Problem-Solving Jobs in Oxfordshire

Problem Solving
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 4 19 13
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 299 183 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.78% 11.56% 14.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.07% 12.13% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 230 86 145
10th Percentile £24,750 £22,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £29,813 £26,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -23.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £79,375 £98,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,355 1,509 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 80.56% 95.33% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,100 788 921
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,265
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,997 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,941 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,438 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +5 137 £52,500 -12.50% 38
Abingdon +9 18 £43,000 +19.60% 8
Bicester 0 15 £40,000 - 6
Banbury +3 14 £37,500 - 9
Wallingford - 14 £40,750 - 2
Witney - 9 £32,000 - 6
Carterton - 5 £26,500 - 5
Thame +1 4 £22,500 -62.50% 1
Faringdon - 3 £88,750 -
Kidlington - 2 £55,000 - 2
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 17 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.35%) nginx
2 13 (4.35%) WordPress
3 12 (4.01%) Apache
3 12 (4.01%) CMS
4 11 (3.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.34%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.34%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.34%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.34%) InDesign
4 4 (1.34%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.34%) Sketch
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.33%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 11 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.07%) Azure
2 58 (19.40%) AWS
3 32 (10.70%) GCP
3 32 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (4.68%) SaaS
6 11 (3.68%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.68%) Google Workspace
7 8 (2.68%) WhatsApp
8 7 (2.34%) GitHub
9 6 (2.01%) IaaS
9 6 (2.01%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.34%) Azure Storage
10 4 (1.34%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.34%) Figma
11 3 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.37%) Firewall
2 26 (8.70%) DNS
3 14 (4.68%) DHCP
4 13 (4.35%) VoIP
5 12 (4.01%) SSL
6 10 (3.34%) Wireless
7 8 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.34%) SAN
9 6 (2.01%) NAS
9 6 (2.01%) VLAN
9 6 (2.01%) WAN
10 5 (1.67%) Internet
10 5 (1.67%) LAN
11 2 (0.67%) 5G
11 2 (0.67%) Broadband
11 2 (0.67%) VPN
12 1 (0.33%) BGP
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.33%) OSPF
12 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.70%) BigQuery
1 32 (10.70%) Looker
2 24 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.36%) MySQL
4 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.01%) MariaDB
5 6 (2.01%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.67%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.67%) Power BI
9 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.33%) Spotfire
10 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Git
2 5 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.33%) Selenium
3 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 136 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 129 (43.14%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (11.04%) Marketing
4 17 (5.69%) Billing
4 17 (5.69%) Finance
4 17 (5.69%) Manufacturing
5 16 (5.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (4.01%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.68%) Law
8 6 (2.01%) Electronics
9 4 (1.34%) Publishing
9 4 (1.34%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Games
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (14.05%) Analyst
2 30 (10.03%) IT Support
3 28 (9.36%) Developer
3 28 (9.36%) Senior
4 20 (6.69%) Data Manager
4 20 (6.69%) Support Analyst
5 16 (5.35%) Business Analyst
5 16 (5.35%) Engineering Manager
6 14 (4.68%) Junior
7 13 (4.35%) IT Engineer
7 13 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 13 (4.35%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.01%) Architect
8 12 (4.01%) Web Manager
9 11 (3.68%) IT Analyst
9 11 (3.68%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (3.34%) Administrator
10 10 (3.34%) Consultant
10 10 (3.34%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.02%) CSS
1 15 (5.02%) HTML
2 12 (4.01%) .NET
3 9 (3.01%) JSON
4 8 (2.68%) React
5 7 (2.34%) XML
6 5 (1.67%) EDI
7 4 (1.34%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.00%) Vue
9 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.67%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.67%) Akka
9 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.67%) Django
9 2 (0.67%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.33%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.33%) Spring
10 1 (0.33%) STL
10 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.04%) Algorithms
2 25 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (8.03%) Product Ownership
4 23 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (6.69%) Data Structures
6 16 (5.35%) Life Science
7 12 (4.01%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.68%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (3.01%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.34%) Social Media
11 6 (2.01%) Driving Licence
11 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.67%) Molecular Biology
12 5 (1.67%) PKI
12 5 (1.67%) Smartphone
13 4 (1.34%) Device Driver
13 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.34%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.38%) Windows
2 31 (10.37%) Linux
3 10 (3.34%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.01%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.34%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.67%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Android
8 2 (0.67%) SUSE
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (17.73%) Agile
2 48 (16.05%) DevOps
3 45 (15.05%) Computer Science
4 43 (14.38%) Mentoring
5 41 (13.71%) Project Management
6 40 (13.38%) Data Modelling
7 38 (12.71%) Customer Service
8 32 (10.70%) Data Engineering
8 32 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (10.37%) Chemistry
10 30 (10.03%) Physics
11 28 (9.36%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (8.70%) ETL
13 25 (8.36%) Mathematics
13 25 (8.36%) Parallel Programming
13 25 (8.36%) Scrum
14 23 (7.69%) ERP
14 23 (7.69%) OO
15 22 (7.36%) CI/CD
15 22 (7.36%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (20.40%) Python
2 32 (10.70%) SQL
3 30 (10.03%) Fortran
4 18 (6.02%) C
4 18 (6.02%) C++
5 14 (4.68%) PHP
6 13 (4.35%) C#
7 12 (4.01%) Java
7 12 (4.01%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.68%) Bash
9 7 (2.34%) Ruby
10 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.67%) Perl
11 5 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.67%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.34%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (29.10%) Degree
2 29 (9.70%) PhD
3 23 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.34%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.68%) MCSE
6 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.01%) CCNA
7 6 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.34%) CSPO
8 4 (1.34%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.67%) MBA
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
9 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.33%) ACCA
10 1 (0.33%) CIMA
10 1 (0.33%) HNC
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.71%) QA
2 18 (6.02%) GDPR
3 12 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.01%) SLA
5 5 (1.67%) GxP
5 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) GAAP
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 37 (12.37%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (1.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (3.01%) SCCM
2 5 (1.67%) Ansible
2 5 (1.67%) PaperCut
2 5 (1.67%) Puppet
2 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (1.67%) Terraform
3 4 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Icinga
5 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 70 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.38%) Google
3 27 (9.03%) VMware
4 12 (4.01%) SAP
5 9 (3.01%) Cisco
6 7 (2.34%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.01%) Juniper
8 4 (1.34%) Adobe
8 4 (1.34%) Veeam
9 3 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.67%) Aruba
10 2 (0.67%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.33%) Apple
11 1 (0.33%) F5
11 1 (0.33%) Freshdesk
11 1 (0.33%) Meraki
11 1 (0.33%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (0.33%) Sage
11 1 (0.33%) SolarWinds