Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 11,047 7,943 10,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.82% 13.69% 14.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.99% 14.33% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,952 3,628 5,271
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £34,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,416 55,447 69,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.37% 95.57% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,187 28,710 41,237
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +4 2,936 £45,000 -14.29% 950
North of England +8 2,503 £45,000 - 1,104
Midlands +4 1,809 £40,000 -15.79% 858
South West +7 1,375 £47,500 -5.00% 556
North West +10 1,305 £45,000 -5.26% 596
West Midlands +3 1,155 £42,500 -12.51% 516
East of England +6 1,037 £42,500 -11.46% 503
Scotland -8 919 £45,000 -10.00% 283
Yorkshire +4 910 £42,560 -1.02% 376
East Midlands +8 631 £37,500 -16.67% 345
Wales +5 317 £42,000 +5.00% 107
North East +18 287 £41,500 -2.35% 153
Northern Ireland +15 139 £46,250 -22.92% 50
Isle of Man +3 19 £37,000 +23.33% 6
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 371 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 339 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 190 (1.72%) Apache
4 169 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 113 (1.02%) CMS
6 106 (0.96%) WordPress
7 105 (0.95%) IIS
8 80 (0.72%) Confluence
9 36 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 31 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 30 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 25 (0.23%) nginx
13 20 (0.18%) SAS
14 18 (0.16%) FileNet
15 17 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 17 (0.15%) OpenEdge
16 14 (0.13%) ArcGIS
17 11 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
17 11 (0.100%) Jupyter
18 10 (0.091%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,000 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
2 696 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 255 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
6 59 (0.53%) Sketch
7 52 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 43 (0.39%) Simulink
10 23 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 23 (0.21%) Trello
11 21 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
13 18 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
14 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
15 14 (0.13%) InDesign
16 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
17 10 (0.091%) Revit
18 8 (0.072%) GNU Octave
18 8 (0.072%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 116 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.45%) Shopify
3 41 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
4 40 (0.36%) Magento
5 37 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 28 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 18 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 17 (0.15%) iTrent
10 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.100%) Endur
12 11 (0.100%) SAP Business One
12 11 (0.100%) Unit4 Business World
13 10 (0.091%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.081%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.081%) SAP MM
15 8 (0.072%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,821 (16.48%) Azure
2 1,288 (11.66%) AWS
3 1,137 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
4 541 (4.90%) GCP
5 527 (4.77%) Power Platform
6 340 (3.08%) SaaS
7 266 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 209 (1.89%) Entra ID
9 198 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 184 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 167 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 150 (1.36%) GitHub
13 142 (1.29%) Serverless
14 112 (1.01%) Power Automate
15 94 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
16 93 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 76 (0.69%) Figma
18 69 (0.62%) OneDrive
19 64 (0.58%) Miro
19 64 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 647 (5.86%) Firewall
2 323 (2.92%) DNS
3 306 (2.77%) WAN
4 253 (2.29%) DHCP
5 245 (2.22%) LAN
6 235 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 223 (2.02%) VPN
8 214 (1.94%) Wireless
9 184 (1.67%) Network Security
10 156 (1.41%) Internet
11 135 (1.22%) VoIP
12 129 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
13 123 (1.11%) SAN
14 101 (0.91%) VLAN
15 75 (0.68%) 5G
16 61 (0.55%) IPsec
17 60 (0.54%) SD-WAN
18 56 (0.51%) Ethernet
19 55 (0.50%) Broadband
19 55 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 450 (4.07%) Power BI
3 342 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 341 (3.09%) Looker
5 340 (3.08%) MySQL
6 339 (3.07%) BigQuery
7 254 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 216 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 184 (1.67%) Big Data
10 180 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 173 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
12 171 (1.55%) Tableau
13 164 (1.48%) MongoDB
14 91 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
15 85 (0.77%) Redis
16 84 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 80 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 79 (0.72%) Hadoop
19 74 (0.67%) Data Lake
20 56 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 541 (4.90%) Git
2 367 (3.32%) JIRA
3 226 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 104 (0.94%) GitLab
5 90 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 57 (0.52%) LabVIEW
7 54 (0.49%) Selenium
8 53 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
10 42 (0.38%) Maven
11 38 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 38 (0.34%) JUnit
12 35 (0.32%) Postman
13 32 (0.29%) Subversion
14 30 (0.27%) JMeter
15 24 (0.22%) Cypress.io
16 23 (0.21%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
17 22 (0.20%) Ant
18 21 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,516 (49.93%) Social Skills
2 3,425 (31.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2,040 (18.47%) Finance
4 1,182 (10.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 831 (7.52%) Retail
6 802 (7.26%) Law
7 691 (6.26%) Marketing
8 690 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 580 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 479 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
11 451 (4.08%) Legal
12 394 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
13 334 (3.02%) Public Sector
14 279 (2.53%) Banking
15 257 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 227 (2.05%) Electronics
17 194 (1.76%) Aerospace
18 165 (1.49%) Investment Banking
19 159 (1.44%) Automotive
20 152 (1.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,596 (14.45%) Analyst
2 1,417 (12.83%) Senior
3 1,408 (12.75%) Developer
4 832 (7.53%) Lead
5 813 (7.36%) Software Engineer
6 559 (5.06%) IT Support
7 556 (5.03%) Architect
8 431 (3.90%) Support Engineer
9 425 (3.85%) Consultant
10 375 (3.39%) Project Manager
11 361 (3.27%) IT Engineer
12 333 (3.01%) Business Analyst
13 313 (2.83%) Senior Developer
14 312 (2.82%) Data Engineer
15 284 (2.57%) IT Technician
16 279 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
17 268 (2.43%) Software Developer
18 261 (2.36%) Administrator
19 258 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 257 (2.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (6.54%) .NET
2 640 (5.79%) HTML
3 564 (5.11%) CSS
4 470 (4.25%) React
5 336 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 265 (2.40%) Node.js
7 207 (1.87%) Spring
8 200 (1.81%) REST
9 197 (1.78%) Vue
10 189 (1.71%) .NET Framework
11 178 (1.61%) ASP.NET
12 174 (1.58%) .NET Core
12 174 (1.58%) RESTful
13 144 (1.30%) Web Services
14 137 (1.24%) HTML5
15 135 (1.22%) jQuery
16 129 (1.17%) JSON
17 120 (1.09%) XML
18 112 (1.01%) Laravel
18 112 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,031 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
2 554 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 397 (3.59%) Algorithms
4 367 (3.32%) Driving Licence
5 336 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 244 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 232 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 168 (1.52%) Cloud Native
9 160 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 154 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 149 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 142 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 136 (1.23%) IoT
14 112 (1.01%) FMCG
15 107 (0.97%) NHS
16 101 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 98 (0.89%) Public Cloud
18 90 (0.81%) Clustering
19 82 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
20 78 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,697 (15.36%) Windows
2 757 (6.85%) Linux
3 561 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 386 (3.49%) Windows 10
5 184 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 167 (1.51%) Android
7 131 (1.19%) Unix
8 114 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 113 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 106 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 103 (0.93%) Mac OS
12 94 (0.85%) Windows 7
13 49 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
14 40 (0.36%) Ubuntu
15 38 (0.34%) VMS
16 33 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
17 32 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 29 (0.26%) CentOS
19 27 (0.24%) AIX
20 25 (0.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,190 (19.82%) Agile
2 1,538 (13.92%) Customer Service
3 1,360 (12.31%) Project Management
4 1,352 (12.24%) Mentoring
5 1,311 (11.87%) Computer Science
6 1,280 (11.59%) Software Engineering
7 1,248 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,175 (10.64%) Decision-Making
9 1,093 (9.89%) DevOps
10 896 (8.11%) Coaching
11 862 (7.80%) ITIL
12 801 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
13 750 (6.79%) Analytics
14 726 (6.57%) Mathematics
15 678 (6.14%) Collaborative Working
16 676 (6.12%) SDLC
17 664 (6.01%) CI/CD
18 642 (5.81%) Change Management
19 631 (5.71%) Data Analysis
20 600 (5.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,673 (15.14%) SQL
2 1,096 (9.92%) Python
3 929 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 889 (8.05%) C#
5 843 (7.63%) Java
6 368 (3.33%) C++
7 361 (3.27%) C
8 331 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 294 (2.66%) PHP
10 292 (2.64%) TypeScript
11 199 (1.80%) Bash
12 142 (1.29%) Scala
13 105 (0.95%) T-SQL
14 91 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 68 (0.62%) VB
16 67 (0.61%) Perl
16 67 (0.61%) R
17 64 (0.58%) Shell Script
18 63 (0.57%) PL/SQL
19 55 (0.50%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 3,004 (27.19%) Degree
2 1,014 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 683 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 633 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 320 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 312 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 271 (2.45%) DBS Check
8 168 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 162 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 119 (1.08%) HNC
11 117 (1.06%) CCNA
12 116 (1.05%) A+ Certification
13 107 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 104 (0.94%) PhD
15 103 (0.93%) CISSP
16 101 (0.91%) PMI Certification
17 95 (0.86%) HND
18 93 (0.84%) Azure Certification
19 79 (0.72%) MCSE
20 76 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 580 (5.25%) QA
2 482 (4.36%) GDPR
3 436 (3.95%) SLA
4 373 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 166 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 142 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.23%) PMO
8 120 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 86 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 66 (0.60%) NIST
11 51 (0.46%) WCAG
12 43 (0.39%) IFRS
13 37 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 33 (0.30%) GAAP
15 27 (0.24%) NCSC
16 24 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 22 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
17 22 (0.20%) ISO 13485
18 20 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
18 20 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 913 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 398 (3.60%) Docker
3 397 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 291 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 130 (1.18%) Firmware
6 80 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 67 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.34%) vSphere
9 34 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 25 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
11 24 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.16%) KVM
13 14 (0.13%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.100%) NFS
14 11 (0.100%) XenApp
15 7 (0.063%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.054%) pfSense
17 5 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 380 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 226 (2.05%) Terraform
3 192 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 181 (1.64%) Ansible
5 161 (1.46%) SCCM
6 67 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 54 (0.49%) Puppet
8 48 (0.43%) SCOM
9 36 (0.33%) WSUS
10 29 (0.26%) Grafana
10 29 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (0.24%) OpenSSO
12 24 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
12 24 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 23 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 22 (0.20%) EnCase
14 22 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
14 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,650 (23.99%) Microsoft
2 609 (5.51%) Google
3 560 (5.07%) VMware
4 375 (3.39%) Oracle
5 290 (2.63%) SAP
6 270 (2.44%) Cisco
7 176 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 122 (1.10%) Veeam
9 112 (1.01%) Databricks
10 109 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 108 (0.98%) Apple
12 103 (0.93%) IBM
13 96 (0.87%) Citrix
14 93 (0.84%) HP
15 89 (0.81%) Adobe
15 89 (0.81%) Dell
15 89 (0.81%) Palo Alto
16 77 (0.70%) Meraki
16 77 (0.70%) Red Hat
17 74 (0.67%) NetApp