Problem-Solving Jobs in the East Midlands

Problem Solving
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 631 347 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.08% 12.49% 17.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.66% 13.00% 18.68%
Number of salaries quoted 442 173 308
10th Percentile £24,775 £26,050 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £28,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £53,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £62,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,787 2,669 3,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.47% 96.08% 91.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,625 1,216 2,019
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,200
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,375 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +10.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,200 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Nottinghamshire +7 187 £45,000 -21.74% 79
Leicestershire +9 162 £36,500 -8.75% 81
Derbyshire +15 123 £37,500 -6.25% 64
Northamptonshire +7 105 £42,500 -7.10% 89
Lincolnshire -11 52 £37,500 -30.56% 44
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 29 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.22%) IIS
4 10 (1.58%) WordPress
5 8 (1.27%) Apache
6 5 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
9 1 (0.16%) TYPO3
9 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 50 (7.92%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.63%) Sketch
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.16%) InDesign
7 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 8 (1.27%) Misys Midas
2 7 (1.11%) Shopify
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.63%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.48%) iTrent
5 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) Primavera
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (20.92%) Azure
2 86 (13.63%) AWS
3 73 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (4.12%) GCP
5 21 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 21 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.01%) SaaS
7 15 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.90%) WhatsApp
9 10 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.43%) Figma
11 8 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.27%) Cloudflare
11 8 (1.27%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.95%) Google Sheets
14 5 (0.79%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.79%) GitHub
15 4 (0.63%) Heroku
15 4 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.29%) Firewall
2 34 (5.39%) DNS
3 27 (4.28%) VPN
4 24 (3.80%) DHCP
5 23 (3.65%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.69%) Network Security
7 16 (2.54%) SAN
8 12 (1.90%) Internet
8 12 (1.90%) WAN
8 12 (1.90%) Wireless
9 11 (1.74%) LAN
10 8 (1.27%) Broadband
11 6 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
12 5 (0.79%) IPsec
12 5 (0.79%) SNMP
13 4 (0.63%) NAS
13 4 (0.63%) NetScaler
13 4 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 28 (4.44%) Tableau
3 26 (4.12%) BigQuery
3 26 (4.12%) Looker
4 22 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (2.85%) Power BI
6 17 (2.69%) MySQL
7 16 (2.54%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.43%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
14 5 (0.79%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 32 (5.07%) Git
2 10 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (0.95%) JIRA
4 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.48%) Appium
5 3 (0.48%) Gatling
5 3 (0.48%) GitLab
5 3 (0.48%) gulp
5 3 (0.48%) JBehave
5 3 (0.48%) JMeter
5 3 (0.48%) JUnit
5 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.32%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 308 (48.81%) Social Skills
2 232 (36.77%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (13.63%) Retail
4 75 (11.89%) Finance
5 48 (7.61%) Manufacturing
6 46 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
7 37 (5.86%) Marketing
8 28 (4.44%) Law
9 26 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.54%) Automotive
12 12 (1.90%) Games
13 10 (1.58%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.58%) Billing
13 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.43%) Legal
14 9 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.27%) Electronics
15 8 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 85 (13.47%) Analyst
2 63 (9.98%) Support Engineer
3 61 (9.67%) Lead
4 53 (8.40%) Developer
5 48 (7.61%) Senior
6 41 (6.50%) IT Support
7 34 (5.39%) Applications Support
7 34 (5.39%) Architect
7 34 (5.39%) IT Engineer
8 28 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
8 28 (4.44%) Applications Support Engineer
9 27 (4.28%) Data Analyst
9 27 (4.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (3.65%) Consultant
11 22 (3.49%) IT Manager
12 19 (3.01%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (2.69%) IT Technician
13 17 (2.69%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.02%) .NET
2 29 (4.60%) HTML
3 23 (3.65%) React
4 15 (2.38%) CSS
4 15 (2.38%) REST
5 13 (2.06%) AngularJS
5 13 (2.06%) Laravel
6 12 (1.90%) ASP.NET
6 12 (1.90%) Node.js
7 9 (1.43%) ATL
7 9 (1.43%) HTML5
7 9 (1.43%) jQuery
7 9 (1.43%) Web Services
8 8 (1.27%) CSS3
9 7 (1.11%) Vue
10 6 (0.95%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (0.95%) Express.js
10 6 (0.95%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (0.95%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.98%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (5.55%) Driving Licence
3 24 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.38%) CCTV
5 15 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.74%) Clustering
9 10 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.11%) FMCG
11 6 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (0.79%) Cyberattack
12 5 (0.79%) Virtual Reality
13 4 (0.63%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.63%) PKI
13 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (18.70%) Windows
2 69 (10.94%) Windows Server
3 47 (7.45%) Linux
4 10 (1.58%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.27%) Android
5 8 (1.27%) Unix
5 8 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.95%) CentOS
6 6 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (0.79%) SUSE
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) AIX
9 2 (0.32%) VMS
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (14.90%) Customer Service
2 86 (13.63%) Agile
2 86 (13.63%) Project Management
3 67 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 65 (10.30%) DevOps
5 60 (9.51%) Mentoring
6 54 (8.56%) Analytics
7 51 (8.08%) Mathematics
8 50 (7.92%) ERP
9 49 (7.77%) Data Analysis
10 46 (7.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 45 (7.13%) Computer Science
12 44 (6.97%) Actionable Insight
12 44 (6.97%) Service Management
13 43 (6.81%) ITIL
14 42 (6.66%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (6.02%) Migration
16 36 (5.71%) Business Strategy
16 36 (5.71%) Data Modelling
17 35 (5.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 131 (20.76%) SQL
2 60 (9.51%) Python
3 49 (7.77%) C#
4 37 (5.86%) JavaScript
5 25 (3.96%) PHP
6 20 (3.17%) Java
7 15 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 15 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.90%) C++
9 11 (1.74%) C
10 9 (1.43%) Bash
11 8 (1.27%) Rust
12 5 (0.79%) Bicep
12 5 (0.79%) Ruby
13 4 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.48%) VB
15 2 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 127 (20.13%) Degree
2 34 (5.39%) DBS Check
3 30 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.80%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.85%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.90%) CISSP
7 12 (1.90%) HNC
8 11 (1.74%) CISM
9 8 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.11%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.11%) ISEB
10 7 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.95%) MCP
12 5 (0.79%) CCNA
12 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.79%) OCA
12 5 (0.79%) OCP
12 5 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.02%) QA
2 34 (5.39%) GDPR
3 30 (4.75%) SLA
4 13 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.11%) PMO
6 6 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.63%) WCAG
8 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 76 (12.04%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.96%) Hyper-V
3 23 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.06%) Docker
5 5 (0.79%) Firmware
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.32%) pfSense
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Clustering
4 6 (0.95%) Ansible
4 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.79%) Data Guard
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.79%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.79%) WSUS
6 4 (0.63%) SCOM
7 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.16%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.16%) Grafana
8 1 (0.16%) Puppet
8 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 146 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.34%) Google
3 29 (4.60%) VMware
4 21 (3.33%) Databricks
5 20 (3.17%) SAP
5 20 (3.17%) Veeam
6 15 (2.38%) Oracle
7 14 (2.22%) Cisco
8 12 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.27%) Acronis
10 8 (1.27%) Meraki
11 7 (1.11%) Minitab
11 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.95%) Dell
12 6 (0.95%) JDA
12 6 (0.95%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.79%) Citrix
13 5 (0.79%) NetApp
13 5 (0.79%) SolidFire