Problem-Solving Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Problem Solving
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 10 15 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 168 101 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 12.75% 10.99% 7.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.60% 11.35% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 139 57 58
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,900 £26,025
25th Percentile £33,000 £34,750 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £50,634 £50,813
90th Percentile £78,000 £60,000 £59,375
North East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,558
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.16% -16.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,151 890 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.33% 96.84% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 967 452 649
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,775 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,099 £38,723 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,963 £78,750 £82,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £48,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.55% +13.53% -5.56%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 118 £42,750 +0.59% 61
Sunderland - 33 £71,500 - 8
Gateshead +14 15 £38,750 -3.13% 13
Wallsend - 2 £45,122 - 2
Problem-Solving
North East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 10 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.79%) IIS
5 2 (1.19%) Apache
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.79%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (30.36%) AWS
2 47 (27.98%) Azure
3 23 (13.69%) GCP
4 21 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (8.93%) Serverless
6 11 (6.55%) GitHub
7 10 (5.95%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (4.76%) OCI
10 6 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.98%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (2.98%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.98%) SaaS
12 4 (2.38%) dbt
12 4 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (0.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.76%) Firewall
1 8 (4.76%) Network Security
2 5 (2.98%) LAN
3 4 (2.38%) WAN
4 3 (1.79%) 4G
4 3 (1.79%) 5G
4 3 (1.79%) DHCP
4 3 (1.79%) DNS
4 3 (1.79%) MQTT
4 3 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.79%) VoIP
4 3 (1.79%) VPN
4 3 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.86%) MySQL
2 21 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 19 (11.31%) BigQuery
4 15 (8.93%) Looker
5 14 (8.33%) Redis
6 12 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (5.95%) Power BI
9 8 (4.76%) Oracle Database
9 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
10 6 (3.57%) Tableau
11 5 (2.98%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.38%) Big Data
12 4 (2.38%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (1.19%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (6.55%) TeamCity
2 5 (2.98%) Git
3 3 (1.79%) JIRA
4 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 55 (32.74%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.26%) Finance
4 22 (13.10%) Games
5 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.76%) Law
7 8 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.17%) Retail
9 5 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.38%) Police
11 3 (1.79%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.19%) Billing
12 2 (1.19%) Electronics
12 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.19%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Banking
13 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (16.07%) Senior
2 25 (14.88%) Lead
3 19 (11.31%) Developer
4 17 (10.12%) Consultant
5 16 (9.52%) Architect
6 15 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.55%) DBA
8 10 (5.95%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Trainee
9 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) IT Technician
10 8 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (4.76%) Trainee Consultant
11 7 (4.17%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.17%) .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) .NET
2 18 (10.71%) ASP.NET
3 16 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 15 (8.93%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (8.93%) Vue
5 13 (7.74%) Node.js
5 13 (7.74%) RESTful
6 7 (4.17%) CSS
7 6 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (3.57%) HTML
8 5 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.98%) jQuery
8 5 (2.98%) REST
9 3 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.79%) CSS3
9 3 (1.79%) HTML5
9 3 (1.79%) LESS
9 3 (1.79%) React
9 3 (1.79%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.19%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Client/Server
1 22 (13.10%) Online Games
2 19 (11.31%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.74%) Driving Licence
4 11 (6.55%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.76%) IoT
6 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.38%) EPoS
7 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.79%) Arduino
8 3 (1.79%) Clustering
8 3 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.79%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.79%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (1.79%) Robotics
9 2 (1.19%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.10%) Windows
2 11 (6.55%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.98%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.38%) Linux
5 2 (1.19%) AIX
5 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 30 (17.86%) Customer Service
3 26 (15.48%) Mentoring
4 23 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (13.69%) Data Modelling
5 22 (13.10%) ETL
5 22 (13.10%) ITIL
6 21 (12.50%) Agile
6 21 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 21 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 20 (11.90%) DevOps
7 20 (11.90%) Project Management
8 17 (10.12%) Data Governance
8 17 (10.12%) MVC
9 16 (9.52%) Data Integration
9 16 (9.52%) Design Patterns
9 16 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (9.52%) Software Engineering
10 15 (8.93%) Coaching
10 15 (8.93%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.74%) SQL
2 32 (19.05%) C#
3 21 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 21 (12.50%) Python
4 15 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.17%) Java
8 4 (2.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.38%) Ruby
8 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.19%) C
9 2 (1.19%) C++
9 2 (1.19%) PHP
9 2 (1.19%) Scala
9 2 (1.19%) VB
10 1 (0.60%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (40.48%) Degree
2 15 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.76%) OCP
3 8 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.38%) PMP
6 3 (1.79%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.79%) HNC
6 3 (1.79%) HND
6 3 (1.79%) MCITP
6 3 (1.79%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.19%) CISMP
7 2 (1.19%) CISSP
7 2 (1.19%) GIAC
7 2 (1.19%) MOS
7 2 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.12%) GDPR
3 12 (7.14%) SLA
4 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.79%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.79%) NCSC
5 3 (1.79%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 19 (11.31%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.12%) Docker
3 8 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (11.31%) Terraform
2 9 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Autotask
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.50%) Google
3 18 (10.71%) Oracle
4 10 (5.95%) Cisco
5 8 (4.76%) VMware
6 6 (3.57%) Sage
7 4 (2.38%) Dell
7 4 (2.38%) HP
7 4 (2.38%) IBM
8 3 (1.79%) Autodesk
8 3 (1.79%) Epicor
8 3 (1.79%) Meraki
8 3 (1.79%) SAP
8 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.79%) Sophos
8 3 (1.79%) Splunk
9 2 (1.19%) Adobe
9 2 (1.19%) Apple
9 2 (1.19%) Databricks
10 1 (0.60%) Citrix