Creative Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 576 667
Rank change year-on-year +141 +91 -185
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 151 79 194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 65 43 59
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,090 £48,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +17.24% +31.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £165,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,831 38,657 69,419
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.16% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,334 26,817 41,418
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Creative Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Creative Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Creative Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.30%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) CMS
3 2 (1.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.66%) Moodle
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (23.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.65%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.99%) UserZoom
5 2 (1.32%) SPSS
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.66%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.21%) Azure
2 24 (15.89%) AWS
3 16 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.28%) GitHub
5 10 (6.62%) Pulumi
6 8 (5.30%) Datadog
6 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.64%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.97%) GCP
9 5 (3.31%) SaaS
10 4 (2.65%) Figma
10 4 (2.65%) Miro
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.99%) Canva
11 3 (1.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.30%) OSPF
1 8 (5.30%) VPN
1 8 (5.30%) Wireless
2 5 (3.31%) Firewall
3 3 (1.99%) BGP
3 3 (1.99%) IGMP
3 3 (1.99%) Internet
3 3 (1.99%) IPv6
3 3 (1.99%) Multicast
3 3 (1.99%) RIP
3 3 (1.99%) RS-232
3 3 (1.99%) SNMP
3 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.99%) VLAN
3 3 (1.99%) VoIP
3 3 (1.99%) VRRP
4 1 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) MySQL
2 8 (5.30%) Power BI
3 7 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.64%) MariaDB
3 7 (4.64%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.64%) Redis
4 4 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.99%) Tableau
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.32%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.32%) QlikView
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) OLTP
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.96%) JIRA
3 7 (4.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.65%) Appium
4 4 (2.65%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.65%) Gatling
4 4 (2.65%) JBehave
4 4 (2.65%) JMeter
4 4 (2.65%) JUnit
4 4 (2.65%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.66%) Git
General
1 69 (45.70%) Retail
2 49 (32.45%) Social Skills
3 46 (30.46%) Marketing
4 26 (17.22%) Finance
5 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.31%) Banking
8 5 (3.31%) Law
9 3 (1.99%) Legal
9 3 (1.99%) Publishing
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
10 2 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.32%) Front Office
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Social Science
11 1 (0.66%) Digital Economy
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (16.56%) Senior
2 15 (9.93%) Developer
3 12 (7.95%) Architect
3 12 (7.95%) Electrical Engineer
3 12 (7.95%) Senior Electrical Engineer
4 8 (5.30%) Technical Architect
5 7 (4.64%) Analyst
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (4.64%) Lead
6 6 (3.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 6 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (3.97%) Data Engineer
6 6 (3.97%) Junior
6 6 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) Applications Developer
7 5 (3.31%) Designer
7 5 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.62%) .NET
2 9 (5.96%) CSS
3 8 (5.30%) HTML
4 7 (4.64%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.31%) React
5 5 (3.31%) Vue
6 4 (2.65%) Laravel
7 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.32%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.32%) HTML5
8 2 (1.32%) Kafka
8 2 (1.32%) Playwright
8 2 (1.32%) RAML
8 2 (1.32%) REST
8 2 (1.32%) UIKit
8 2 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.95%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.30%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.30%) NHS
4 7 (4.64%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.31%) Blog
5 5 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.65%) Social Media
7 3 (1.99%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.99%) Photography
7 3 (1.99%) Smart City
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.31%) Android
2 5 (3.31%) Windows
3 3 (1.99%) Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (56.29%) Agile
3 66 (43.71%) Collaborative Culture
4 53 (35.10%) Analytics
5 39 (25.83%) Collaborative Working
6 35 (23.18%) Business Development
7 27 (17.88%) DevOps
8 22 (14.57%) User Experience
9 14 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (8.61%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.28%) Data Science
11 11 (7.28%) Mentoring
12 10 (6.62%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.62%) Configuration Management
12 10 (6.62%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 10 (6.62%) Project Management
13 9 (5.96%) Customer Service
13 9 (5.96%) Design Patterns
13 9 (5.96%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.57%) C#
1 22 (14.57%) Python
2 19 (12.58%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.26%) SQL
4 14 (9.27%) Ruby
5 12 (7.95%) Java
6 11 (7.28%) PHP
6 11 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.62%) Groovy
7 10 (6.62%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.30%) Go
9 7 (4.64%) Bash
10 3 (1.99%) R
11 2 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.32%) Swift
11 2 (1.32%) Tcl
12 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.66%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (21.19%) Degree
2 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.65%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.65%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.99%) MCT
4 3 (1.99%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (6.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (7.95%) Terraform
2 11 (7.28%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.64%) Ansible
4 7 (4.64%) Grafana
4 7 (4.64%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.64%) Puppet
5 3 (1.99%) Consul
5 3 (1.99%) Packer
6 1 (0.66%) SCCM
6 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.64%) New Relic
2 7 (4.64%) SaltStack
3 5 (3.31%) Apple
3 5 (3.31%) Aruba
3 5 (3.31%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.31%) Cisco
3 5 (3.31%) HP
3 5 (3.31%) Juniper
3 5 (3.31%) Meraki
3 5 (3.31%) Palo Alto
3 5 (3.31%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.99%) Databricks
4 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.99%) Facebook
4 3 (1.99%) Instagram
4 3 (1.99%) Progress
4 3 (1.99%) Qualtrics
4 3 (1.99%) Twitter
4 3 (1.99%) YouTube