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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 14,808 13,043 23,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.93% 13.08% 14.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.46% 13.68% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9,421 6,631 9,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% +2.78%

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 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 15 May 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 15 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
England +7 12,944 £50,000 -9.09% 5,486
UK excluding London +7 10,945 £45,000 -10.00% 4,172
Work from Home +5 4,769 £54,000 -10.00% 2,016
London +3 3,264 £70,000 - 1,547
South East +5 2,896 £45,000 -14.29% 983
North of England +9 2,460 £45,000 - 1,072
Midlands +5 1,811 £42,000 -11.58% 828
South West +7 1,358 £47,500 -5.00% 535
North West +13 1,294 £45,000 -5.26% 593
West Midlands +6 1,150 £42,500 -15.00% 502
East of England +6 1,027 £42,500 -10.53% 508
Scotland -7 927 £45,000 -10.89% 259
Yorkshire +4 911 £42,810 -2.70% 359
East Midlands +4 638 £37,500 -16.67% 327
Wales +4 313 £41,600 +7.37% 123
North East +14 254 £45,000 +5.88% 133
Northern Ireland +19 138 £47,500 -11.63% 47
Isle of Man +2 20 £45,000 +50.00% 4

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
1 496 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 429 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 226 (1.53%) Apache
4 217 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 172 (1.16%) Confluence
6 149 (1.01%) CMS
7 131 (0.88%) IIS
8 121 (0.82%) WordPress
9 57 (0.38%) SAS
10 41 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 31 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
13 30 (0.20%) nginx
14 28 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 25 (0.17%) OpenEdge
16 19 (0.13%) Drupal
17 18 (0.12%) FileNet
17 18 (0.12%) JBoss
18 17 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
19 15 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,300 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 982 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 330 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 71 (0.48%) Sketch
6 68 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 60 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 44 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 39 (0.26%) Simulink
11 29 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 29 (0.20%) Trello
12 23 (0.16%) Adobe XD
13 22 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
14 18 (0.12%) InDesign
14 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.10%) SPSS
16 12 (0.081%) Chatbot
17 10 (0.068%) InVision
17 10 (0.068%) Revit
Business Applications
1 137 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.36%) Shopify
4 51 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 41 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
6 40 (0.27%) Magento
7 22 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 20 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 19 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 18 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
11 17 (0.11%) iTrent
12 16 (0.11%) Endur
13 15 (0.10%) SDL Web 8
14 14 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
14 14 (0.095%) Teamcenter
15 13 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
15 13 (0.088%) SAP Business One
15 13 (0.088%) SAP CX
15 13 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
16 11 (0.074%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (17.35%) Azure
2 2,018 (13.63%) AWS
3 1,457 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
4 779 (5.26%) GCP
5 777 (5.25%) Power Platform
6 531 (3.59%) SaaS
7 390 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 319 (2.15%) Serverless
9 305 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 287 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
11 264 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
12 242 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 215 (1.45%) GitHub
14 190 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
15 185 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 184 (1.24%) PowerApps
17 118 (0.80%) Snowflake
18 116 (0.78%) IaaS
19 103 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (0.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 834 (5.63%) Firewall
2 443 (2.99%) DNS
3 387 (2.61%) WAN
4 323 (2.18%) LAN
5 310 (2.09%) DHCP
6 308 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 275 (1.86%) VPN
8 268 (1.81%) Network Security
9 258 (1.74%) Wireless
10 224 (1.51%) Internet
11 195 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 154 (1.04%) VoIP
13 131 (0.88%) SAN
14 125 (0.84%) VLAN
15 86 (0.58%) SD-WAN
16 79 (0.53%) 5G
17 78 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 76 (0.51%) SNMP
19 74 (0.50%) Broadband
20 70 (0.47%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 908 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 624 (4.21%) Power BI
3 448 (3.03%) MySQL
4 447 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 375 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 373 (2.52%) Looker
7 372 (2.51%) Tableau
8 350 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 347 (2.34%) NoSQL
10 259 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
11 240 (1.62%) Big Data
12 227 (1.53%) MongoDB
13 223 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 160 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 130 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 126 (0.85%) Redis
16 126 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 113 (0.76%) RDBMS
18 110 (0.74%) Hadoop
19 105 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 892 (6.02%) Git
2 542 (3.66%) JIRA
3 347 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 200 (1.35%) GitLab
5 122 (0.82%) Visual Studio
6 72 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 71 (0.48%) Selenium
8 60 (0.41%) LabVIEW
9 56 (0.38%) JUnit
10 54 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
11 50 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 50 (0.34%) Postman
12 48 (0.32%) Maven
13 47 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 41 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
15 37 (0.25%) Subversion
16 36 (0.24%) JDeveloper
17 34 (0.23%) JMeter
18 32 (0.22%) Cypress.io
19 31 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 7,715 (52.10%) Social Skills
2 4,845 (32.72%) Analytical Skills
3 3,064 (20.69%) Finance
4 1,496 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,115 (7.53%) Retail
6 1,005 (6.79%) Law
7 992 (6.70%) Marketing
8 844 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
9 800 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
10 703 (4.75%) Legal
11 700 (4.73%) Manufacturing
12 552 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
13 496 (3.35%) Public Sector
14 412 (2.78%) Banking
15 349 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 248 (1.67%) Electronics
17 237 (1.60%) Billing
18 207 (1.40%) Aerospace
19 198 (1.34%) Games
20 186 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,119 (14.31%) Analyst
2 2,108 (14.24%) Senior
3 1,963 (13.26%) Developer
4 1,164 (7.86%) Lead
5 986 (6.66%) Software Engineer
6 795 (5.37%) Architect
7 631 (4.26%) IT Support
8 548 (3.70%) Consultant
9 541 (3.65%) Support Engineer
10 479 (3.23%) Project Manager
11 455 (3.07%) Senior Developer
12 454 (3.07%) IT Engineer
13 422 (2.85%) Business Analyst
14 400 (2.70%) Data Engineer
15 329 (2.22%) Graduate
16 324 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 323 (2.18%) Support Analyst
18 320 (2.16%) Software Developer
19 317 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
20 312 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 955 (6.45%) .NET
2 852 (5.75%) HTML
3 747 (5.04%) CSS
4 680 (4.59%) React
5 415 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 412 (2.78%) Node.js
7 343 (2.32%) RESTful
8 296 (2.00%) REST
9 278 (1.88%) Spring
10 250 (1.69%) Web Services
11 249 (1.68%) ASP.NET
12 239 (1.61%) .NET Framework
13 237 (1.60%) Vue
14 210 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 205 (1.38%) JSON
16 181 (1.22%) GraphQL
17 167 (1.13%) XML
18 163 (1.10%) HTML5
19 152 (1.03%) jQuery
20 151 (1.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1,358 (9.17%) Self-Motivation
2 777 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 510 (3.44%) Algorithms
4 492 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 414 (2.80%) Driving Licence
6 404 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 284 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 280 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 226 (1.53%) Cloud Native
10 220 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 189 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 187 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 185 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 170 (1.15%) FMCG
15 160 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 159 (1.07%) IoT
17 121 (0.82%) Public Cloud
18 119 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
19 115 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
20 113 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,065 (13.95%) Windows
2 995 (6.72%) Linux
3 693 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 488 (3.30%) Windows 10
5 252 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 218 (1.47%) Android
7 170 (1.15%) Unix
8 146 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 143 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 136 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 129 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
12 109 (0.74%) Windows 7
13 55 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
14 44 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 38 (0.26%) VMS
16 37 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 37 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
17 35 (0.24%) Kali Linux
18 31 (0.21%) CentOS
18 31 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,131 (21.14%) Agile
2 1,878 (12.68%) Computer Science
3 1,800 (12.16%) Customer Service
4 1,791 (12.09%) Project Management
5 1,765 (11.92%) Mentoring
6 1,706 (11.52%) Software Engineering
7 1,661 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,542 (10.41%) DevOps
9 1,540 (10.40%) Decision-Making
10 1,174 (7.93%) Analytics
11 1,122 (7.58%) Coaching
12 1,074 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
13 1,071 (7.23%) ITIL
14 999 (6.75%) CI/CD
15 957 (6.46%) Mathematics
16 910 (6.15%) Data Analysis
17 895 (6.04%) Collaborative Working
18 880 (5.94%) Actionable Insight
19 831 (5.61%) SDLC
20 822 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,445 (16.51%) SQL
2 1,881 (12.70%) Python
3 1,264 (8.54%) JavaScript
4 1,203 (8.12%) Java
5 1,154 (7.79%) C#
6 484 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 440 (2.97%) C++
8 420 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 406 (2.74%) C
10 340 (2.30%) PHP
11 322 (2.17%) Bash
12 202 (1.36%) T-SQL
13 197 (1.33%) Scala
14 141 (0.95%) Go
15 139 (0.94%) R
16 120 (0.81%) Perl
17 115 (0.78%) Ruby
18 112 (0.76%) MATLAB
19 85 (0.57%) Shell Script
20 80 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,221 (28.50%) Degree
2 1,259 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 1,064 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 781 (5.27%) SC Cleared
5 491 (3.32%) Master's Degree
6 483 (3.26%) DBS Check
7 389 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 217 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 198 (1.34%) CISSP
10 193 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 171 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 147 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 145 (0.98%) PMI Certification
14 142 (0.96%) CCNA
15 141 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
16 131 (0.88%) HNC
17 124 (0.84%) A+ Certification
18 123 (0.83%) PhD
19 117 (0.79%) ACCA
20 115 (0.78%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 816 (5.51%) QA
2 590 (3.98%) GDPR
3 499 (3.37%) Data Quality
4 490 (3.31%) SLA
5 277 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 218 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 161 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 151 (1.02%) PMO
9 117 (0.79%) NIST
10 105 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 95 (0.64%) IFRS
12 81 (0.55%) GAAP
13 70 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 66 (0.45%) WCAG
15 44 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 39 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 38 (0.26%) NCSC
18 35 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 30 (0.20%) SOC 2
20 29 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1,164 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 629 (4.25%) Docker
3 493 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 315 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 135 (0.91%) Firmware
6 101 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 94 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 48 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (0.28%) vSphere
10 37 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 31 (0.21%) KVM
11 31 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
14 13 (0.088%) NFS
14 13 (0.088%) Terminal Services
14 13 (0.088%) XenApp
15 8 (0.054%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.047%) pfSense
17 6 (0.041%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 610 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 389 (2.63%) Terraform
3 238 (1.61%) Ansible
4 236 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 188 (1.27%) SCCM
6 101 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 92 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 85 (0.57%) Grafana
9 82 (0.55%) Puppet
10 51 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 46 (0.31%) SCOM
12 39 (0.26%) WSUS
13 35 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.23%) Functional Safety
15 29 (0.20%) EnCase
15 29 (0.20%) FortiGate
16 26 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
16 26 (0.18%) OpenSSO
17 25 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
18 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,476 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 836 (5.65%) Google
3 697 (4.71%) VMware
4 524 (3.54%) Oracle
5 418 (2.82%) SAP
6 346 (2.34%) Cisco
7 281 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 251 (1.70%) Databricks
9 156 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 142 (0.96%) Apple
11 139 (0.94%) IBM
12 138 (0.93%) Adobe
13 132 (0.89%) Veeam
14 118 (0.80%) Dell
15 115 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 114 (0.77%) Citrix
17 108 (0.73%) HP
18 107 (0.72%) Juniper
19 105 (0.71%) CA
20 104 (0.70%) Meraki