Problem-Solving Jobs in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 6 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 -9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 287 126 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 14.49% 9.97% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.94% 10.26% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 245 72 89
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £24,960 £32,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £48,781 £56,994
90th Percentile £75,000 £58,400 £76,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,228 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 85.51% 97.15% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,377 594 958
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £25,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,711 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +12.26% -5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North 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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +8 208 £41,774 -1.71% 94
Durham +20 63 £43,072 +23.06% 29
Northumberland +5 12 £24,500 -14.78% 6
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 10 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) IIS
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (9.06%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.05%) SAP Business One
2 3 (1.05%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (24.74%) Azure
2 60 (20.91%) AWS
3 50 (17.42%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (9.06%) GCP
5 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (5.23%) Serverless
7 14 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.83%) GitHub
9 8 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.79%) OCI
10 6 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.74%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.74%) SaaS
12 4 (1.39%) dbt
12 4 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.27%) Firewall
2 14 (4.88%) LAN
3 13 (4.53%) WAN
4 8 (2.79%) Network Security
4 8 (2.79%) VPN
4 8 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.44%) VoIP
6 5 (1.74%) SAN
6 5 (1.74%) VLAN
7 4 (1.39%) DHCP
7 4 (1.39%) DNS
8 3 (1.05%) 4G
8 3 (1.05%) 5G
8 3 (1.05%) MQTT
8 3 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.45%) MySQL
2 24 (8.36%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.67%) BigQuery
4 18 (6.27%) Looker
5 16 (5.57%) Power BI
6 14 (4.88%) Redis
7 13 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.79%) Oracle Database
11 6 (2.09%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.09%) Tableau
12 5 (1.74%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.39%) Big Data
13 4 (1.39%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
16 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (3.83%) TeamCity
2 10 (3.48%) Git
3 5 (1.74%) Sourcetree
4 3 (1.05%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 142 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 84 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.03%) Retail
4 38 (13.24%) Finance
5 22 (7.67%) Games
6 18 (6.27%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.92%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.53%) Law
8 13 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Police
12 3 (1.05%) Banking
12 3 (1.05%) Legal
12 3 (1.05%) Marketing
12 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (16.03%) Analyst
2 36 (12.54%) Senior
3 33 (11.50%) Developer
4 31 (10.80%) Lead
5 20 (6.97%) Administrator
5 20 (6.97%) DBA
6 19 (6.62%) Support Engineer
7 18 (6.27%) Data Analyst
7 18 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Architect
9 16 (5.57%) Consultant
10 15 (5.23%) Service Analyst
11 14 (4.88%) Service Desk Analyst
12 11 (3.83%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 10 (3.48%) 2nd Line Support
13 10 (3.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 10 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.48%) Trainee
14 9 (3.14%) Data Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.06%) .NET
2 19 (6.62%) .NET Core
2 19 (6.62%) ASP.NET
3 18 (6.27%) Node.js
4 16 (5.57%) CSS
5 15 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
5 15 (5.23%) HTML
5 15 (5.23%) Vue
6 13 (4.53%) RESTful
7 10 (3.48%) jQuery
8 6 (2.09%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (1.74%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.74%) Ajax
9 5 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.74%) Flask
9 5 (1.74%) Jinja
9 5 (1.74%) REST
9 5 (1.74%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (1.39%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (7.67%) Client/Server
2 22 (7.67%) Online Games
3 13 (4.53%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.18%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.18%) IoT
5 8 (2.79%) Clustering
5 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.74%) NHS
8 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.05%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Housing Association
9 3 (1.05%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.33%) Windows
2 27 (9.41%) Windows 10
3 17 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.83%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.09%) Linux
5 6 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (15.68%) Customer Service
2 42 (14.63%) Computer Science
3 40 (13.94%) Data Management
4 39 (13.59%) Mentoring
4 39 (13.59%) Service Delivery
5 36 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (9.76%) Agile
7 26 (9.06%) ITIL
8 25 (8.71%) Coaching
8 25 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
8 25 (8.71%) DevOps
9 24 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (8.36%) Data Engineering
9 24 (8.36%) Project Management
10 22 (7.67%) Data Modelling
10 22 (7.67%) ETL
11 21 (7.32%) Data Architecture
12 19 (6.62%) Analytics
12 19 (6.62%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (6.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (20.91%) SQL
2 36 (12.54%) C#
3 30 (10.45%) JavaScript
3 30 (10.45%) Python
4 23 (8.01%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.62%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.79%) Bash
6 8 (2.79%) Java
6 8 (2.79%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.39%) Ruby
7 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.70%) C
8 2 (0.70%) C++
8 2 (0.70%) PHP
8 2 (0.70%) Scala
8 2 (0.70%) VB
9 1 (0.35%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) Groovy
9 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 79 (27.53%) Degree
2 15 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.79%) OCP
5 8 (2.79%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (2.09%) CISA
6 6 (2.09%) CISMP
6 6 (2.09%) CISSP
6 6 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.09%) GIAC
6 6 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.09%) SANS
7 5 (1.74%) MCSE
7 5 (1.74%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.39%) CCNA
8 4 (1.39%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.39%) PMP
8 4 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (17.07%) SLA
2 30 (10.45%) Data Quality
3 20 (6.97%) GDPR
4 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.39%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.05%) NCSC
6 3 (1.05%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 31 (10.80%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.67%) Docker
3 14 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (7.32%) Terraform
2 20 (6.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.48%) Kubernetes
4 8 (2.79%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.74%) Autotask
5 5 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.74%) SCCM
6 4 (1.39%) Cacti
7 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.70%) Grafana
8 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.35%) Ansible
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.36%) Google
3 21 (7.32%) Oracle
4 18 (6.27%) VMware
5 15 (5.23%) Cisco
6 9 (3.14%) SAP
7 6 (2.09%) Apple
7 6 (2.09%) Sage
8 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.74%) Sophos
9 4 (1.39%) Datto
9 4 (1.39%) Juniper
9 4 (1.39%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.05%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.05%) BMC
10 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.05%) Epicor
10 3 (1.05%) Meraki
10 3 (1.05%) Splunk
10 3 (1.05%) Workday