Problem-Solving Jobs in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,475 2,301 2,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.15% 13.34% 14.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.96% 13.77% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,782 981 1,269
10th Percentile £25,125 £24,150 £27,400
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,363 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,647 £73,675
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,594 16,713 16,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.47% 96.90% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11,200 7,953 10,696
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,086
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.81% +5.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 8 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 West +10 1,303 £45,000 -5.26% 575
Yorkshire +5 920 £43,586 -0.94% 355
North East +13 251 £45,000 +5.88% 126
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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
1 100 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.54%) Apache
4 32 (1.29%) CMS
5 24 (0.97%) IIS
6 20 (0.81%) WordPress
7 15 (0.61%) Confluence
7 15 (0.61%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.44%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.32%) JBoss
9 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.28%) OpenEdge
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.16%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.12%) Moodle
13 3 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 224 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.81%) Sketch
5 12 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.16%) InDesign
10 4 (0.16%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.16%) Trello
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) SPSS
12 2 (0.081%) Stata
13 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.040%) InVision
Business Applications
1 30 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 30 (1.21%) Shopify
2 26 (1.05%) Magento
3 13 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (0.53%) iTrent
4 10 (0.40%) SAP Business One
4 10 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.36%) SAP CX
6 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.20%) Sage 50
7 5 (0.20%) Sage CRM
7 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP APO
8 4 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.16%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 464 (18.75%) Azure
2 287 (11.60%) AWS
3 283 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (5.78%) GCP
4 143 (5.78%) Power Platform
5 80 (3.23%) SaaS
6 58 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
7 56 (2.26%) Entra ID
7 56 (2.26%) Serverless
8 50 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (1.74%) Amazon S3
9 43 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
9 43 (1.74%) GitHub
10 34 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (1.17%) PowerApps
12 26 (1.05%) Power Automate
13 24 (0.97%) Snowflake
14 23 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (0.93%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 149 (6.02%) Firewall
2 85 (3.43%) LAN
3 70 (2.83%) WAN
4 63 (2.55%) VPN
5 62 (2.51%) DNS
5 62 (2.51%) Network Security
6 57 (2.30%) Wireless
7 50 (2.02%) DHCP
7 50 (2.02%) TCP/IP
8 49 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (1.66%) VoIP
10 38 (1.54%) Internet
11 35 (1.41%) SAN
12 31 (1.25%) VLAN
13 22 (0.89%) IPsec
14 21 (0.85%) PPP
15 15 (0.61%) SNMP
16 13 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (0.48%) NAS
18 11 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 124 (5.01%) MySQL
3 123 (4.97%) Power BI
4 104 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 97 (3.92%) Looker
7 54 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 52 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 47 (1.90%) Tableau
11 41 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 34 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.21%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.21%) Redis
14 30 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 28 (1.13%) RDBMS
16 24 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (0.85%) MS Access
18 19 (0.77%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 177 (7.15%) Git
2 86 (3.47%) JIRA
3 29 (1.17%) TeamCity
4 28 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.97%) GitLab
6 18 (0.73%) Postman
7 15 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.36%) IntelliJ
9 9 (0.36%) JDeveloper
10 8 (0.32%) Selenium
11 7 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 7 (0.28%) Subversion
12 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.24%) Dreamweaver
12 6 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 6 (0.24%) PHPUnit
13 5 (0.20%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.20%) JetBrains Rider
13 5 (0.20%) Sourcetree
General
1 1,279 (51.68%) Social Skills
2 778 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 460 (18.59%) Finance
4 173 (6.99%) Retail
5 141 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 132 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
7 125 (5.05%) Marketing
8 110 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 101 (4.08%) Legal
10 100 (4.04%) Law
11 88 (3.56%) Manufacturing
12 77 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (2.06%) Banking
14 47 (1.90%) Games
15 36 (1.45%) Billing
16 32 (1.29%) Local Government
17 30 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Tech for Good
20 18 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 355 (14.34%) Developer
2 319 (12.89%) Senior
3 308 (12.44%) Analyst
4 188 (7.60%) Lead
5 145 (5.86%) Architect
5 145 (5.86%) Software Engineer
6 111 (4.48%) IT Support
7 105 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 93 (3.76%) Project Manager
9 91 (3.68%) Support Engineer
10 85 (3.43%) Consultant
11 84 (3.39%) IT Engineer
12 77 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 73 (2.95%) Administrator
13 73 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 64 (2.59%) Senior Developer
15 61 (2.46%) Data Architect
16 59 (2.38%) IT Technician
16 59 (2.38%) Principal Data Engineer
16 59 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (9.41%) .NET
2 187 (7.56%) HTML
3 177 (7.15%) CSS
4 105 (4.24%) React
5 94 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 92 (3.72%) Node.js
7 81 (3.27%) Vue
8 73 (2.95%) RESTful
9 72 (2.91%) .NET Core
10 68 (2.75%) .NET Framework
11 65 (2.63%) ASP.NET
12 55 (2.22%) JSON
13 49 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 46 (1.86%) Web Services
15 45 (1.82%) HTML5
16 43 (1.74%) REST
17 38 (1.54%) jQuery
17 38 (1.54%) Spring
18 36 (1.45%) XML
19 33 (1.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 194 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (4.24%) Management Information System
3 98 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 65 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 46 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 41 (1.66%) NHS
7 37 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 30 (1.21%) Housing Association
12 28 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 28 (1.13%) IoT
13 27 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
14 26 (1.05%) Cyberattack
15 25 (1.01%) EPoS
16 24 (0.97%) Life Science
17 23 (0.93%) Algorithms
17 23 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
18 22 (0.89%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 409 (16.53%) Windows
2 138 (5.58%) Windows Server
3 135 (5.45%) Linux
4 97 (3.92%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 44 (1.78%) Android
7 34 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 34 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.97%) Mac OS
10 23 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.73%) Windows Vista
12 16 (0.65%) Unix
12 16 (0.65%) Windows 8
13 15 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
13 15 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.40%) VMS
15 6 (0.24%) AIX
16 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (19.64%) Agile
2 348 (14.06%) Customer Service
3 320 (12.93%) Project Management
4 314 (12.69%) Mentoring
5 298 (12.04%) Computer Science
6 292 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (10.38%) DevOps
8 247 (9.98%) ITIL
9 221 (8.93%) Software Engineering
10 209 (8.44%) Decision-Making
11 207 (8.36%) Analytics
12 194 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
13 187 (7.56%) Coaching
14 175 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
15 171 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 171 (6.91%) User Experience
16 167 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
17 154 (6.22%) Time Management
18 140 (5.66%) Change Management
18 140 (5.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 415 (16.77%) SQL
2 274 (11.07%) C#
3 272 (10.99%) JavaScript
4 197 (7.96%) Python
5 122 (4.93%) Java
6 93 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 91 (3.68%) PHP
8 64 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.82%) Bash
10 43 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.13%) Ruby
11 28 (1.13%) VB
12 27 (1.09%) C++
13 25 (1.01%) C
14 24 (0.97%) Swift
15 21 (0.85%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.61%) Go
17 14 (0.57%) VBScript
18 12 (0.48%) Embedded C
19 11 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 604 (24.40%) Degree
2 195 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 90 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 84 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 55 (2.22%) DBS Check
8 44 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.54%) ACCA
9 38 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
10 37 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.29%) CCNA
11 32 (1.29%) PMI Certification
12 29 (1.17%) HND
13 28 (1.13%) PMP
14 27 (1.09%) HNC
15 20 (0.81%) CISSP
16 19 (0.77%) CCNP
16 19 (0.77%) CISA
17 18 (0.73%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.45%) GDPR
2 119 (4.81%) SLA
3 89 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 85 (3.43%) QA
5 54 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.17%) GAAP
8 28 (1.13%) NIST
9 27 (1.09%) IFRS
10 20 (0.81%) PMO
11 16 (0.65%) WCAG
12 15 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.36%) NCSC
15 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) COBIT
17 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 227 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 101 (4.08%) Docker
3 84 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.40%) Firmware
7 9 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.28%) XenApp
9 7 (0.28%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.24%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.040%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.040%) Lustre
13 1 (0.040%) Postfix
13 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.040%) Snort
13 1 (0.040%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (2.99%) Terraform
3 73 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 38 (1.54%) SCCM
5 30 (1.21%) Ansible
6 26 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.53%) Grafana
9 12 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
10 11 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.40%) Puppet
11 10 (0.40%) SCOM
12 9 (0.36%) Nessus
13 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.20%) Autotask
15 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.16%) Istio
15 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 4 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 649 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.67%) Google
3 127 (5.13%) VMware
4 97 (3.92%) SAP
5 81 (3.27%) Oracle
6 74 (2.99%) Cisco
7 45 (1.82%) Citrix
8 42 (1.70%) Apple
9 40 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.45%) CA
11 31 (1.25%) Adobe
12 27 (1.09%) F5
12 27 (1.09%) Veeam
13 21 (0.85%) IBM
13 21 (0.85%) NetApp
13 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 21 (0.85%) Splunk
14 19 (0.77%) Epicor
14 19 (0.77%) HP
14 19 (0.77%) Palo Alto