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 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 3,495 2,735 9,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.31% 12.27% 14.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.24% 13.05% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 2,099 3,608
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,269 £50,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £103,825
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

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 18,162 20,959 61,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.95% 94.04% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,412 16,968 33,718
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% +4.35%

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 September 2024.

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 September 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
Central London +12 742 £65,000 -7.14% 133
South London +11 196 £50,000 +20.48% 36
West London -12 110 £50,000 -9.77% 60
East London +29 18 £27,500 -5.98% 43
North London -3 7 £55,000 +7.09% 10
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 96 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 72 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (0.86%) CMS
4 27 (0.77%) Apache
5 26 (0.74%) Confluence
6 19 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 16 (0.46%) SAS
8 12 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.29%) OpenEdge
10 6 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.17%) IIS
10 6 (0.17%) Solana
11 5 (0.14%) Drupal
11 5 (0.14%) nginx
11 5 (0.14%) WordPress
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.086%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 212 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.43%) Photoshop
5 10 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.11%) Sketch
8 4 (0.11%) SPSS
9 3 (0.086%) Revit
10 2 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.029%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.029%) InDesign
11 1 (0.029%) InVision
11 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 29 (0.83%) Ripple
2 27 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.43%) SDL Web 8
5 12 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.29%) SAP SD
7 7 (0.20%) Odoo
8 6 (0.17%) C-CURE
8 6 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
9 5 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.11%) Aareon QL
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
10 4 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.11%) MIS ActiveH
10 4 (0.11%) OPENHousing
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
10 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 617 (17.65%) AWS
2 581 (16.62%) GCP
3 580 (16.60%) Azure
4 216 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 186 (5.32%) Power Platform
6 141 (4.03%) Serverless
7 116 (3.32%) SaaS
8 108 (3.09%) Collibra
9 99 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
12 75 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 75 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
13 62 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.69%) Entra ID
14 59 (1.69%) GitHub
15 52 (1.49%) Power Automate
16 49 (1.40%) Amazon S3
17 39 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 675 (19.31%) Broadband
2 124 (3.55%) Firewall
3 86 (2.46%) DNS
4 75 (2.15%) Network Security
5 74 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 52 (1.49%) VPN
7 40 (1.14%) DHCP
8 36 (1.03%) VLAN
9 31 (0.89%) HTTP
9 31 (0.89%) WAN
10 30 (0.86%) Internet
11 29 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (0.80%) BGP
13 26 (0.74%) LAN
14 25 (0.72%) OSPF
14 25 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.72%) Wireless
15 19 (0.54%) SMTP
16 18 (0.52%) SNMP
17 15 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (14.31%) Data Hub
2 170 (4.86%) Tableau
3 167 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 126 (3.61%) Power BI
5 125 (3.58%) MySQL
6 121 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
7 117 (3.35%) BigQuery
8 116 (3.32%) Metadata
9 98 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
10 97 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (2.12%) DynamoDB
12 70 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 69 (1.97%) NoSQL
14 45 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (0.74%) Data Lake
16 26 (0.74%) MongoDB
17 24 (0.69%) Big Data
18 22 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
19 21 (0.60%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 348 (9.96%) Git
2 122 (3.49%) GitLab
3 88 (2.52%) JIRA
4 72 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 23 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
8 22 (0.63%) Selenium
9 21 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (0.57%) JUnit
11 19 (0.54%) SoapUI
11 19 (0.54%) SpecFlow
12 18 (0.52%) NUnit
13 17 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.46%) Moq
15 15 (0.43%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.43%) git-flow
15 15 (0.43%) Sourcetree
16 14 (0.40%) Maven
17 13 (0.37%) Burp Suite
General
1 2,231 (63.83%) Social Skills
2 1,298 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 856 (24.49%) Finance
4 447 (12.79%) Influencing Skills
5 295 (8.44%) Retail
6 265 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 259 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
8 219 (6.27%) Marketing
9 180 (5.15%) Banking
10 165 (4.72%) Legal
11 161 (4.61%) Law
12 119 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
13 87 (2.49%) Billing
14 74 (2.12%) Manufacturing
15 72 (2.06%) Public Sector
16 50 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 50 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 36 (1.03%) Games
18 35 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
18 35 (1.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,103 (31.56%) Senior
2 1,071 (30.64%) Analyst
3 640 (18.31%) Senior Analyst
4 373 (10.67%) Developer
5 329 (9.41%) Data Analyst
6 291 (8.33%) IT Analyst
7 283 (8.10%) Lead
8 241 (6.90%) Audit Analyst
9 158 (4.52%) Architect
10 149 (4.26%) Consultant
11 141 (4.03%) Software Engineer
12 106 (3.03%) Senior Manager
13 105 (3.00%) Service Analyst
14 94 (2.69%) Team Leader
15 90 (2.58%) Senior Data Analyst
16 77 (2.20%) Operations Analyst
16 77 (2.20%) Senior Developer
17 73 (2.09%) Coordinator
18 72 (2.06%) Project Manager
19 69 (1.97%) Service Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (5.38%) .NET
2 178 (5.09%) RESTful
3 159 (4.55%) HTML
4 154 (4.41%) React
5 128 (3.66%) CSS
6 114 (3.26%) REST
7 108 (3.09%) GraphQL
8 102 (2.92%) Web Services
9 101 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
10 88 (2.52%) Django
11 78 (2.23%) XML
12 75 (2.15%) .NET Framework
13 65 (1.86%) ASP.NET
13 65 (1.86%) SOAP
14 62 (1.77%) AngularJS
15 57 (1.63%) Kafka
16 50 (1.43%) JSON
17 45 (1.29%) Node.js
18 43 (1.23%) Spring
19 36 (1.03%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 224 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 191 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 114 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 114 (3.26%) Over-the-Top Content
4 92 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 72 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 70 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 64 (1.83%) Blockchain
8 62 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 47 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 47 (1.34%) IoT
10 46 (1.32%) Driving Licence
10 46 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 39 (1.12%) Data Centre
13 35 (1.00%) Life Science
14 33 (0.94%) Reinsurance
15 31 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 30 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 265 (7.58%) Windows
2 186 (5.32%) Linux
3 84 (2.40%) Windows 10
4 70 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.29%) Android
6 40 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 35 (1.00%) Unix
8 30 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) CentOS
13 7 (0.20%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.17%) AIX
15 4 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.11%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.11%) Rocky
16 3 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 901 (25.78%) Analytics
2 803 (22.98%) Agile
3 789 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 630 (18.03%) Data Management
5 614 (17.57%) Customer Experience
6 556 (15.91%) Data Governance
7 551 (15.77%) Computer Science
8 518 (14.82%) Data Transformation
9 490 (14.02%) DevOps
10 460 (13.16%) Data Analysis
11 434 (12.42%) CI/CD
12 363 (10.39%) Mentoring
13 349 (9.99%) Risk Management
14 340 (9.73%) Project Management
15 281 (8.04%) Software Engineering
16 275 (7.87%) Decision-Making
17 260 (7.44%) Roadmaps
18 249 (7.12%) IT Audit
19 221 (6.32%) Mathematics
20 216 (6.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 722 (20.66%) Python
2 672 (19.23%) SQL
3 220 (6.29%) JavaScript
4 219 (6.27%) C#
5 209 (5.98%) Java
6 151 (4.32%) Bash
7 134 (3.83%) PowerShell
8 111 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 106 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 82 (2.35%) T-SQL
11 59 (1.69%) C++
12 51 (1.46%) R
13 49 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.74%) VBA
15 23 (0.66%) C
15 23 (0.66%) PHP
15 23 (0.66%) Scala
16 19 (0.54%) Go
17 16 (0.46%) Rust
17 16 (0.46%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1,044 (29.87%) Degree
2 430 (12.30%) CISA
3 409 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 263 (7.53%) Master's Degree
5 210 (6.01%) DBS Check
6 104 (2.98%) Security Cleared
7 96 (2.75%) ACCA
8 91 (2.60%) LPIC
9 89 (2.55%) RHCSA
10 78 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 73 (2.09%) CISSP
12 67 (1.92%) Azure Certification
13 64 (1.83%) SC Cleared
14 51 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 48 (1.37%) AWS Certification
16 37 (1.06%) CEH
17 34 (0.97%) CCNP
17 34 (0.97%) PMI Certification
18 31 (0.89%) CCNA
18 31 (0.89%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (11.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 196 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 154 (4.41%) QA
4 116 (3.32%) NIST
5 108 (3.09%) SOC 2
6 100 (2.86%) GAAP
7 84 (2.40%) IFRS
8 72 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 54 (1.55%) GDPR
10 50 (1.43%) SLA
11 45 (1.29%) Accessibility
12 24 (0.69%) PCI DSS
13 18 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
14 16 (0.46%) HIPAA
15 14 (0.40%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.26%) GLP
16 9 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
16 9 (0.26%) GRC
17 8 (0.23%) PMO
17 8 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 262 (7.50%) Docker
2 157 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.37%) vSphere
8 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.17%) KVM
10 5 (0.14%) Firmware
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.029%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.029%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.029%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.029%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.029%) Varnish
13 1 (0.029%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.029%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (5.49%) Grafana
2 180 (5.15%) Terraform
3 156 (4.46%) Kubernetes
4 143 (4.09%) Ansible
5 116 (3.32%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (1.03%) SCCM
8 32 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.77%) Packer
10 24 (0.69%) Consul
11 15 (0.43%) Puppet
12 14 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.31%) CASB
15 10 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.29%) Nmap
16 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
17 6 (0.17%) CSIRT
17 6 (0.17%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.14%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 647 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 424 (12.13%) Google
3 208 (5.95%) Oracle
4 150 (4.29%) Databricks
5 108 (3.09%) Informatica
6 107 (3.06%) Cloudera
7 87 (2.49%) SAP
8 81 (2.32%) CA
9 79 (2.26%) Cisco
10 76 (2.17%) VMware
11 74 (2.12%) Salesforce
12 49 (1.40%) ServiceNow
13 46 (1.32%) Adobe
14 34 (0.97%) Apple
15 30 (0.86%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.77%) Splunk
17 25 (0.72%) Juniper
17 25 (0.72%) Meraki
18 22 (0.63%) Palo Alto
19 21 (0.60%) Bloomberg