Problem-Solving Jobs in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 8 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 246 131 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.48% 10.26% 7.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.52% 10.61% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 204 73 90
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,700 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,363 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £37,558
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.16% -16.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,634 £48,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,700 £58,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,585 1,235 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 86.85% 96.71% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 601 923
10th Percentile £27,873 £30,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +13.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Tyne and Wear +5 168 £52,500 +23.53% 97
Durham +17 64 £43,072 -3.75% 25
Northumberland +6 13 £24,500 -14.78% 4
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 12 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.22%) IIS
5 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.81%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.66%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.03%) Sage X3
2 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.22%) SAP Business One
3 3 (1.22%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.24%) Azure
2 58 (23.58%) AWS
3 46 (18.70%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (10.57%) GCP
5 18 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.50%) Serverless
7 15 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.28%) Entra ID
9 11 (4.47%) GitHub
10 10 (4.07%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.25%) OCI
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.03%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (2.03%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.03%) SaaS
15 4 (1.63%) dbt
16 3 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.91%) Firewall
2 14 (5.69%) LAN
3 13 (5.28%) WAN
4 8 (3.25%) Network Security
4 8 (3.25%) VoIP
4 8 (3.25%) VPN
4 8 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.03%) SAN
5 5 (2.03%) VLAN
6 3 (1.22%) 4G
6 3 (1.22%) 5G
6 3 (1.22%) DHCP
6 3 (1.22%) DNS
6 3 (1.22%) MQTT
6 3 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.20%) MySQL
2 26 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.94%) BigQuery
4 18 (7.32%) Looker
4 18 (7.32%) Power BI
5 14 (5.69%) Redis
6 13 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.25%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.44%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.44%) Tableau
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.63%) Big Data
10 4 (1.63%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.81%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (4.47%) TeamCity
2 10 (4.07%) Git
3 5 (2.03%) Sourcetree
4 3 (1.22%) JIRA
5 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Gradle
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (41.87%) Social Skills
2 84 (34.15%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (16.26%) Finance
4 22 (8.94%) Games
5 16 (6.50%) Manufacturing
5 16 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.69%) Retail
7 11 (4.47%) Law
8 8 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Banking
10 4 (1.63%) Police
11 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 2 (0.81%) Electronics
12 2 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (16.26%) Senior
2 34 (13.82%) Developer
3 28 (11.38%) Lead
4 24 (9.76%) Analyst
5 18 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 18 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 17 (6.91%) Architect
6 17 (6.91%) Consultant
7 11 (4.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 11 (4.47%) Administrator
7 11 (4.47%) Data Architect
7 11 (4.47%) DBA
8 10 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 10 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.07%) Service Analyst
8 10 (4.07%) Service Desk Analyst
8 10 (4.07%) Trainee
9 9 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.57%) .NET
2 19 (7.72%) .NET Core
2 19 (7.72%) ASP.NET
3 18 (7.32%) Node.js
4 15 (6.10%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (6.10%) CSS
4 15 (6.10%) Vue
5 14 (5.69%) HTML
6 13 (5.28%) RESTful
7 10 (4.07%) jQuery
8 6 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (2.03%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.03%) Ajax
9 5 (2.03%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.03%) Flask
9 5 (2.03%) Jinja
9 5 (2.03%) REST
9 5 (2.03%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (1.63%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (8.94%) Client/Server
2 22 (8.94%) Online Games
3 17 (6.91%) Driving Licence
4 15 (6.10%) Data Structures
5 12 (4.88%) IoT
6 9 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.25%) Clustering
8 7 (2.85%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.03%) NHS
10 4 (1.63%) EPoS
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.22%) Arduino
11 3 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.22%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.22%) Industry 4.0
11 3 (1.22%) Robotics
11 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.67%) Windows
2 23 (9.35%) Windows 10
3 18 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.07%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.03%) Linux
6 5 (2.03%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.81%) AIX
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Unix
8 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.48%) Computer Science
1 43 (17.48%) Customer Service
2 37 (15.04%) Mentoring
3 32 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (11.38%) Agile
5 25 (10.16%) Collaborative Working
5 25 (10.16%) DevOps
5 25 (10.16%) Project Management
6 24 (9.76%) Data Engineering
6 24 (9.76%) Data Modelling
6 24 (9.76%) ITIL
7 23 (9.35%) ETL
8 21 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (8.54%) Data Architecture
9 20 (8.13%) Coaching
9 20 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (7.72%) Analytics
10 19 (7.72%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (6.91%) CRM
11 17 (6.91%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.39%) SQL
2 36 (14.63%) C#
3 31 (12.60%) Python
4 29 (11.79%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.35%) PowerShell
6 19 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.66%) Java
8 8 (3.25%) Bash
8 8 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.63%) Ruby
9 4 (1.63%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.81%) C
10 2 (0.81%) C++
10 2 (0.81%) PHP
10 2 (0.81%) Scala
10 2 (0.81%) VB
11 1 (0.41%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) Groovy
11 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (33.74%) Degree
2 16 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (3.25%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.25%) OCP
4 8 (3.25%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (2.44%) CISA
5 6 (2.44%) CISMP
5 6 (2.44%) CISSP
5 6 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (2.44%) GIAC
5 6 (2.44%) SANS
6 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.03%) MCSE
6 5 (2.03%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.63%) CCNA
7 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.63%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.54%) GDPR
3 16 (6.50%) SLA
4 5 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.63%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.22%) NCSC
6 3 (1.22%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 30 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.35%) Docker
3 14 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (8.54%) Terraform
2 19 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.07%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (2.03%) Autotask
5 5 (2.03%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (2.03%) SCCM
6 4 (1.63%) Cacti
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.41%) Ansible
8 1 (0.41%) Grafana
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 95 (38.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.76%) Google
3 21 (8.54%) Oracle
4 18 (7.32%) VMware
5 14 (5.69%) Cisco
6 9 (3.66%) SAP
7 6 (2.44%) Apple
7 6 (2.44%) Sage
8 5 (2.03%) IBM
9 4 (1.63%) Datto
9 4 (1.63%) Dell
9 4 (1.63%) HP
9 4 (1.63%) Juniper
9 4 (1.63%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.63%) Sophos
10 3 (1.22%) Databricks
10 3 (1.22%) Meraki
10 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (1.22%) Workday