Problem-Solving Jobs in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 206 314 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.43% 14.63% 13.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.85% 15.21% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 125 161 157
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,453 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £65,313
90th Percentile £74,500 £80,627 £82,750
Scotland median annual salary £45,543 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.19% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 2,065 2,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.42% 96.18% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,192 1,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,404 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 23 (11.17%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.88%) Confluence
3 5 (2.43%) Apache
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
4 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.94%) Sketch
5 1 (0.49%) EViews
5 1 (0.49%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (18.45%) AWS
2 31 (15.05%) Miro
2 31 (15.05%) SaaS
3 30 (14.56%) GCP
4 29 (14.08%) Amazon S3
5 27 (13.11%) Google Docs
6 25 (12.14%) Azure
7 23 (11.17%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (11.17%) Lucidchart
7 23 (11.17%) Slack
8 20 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (3.88%) Figma
10 6 (2.91%) Serverless
11 5 (2.43%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.94%) Heroku
13 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.25%) Network Security
2 8 (3.88%) Firewall
3 6 (2.91%) Internet
3 6 (2.91%) VPN
4 5 (2.43%) IPsec
4 5 (2.43%) SNMP
5 3 (1.46%) DHCP
5 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.46%) Wireless
6 2 (0.97%) LAN
6 2 (0.97%) WAN
7 1 (0.49%) DNS
7 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.59%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (11.17%) Big Data
2 23 (11.17%) Hadoop
2 23 (11.17%) Redis
2 23 (11.17%) Scylla
3 9 (4.37%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.43%) MySQL
5 4 (1.94%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.94%) Data Hub
5 4 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.94%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.46%) Looker
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.46%) Power BI
7 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.49%) Ataccama
8 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.77%) JIRA
2 14 (6.80%) Git
3 5 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.46%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.46%) JDeveloper
4 3 (1.46%) Maven
5 2 (0.97%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.49%) JMeter
6 1 (0.49%) JUnit
6 1 (0.49%) Mockito
6 1 (0.49%) Postman
6 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 79 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.11%) Finance
5 16 (7.77%) Banking
6 10 (4.85%) Retail
7 7 (3.40%) Law
7 7 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.91%) Marketing
9 5 (2.43%) Legal
9 5 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.94%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.49%) Games
12 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 65 (31.55%) Software Engineer
2 30 (14.56%) Principal Engineer
3 29 (14.08%) Senior
4 26 (12.62%) Developer
5 23 (11.17%) Principal Software Engineer
6 20 (9.71%) Analyst
7 15 (7.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 12 (5.83%) Java Engineer
8 12 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (5.83%) React Developer
9 11 (5.34%) Architect
9 11 (5.34%) IT Support
10 9 (4.37%) 2nd Line Support
11 8 (3.88%) Consultant
11 8 (3.88%) Designer
11 8 (3.88%) Presales Solution Architect
11 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.88%) UI Designer
11 8 (3.88%) UI/UX Designer
11 8 (3.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.87%) React
2 34 (16.50%) GraphQL
3 26 (12.62%) Kafka
4 22 (10.68%) Node.js
5 18 (8.74%) CSS
6 16 (7.77%) WebGL
7 14 (6.80%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.34%) .NET
8 11 (5.34%) HTML
9 8 (3.88%) Express.js
10 7 (3.40%) RESTful
10 7 (3.40%) Spring
11 6 (2.91%) REST
12 5 (2.43%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.43%) YAML
13 4 (1.94%) FHIR
13 4 (1.94%) JSON
13 4 (1.94%) LDAP
13 4 (1.94%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.65%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.17%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) CCTV
8 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.49%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.11%) Windows
2 25 (12.14%) Linux
3 10 (4.85%) Unix
4 5 (2.43%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (1.94%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.95%) Software Engineering
2 57 (27.67%) Agile
3 39 (18.93%) Actionable Insight
3 39 (18.93%) Cybersecurity
4 38 (18.45%) Computer Science
5 34 (16.50%) User Experience
6 27 (13.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 27 (13.11%) Data Science
6 27 (13.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 26 (12.62%) Analytics
8 23 (11.17%) Computer Security
8 23 (11.17%) High Availability
8 23 (11.17%) UX Research
9 22 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (8.74%) DevOps
10 18 (8.74%) Mathematics
11 17 (8.25%) Collaborative Working
11 17 (8.25%) Physics
12 15 (7.28%) Customer Service
12 15 (7.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.24%) Python
2 45 (21.84%) Java
3 33 (16.02%) Bash
4 26 (12.62%) Go
5 23 (11.17%) Scala
6 19 (9.22%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.77%) GLSL
8 12 (5.83%) C#
8 12 (5.83%) SQL
9 11 (5.34%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.91%) VBA
11 5 (2.43%) Ruby
12 3 (1.46%) Perl
13 2 (0.97%) C++
13 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.49%) R
14 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (15.53%) Degree
2 24 (11.65%) SC Cleared
2 24 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.46%) PMP
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.49%) MCSE
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.88%) QA
2 7 (3.40%) GDPR
3 5 (2.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.94%) DICOM
4 4 (1.94%) HL7
4 4 (1.94%) ISO 13485
4 4 (1.94%) WCAG
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (5.83%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 39 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.83%) Ansible
3 6 (2.91%) Terraform
4 5 (2.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.43%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.94%) vRealize
5 4 (1.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.97%) Rancher
7 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (16.02%) Google
2 28 (13.59%) Dell
3 21 (10.19%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.40%) VMware
5 6 (2.91%) NetApp
6 5 (2.43%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.43%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.43%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.43%) SolidFire
7 4 (1.94%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (1.94%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.46%) Oracle
8 3 (1.46%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Aruba
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco
9 1 (0.49%) Citrix
9 1 (0.49%) HP
9 1 (0.49%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) iManage
9 1 (0.49%) Splunk