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

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 181 281 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.99% 14.85% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.59% 15.55% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 117 143 205
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,800 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,804 £80,627 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,543 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.91% -4.76% +16.67%

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 1,332 1,807 2,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.21% 95.51% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,060 1,455
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,962 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%

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 30 May 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 15 (8.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.21%) Sketch
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.02%) AWS
2 26 (14.36%) Azure
3 23 (12.71%) GCP
3 23 (12.71%) Miro
4 22 (12.15%) SaaS
5 21 (11.60%) Amazon S3
6 19 (10.50%) Google Docs
7 18 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (8.29%) Lucidchart
8 15 (8.29%) Slack
9 11 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.42%) Figma
11 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.21%) Heroku
14 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.10%) OCI
14 2 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) Network Security
2 8 (4.42%) Firewall
3 7 (3.87%) Internet
4 6 (3.31%) VPN
5 5 (2.76%) IPsec
5 5 (2.76%) SNMP
6 2 (1.10%) LAN
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) DNS
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (8.29%) Big Data
2 15 (8.29%) Hadoop
2 15 (8.29%) Redis
2 15 (8.29%) Scylla
3 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.76%) Power BI
4 4 (2.21%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.66%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.66%) Looker
5 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.66%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) JIRA
2 3 (1.66%) Git
2 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.10%) Maven
3 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.55%) JMeter
4 1 (0.55%) JUnit
4 1 (0.55%) Mockito
4 1 (0.55%) Postman
4 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 70 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 45 (24.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.81%) Finance
5 13 (7.18%) Law
6 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 8 (4.42%) Retail
7 7 (3.87%) Marketing
8 5 (2.76%) Legal
8 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.66%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (29.83%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.26%) Developer
3 18 (9.94%) Principal Engineer
3 18 (9.94%) Senior
4 17 (9.39%) Analyst
5 15 (8.29%) Principal Software Engineer
6 14 (7.73%) Architect
6 14 (7.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (6.08%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) React Developer
8 10 (5.52%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.97%) IT Support
10 8 (4.42%) Designer
10 8 (4.42%) UI Designer
10 8 (4.42%) UI/UX Designer
10 8 (4.42%) UX Designer
11 7 (3.87%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (3.87%) Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.13%) React
2 25 (13.81%) GraphQL
3 18 (9.94%) Kafka
4 16 (8.84%) Node.js
5 15 (8.29%) WebGL
6 11 (6.08%) CSS
7 8 (4.42%) .NET
8 7 (3.87%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.76%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.76%) HTML
9 5 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.76%) YAML
10 4 (2.21%) Express.js
10 4 (2.21%) FHIR
10 4 (2.21%) LDAP
10 4 (2.21%) REST
11 3 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
11 3 (1.66%) Spring
11 3 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Algorithms
2 15 (8.29%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.36%) Linux
2 22 (12.15%) Windows
3 11 (6.08%) Unix
4 5 (2.76%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.49%) Software Engineering
2 45 (24.86%) Agile
3 33 (18.23%) Computer Science
4 27 (14.92%) Actionable Insight
4 27 (14.92%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (14.36%) User Experience
6 22 (12.15%) Analytics
6 22 (12.15%) Data Science
7 21 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (8.84%) DevOps
9 15 (8.29%) Collaborative Working
9 15 (8.29%) Computer Security
9 15 (8.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 15 (8.29%) High Availability
9 15 (8.29%) Mathematics
9 15 (8.29%) Physics
9 15 (8.29%) Threat Intelligence
9 15 (8.29%) UX Research
10 14 (7.73%) Mentoring
11 13 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.68%) Python
2 31 (17.13%) Java
3 20 (11.05%) Bash
4 19 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.84%) Go
6 15 (8.29%) GLSL
6 15 (8.29%) Scala
7 8 (4.42%) C#
7 8 (4.42%) SQL
8 4 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.10%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (16.02%) Degree
2 19 (10.50%) SC Cleared
2 19 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.66%) PMP
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) CCNA
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) MCSE
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) GDPR
2 6 (3.31%) QA
3 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.21%) DICOM
3 4 (2.21%) HL7
3 4 (2.21%) ISO 13485
3 4 (2.21%) WCAG
4 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.97%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (13.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.42%) Ansible
3 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.76%) Terraform
3 5 (2.76%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.10%) Rancher
5 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (13.81%) Google
1 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.84%) Dell
3 7 (3.87%) VMware
4 6 (3.31%) NetApp
5 5 (2.76%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.76%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.76%) SolidFire
6 4 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.21%) Oracle
7 3 (1.66%) SAP
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco
9 1 (0.55%) Aruba
9 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.55%) Citrix
9 1 (0.55%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.55%) HP
9 1 (0.55%) iManage
9 1 (0.55%) Splunk