Creative Problem-Solving Jobs

Creative Problem-Solving
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 736 802
Rank change year-on-year +92 +66 -100
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 254 261 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 142 135 197
10th Percentile £34,100 £39,500 £35,450
25th Percentile £39,063 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £122,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +22.73% +18.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Creative 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +120 226 £57,500 -23.33% 130
UK excluding London +43 189 £55,000 -18.52% 120
Work from Home +130 139 £59,556 -29.93% 117
North of England +107 79 £60,000 +25.65% 33
London +121 63 £65,000 -13.33% 38
North West +47 44 £60,000 -9.43% 11
South West +11 42 £46,000 -8.00% 20
Yorkshire +116 31 £59,556 +45.26% 12
Midlands +19 22 £61,250 -2.00% 15
Scotland -44 18 £55,000 +2.90% 17
West Midlands +35 16 £57,500 -8.00% 7
South East +10 16 £52,500 -50.00% 22
Northern Ireland +31 7 - -
East Midlands -13 6 £80,000 +220.00% 8
North East +3 4 £42,750 +84.45% 10
East of England -39 4 £30,000 -60.00% 1
Wales - 1 - - 12

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.72%) CMS
2 8 (3.15%) Confluence
3 6 (2.36%) Drupal
4 3 (1.18%) WordPress
5 2 (0.79%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (9.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.36%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.18%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.79%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.79%) InDesign
7 2 (0.79%) SketchUp
7 2 (0.79%) SPSS
8 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.39%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) SAP R/3
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
2 2 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.93%) Azure
2 30 (11.81%) AWS
3 19 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.69%) GitHub
5 12 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.94%) Pulumi
7 8 (3.15%) Datadog
8 7 (2.76%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.76%) GCP
8 7 (2.76%) SaaS
9 5 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.97%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.57%) Figma
10 4 (1.57%) Miro
11 3 (1.18%) Canva
11 3 (1.18%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.15%) OSPF
1 8 (3.15%) VPN
1 8 (3.15%) Wireless
2 5 (1.97%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) NAS
3 4 (1.57%) Internet
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) IGMP
4 3 (1.18%) IPv6
4 3 (1.18%) Multicast
4 3 (1.18%) RIP
4 3 (1.18%) SNMP
4 3 (1.18%) VLAN
4 3 (1.18%) VoIP
4 3 (1.18%) VRRP
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) Intranet
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.45%) MySQL
2 20 (7.87%) Data Hub
3 12 (4.72%) Power BI
4 8 (3.15%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.76%) MariaDB
5 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.76%) Redis
5 7 (2.76%) Tableau
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.79%) GIS
8 2 (0.79%) QlikView
8 2 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.12%) JIRA
2 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.57%) Appium
4 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.57%) ESLint
4 4 (1.57%) Gatling
4 4 (1.57%) Git
4 4 (1.57%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.57%) JBehave
4 4 (1.57%) JMeter
4 4 (1.57%) JUnit
4 4 (1.57%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.79%) webpack
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.31%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (22.05%) Finance
4 47 (18.50%) Retail
5 32 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (11.42%) Banking
6 29 (11.42%) Marketing
7 14 (5.51%) Telecoms
8 13 (5.12%) Military
9 11 (4.33%) Games
9 11 (4.33%) Law
9 11 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.94%) Legal
11 8 (3.15%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.18%) French Language
14 3 (1.18%) German Language
14 3 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (16.93%) Senior
2 26 (10.24%) Analyst
3 24 (9.45%) Developer
4 16 (6.30%) Consultant
4 16 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (6.30%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (5.91%) Analytics Consultant
5 15 (5.91%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.51%) Lead
7 13 (5.12%) Architect
7 13 (5.12%) Senior Manager
8 12 (4.72%) Electrical Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Technical Support
10 10 (3.94%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.27%) CSS
2 20 (7.87%) HTML
3 16 (6.30%) .NET
4 13 (5.12%) React
5 7 (2.76%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.76%) REST
6 6 (2.36%) .NET Core
6 6 (2.36%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.97%) Vue
8 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.57%) HTML5
8 4 (1.57%) Jest
8 4 (1.57%) Laravel
8 4 (1.57%) Redux
8 4 (1.57%) XML
9 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.79%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.79%) Node.js
10 2 (0.79%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.27%) Renewable Energy
2 20 (7.87%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.15%) NHS
6 7 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.76%) Fibre Optics
6 7 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.36%) Blog
8 5 (1.97%) Social Media
9 3 (1.18%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.18%) Photography
9 3 (1.18%) Smart City
10 2 (0.79%) Podcast
10 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.69%) Apple iOS
2 16 (6.30%) Android
3 11 (4.33%) Windows
4 9 (3.54%) Linux
5 7 (2.76%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.97%) VMS
6 5 (1.97%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (37.80%) Agile
3 61 (24.02%) Analytics
4 46 (18.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 43 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (15.35%) Decision-Making
7 36 (14.17%) User Experience
8 32 (12.60%) DevOps
9 30 (11.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 28 (11.02%) Actionable Insight
10 28 (11.02%) Project Management
10 28 (11.02%) Visualisation
11 27 (10.63%) Data Analytics
12 25 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (9.84%) Time Management
13 23 (9.06%) Mathematics
14 22 (8.66%) Logistics
14 22 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (8.27%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (7.87%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.54%) Python
2 38 (14.96%) C#
3 33 (12.99%) SQL
4 29 (11.42%) Java
5 28 (11.02%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.91%) Ruby
7 14 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.12%) PHP
9 12 (4.72%) Swift
10 11 (4.33%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.94%) Groovy
12 9 (3.54%) Go
13 8 (3.15%) Bash
14 3 (1.18%) R
15 2 (0.79%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.79%) Tcl
16 1 (0.39%) C
16 1 (0.39%) C++
16 1 (0.39%) Perl
16 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (19.29%) Degree
2 19 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) HNC
4 7 (2.76%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.18%) HND
6 3 (1.18%) MCT
7 2 (0.79%) ACCA
7 2 (0.79%) CIMA
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.66%) Actionable Recommendations
2 19 (7.48%) QA
3 5 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.97%) SEPA
3 5 (1.97%) TARGET2
4 3 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (4.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.12%) Terraform
2 12 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.15%) Ansible
4 8 (3.15%) Grafana
4 8 (3.15%) Progress Chef
4 8 (3.15%) Puppet
5 5 (1.97%) Graphite
6 3 (1.18%) Consul
6 3 (1.18%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.76%) New Relic
2 7 (2.76%) SaltStack
3 6 (2.36%) Apple
3 6 (2.36%) Cisco
3 6 (2.36%) Xamarin
4 5 (1.97%) Adobe
4 5 (1.97%) Aruba
4 5 (1.97%) CheckPoint
4 5 (1.97%) HP
4 5 (1.97%) Juniper
4 5 (1.97%) Meraki
4 5 (1.97%) Palo Alto
4 5 (1.97%) VMware
5 4 (1.57%) SAP
6 3 (1.18%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.18%) Databricks
6 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.18%) Facebook
6 3 (1.18%) Progress