Problem-Solving Jobs in Worcestershire

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 80 31 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 17.28% 16.67% 17.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.28% 16.94% 19.12%
Number of salaries quoted 62 19 27
10th Percentile £25,000 £29,750 £25,050
25th Percentile £25,500 £36,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £35,484
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +19.77% +9.18%
75th Percentile £46,563 £50,300 £43,125
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,548
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 183 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 77.54% 98.39% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 305 139 182
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £27,550
25th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £56,590
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,750 £64,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Worcestershire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Worcestershire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Worcestershire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Worcestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Worcestershire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Redditch +3 19 £25,000 -33.33% 8
Malvern - 18 £55,000 - 3
Worcester -4 13 £37,500 -21.05% 7
Bromsgrove +1 11 £30,000 -5.51% 4
Stourport-on-Severn - 9 £27,500 - 2
Kidderminster +1 5 £50,000 -25.93% 4
Droitwich - 4 £29,000 - 3
Problem-Solving
West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.00%) SaaS
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (11.25%) Azure
4 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.75%) Google Workspace
5 3 (3.75%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.50%) AWS
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) Firewall
2 6 (7.50%) DHCP
2 6 (7.50%) DNS
3 5 (6.25%) VLAN
3 5 (6.25%) VPN
3 5 (6.25%) WAN
4 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 4 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.75%) Ethernet
5 3 (3.75%) SMTP
5 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.75%) VoIP
6 2 (2.50%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.50%) NAS
6 2 (2.50%) PBX
6 2 (2.50%) SAN
7 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.25%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) JIRA
General
1 42 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (51.25%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Manufacturing
4 9 (11.25%) Finance
4 9 (11.25%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Analyst
2 18 (22.50%) Developer
3 13 (16.25%) Software Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Service Analyst
4 12 (15.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Data Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Project Manager
6 8 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) IT Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) IT Support
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
11 3 (3.75%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (3.75%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (6.25%) .NET
2 5 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 5 (6.25%) TensorFlow
3 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.75%) CSS
3 3 (3.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.25%) CUDA
4 5 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Clustering
5 4 (5.00%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Windows
2 10 (12.50%) Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 14 (17.50%) Customer Service
3 12 (15.00%) CRM
4 11 (13.75%) ERP
4 11 (13.75%) User Experience
5 10 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (11.25%) Data Collection
6 9 (11.25%) Statistics
7 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.75%) Budget Management
8 7 (8.75%) Business Strategy
8 7 (8.75%) Data Entry
8 7 (8.75%) Programme Management
8 7 (8.75%) Strategic Thinking
9 6 (7.50%) Front End Development
10 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (6.25%) Deep Learning
10 5 (6.25%) Edge Computing
10 5 (6.25%) Neural Network
10 5 (6.25%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) C#
2 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.50%) SQL
3 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (1.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (38.75%) Degree
2 11 (13.75%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.75%) HNC
5 5 (6.25%) PhD
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.75%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.50%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.50%) MCP
7 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.25%) MCSE
8 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 10 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.00%) Autotask
2 4 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (5.00%) SCCM
3 2 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) VMware
3 6 (7.50%) Apple
4 5 (6.25%) NVIDIA
5 4 (5.00%) Datto
6 3 (3.75%) Draytek
6 3 (3.75%) Sage
6 3 (3.75%) Sophos
6 3 (3.75%) UiPath
6 3 (3.75%) Veeam
6 3 (3.75%) Webroot
7 2 (2.50%) EMC
7 2 (2.50%) Meraki
8 1 (1.25%) Citrix
8 1 (1.25%) Google
8 1 (1.25%) HP
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler