Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 13,080 11,244 20,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.62% 13.02% 14.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.39% 13.62% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,516 5,847 8,769
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,650 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75,196 82,567 133,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.05% 95.58% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,702 49,145 73,289
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the England 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
London +2 3,300 £70,000 - 1,679
South East +4 2,936 £45,000 -14.29% 969
North of England +8 2,503 £45,000 - 1,126
Midlands +4 1,809 £40,000 -15.79% 869
South West +7 1,375 £47,500 -5.00% 566
North West +10 1,305 £45,000 -5.26% 617
West Midlands +3 1,155 £42,500 -12.51% 522
East of England +6 1,037 £42,500 -11.46% 511
Yorkshire +4 910 £42,560 -1.02% 379
East Midlands +8 631 £37,500 -16.67% 350
North East +18 287 £41,500 -2.35% 151
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 447 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 399 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 145 (1.11%) CMS
4 140 (1.07%) Apache
5 129 (0.99%) Confluence
6 106 (0.81%) WordPress
7 104 (0.80%) IIS
8 55 (0.42%) SAS
9 46 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 31 (0.24%) Umbraco
13 26 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 22 (0.17%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 15 (0.11%) ArcGIS
18 13 (0.099%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2013
20 10 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1,207 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
2 909 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 284 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 66 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 57 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.37%) Sketch
8 46 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 45 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 43 (0.33%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe XD
14 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
15 17 (0.13%) InDesign
16 13 (0.099%) SPSS
17 12 (0.092%) Chatbot
18 10 (0.076%) Revit
19 8 (0.061%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 127 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.41%) Shopify
3 52 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 43 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 41 (0.31%) Magento
5 41 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
6 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 18 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 18 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
9 17 (0.13%) iTrent
10 15 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.099%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.099%) SAP Business One
11 13 (0.099%) Unit4 Business World
12 11 (0.084%) Sage 50
12 11 (0.084%) SAP CX
12 11 (0.084%) Teamcenter
13 10 (0.076%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2,236 (17.09%) Azure
2 1,661 (12.70%) AWS
3 1,312 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
4 683 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 663 (5.07%) GCP
6 455 (3.48%) SaaS
7 348 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 276 (2.11%) Serverless
9 268 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 205 (1.57%) GitHub
11 204 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 192 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
13 182 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
14 170 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 149 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 146 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 112 (0.86%) Snowflake
18 105 (0.80%) IaaS
19 97 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
20 89 (0.68%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 761 (5.82%) Firewall
2 404 (3.09%) DNS
3 341 (2.61%) WAN
4 296 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 295 (2.26%) LAN
6 278 (2.13%) DHCP
7 242 (1.85%) Wireless
8 232 (1.77%) Network Security
9 228 (1.74%) VPN
10 188 (1.44%) Internet
11 181 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
12 141 (1.08%) VoIP
13 116 (0.89%) SAN
14 104 (0.80%) VLAN
15 77 (0.59%) 5G
15 77 (0.59%) SD-WAN
16 70 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
17 68 (0.52%) Broadband
18 55 (0.42%) SNMP
19 52 (0.40%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 805 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 566 (4.33%) Power BI
3 415 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 403 (3.08%) MySQL
5 377 (2.88%) Tableau
6 349 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 343 (2.62%) Looker
8 262 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 227 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 202 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 177 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 153 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 151 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
14 112 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 110 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 102 (0.78%) Redis
17 98 (0.75%) DynamoDB
18 89 (0.68%) Big Data
19 87 (0.67%) Data Lake
20 72 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 796 (6.09%) Git
2 457 (3.49%) JIRA
3 279 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 183 (1.40%) GitLab
5 111 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 74 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 57 (0.44%) Selenium
8 54 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 44 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
10 42 (0.32%) LabVIEW
11 39 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 39 (0.30%) Postman
12 37 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 36 (0.28%) Subversion
14 34 (0.26%) SpecFlow
15 32 (0.24%) JUnit
16 31 (0.24%) Metasploit
17 28 (0.21%) Burp Suite
18 27 (0.21%) Eclipse
18 27 (0.21%) Sourcetree
General
1 6,960 (53.21%) Social Skills
2 4,449 (34.01%) Analytical Skills
3 2,415 (18.46%) Finance
4 1,082 (8.27%) Retail
5 986 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 805 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 717 (5.48%) Marketing
8 700 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
9 575 (4.40%) Legal
10 523 (4.00%) Law
11 520 (3.98%) Manufacturing
12 416 (3.18%) Public Sector
13 377 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
14 322 (2.46%) Banking
15 298 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 217 (1.66%) Billing
17 204 (1.56%) Aerospace
18 198 (1.51%) Electronics
19 180 (1.38%) Automotive
20 173 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,966 (15.03%) Analyst
2 1,710 (13.07%) Senior
3 1,694 (12.95%) Developer
4 946 (7.23%) Lead
5 719 (5.50%) Architect
6 585 (4.47%) IT Support
7 568 (4.34%) Software Engineer
8 505 (3.86%) Consultant
9 497 (3.80%) Support Engineer
10 438 (3.35%) Project Manager
11 369 (2.82%) Data Engineer
12 361 (2.76%) Business Analyst
13 354 (2.71%) Senior Developer
14 325 (2.48%) Data Analyst
15 319 (2.44%) IT Engineer
16 297 (2.27%) Support Analyst
17 289 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 283 (2.16%) IT Technician
19 271 (2.07%) Administrator
20 270 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 839 (6.41%) .NET
2 749 (5.73%) HTML
3 655 (5.01%) CSS
4 500 (3.82%) React
5 309 (2.36%) AngularJS
6 292 (2.23%) Node.js
7 271 (2.07%) RESTful
8 234 (1.79%) REST
9 222 (1.70%) Vue
10 219 (1.67%) ASP.NET
11 213 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 204 (1.56%) Web Services
13 192 (1.47%) .NET Core
14 155 (1.19%) XML
15 149 (1.14%) JSON
16 147 (1.12%) HTML5
17 144 (1.10%) Spring
18 130 (0.99%) jQuery
19 120 (0.92%) Laravel
20 119 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1,243 (9.50%) Self-Motivation
2 699 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 442 (3.38%) Algorithms
4 415 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 369 (2.82%) Driving Licence
6 313 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 251 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 227 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 196 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 186 (1.42%) Client/Server
11 176 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 153 (1.17%) IoT
13 144 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 139 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 123 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 111 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
17 108 (0.83%) Life Science
18 106 (0.81%) NHS
19 104 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
20 87 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,917 (14.66%) Windows
2 884 (6.76%) Linux
3 642 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 456 (3.49%) Windows 10
5 213 (1.63%) Apple iOS
6 191 (1.46%) Android
7 141 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 137 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 135 (1.03%) Unix
10 132 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 126 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
12 95 (0.73%) Windows 7
13 42 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 42 (0.32%) VMS
14 37 (0.28%) Kali Linux
14 37 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 35 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
17 33 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
18 27 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,505 (19.15%) Agile
2 1,702 (13.01%) Computer Science
3 1,678 (12.83%) Customer Service
4 1,632 (12.48%) Mentoring
5 1,612 (12.32%) Project Management
6 1,357 (10.37%) DevOps
7 1,342 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,267 (9.69%) Decision-Making
9 1,190 (9.10%) Software Engineering
10 1,077 (8.23%) Analytics
11 1,039 (7.94%) Coaching
12 974 (7.45%) ITIL
13 969 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
14 888 (6.79%) Mathematics
15 860 (6.57%) Data Analysis
16 796 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
17 750 (5.73%) CI/CD
18 729 (5.57%) Roadmaps
19 722 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
20 694 (5.31%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2,039 (15.59%) SQL
2 1,559 (11.92%) Python
3 1,104 (8.44%) JavaScript
4 973 (7.44%) C#
5 750 (5.73%) Java
6 446 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 388 (2.97%) C++
8 338 (2.58%) C
9 332 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 303 (2.32%) PHP
11 249 (1.90%) Bash
12 156 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 131 (1.00%) R
14 110 (0.84%) MATLAB
15 86 (0.66%) Perl
16 82 (0.63%) Ruby
17 72 (0.55%) PL/SQL
18 71 (0.54%) VB
19 69 (0.53%) Scala
20 67 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,820 (29.20%) Degree
2 1,054 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 995 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 609 (4.66%) SC Cleared
5 479 (3.66%) DBS Check
6 430 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 371 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 195 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 195 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 193 (1.48%) CISSP
10 158 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 133 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 131 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 128 (0.98%) CCNA
14 127 (0.97%) HNC
15 122 (0.93%) A+ Certification
16 120 (0.92%) PhD
17 116 (0.89%) ACCA
18 106 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
19 96 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 701 (5.36%) QA
2 552 (4.22%) GDPR
3 506 (3.87%) SLA
4 463 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 243 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 167 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 146 (1.12%) PMO
8 139 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 106 (0.81%) NIST
10 98 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 96 (0.73%) IFRS
12 81 (0.62%) GAAP
13 65 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 39 (0.30%) WCAG
15 37 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 35 (0.27%) NCSC
17 34 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
18 32 (0.24%) HIPAA
19 30 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
20 29 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,069 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 551 (4.21%) Docker
3 440 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 304 (2.32%) Hyper-V
5 108 (0.83%) Firmware
6 97 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 96 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 47 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 38 (0.29%) vSphere
10 31 (0.24%) KVM
11 28 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
13 20 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.11%) Terminal Services
15 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
16 12 (0.092%) NFS
16 12 (0.092%) XenApp
17 7 (0.054%) pfSense
17 7 (0.054%) XenDesktop
18 6 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 480 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 326 (2.49%) Terraform
3 222 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 198 (1.51%) Ansible
5 173 (1.32%) SCCM
6 81 (0.62%) Puppet
7 80 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 73 (0.56%) Grafana
9 71 (0.54%) vCenter Server
10 48 (0.37%) SCOM
11 47 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 39 (0.30%) WSUS
13 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
14 31 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 28 (0.21%) FortiGate
16 25 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
17 24 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
18 22 (0.17%) EnCase
18 22 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
18 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,174 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 726 (5.55%) Google
3 629 (4.81%) VMware
4 440 (3.36%) Oracle
5 367 (2.81%) SAP
6 318 (2.43%) Cisco
7 269 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 203 (1.55%) Databricks
9 145 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 138 (1.06%) Apple
11 131 (1.00%) Adobe
12 130 (0.99%) IBM
13 121 (0.93%) Veeam
14 106 (0.81%) CA
15 104 (0.80%) Citrix
16 101 (0.77%) HP
17 98 (0.75%) Juniper
18 96 (0.73%) Meraki
19 87 (0.67%) Palo Alto
20 84 (0.64%) Dell