Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,963 1,900 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.58% 13.80% 14.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.98% 14.63% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,782 955 1,538
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,438 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,600 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,831 12,988 19,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 94.36% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,186 7,705 11,814
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,339 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Thames Valley +5 1,283 £45,000 -6.25% 343
Surrey +3 562 £47,500 -20.83% 112
Buckinghamshire +6 534 £45,000 +11.39% 99
Hampshire +10 510 £50,000 - 200
Berkshire +4 437 £42,000 -23.64% 140
Oxfordshire +13 312 £42,500 -14.57% 106
Kent -3 256 £40,000 -5.88% 90
West Sussex +8 184 £60,000 +14.29% 46
East Sussex +3 110 £52,500 +2.94% 44
Sussex +1 38 £50,000 -
Middlesex -14 11 £30,000 -63.64% 13
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 85 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 81 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.55%) CMS
4 30 (1.01%) Apache
5 23 (0.78%) WebLogic
5 23 (0.78%) WordPress
6 21 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 18 (0.61%) Confluence
8 12 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.27%) Drupal
10 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Joomla!
11 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.10%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) IIS
Applications
1 300 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
2 260 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.32%) Simulink
4 29 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.27%) Sketch
10 7 (0.24%) Stateflow
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.13%) InDesign
13 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
13 3 (0.10%) Siemens NX
14 2 (0.067%) Trello
15 1 (0.034%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.034%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 41 (1.38%) Siebel CRM
2 31 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
5 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.17%) Magento
7 5 (0.17%) Odoo
7 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.067%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.067%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.067%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.067%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 491 (16.57%) Azure
2 330 (11.14%) Microsoft 365
3 287 (9.69%) AWS
4 118 (3.98%) SaaS
5 111 (3.75%) GCP
6 76 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 67 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (1.79%) GitHub
9 48 (1.62%) IaaS
10 47 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (1.48%) Serverless
12 43 (1.45%) Entra ID
13 40 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (0.98%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.91%) Amazon S3
17 23 (0.78%) Mimecast
17 23 (0.78%) PaaS
18 20 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
19 18 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 221 (7.46%) Firewall
2 123 (4.15%) DNS
3 91 (3.07%) DHCP
4 75 (2.53%) Wireless
5 65 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 62 (2.09%) LAN
7 55 (1.86%) VPN
8 47 (1.59%) WAN
9 46 (1.55%) VoIP
10 34 (1.15%) SAN
11 32 (1.08%) Internet
12 30 (1.01%) VLAN
13 25 (0.84%) Network Security
14 23 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
15 21 (0.71%) 5G
16 20 (0.67%) Broadband
16 20 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
17 17 (0.57%) 4G
18 16 (0.54%) Unified Communications
19 14 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 91 (3.07%) MySQL
3 84 (2.83%) BigQuery
3 84 (2.83%) Looker
4 75 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (1.75%) Power BI
6 50 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.55%) MongoDB
9 45 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (1.25%) Power Query
12 36 (1.21%) Oracle BI EE
12 36 (1.21%) Siebel EIM
13 25 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.71%) Redis
15 20 (0.67%) Tableau
16 17 (0.57%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.44%) OLTP
18 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (4.52%) Git
2 126 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 96 (3.24%) JIRA
4 48 (1.62%) GitLab
5 30 (1.01%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.81%) Subversion
7 23 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 21 (0.71%) Ant
9 17 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (0.47%) Selenium
11 13 (0.44%) Robot Framework
12 12 (0.40%) TestRail
13 11 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.34%) Maven
15 9 (0.30%) Gradle
16 8 (0.27%) CMake
16 8 (0.27%) Hudson
16 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.24%) JMeter
17 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,519 (51.27%) Social Skills
2 844 (28.48%) Analytical Skills
3 386 (13.03%) Finance
4 288 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 198 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
6 141 (4.76%) Marketing
7 137 (4.62%) Retail
8 117 (3.95%) Legal
9 113 (3.81%) Aerospace
10 109 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 73 (2.46%) Public Sector
13 70 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.13%) Electronics
15 53 (1.79%) Aviation
15 53 (1.79%) Billing
16 51 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 45 (1.52%) Automotive
19 44 (1.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 360 (12.15%) Developer
2 359 (12.12%) Senior
3 349 (11.78%) Analyst
4 209 (7.05%) Lead
5 194 (6.55%) Architect
6 151 (5.10%) IT Support
7 138 (4.66%) Software Engineer
8 118 (3.98%) Consultant
9 106 (3.58%) Data Scientist
10 104 (3.51%) Support Analyst
11 103 (3.48%) Coordinator
12 99 (3.34%) Support Engineer
13 93 (3.14%) Senior Developer
14 85 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
15 83 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 83 (2.80%) Project Manager
16 73 (2.46%) Data Engineer
17 72 (2.43%) Systems Engineer
18 62 (2.09%) IT Engineer
18 62 (2.09%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (6.24%) .NET
2 148 (4.99%) HTML
3 121 (4.08%) CSS
4 85 (2.87%) React
5 53 (1.79%) Spring
6 50 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 48 (1.62%) XML
8 46 (1.55%) Web Services
9 43 (1.45%) RESTful
10 42 (1.42%) HTML5
11 40 (1.35%) Node.js
12 37 (1.25%) REST
13 36 (1.21%) .NET Framework
13 36 (1.21%) Hibernate
14 33 (1.11%) ASP.NET
15 30 (1.01%) SOAP
16 29 (0.98%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.98%) CSS3
17 28 (0.94%) Vue
18 27 (0.91%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 375 (12.66%) Self-Motivation
2 242 (8.17%) Management Information System
3 215 (7.26%) Algorithms
4 98 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 72 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 57 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.79%) IoT
10 52 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (1.18%) Client/Server
14 31 (1.05%) Life Science
15 28 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 27 (0.91%) NHS
17 26 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 24 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
18 24 (0.81%) PMI
19 22 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 509 (17.18%) Windows
2 209 (7.05%) Linux
3 163 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 122 (4.12%) Windows 10
5 59 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 40 (1.35%) Windows 7
7 40 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 39 (1.32%) Unix
9 33 (1.11%) Mac OS
10 28 (0.94%) Android
11 23 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
12 12 (0.40%) Windows XP
13 8 (0.27%) VMS
14 7 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.17%) AIX
15 5 (0.17%) CentOS
15 5 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (16.87%) Agile
2 492 (16.60%) Mentoring
3 461 (15.56%) Customer Service
4 401 (13.53%) Computer Science
5 385 (12.99%) Project Management
6 361 (12.18%) Coaching
7 360 (12.15%) Decision-Making
8 356 (12.01%) DevOps
9 289 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
10 264 (8.91%) Mathematics
11 260 (8.77%) Software Engineering
12 258 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
13 250 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 245 (8.27%) ITIL
15 227 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
16 212 (7.15%) Data Analysis
17 208 (7.02%) Data Science
18 174 (5.87%) CI/CD
19 169 (5.70%) CRM
20 150 (5.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 315 (10.63%) SQL
2 278 (9.38%) Python
3 202 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 197 (6.65%) C#
5 195 (6.58%) Java
6 182 (6.14%) C++
7 147 (4.96%) C
8 125 (4.22%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.70%) Bash
10 58 (1.96%) PHP
11 50 (1.69%) Fortran
12 31 (1.05%) Perl
13 30 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 30 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.98%) MATLAB
15 28 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.61%) R
17 16 (0.54%) Go
18 13 (0.44%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 883 (29.80%) Degree
2 441 (14.88%) Security Cleared
3 288 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 206 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 115 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 102 (3.44%) DBS Check
8 88 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 62 (2.09%) PhD
10 53 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 40 (1.35%) NVQ Level 3
12 39 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 36 (1.21%) PMI Certification
14 33 (1.11%) CCNA
14 33 (1.11%) CCNP
14 33 (1.11%) MCP
15 28 (0.94%) MCSE
16 26 (0.88%) HNC
17 25 (0.84%) A+ Certification
18 22 (0.74%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (6.99%) QA
2 144 (4.86%) GDPR
3 140 (4.72%) SLA
4 111 (3.75%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.33%) PMO
6 31 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (0.88%) ISO 9001
10 22 (0.74%) Good Clinical Practice
11 18 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
12 14 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.44%) IFRS
14 11 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
14 11 (0.37%) COSHH
14 11 (0.37%) ISO 26262
14 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 9 (0.30%) ISO 13485
16 8 (0.27%) ISO 14001
16 8 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 265 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 144 (4.86%) Docker
3 103 (3.48%) Hyper-V
4 101 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 33 (1.11%) Firmware
6 27 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.40%) KVM
9 12 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.20%) vSphere
11 5 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.17%) XenApp
12 4 (0.13%) HDFS
12 4 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.10%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.034%) NFS
14 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 120 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 72 (2.43%) SCCM
3 60 (2.02%) Ansible
4 37 (1.25%) Terraform
5 34 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (1.08%) Puppet
6 32 (1.08%) SCOM
7 22 (0.74%) OpenSSO
7 22 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 17 (0.57%) WSUS
9 15 (0.51%) ZABBIX
10 14 (0.47%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.37%) Functional Safety
13 10 (0.34%) Consul
14 8 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.24%) Prometheus
16 6 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 836 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.10%) Oracle
3 127 (4.29%) Google
3 127 (4.29%) VMware
4 93 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 86 (2.90%) Cisco
6 78 (2.63%) SAP
7 41 (1.38%) Siebel
8 31 (1.05%) HP
9 30 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 29 (0.98%) Juniper
11 25 (0.84%) Dell
11 25 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 25 (0.84%) Xilinx
12 24 (0.81%) Adobe
12 24 (0.81%) Fortinet
12 24 (0.81%) Remedy
13 23 (0.78%) Apple
14 21 (0.71%) Citrix
14 21 (0.71%) Veeam