Problem-Solving Jobs in Reading

Problem Solving
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +23
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 273 229 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.97% 14.16% 14.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.08% 14.60% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 164 117 117
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,500 £30,800
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,875 £36,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £59,000 £80,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,875 £112,500 £76,000
Berkshire median annual salary £40,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.57% -7.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,510 1,569 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 88.36% 97.03% 92.48%
Number of salaries quoted 921 823 927
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,380 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £54,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% +4.55%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Reading

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 22 (8.06%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.83%) Apache
3 4 (1.47%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) JBoss
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 51 (18.68%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.47%) Sketch
5 3 (1.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.10%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.55%) Azure
2 16 (5.86%) OCI
3 10 (3.66%) IaaS
3 10 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (2.93%) SaaS
5 6 (2.20%) AWS
5 6 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.83%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.83%) Serverless
7 4 (1.47%) Figma
7 4 (1.47%) Heroku
7 4 (1.47%) Miro
8 3 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.06%) Firewall
2 13 (4.76%) DNS
3 12 (4.40%) DHCP
3 12 (4.40%) SAN
4 11 (4.03%) LAN
5 5 (1.83%) Internet
5 5 (1.83%) IPsec
5 5 (1.83%) SNMP
5 5 (1.83%) VPN
6 4 (1.47%) OSPF
6 4 (1.47%) Wireless
7 2 (0.73%) 5G
7 2 (0.73%) Broadband
7 2 (0.73%) Network Security
7 2 (0.73%) VLAN
8 1 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.89%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.20%) Power BI
6 5 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.10%) MySQL
7 3 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.37%) MS Access
9 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.49%) Git
2 12 (4.40%) JIRA
3 10 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.47%) Subversion
6 3 (1.10%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.10%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.73%) GitLab
7 2 (0.73%) JMeter
7 2 (0.73%) JUnit
7 2 (0.73%) Postman
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.37%) Gradle
8 1 (0.37%) Hudson
8 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 173 (63.37%) Social Skills
2 76 (27.84%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (15.02%) Organisational Skills
4 35 (12.82%) Finance
5 27 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 25 (9.16%) Police
7 19 (6.96%) Back Office
8 11 (4.03%) Legal
9 8 (2.93%) Marketing
10 7 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.83%) Law
12 4 (1.47%) Automotive
12 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.10%) Multimedia
13 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.10%) Retail
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 76 (27.84%) Senior
2 37 (13.55%) Analyst
3 27 (9.89%) Consultant
3 27 (9.89%) Support Analyst
4 24 (8.79%) Applications Support
5 23 (8.42%) Applications Support Analyst
5 23 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (8.42%) Senior Applications Support
6 22 (8.06%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (8.06%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 22 (8.06%) Senior Support Analyst
7 20 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.86%) Developer
9 15 (5.49%) Architect
9 15 (5.49%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.13%) Desktop Support
10 14 (5.13%) ICT Consultant
10 14 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
11 13 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.26%) Spring
2 24 (8.79%) J2EE
2 24 (8.79%) Java EE
3 17 (6.23%) .NET
4 7 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 7 (2.56%) ASP.NET
4 7 (2.56%) Node.js
5 6 (2.20%) HTML
5 6 (2.20%) OpenMP
5 6 (2.20%) React
6 5 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (1.83%) RESTful
6 5 (1.83%) Web Services
6 5 (1.83%) YAML
7 4 (1.47%) 802.1X
7 4 (1.47%) Express.js
8 3 (1.10%) JSON
8 3 (1.10%) REST
8 3 (1.10%) SOAP
9 2 (0.73%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.16%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (6.96%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.30%) Fibre Optics
7 6 (2.20%) CUDA
8 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.47%) Replication
9 3 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.37%) CCTV
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.18%) Windows
2 54 (19.78%) Windows 10
3 42 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 33 (12.09%) Unix
5 29 (10.62%) Linux
6 28 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 28 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (4.40%) Windows Server
7 12 (4.40%) Windows XP
8 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.83%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.94%) ITIL
2 71 (26.01%) Customer Service
3 65 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
4 34 (12.45%) Asset Management
4 34 (12.45%) Decision-Making
5 32 (11.72%) Containerisation
5 32 (11.72%) Service Management
6 29 (10.62%) Agile
6 29 (10.62%) Project Management
6 29 (10.62%) Roadmaps
7 27 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (9.89%) Mentoring
8 25 (9.16%) Break/Fix
8 25 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.16%) Software Engineering
9 24 (8.79%) Incident Management
10 23 (8.42%) Service Delivery
11 22 (8.06%) Enterprise Architecture
11 22 (8.06%) Information Management
11 22 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.92%) Java
2 35 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 29 (10.62%) Python
4 22 (8.06%) Shell Script
5 20 (7.33%) C#
5 20 (7.33%) SQL
6 16 (5.86%) C++
7 12 (4.40%) Bash
7 12 (4.40%) Fortran
8 10 (3.66%) C
9 9 (3.30%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.30%) Perl
9 9 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.56%) Ruby
11 4 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.10%) Go
13 2 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.73%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 154 (56.41%) Security Cleared
2 102 (37.36%) SC Cleared
3 75 (27.47%) Degree
4 53 (19.41%) DV Cleared
5 23 (8.42%) HNC
6 17 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (5.49%) A+ Certification
7 15 (5.49%) DBS Check
8 14 (5.13%) MCP
9 13 (4.76%) CCNA
9 13 (4.76%) CCNP
9 13 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (4.03%) PhD
11 10 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (3.30%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.20%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.73%) MBA
15 1 (0.37%) MCDST
15 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.68%) SLA
2 8 (2.93%) QA
3 6 (2.20%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) WCAG
5 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.10%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 44 (16.12%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (6.23%) Firmware
4 15 (5.49%) KVM
5 13 (4.76%) Docker
6 12 (4.40%) Hyper-V
6 12 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (19.05%) SCCM
2 22 (8.06%) OpenSSO
2 22 (8.06%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (6.23%) vCenter Server
4 13 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.40%) EMC NetWorker
5 12 (4.40%) NetBackup
5 12 (4.40%) SCOM
5 12 (4.40%) WSUS
6 11 (4.03%) Ansible
7 5 (1.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 124 (45.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.12%) Oracle
3 33 (12.09%) VMware
4 24 (8.79%) HP
5 22 (8.06%) Remedy
6 18 (6.59%) Palo Alto
7 16 (5.86%) Extreme Networks
7 16 (5.86%) Juniper
8 13 (4.76%) Cisco
9 12 (4.40%) 3PAR
9 12 (4.40%) Dell
9 12 (4.40%) EMC
9 12 (4.40%) Symantec
9 12 (4.40%) Veeam
10 5 (1.83%) NetApp
10 5 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.83%) SolidFire
11 3 (1.10%) Siemens
12 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.73%) SAP