Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,993 8,329 9,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.49% 13.82% 14.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.43% 14.45% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,903 3,729 5,108
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +5 2,897 £45,000 -14.29% 942
North of England +9 2,475 £45,000 - 1,076
Midlands +4 1,803 £42,000 -12.50% 804
South West +7 1,365 £47,500 -5.00% 535
North West +10 1,303 £45,000 -5.26% 597
West Midlands +5 1,150 £42,500 -15.00% 490
East of England +5 1,026 £42,500 -10.53% 514
Scotland -5 944 £45,272 -13.77% 256
Yorkshire +5 920 £43,586 -0.94% 359
East Midlands +5 631 £37,500 -16.67% 315
Wales +5 321 £41,067 +6.00% 128
North East +13 251 £45,000 +5.88% 133
Northern Ireland +19 145 £48,500 -3.00% 61
Isle of Man +3 21 £45,000 +50.00% 6
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 377 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 341 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 189 (1.72%) Apache
4 181 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 111 (1.01%) CMS
6 110 (1.00%) IIS
7 105 (0.96%) WordPress
8 89 (0.81%) Confluence
9 38 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 29 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 28 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 26 (0.24%) nginx
13 23 (0.21%) JBoss
13 23 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
14 20 (0.18%) SAS
15 18 (0.16%) FileNet
16 17 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
16 17 (0.15%) OpenEdge
17 13 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 12 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,044 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 706 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 275 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 59 (0.54%) Sketch
6 56 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 51 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 36 (0.33%) Simulink
10 24 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 23 (0.21%) Trello
12 22 (0.20%) Adobe XD
13 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 18 (0.16%) InDesign
14 18 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
17 10 (0.091%) Revit
18 8 (0.073%) InfoPath
18 8 (0.073%) InVision
Business Applications
1 113 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.45%) Shopify
3 40 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 40 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
4 39 (0.35%) Magento
5 27 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 18 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.15%) iTrent
9 16 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
12 11 (0.10%) Endur
12 11 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 11 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
13 10 (0.091%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.082%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.082%) SAP MM
15 7 (0.064%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 1,815 (16.51%) Azure
2 1,288 (11.72%) AWS
3 1,126 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
4 545 (4.96%) GCP
5 507 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 354 (3.22%) SaaS
7 267 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 202 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
10 182 (1.66%) Serverless
11 178 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
12 175 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 143 (1.30%) GitHub
14 112 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 101 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (0.82%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.68%) Figma
18 69 (0.63%) Miro
18 69 (0.63%) OneDrive
19 67 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 645 (5.87%) Firewall
2 329 (2.99%) DNS
3 326 (2.97%) WAN
4 258 (2.35%) DHCP
4 258 (2.35%) LAN
5 235 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 228 (2.07%) VPN
7 211 (1.92%) Wireless
8 186 (1.69%) Network Security
9 156 (1.42%) Internet
10 139 (1.26%) VoIP
11 129 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
12 121 (1.10%) SAN
13 102 (0.93%) VLAN
14 75 (0.68%) 5G
15 63 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 60 (0.55%) IPsec
17 58 (0.53%) Ethernet
18 57 (0.52%) Broadband
19 56 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 670 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 431 (3.92%) Power BI
3 343 (3.12%) Looker
4 339 (3.08%) BigQuery
4 339 (3.08%) MySQL
5 326 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 259 (2.36%) NoSQL
7 231 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 195 (1.77%) Big Data
9 189 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 169 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
11 159 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 152 (1.38%) Tableau
13 94 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 89 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 89 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 87 (0.79%) Redis
16 81 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 78 (0.71%) Data Lake
18 73 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 572 (5.20%) Git
2 372 (3.38%) JIRA
3 226 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 104 (0.95%) GitLab
5 85 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 59 (0.54%) LabVIEW
7 57 (0.52%) Selenium
8 52 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 43 (0.39%) Maven
11 39 (0.35%) IntelliJ
11 39 (0.35%) JUnit
12 38 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 33 (0.30%) Postman
14 32 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.27%) JDeveloper
15 30 (0.27%) JMeter
16 29 (0.26%) Cypress.io
17 24 (0.22%) Ant
18 22 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,454 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 3,413 (31.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2,045 (18.60%) Finance
4 1,190 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 812 (7.39%) Law
6 790 (7.19%) Retail
7 693 (6.30%) Marketing
8 676 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
9 574 (5.22%) Manufacturing
10 451 (4.10%) Legal
11 428 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
12 394 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
13 378 (3.44%) Public Sector
14 296 (2.69%) Banking
15 260 (2.37%) Telecoms
16 224 (2.04%) Electronics
17 184 (1.67%) Aerospace
18 166 (1.51%) Investment Banking
19 152 (1.38%) Billing
20 149 (1.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,580 (14.37%) Analyst
2 1,434 (13.04%) Senior
3 1,368 (12.44%) Developer
4 883 (8.03%) Software Engineer
5 820 (7.46%) Lead
6 550 (5.00%) Architect
7 546 (4.97%) IT Support
8 426 (3.88%) Support Engineer
9 412 (3.75%) Consultant
10 380 (3.46%) Project Manager
11 357 (3.25%) IT Engineer
12 336 (3.06%) Business Analyst
13 316 (2.87%) Senior Developer
14 312 (2.84%) Data Engineer
15 301 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
16 270 (2.46%) IT Technician
17 269 (2.45%) Graduate
18 266 (2.42%) Software Developer
19 262 (2.38%) Support Analyst
20 261 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 704 (6.40%) .NET
2 613 (5.58%) HTML
3 539 (4.90%) CSS
4 510 (4.64%) React
5 363 (3.30%) AngularJS
6 283 (2.57%) Node.js
7 260 (2.37%) Spring
8 219 (1.99%) REST
9 206 (1.87%) RESTful
10 189 (1.72%) Vue
11 183 (1.66%) .NET Framework
12 174 (1.58%) ASP.NET
13 173 (1.57%) .NET Core
14 157 (1.43%) Web Services
15 156 (1.42%) JSON
16 138 (1.26%) XML
17 131 (1.19%) HTML5
18 127 (1.16%) jQuery
19 113 (1.03%) Spring Boot
20 111 (1.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,035 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
2 570 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 400 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 398 (3.62%) Algorithms
5 338 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 243 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 228 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 173 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 164 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 161 (1.46%) Data Structures
11 142 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 138 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
13 134 (1.22%) IoT
14 109 (0.99%) FMCG
14 109 (0.99%) Public Cloud
15 108 (0.98%) NHS
16 100 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 98 (0.89%) Clustering
18 84 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
19 75 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,689 (15.36%) Windows
2 743 (6.76%) Linux
3 565 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 398 (3.62%) Windows 10
5 185 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 166 (1.51%) Android
7 138 (1.26%) Unix
8 114 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 112 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 108 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
11 103 (0.94%) Mac OS
11 103 (0.94%) Windows 7
12 50 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
13 39 (0.35%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 34 (0.31%) VMS
15 30 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
15 30 (0.27%) Windows 8
16 29 (0.26%) CentOS
17 27 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,234 (20.32%) Agile
2 1,513 (13.76%) Customer Service
3 1,357 (12.34%) Project Management
4 1,352 (12.30%) Mentoring
5 1,335 (12.14%) Software Engineering
6 1,263 (11.49%) Computer Science
7 1,222 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,183 (10.76%) Decision-Making
9 1,085 (9.87%) DevOps
10 916 (8.33%) Coaching
11 871 (7.92%) ITIL
12 823 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
13 729 (6.63%) Analytics
14 708 (6.44%) Mathematics
15 683 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
15 683 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
16 678 (6.17%) SDLC
17 668 (6.08%) CI/CD
18 642 (5.84%) Change Management
19 605 (5.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,659 (15.09%) SQL
2 1,133 (10.31%) Python
3 938 (8.53%) Java
4 924 (8.41%) JavaScript
5 894 (8.13%) C#
6 364 (3.31%) C++
7 361 (3.28%) C
8 328 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 290 (2.64%) PHP
10 284 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 222 (2.02%) Bash
12 155 (1.41%) Scala
13 118 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 91 (0.83%) MATLAB
15 89 (0.81%) Ruby
16 88 (0.80%) Perl
17 81 (0.74%) Go
18 69 (0.63%) VB
19 68 (0.62%) R
20 65 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,927 (26.63%) Degree
2 1,102 (10.02%) Security Cleared
3 694 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 646 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 326 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 309 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 255 (2.32%) DBS Check
8 171 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 169 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 119 (1.08%) CCNA
11 113 (1.03%) HNC
12 111 (1.01%) A+ Certification
13 104 (0.95%) PhD
14 98 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 97 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
15 97 (0.88%) CISSP
16 96 (0.87%) HND
17 92 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 81 (0.74%) MCSE
19 77 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 605 (5.50%) QA
2 480 (4.37%) GDPR
3 403 (3.67%) SLA
4 357 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 178 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.24%) PMO
8 134 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 98 (0.89%) ISO 9001
10 66 (0.60%) NIST
11 51 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 51 (0.46%) WCAG
12 41 (0.37%) IFRS
13 34 (0.31%) GAAP
14 29 (0.26%) NCSC
15 24 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 23 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.19%) ISO 13485
17 21 (0.19%) PCI DSS
17 21 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 919 (8.36%) Active Directory
2 408 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 399 (3.63%) Docker
4 290 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 127 (1.16%) Firmware
6 79 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 65 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 42 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 38 (0.35%) vSphere
10 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
12 24 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.19%) KVM
14 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.11%) XenApp
16 11 (0.10%) NFS
17 8 (0.073%) XenDesktop
18 7 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.055%) pfSense
20 5 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 389 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 221 (2.01%) Terraform
3 193 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 168 (1.53%) Ansible
5 165 (1.50%) SCCM
6 67 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 55 (0.50%) Puppet
8 46 (0.42%) SCOM
9 37 (0.34%) EnCase
10 36 (0.33%) WSUS
11 33 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.28%) Grafana
13 29 (0.26%) OpenSSO
14 28 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 26 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
16 22 (0.20%) Progress Chef
16 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
17 18 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
18 17 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,641 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 614 (5.59%) Google
3 570 (5.19%) VMware
4 385 (3.50%) Oracle
5 293 (2.67%) SAP
6 274 (2.49%) Cisco
7 180 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 121 (1.10%) Veeam
9 110 (1.00%) Databricks
10 107 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 105 (0.96%) Apple
12 102 (0.93%) IBM
13 98 (0.89%) Adobe
14 97 (0.88%) Citrix
15 95 (0.86%) Dell
15 95 (0.86%) HP
16 90 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 77 (0.70%) Meraki
18 75 (0.68%) Red Hat
19 71 (0.65%) Sophos