Creative Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 610 711 777
Rank change year-on-year +101 +66 -82
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 227 218 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.25% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 115 111 172
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,500 £38,564
25th Percentile £38,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £111,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,894 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.58% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,677 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England +111 82 £60,000 +36.36% 29
London +104 64 £62,500 -16.67% 52
North West +65 54 £60,000 -11.11% 14
South West -1 38 £42,500 -15.00% 21
Yorkshire +94 24 £47,500 +15.85% 13
Midlands +14 23 £61,250 -2.00% 18
West Midlands +25 17 £57,500 -8.00% 7
South East +1 16 £52,500 -50.00% 28
East Midlands -11 6 £80,000 +220.00% 11
North East 0 4 £42,750 +84.45% 2
East of England -42 4 £30,000 -60.00% 2
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (4.85%) CMS
2 8 (3.52%) Confluence
3 6 (2.64%) Drupal
4 3 (1.32%) WordPress
5 2 (0.88%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.44%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (14.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (13.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.64%) Photoshop
4 5 (2.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.88%) CINEMA 4D
6 2 (0.88%) InDesign
6 2 (0.88%) SketchUp
6 2 (0.88%) SPSS
7 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.44%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) SAP R/3
2 2 (0.88%) Shopify
2 2 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.38%) Azure
2 27 (11.89%) AWS
3 19 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.05%) GitHub
5 10 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 10 (4.41%) Pulumi
6 7 (3.08%) Azure AKS
6 7 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (3.08%) Datadog
6 7 (3.08%) GCP
7 5 (2.20%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.76%) SaaS
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.32%) Canva
9 3 (1.32%) dbt
10 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.52%) OSPF
1 8 (3.52%) VPN
1 8 (3.52%) Wireless
2 5 (2.20%) Firewall
2 5 (2.20%) NAS
3 3 (1.32%) BGP
3 3 (1.32%) IGMP
3 3 (1.32%) IPv6
3 3 (1.32%) Multicast
3 3 (1.32%) RIP
3 3 (1.32%) SNMP
3 3 (1.32%) VLAN
3 3 (1.32%) VoIP
3 3 (1.32%) VRRP
4 1 (0.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.57%) MySQL
2 10 (4.41%) Power BI
3 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.08%) MariaDB
4 7 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.08%) Redis
4 7 (3.08%) Tableau
5 4 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) GIS
6 2 (0.88%) QlikView
6 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.73%) JIRA
2 10 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.76%) Appium
4 4 (1.76%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.76%) ESLint
4 4 (1.76%) Gatling
4 4 (1.76%) Git
4 4 (1.76%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.76%) JBehave
4 4 (1.76%) JMeter
4 4 (1.76%) JUnit
4 4 (1.76%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.88%) webpack
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (43.17%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (23.35%) Retail
4 36 (15.86%) Finance
4 36 (15.86%) Marketing
5 24 (10.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (6.17%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.73%) Military
8 12 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (4.85%) Games
10 10 (4.41%) Legal
11 8 (3.52%) Banking
11 8 (3.52%) Law
11 8 (3.52%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.32%) French Language
14 3 (1.32%) German Language
14 3 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (18.06%) Senior
2 23 (10.13%) Developer
3 19 (8.37%) Analyst
4 16 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (7.05%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (6.61%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.73%) Senior Manager
7 12 (5.29%) Electrical Engineer
7 12 (5.29%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) Architect
8 11 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) IT Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.85%) Lead
9 10 (4.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.41%) Technical Support
9 10 (4.41%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.81%) CSS
2 19 (8.37%) HTML
3 15 (6.61%) .NET
4 13 (5.73%) React
5 7 (3.08%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.08%) REST
6 6 (2.64%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.20%) Vue
8 4 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.76%) HTML5
8 4 (1.76%) Jest
8 4 (1.76%) Laravel
8 4 (1.76%) Redux
8 4 (1.76%) XML
9 3 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.88%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.88%) Node.js
10 2 (0.88%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.25%) Renewable Energy
2 20 (8.81%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.49%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.96%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.52%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.08%) Fibre Optics
6 7 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.64%) Blog
7 6 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.64%) NHS
8 4 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.76%) Social Media
9 3 (1.32%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.32%) Photography
9 3 (1.32%) Smart City
10 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.88%) Podcast
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.49%) Apple iOS
2 16 (7.05%) Android
3 11 (4.85%) Windows
4 9 (3.96%) Linux
5 7 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.20%) VMS
6 5 (2.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (33.92%) Agile
3 51 (22.47%) Analytics
3 51 (22.47%) Collaborative Culture
4 31 (13.66%) DevOps
5 29 (12.78%) Collaborative Working
6 27 (11.89%) User Experience
7 26 (11.45%) Time Management
8 25 (11.01%) Project Management
9 23 (10.13%) Mathematics
10 22 (9.69%) Logistics
11 20 (8.81%) Business Development
11 20 (8.81%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (7.93%) Decision-Making
13 18 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (7.49%) Migration
15 16 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.06%) Python
2 37 (16.30%) C#
3 31 (13.66%) SQL
4 29 (12.78%) Java
5 28 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.61%) Ruby
7 14 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.73%) PHP
9 12 (5.29%) Swift
10 11 (4.85%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.41%) Groovy
12 9 (3.96%) Go
13 8 (3.52%) Bash
14 3 (1.32%) R
15 2 (0.88%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.88%) Tcl
16 1 (0.44%) C
16 1 (0.44%) C++
16 1 (0.44%) Perl
16 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (18.94%) Degree
2 19 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.73%) HNC
4 7 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.76%) HND
6 4 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.32%) MCT
8 2 (0.88%) ACCA
8 2 (0.88%) CIMA
8 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.37%) QA
2 5 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.20%) SEPA
2 5 (2.20%) TARGET2
3 4 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.32%) SLA
5 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (4.85%) Docker
2 5 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.29%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.29%) Terraform
2 11 (4.85%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.52%) Ansible
3 8 (3.52%) Grafana
3 8 (3.52%) Progress Chef
3 8 (3.52%) Puppet
4 5 (2.20%) Graphite
5 3 (1.32%) Consul
5 3 (1.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.08%) New Relic
2 7 (3.08%) SaltStack
3 6 (2.64%) Apple
3 6 (2.64%) Cisco
3 6 (2.64%) Xamarin
4 5 (2.20%) Adobe
4 5 (2.20%) Aruba
4 5 (2.20%) CheckPoint
4 5 (2.20%) HP
4 5 (2.20%) Juniper
4 5 (2.20%) Meraki
4 5 (2.20%) Palo Alto
4 5 (2.20%) VMware
5 4 (1.76%) SAP
6 3 (1.32%) Databricks
6 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.32%) Facebook
6 3 (1.32%) Progress
6 3 (1.32%) Twitter