Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 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 10 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 4,788 5,324 9,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 12.81% 13.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.46% 13.32% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,242 3,137 4,687
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,267 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 30,965 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.45% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 27,739 41,261
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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
1 137 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 107 (2.23%) Apache
3 95 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.21%) WordPress
5 50 (1.04%) CMS
6 46 (0.96%) IIS
7 45 (0.94%) Apache Spark
8 43 (0.90%) Confluence
9 26 (0.54%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.42%) OpenEdge
12 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
13 17 (0.36%) SAS
14 11 (0.23%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
17 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
18 5 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
19 4 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 304 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 284 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
3 111 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.42%) Simulink
7 15 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 15 (0.31%) Sketch
8 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 12 (0.25%) InDesign
10 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.21%) Trello
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
13 6 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
13 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
14 5 (0.10%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 62 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) Shopify
3 21 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.23%) iTrent
5 11 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 10 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
8 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.13%) Sage CRM
9 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.10%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 950 (19.84%) Azure
2 784 (16.37%) AWS
3 339 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
4 338 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 276 (5.76%) SaaS
6 217 (4.53%) Serverless
7 194 (4.05%) GCP
8 133 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
8 133 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 132 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 129 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (1.94%) GitHub
13 88 (1.84%) PowerApps
14 85 (1.78%) Snowflake
15 83 (1.73%) Power Automate
16 69 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
17 51 (1.07%) IaaS
18 46 (0.96%) WhatsApp
19 42 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 291 (6.08%) Firewall
2 146 (3.05%) DNS
3 113 (2.36%) Internet
4 104 (2.17%) VPN
5 100 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 84 (1.75%) DHCP
7 76 (1.59%) WAN
8 67 (1.40%) SNMP
9 65 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 62 (1.29%) LAN
11 60 (1.25%) Wireless
12 58 (1.21%) Network Security
13 57 (1.19%) IPsec
14 51 (1.07%) SAN
15 36 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 35 (0.73%) NAS
16 35 (0.73%) VLAN
17 28 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
18 25 (0.52%) VoIP
19 22 (0.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 267 (5.58%) Power BI
3 215 (4.49%) Tableau
4 211 (4.41%) Relational Database
5 199 (4.16%) MySQL
6 164 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
7 153 (3.20%) MongoDB
8 110 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 76 (1.59%) RDBMS
11 73 (1.52%) Redis
12 70 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 69 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 67 (1.40%) Big Data
15 59 (1.23%) Oracle Database
16 53 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
17 52 (1.09%) Data Lake
18 44 (0.92%) DynamoDB
19 40 (0.84%) Hadoop
20 36 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 455 (9.50%) Git
2 201 (4.20%) JIRA
3 107 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 86 (1.80%) GitLab
5 45 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 36 (0.75%) JDeveloper
7 33 (0.69%) Selenium
8 32 (0.67%) TeamCity
9 31 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
10 30 (0.63%) Maven
11 21 (0.44%) JUnit
12 19 (0.40%) JMeter
12 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 18 (0.38%) Cucumber
14 17 (0.36%) Eclipse
15 15 (0.31%) Cypress.io
15 15 (0.31%) SpecFlow
15 15 (0.31%) webpack
16 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 2,542 (53.09%) Social Skills
2 1,419 (29.64%) Analytical Skills
3 1,005 (20.99%) Finance
4 452 (9.44%) Retail
5 321 (6.70%) Marketing
6 300 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 281 (5.87%) Legal
8 271 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
9 200 (4.18%) Public Sector
10 193 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
11 152 (3.17%) Law
12 122 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 100 (2.09%) Banking
14 90 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
15 75 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.55%) Electronics
17 73 (1.52%) Games
18 62 (1.29%) Automotive
19 52 (1.09%) Advertising
20 47 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 897 (18.73%) Developer
2 802 (16.75%) Senior
3 709 (14.81%) Analyst
4 413 (8.63%) Lead
5 374 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 282 (5.89%) Architect
7 241 (5.03%) Senior Developer
8 239 (4.99%) Consultant
9 185 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 179 (3.74%) Software Developer
11 161 (3.36%) Data Analyst
11 161 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 148 (3.09%) Business Analyst
13 142 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 133 (2.78%) Support Engineer
15 126 (2.63%) .NET Developer
16 123 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
17 116 (2.42%) Presales Solution Architect
18 108 (2.26%) IT Support
19 100 (2.09%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (9.73%) .NET
2 349 (7.29%) React
3 317 (6.62%) HTML
4 296 (6.18%) CSS
5 258 (5.39%) Node.js
6 208 (4.34%) AngularJS
7 185 (3.86%) RESTful
8 131 (2.74%) .NET Core
9 129 (2.69%) Vue
10 120 (2.51%) .NET Framework
11 118 (2.46%) ASP.NET
12 104 (2.17%) Spring
13 100 (2.09%) Web Services
14 98 (2.05%) GraphQL
15 94 (1.96%) REST
16 80 (1.67%) Kafka
17 78 (1.63%) YAML
18 75 (1.57%) Django
19 72 (1.50%) JSON
20 70 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 318 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
2 216 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 170 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 158 (3.30%) Client/Server
5 157 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 146 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 146 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 108 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 76 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 72 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 68 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 62 (1.29%) Driving Licence
12 57 (1.19%) IoT
13 50 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 50 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 44 (0.92%) Life Science
15 39 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 37 (0.77%) PropTech
17 33 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
18 32 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 516 (10.78%) Windows
2 360 (7.52%) Linux
3 198 (4.14%) Windows Server
4 112 (2.34%) Apple iOS
5 104 (2.17%) Android
6 76 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
8 44 (0.92%) Unix
9 38 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.58%) AIX
11 21 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.40%) Windows 8
13 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 16 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
15 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
16 13 (0.27%) Windows 7
17 12 (0.25%) CentOS
18 11 (0.23%) VMS
19 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 8 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,216 (25.40%) Agile
2 721 (15.06%) Software Engineering
3 594 (12.41%) DevOps
4 581 (12.13%) Analytics
5 551 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
6 540 (11.28%) Project Management
7 502 (10.48%) Mentoring
8 491 (10.25%) Computer Science
9 483 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 420 (8.77%) Decision-Making
11 417 (8.71%) Customer Service
12 364 (7.60%) User Experience
13 348 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
14 344 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 336 (7.02%) CI/CD
16 328 (6.85%) Data Analysis
17 324 (6.77%) Full Stack Development
18 312 (6.52%) Roadmaps
19 308 (6.43%) Cybersecurity
20 291 (6.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 916 (19.13%) Python
2 901 (18.82%) SQL
3 576 (12.03%) JavaScript
4 570 (11.90%) C#
5 463 (9.67%) Java
6 227 (4.74%) TypeScript
7 159 (3.32%) C
8 150 (3.13%) Bash
9 142 (2.97%) PHP
10 131 (2.74%) C++
11 125 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 118 (2.46%) Go
13 107 (2.23%) T-SQL
14 89 (1.86%) Ruby
15 67 (1.40%) Perl
16 57 (1.19%) Scala
17 50 (1.04%) R
18 38 (0.79%) VB
19 32 (0.67%) Groovy
20 29 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,156 (24.14%) Degree
2 587 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 383 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 306 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 250 (5.22%) DBS Check
6 131 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 97 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 82 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 76 (1.59%) CISSP
10 69 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 68 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 65 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 59 (1.23%) PMI Certification
14 52 (1.09%) CCNA
15 51 (1.07%) Azure Certification
16 38 (0.79%) MCSE
17 35 (0.73%) CEH
17 35 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.67%) PhD
18 32 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (7.39%) QA
2 113 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 110 (2.30%) SLA
4 94 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 72 (1.50%) GDPR
6 46 (0.96%) NIST
7 45 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 27 (0.56%) NCSC
11 23 (0.48%) IFRS
12 22 (0.46%) PMO
13 21 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
14 20 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 16 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.27%) WCAG
18 11 (0.23%) GRC
18 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 332 (6.93%) Docker
2 272 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 170 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 42 (0.88%) Firmware
6 33 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.15%) NFS
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.084%) DFS Replication
14 4 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.042%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.042%) Varnish
15 2 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 294 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 182 (3.80%) Terraform
3 132 (2.76%) Ansible
4 79 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 78 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.59%) vCenter Server
7 37 (0.77%) Puppet
8 36 (0.75%) Grafana
9 34 (0.71%) SCCM
10 18 (0.38%) SCOM
11 16 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.23%) Consul
13 11 (0.23%) Nagios
14 10 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.21%) Graphite
14 10 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.21%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.19%) Data Guard
15 9 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,061 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 216 (4.51%) VMware
3 191 (3.99%) Google
4 175 (3.65%) Oracle
5 139 (2.90%) SAP
6 138 (2.88%) Databricks
7 91 (1.90%) Cisco
8 76 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 74 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 63 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 59 (1.23%) Adobe
13 57 (1.19%) NetApp
14 54 (1.13%) SolidFire
15 48 (1.00%) Dell
16 43 (0.90%) IBM
17 40 (0.84%) Meraki
18 34 (0.71%) Splunk
19 27 (0.56%) Facebook
19 27 (0.56%) Sage