Problem-Solving Jobs in the North West

Problem Solving
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 9
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,293 897 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.34% 11.26% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.04% 11.77% 16.65%
Number of salaries quoted 894 484 640
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £27,725
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,673 £35,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,744
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.84% +1.65%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,200 £77,500 £75,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +14 696 £50,000 - 267
Cheshire +10 257 £42,500 +18.06% 130
Merseyside +12 151 £40,000 -7.78% 73
Lancashire -4 133 £38,500 -14.44% 65
Cumbria +20 47 £36,000 -43.31% 30
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 29 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 29 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.78%) CMS
3 19 (1.47%) Apache
4 15 (1.16%) IIS
5 14 (1.08%) WordPress
6 11 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.70%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.54%) Confluence
8 7 (0.54%) OpenEdge
9 5 (0.39%) JBoss
9 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
10 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.31%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.23%) Moodle
11 3 (0.23%) SAS
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 96 (7.42%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.08%) Sketch
5 8 (0.62%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.15%) InDesign
9 2 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.15%) Stata
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.077%) InVision
10 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.077%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 18 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.16%) Shopify
3 14 (1.08%) Magento
4 13 (1.01%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (1.01%) iTrent
5 9 (0.70%) SAP CX
5 9 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.54%) SAP Business One
7 6 (0.46%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.31%) SAP APO
8 4 (0.31%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.31%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.31%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.31%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.077%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 218 (16.86%) Azure
2 121 (9.36%) AWS
3 78 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (5.03%) Power Platform
5 61 (4.72%) GCP
6 56 (4.33%) SaaS
7 31 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.93%) GitHub
11 23 (1.78%) Serverless
12 20 (1.55%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 15 (1.16%) Entra ID
13 15 (1.16%) Matillion
14 14 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.08%) Figma
15 13 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (1.01%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.96%) Firewall
2 42 (3.25%) LAN
3 32 (2.47%) DNS
4 31 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.24%) VoIP
5 29 (2.24%) VPN
5 29 (2.24%) WAN
6 27 (2.09%) Wireless
7 25 (1.93%) Network Security
8 22 (1.70%) DHCP
8 22 (1.70%) PPP
8 22 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.55%) Internet
10 17 (1.31%) IPsec
11 14 (1.08%) SAN
12 11 (0.85%) BGP
12 11 (0.85%) OSPF
13 10 (0.77%) SNMP
13 10 (0.77%) VLAN
14 9 (0.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.26%) MySQL
3 53 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (3.56%) Power BI
5 40 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 38 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 38 (2.94%) Looker
7 25 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 24 (1.86%) Tableau
9 23 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (1.62%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.47%) MS Access
11 19 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.24%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.16%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 100 (7.73%) Git
2 42 (3.25%) JIRA
3 20 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 17 (1.31%) GitLab
6 13 (1.01%) Postman
6 13 (1.01%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.54%) Subversion
8 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.46%) Dreamweaver
8 6 (0.46%) Eclipse
8 6 (0.46%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.46%) JDeveloper
8 6 (0.46%) PHPUnit
9 5 (0.39%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.39%) Jasmine
9 5 (0.39%) JetBrains Rider
10 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.31%) Selenium
10 4 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 674 (52.13%) Social Skills
2 409 (31.63%) Analytical Skills
3 241 (18.64%) Finance
4 80 (6.19%) Retail
5 74 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (5.57%) Legal
7 67 (5.18%) Marketing
8 64 (4.95%) Public Sector
9 56 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (3.79%) Law
10 49 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.32%) Banking
13 26 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.55%) Billing
15 14 (1.08%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.08%) Local Government
16 13 (1.01%) Automotive
17 11 (0.85%) Games
18 8 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 190 (14.69%) Developer
2 171 (13.23%) Analyst
3 169 (13.07%) Senior
4 94 (7.27%) Software Engineer
5 72 (5.57%) Lead
6 60 (4.64%) IT Support
7 59 (4.56%) Data Engineer
8 52 (4.02%) IT Engineer
9 51 (3.94%) Architect
10 50 (3.87%) Consultant
11 48 (3.71%) Project Manager
12 44 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (3.25%) Graduate
14 40 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 36 (2.78%) IT Manager
16 34 (2.63%) Junior
17 33 (2.55%) Administrator
17 33 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
18 32 (2.47%) Senior Developer
18 32 (2.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.20%) HTML
2 115 (8.89%) .NET
3 109 (8.43%) CSS
4 58 (4.49%) React
5 52 (4.02%) AngularJS
6 37 (2.86%) Node.js
7 34 (2.63%) RESTful
8 33 (2.55%) Vue
9 31 (2.40%) HTML5
10 28 (2.17%) Spring
11 26 (2.01%) .NET Framework
11 26 (2.01%) JSON
12 24 (1.86%) .NET Core
13 23 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (1.70%) REST
15 20 (1.55%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.39%) Sass
16 18 (1.39%) Web Services
16 18 (1.39%) XML
17 17 (1.31%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.97%) Self-Motivation
2 73 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.79%) Driving Licence
4 32 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.93%) Data Structures
6 22 (1.70%) Mobile App
6 22 (1.70%) NHS
7 21 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (1.39%) Cyberattack
11 16 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.24%) EPoS
11 16 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
12 14 (1.08%) Housing Association
13 13 (1.01%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.85%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 176 (13.61%) Windows
2 76 (5.88%) Linux
3 49 (3.79%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.32%) Android
5 28 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.39%) Windows Vista
8 13 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
10 10 (0.77%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.70%) Mac OS
11 9 (0.70%) VMS
12 7 (0.54%) Windows 8
13 6 (0.46%) Unix
13 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (20.42%) Agile
2 202 (15.62%) Project Management
3 157 (12.14%) Customer Service
4 143 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 142 (10.98%) Computer Science
5 142 (10.98%) DevOps
6 140 (10.83%) Decision-Making
7 135 (10.44%) Mentoring
8 132 (10.21%) Software Engineering
9 123 (9.51%) Analytics
10 106 (8.20%) User Experience
11 100 (7.73%) ITIL
12 97 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
13 95 (7.35%) Coaching
14 93 (7.19%) Business Intelligence
15 90 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 89 (6.88%) Actionable Insight
17 88 (6.81%) Collaborative Working
18 86 (6.65%) Roadmaps
19 74 (5.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (16.71%) SQL
2 138 (10.67%) JavaScript
3 126 (9.74%) C#
4 117 (9.05%) Python
5 79 (6.11%) Java
6 46 (3.56%) PHP
7 31 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 21 (1.62%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.31%) VB
10 16 (1.24%) Bash
10 16 (1.24%) Swift
10 16 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.01%) C++
12 11 (0.85%) C
12 11 (0.85%) VBScript
13 10 (0.77%) Ruby
13 10 (0.77%) VB.NET
14 8 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.62%) Embedded C
14 8 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 338 (26.14%) Degree
2 94 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (5.34%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.25%) SC Cleared
5 53 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.86%) ACCA
7 24 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.70%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.55%) CCNA
10 19 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 18 (1.39%) HND
12 15 (1.16%) PMP
13 12 (0.93%) CCNP
13 12 (0.93%) HNC
14 11 (0.85%) CISA
15 9 (0.70%) DV Cleared
15 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.62%) CISSP
16 8 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.95%) GDPR
2 54 (4.18%) QA
3 50 (3.87%) SLA
4 38 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.70%) NIST
8 18 (1.39%) PMO
9 15 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (1.08%) GAAP
10 14 (1.08%) IFRS
11 12 (0.93%) WCAG
12 8 (0.62%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.46%) NCSC
15 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 9000
17 2 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 93 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 59 (4.56%) Docker
3 44 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.70%) Terminal Services
6 5 (0.39%) Firmware
7 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.23%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.077%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.077%) Lustre
10 1 (0.077%) Postfix
10 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.077%) Snort
10 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.17%) Terraform
3 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.31%) Ansible
5 11 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.39%) Nessus
8 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.23%) Puppet
9 3 (0.23%) SCCM
9 3 (0.23%) SELinux
10 2 (0.15%) Icinga
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.077%) Grafana
11 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.077%) Nagios
11 1 (0.077%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 282 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.03%) Google
3 62 (4.80%) SAP
4 55 (4.25%) VMware
5 38 (2.94%) Oracle
6 34 (2.63%) Cisco
7 23 (1.78%) Adobe
8 22 (1.70%) CA
9 18 (1.39%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.24%) F5
11 15 (1.16%) NetApp
12 14 (1.08%) Facebook
12 14 (1.08%) IBM
13 13 (1.01%) HP
13 13 (1.01%) Infor
13 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.85%) Sophos
15 10 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.77%) Splunk