Problem-Solving Jobs

Problem Solving
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 15,162 12,351 25,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.41% 13.03% 15.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.23% 13.65% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,501 6,539 10,090
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £39,914 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £72,399
90th Percentile £84,964 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the UK 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
England +5 13,296 £50,000 -9.09% 5,821
UK excluding London +6 11,232 £45,000 -10.00% 4,162
Work from Home +3 4,787 £54,000 -10.00% 2,035
London +3 3,323 £70,000 - 1,819
South East +4 2,963 £45,000 -14.29% 970
North of England +6 2,628 £45,000 - 1,061
Midlands +2 1,815 £40,000 -15.79% 821
North West +11 1,409 £45,000 -8.05% 579
South West +7 1,399 £47,500 -5.00% 580
West Midlands +1 1,154 £42,500 -12.89% 506
East of England +6 1,041 £42,500 -10.53% 470
Yorkshire +3 922 £42,500 -2.10% 353
Scotland -9 918 £45,543 -8.91% 280
East Midlands +8 638 £37,500 -16.67% 318
Wales +7 317 £42,000 +5.00% 96
North East +17 296 £41,500 -2.35% 150
Northern Ireland +13 139 £46,250 -22.92% 53
Isle of Man +3 19 £37,000 +23.33% 5

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 490 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 426 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 228 (1.50%) Apache
4 202 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 159 (1.05%) Confluence
6 154 (1.02%) CMS
7 127 (0.84%) IIS
8 121 (0.80%) WordPress
9 57 (0.38%) SAS
10 40 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 33 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 33 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 31 (0.20%) nginx
12 31 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.16%) OpenEdge
14 19 (0.13%) Drupal
15 18 (0.12%) FileNet
16 17 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
17 16 (0.11%) ArcGIS
17 16 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,276 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1,003 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 321 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 72 (0.47%) Sketch
6 71 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 60 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 48 (0.32%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.30%) AutoCAD
10 44 (0.29%) Simulink
11 29 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 29 (0.19%) Trello
12 25 (0.16%) Adobe XD
13 23 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
14 17 (0.11%) InDesign
14 17 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
15 13 (0.086%) SPSS
16 12 (0.079%) Chatbot
17 11 (0.073%) InVision
17 11 (0.073%) Revit
Business Applications
1 141 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (0.36%) Shopify
3 52 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 42 (0.28%) Magento
5 41 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
6 22 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 20 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 20 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 19 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
9 18 (0.12%) iTrent
10 17 (0.11%) Endur
10 17 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
11 14 (0.092%) Teamcenter
12 13 (0.086%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.086%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
13 12 (0.079%) SAP MM
14 11 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,610 (17.21%) Azure
2 2,053 (13.54%) AWS
3 1,461 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 809 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 784 (5.17%) GCP
6 511 (3.37%) SaaS
7 386 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 304 (2.01%) Entra ID
9 285 (1.88%) Serverless
10 278 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
11 271 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 230 (1.52%) Amazon S3
13 225 (1.48%) GitHub
14 188 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 186 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 181 (1.19%) Power Automate
17 115 (0.76%) Snowflake
18 111 (0.73%) IaaS
19 102 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
19 102 (0.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 836 (5.51%) Firewall
2 437 (2.88%) DNS
3 370 (2.44%) WAN
4 317 (2.09%) LAN
5 314 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 306 (2.02%) DHCP
7 277 (1.83%) Network Security
8 269 (1.77%) VPN
9 257 (1.70%) Wireless
10 224 (1.48%) Internet
11 193 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
12 153 (1.01%) VoIP
13 132 (0.87%) SAN
14 125 (0.82%) VLAN
15 80 (0.53%) SD-WAN
16 77 (0.51%) 5G
16 77 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
17 75 (0.49%) SNMP
18 71 (0.47%) Broadband
18 71 (0.47%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 907 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 654 (4.31%) Power BI
3 466 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 452 (2.98%) MySQL
5 404 (2.66%) Tableau
6 376 (2.48%) BigQuery
7 371 (2.45%) Looker
8 345 (2.28%) NoSQL
9 325 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 266 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
11 232 (1.53%) MongoDB
12 225 (1.48%) Big Data
13 216 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 159 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
15 131 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 124 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 120 (0.79%) Redis
18 101 (0.67%) Data Lake
19 99 (0.65%) DynamoDB
19 99 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 866 (5.71%) Git
2 533 (3.52%) JIRA
3 334 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 206 (1.36%) GitLab
5 131 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 76 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 71 (0.47%) Selenium
8 60 (0.40%) LabVIEW
9 59 (0.39%) JUnit
10 56 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 52 (0.34%) Postman
12 48 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 48 (0.32%) Maven
13 46 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
14 43 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 37 (0.24%) SpecFlow
16 36 (0.24%) Subversion
17 32 (0.21%) JMeter
18 31 (0.20%) Metasploit
19 29 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 7,851 (51.78%) Social Skills
2 4,905 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 3,069 (20.24%) Finance
4 1,623 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,152 (7.60%) Retail
6 1,016 (6.70%) Law
7 989 (6.52%) Marketing
8 874 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
9 854 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
10 713 (4.70%) Manufacturing
11 705 (4.65%) Legal
12 550 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
13 482 (3.18%) Public Sector
14 402 (2.65%) Banking
15 346 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 247 (1.63%) Electronics
17 234 (1.54%) Billing
18 209 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 198 (1.31%) Games
20 187 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,151 (14.19%) Analyst
2 2,139 (14.11%) Senior
3 2,024 (13.35%) Developer
4 1,214 (8.01%) Lead
5 979 (6.46%) Software Engineer
6 877 (5.78%) Architect
7 648 (4.27%) IT Support
8 573 (3.78%) Consultant
9 540 (3.56%) Support Engineer
10 481 (3.17%) Project Manager
11 469 (3.09%) Senior Developer
12 457 (3.01%) IT Engineer
13 417 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 398 (2.62%) Data Engineer
15 339 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
16 336 (2.22%) Data Analyst
17 327 (2.16%) Support Analyst
18 321 (2.12%) Software Developer
19 320 (2.11%) Graduate
20 318 (2.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 981 (6.47%) .NET
2 890 (5.87%) HTML
3 781 (5.15%) CSS
4 650 (4.29%) React
5 409 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 376 (2.48%) Node.js
7 331 (2.18%) RESTful
8 294 (1.94%) REST
9 270 (1.78%) Web Services
10 263 (1.73%) ASP.NET
11 261 (1.72%) Spring
12 250 (1.65%) .NET Framework
13 249 (1.64%) Vue
14 218 (1.44%) .NET Core
15 187 (1.23%) JSON
16 178 (1.17%) GraphQL
17 169 (1.11%) XML
18 168 (1.11%) HTML5
19 163 (1.08%) jQuery
20 154 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,378 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 772 (5.09%) Management Information System
3 511 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 486 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 409 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 400 (2.64%) Driving Licence
7 279 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 274 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 226 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 217 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 194 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 191 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 184 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 170 (1.12%) FMCG
15 167 (1.10%) Cyberattack
16 164 (1.08%) Virtual Team
17 163 (1.08%) IoT
18 121 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
19 119 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
20 114 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,067 (13.63%) Windows
2 1,001 (6.60%) Linux
3 695 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 473 (3.12%) Windows 10
5 249 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 224 (1.48%) Android
7 171 (1.13%) Unix
8 144 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 142 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 138 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
11 127 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
12 100 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 54 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
14 48 (0.32%) Ubuntu
15 42 (0.28%) VMS
16 40 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 38 (0.25%) Kali Linux
18 37 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
19 34 (0.22%) CentOS
19 34 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,264 (21.53%) Agile
2 1,951 (12.87%) Computer Science
3 1,916 (12.64%) Mentoring
4 1,808 (11.92%) Project Management
5 1,801 (11.88%) Customer Service
6 1,791 (11.81%) Software Engineering
7 1,714 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,554 (10.25%) DevOps
9 1,546 (10.20%) Decision-Making
10 1,221 (8.05%) Analytics
11 1,123 (7.41%) Coaching
12 1,054 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
13 1,052 (6.94%) ITIL
14 1,003 (6.62%) CI/CD
15 978 (6.45%) Mathematics
16 947 (6.25%) Data Analysis
17 937 (6.18%) User Experience
18 907 (5.98%) Collaborative Working
19 844 (5.57%) Business Intelligence
20 832 (5.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2,495 (16.46%) SQL
2 1,858 (12.25%) Python
3 1,285 (8.48%) JavaScript
4 1,180 (7.78%) C#
5 1,142 (7.53%) Java
6 481 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 440 (2.90%) C++
8 428 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 406 (2.68%) C
10 348 (2.30%) PHP
11 270 (1.78%) Bash
12 195 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 189 (1.25%) Scala
14 138 (0.91%) R
15 109 (0.72%) MATLAB
16 97 (0.64%) Go
17 91 (0.60%) PL/SQL
18 87 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 86 (0.57%) Perl
20 78 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,328 (28.55%) Degree
2 1,238 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 1,112 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 755 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 503 (3.32%) DBS Check
6 479 (3.16%) Master's Degree
7 399 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 216 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 209 (1.38%) CISSP
10 205 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 173 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 151 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 148 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 147 (0.97%) PMI Certification
15 142 (0.94%) CCNA
16 134 (0.88%) HNC
17 133 (0.88%) PhD
18 131 (0.86%) A+ Certification
19 123 (0.81%) ACCA
20 115 (0.76%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 800 (5.28%) QA
2 604 (3.98%) GDPR
3 524 (3.46%) SLA
4 519 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 276 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 232 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 156 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 150 (0.99%) PMO
9 120 (0.79%) NIST
10 101 (0.67%) ISO 9001
11 97 (0.64%) IFRS
12 81 (0.53%) GAAP
13 70 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 64 (0.42%) WCAG
15 38 (0.25%) NCSC
16 37 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 35 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
18 34 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 33 (0.22%) HIPAA
19 33 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,158 (7.64%) Active Directory
2 645 (4.25%) Docker
3 490 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 314 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 135 (0.89%) Firmware
6 99 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 98 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 43 (0.28%) vSphere
10 32 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 31 (0.20%) KVM
12 30 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 29 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.099%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.079%) NFS
15 12 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
15 12 (0.079%) XenApp
16 7 (0.046%) pfSense
16 7 (0.046%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.040%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 605 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 407 (2.68%) Terraform
3 250 (1.65%) Ansible
4 239 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 184 (1.21%) SCCM
6 103 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 90 (0.59%) vCenter Server
8 83 (0.55%) Grafana
9 81 (0.53%) Puppet
10 51 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 46 (0.30%) SCOM
12 40 (0.26%) WSUS
13 37 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.22%) Functional Safety
15 27 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 27 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
16 26 (0.17%) OpenSSO
17 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
18 23 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
19 22 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3,502 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 825 (5.44%) Google
3 689 (4.54%) VMware
4 510 (3.36%) Oracle
5 407 (2.68%) SAP
6 349 (2.30%) Cisco
7 282 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 260 (1.71%) Databricks
9 161 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 143 (0.94%) Apple
11 141 (0.93%) Adobe
11 141 (0.93%) IBM
12 132 (0.87%) Veeam
13 113 (0.75%) Citrix
14 111 (0.73%) Palo Alto
15 110 (0.73%) HP
16 109 (0.72%) CA
17 107 (0.71%) Dell
18 105 (0.69%) Red Hat
19 101 (0.67%) Meraki