Problem-Solving Jobs in Belfast

Problem Solving
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -13
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 33 98 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 17.28% 19.25% 13.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.33% 21.63% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 49 36
10th Percentile £49,250 £27,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +69.49%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £87,500 £70,625
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £50,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% +69.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 453 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 94.24% 89.00% 97.72%
Number of salaries quoted 46 230 393
10th Percentile £44,375 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £33,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £56,138 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +12.28% +9.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £63,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £69,800
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Belfast over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 6 (18.18%) nginx
2 5 (15.15%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.06%) Confluence
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.06%) Adobe XD
2 2 (6.06%) Sketch
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (6.06%) Figma
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) IPv6
2 2 (6.06%) Multicast
2 2 (6.06%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.03%) IPsec
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.06%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.03%) Couchbase
5 1 (3.03%) Looker
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket
3 5 (15.15%) Cucumber
3 5 (15.15%) JUnit
3 5 (15.15%) Maven
3 5 (15.15%) Mockito
3 5 (15.15%) Postman
3 5 (15.15%) Selenium
3 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.15%) TestNG
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Archiva
4 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.06%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.06%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 23 (69.70%) Social Skills
2 19 (57.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Advertising
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Java Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) PLC Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Programmer
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Auditor
5 2 (6.06%) Design Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Auditor
5 2 (6.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Product Design Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Product Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Auditor
5 2 (6.06%) Senior IT Auditor
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Support
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Spring
1 8 (24.24%) Spring Boot
2 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (18.18%) Kafka
4 5 (15.15%) Gherkin
4 5 (15.15%) Guice
4 5 (15.15%) JAX-RS
4 5 (15.15%) Mustache
4 5 (15.15%) OpenAPI
4 5 (15.15%) REST
4 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 5 (15.15%) Swagger
4 5 (15.15%) WireMock
5 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.06%) JSON
6 2 (6.06%) Middleware
6 2 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (6.06%) React
7 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Life Science
1 5 (15.15%) SCADA
2 4 (12.12%) Driving Licence
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.06%) CCTV
4 2 (6.06%) PKI
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (15.15%) BDD
3 5 (15.15%) Code Quality
3 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.15%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (15.15%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (15.15%) Motion Control
3 5 (15.15%) Multithreading
3 5 (15.15%) MVC
3 5 (15.15%) OO
3 5 (15.15%) OOP
3 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
3 5 (15.15%) Project Management
3 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
3 5 (15.15%) Unit Testing
4 4 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
4 4 (12.12%) Trade Surveillance
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 6 (18.18%) Python
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
4 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 8 (24.24%) Terraform
3 7 (21.21%) Kustomize
4 5 (15.15%) Packer
4 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.09%) Control-M
6 2 (6.06%) Argo
6 2 (6.06%) Grafana
6 2 (6.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
1 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Adobe
3 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.03%) BMC
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow