaries quoted 156 393 358
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,965 £31,775
25th Percentile £46,875 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £76,563 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in South London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Croydon +9 42 £34,000 -22.73% 11
Merton -1 33 £38,500 -14.44% 6
Bromley -4 33 £37,500 -25.00% 28
Kingston Upon Thames -3 21 £85,000 +56.18% 7
Sutton +20 11 - -
Wandsworth - 5 £51,500 - 2
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 7 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.20%) Azure
2 22 (15.49%) AWS
3 21 (14.79%) Serverless
4 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (14.08%) GCP
5 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 100 (70.42%) Broadband
2 4 (2.82%) VoIP
3 2 (1.41%) DHCP
3 2 (1.41%) DNS
3 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.70%) Firewall
4 1 (0.70%) Internet
4 1 (0.70%) Modbus
4 1 (0.70%) MQTT
4 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.41%) Power BI
2 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Jasmine
1 8 (5.63%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (1.41%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) JMeter
3 1 (0.70%) MSI
3 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 73 (51.41%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (14.08%) Games
4 13 (9.15%) Finance
5 10 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.04%) Multimedia
6 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.11%) German Language
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (28.87%) Senior
2 27 (19.01%) Lead
3 20 (14.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 16 (11.27%) Systems Engineer
5 9 (6.34%) Engineering Manager
5 9 (6.34%) Team Leader
6 8 (5.63%) Developer
6 8 (5.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (4.93%) Project Manager
8 4 (2.82%) Analyst
8 4 (2.82%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.11%) Data Coordinator
9 3 (2.11%) ICT Technician
10 2 (1.41%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 2 (1.41%) CCTV Engineer
10 2 (1.41%) Commercial Analyst
11 1 (0.70%) Graduate Analyst
11 1 (0.70%) Graduate Technical Analyst
11 1 (0.70%) Graduate Technical Support
11 1 (0.70%) Head of IT Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) GraphQL
1 20 (14.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 20 (14.08%) WebGL
2 9 (6.34%) Node.js
3 8 (5.63%) AngularJS
3 8 (5.63%) CSS
3 8 (5.63%) CSS3
3 8 (5.63%) HTML
3 8 (5.63%) HTML5
3 8 (5.63%) NgRx
3 8 (5.63%) RxJS
3 8 (5.63%) Sass
4 2 (1.41%) .NET
4 2 (1.41%) React
5 1 (0.70%) Kafka
5 1 (0.70%) Mustache
5 1 (0.70%) REST
5 1 (0.70%) Spring
5 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.79%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (14.08%) Animation
3 8 (5.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 7 (4.93%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.11%) CMDB
5 3 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.11%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.41%) CCTV
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.04%) Windows
2 5 (3.52%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.41%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (65.49%) Mentoring
2 60 (42.25%) Broadcast Engineering
2 60 (42.25%) Computer Science
2 60 (42.25%) High Availability
2 60 (42.25%) Product Management
2 60 (42.25%) Roadmaps
3 30 (21.13%) Agile
4 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
5 20 (14.08%) 3D Animation
5 20 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 20 (14.08%) Clean Code
5 20 (14.08%) Creative Thinking
5 20 (14.08%) Data Science
5 20 (14.08%) Machine Learning
5 20 (14.08%) Performance Metrics
5 20 (14.08%) Personalization
5 20 (14.08%) Prototyping
5 20 (14.08%) Rapid Prototyping
5 20 (14.08%) Storytelling
5 20 (14.08%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.72%) TypeScript
2 20 (14.08%) HLSL
2 20 (14.08%) Python
3 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.41%) C#
4 2 (1.41%) SQL
5 1 (0.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 84 (59.15%) Degree
2 60 (42.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (14.08%) PhD
4 7 (4.93%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) CISMP
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) PMBOK
2 1 (0.70%) GDPR
2 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.70%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.70%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 9 (6.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.82%) Apple
3 3 (2.11%) OneTrust
4 2 (1.41%) Logitech
4 2 (1.41%) Yealink
5 1 (0.70%) Databricks
5 1 (0.70%) Symantec
5 1 (0.70%) Veeam