Problem-Solving Jobs in the Thames Valley

Problem Solving
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,203 816 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.88% 13.26% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.99% 14.01% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 717 407 559
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,921 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,920 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £64,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,730 5,824 6,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.18% 94.67% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,017 3,157 3,932
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +7 487 £45,000 +13.38% 105
Berkshire +5 417 £40,000 -21.57% 141
Oxfordshire +15 299 £42,500 +0.59% 100
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 31 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.83%) WebLogic
3 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.58%) CMS
5 18 (1.50%) Apache
5 18 (1.50%) WordPress
6 15 (1.25%) Confluence
7 13 (1.08%) nginx
8 11 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.50%) Drupal
10 6 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.42%) Joomla!
12 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.17%) JBoss
13 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
14 1 (0.083%) SAS
14 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 108 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 101 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.67%) Sketch
7 6 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.33%) InDesign
9 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.25%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.17%) SPSS
12 1 (0.083%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.083%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 20 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.083%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.083%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.083%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.083%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 171 (14.21%) Azure
2 103 (8.56%) AWS
3 90 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (4.32%) GCP
5 39 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (2.99%) Power Platform
7 33 (2.74%) SaaS
8 30 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.83%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.41%) IaaS
11 16 (1.33%) OCI
12 14 (1.16%) Serverless
13 13 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 13 (1.08%) GitHub
14 12 (1.00%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.91%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.83%) WhatsApp
17 9 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 75 (6.23%) Firewall
2 41 (3.41%) DNS
3 28 (2.33%) DHCP
4 21 (1.75%) SAN
5 20 (1.66%) LAN
5 20 (1.66%) Wireless
6 17 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
7 14 (1.16%) VoIP
8 13 (1.08%) Internet
8 13 (1.08%) SSL
9 11 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.91%) VLAN
10 10 (0.83%) WAN
11 9 (0.75%) VPN
12 8 (0.67%) Broadband
13 7 (0.58%) NAS
13 7 (0.58%) Network Security
13 7 (0.58%) SNMP
14 6 (0.50%) 5G
14 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.32%) BigQuery
1 52 (4.32%) Looker
2 50 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
3 35 (2.91%) MySQL
4 29 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.66%) Power BI
6 16 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.08%) OLTP
8 9 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.67%) CouchDB
10 7 (0.58%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 7 (0.58%) MS Access
10 7 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.50%) MariaDB
11 6 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (3.24%) JIRA
2 26 (2.16%) Git
3 16 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.75%) Gradle
5 6 (0.50%) GitLab
5 6 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.42%) IntelliJ
6 5 (0.42%) Selenium
6 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.33%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.33%) Postman
7 4 (0.33%) Subversion
8 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.25%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.25%) JMeter
8 3 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.17%) ERwin
General
1 623 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 369 (30.67%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (9.14%) Finance
5 73 (6.07%) Marketing
6 69 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (4.90%) Retail
8 49 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 43 (3.57%) Legal
10 39 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 37 (3.08%) Billing
12 25 (2.08%) Police
13 24 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 19 (1.58%) Back Office
15 19 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.41%) Law
17 14 (1.16%) Electronics
17 14 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 182 (15.13%) Analyst
2 153 (12.72%) Senior
3 105 (8.73%) Data Scientist
4 88 (7.32%) Developer
5 67 (5.57%) Support Analyst
6 59 (4.90%) IT Support
7 54 (4.49%) Data Engineer
8 53 (4.41%) Architect
9 51 (4.24%) Software Engineer
10 45 (3.74%) Consultant
11 41 (3.41%) Applications Support
11 41 (3.41%) Lead
11 41 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.41%) Senior Developer
12 39 (3.24%) Applications Support Analyst
12 39 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (3.24%) Support Engineer
13 35 (2.91%) Data Manager
13 35 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
14 34 (2.83%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.82%) .NET
2 45 (3.74%) HTML
3 37 (3.08%) Spring
4 27 (2.24%) CSS
5 24 (2.00%) J2EE
5 24 (2.00%) Java EE
6 23 (1.91%) XML
7 19 (1.58%) JSON
7 19 (1.58%) SOAP
8 17 (1.41%) React
9 14 (1.16%) ASP.NET
10 13 (1.08%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.00%) Kafka
12 11 (0.91%) Hibernate
12 11 (0.91%) Node.js
12 11 (0.91%) RESTful
13 10 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
14 9 (0.75%) Spring Boot
14 9 (0.75%) Web Services
15 6 (0.50%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (12.72%) Algorithms
2 125 (10.39%) Self-Motivation
3 110 (9.14%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 37 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.99%) Driving Licence
7 33 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 24 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
9 22 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.75%) Client/Server
11 20 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.33%) Life Science
14 12 (1.00%) Social Media
15 11 (0.91%) Biopharmaceutical
15 11 (0.91%) IoT
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
17 8 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 177 (14.71%) Windows
2 84 (6.98%) Linux
3 68 (5.65%) Windows 10
4 42 (3.49%) Windows 7
5 38 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (3.08%) Windows Server
7 36 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (2.91%) Unix
9 19 (1.58%) Mac OS
10 12 (1.00%) Windows XP
11 11 (0.91%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.50%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.42%) CentOS
15 4 (0.33%) Android
15 4 (0.33%) VMS
16 2 (0.17%) SUSE
17 1 (0.083%) AIX
17 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.60%) Mentoring
2 251 (20.86%) Decision-Making
3 233 (19.37%) Coaching
4 201 (16.71%) Computer Science
5 198 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
6 185 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 185 (15.38%) Project Management
7 164 (13.63%) Mathematics
8 160 (13.30%) Data Science
9 147 (12.22%) Agile
10 142 (11.80%) ITIL
11 134 (11.14%) Red Team
12 130 (10.81%) Data Analysis
13 121 (10.06%) Actionable Insight
14 118 (9.81%) Collaborative Working
15 113 (9.39%) Data Modelling
16 103 (8.56%) Statistical Modelling
17 102 (8.48%) Digital Forensics
18 98 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
19 93 (7.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 105 (8.73%) Python
2 100 (8.31%) SQL
3 70 (5.82%) Java
4 58 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.24%) C#
6 48 (3.99%) PowerShell
7 42 (3.49%) Fortran
8 41 (3.41%) C++
9 40 (3.33%) C
10 26 (2.16%) Bash
11 23 (1.91%) PHP
11 23 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.16%) Perl
13 14 (1.16%) Ruby
14 10 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.75%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.67%) Scala
16 8 (0.67%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.50%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 401 (33.33%) Degree
2 205 (17.04%) Security Cleared
3 118 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 86 (7.15%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 45 (3.74%) PhD
7 30 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (2.41%) NVQ Level 3
9 28 (2.33%) HNC
10 19 (1.58%) CCNA
10 19 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.50%) MCP
12 17 (1.41%) CISSP
12 17 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 17 (1.41%) DBS Check
13 16 (1.33%) A+ Certification
14 13 (1.08%) CCNP
15 10 (0.83%) ACCA
16 9 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.57%) SLA
2 73 (6.07%) QA
3 67 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 56 (4.66%) GDPR
5 55 (4.57%) PMO
6 12 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.75%) IFRS
8 8 (0.67%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.58%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.58%) ISO 14001
9 7 (0.58%) ISO 22301
9 7 (0.58%) NEBOSH
10 5 (0.42%) GxP
10 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (8.48%) Active Directory
2 63 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (2.99%) Hyper-V
4 32 (2.66%) Docker
5 20 (1.66%) Firmware
6 15 (1.25%) KVM
7 12 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.50%) vSphere
9 5 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.33%) HDFS
11 1 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 61 (5.07%) SCCM
2 28 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.83%) OpenSSO
3 22 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (1.66%) SCOM
5 17 (1.41%) vCenter Server
6 16 (1.33%) Ansible
6 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (1.08%) NetBackup
8 12 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (1.00%) WSUS
9 7 (0.58%) Terraform
10 5 (0.42%) PaperCut
10 5 (0.42%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.42%) Puppet
10 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 4 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.17%) Nagios
12 2 (0.17%) Netcool
12 2 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 311 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.74%) Oracle
3 66 (5.49%) VMware
4 65 (5.40%) Google
5 41 (3.41%) Salesforce
6 26 (2.16%) HP
7 23 (1.91%) Juniper
8 22 (1.83%) Cisco
8 22 (1.83%) Remedy
9 18 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.50%) SAP
10 17 (1.41%) Veeam
11 16 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (1.16%) Adobe
12 14 (1.16%) Dell
13 13 (1.08%) 3PAR
14 12 (1.00%) EMC
14 12 (1.00%) Symantec
15 10 (0.83%) Red Hat