Problem-Solving Job Trends in Berkshire

Problem Solving
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 326 449 318
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.21% 23.34% 13.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 26.12% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 236 121 115
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £41,585 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% -18.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,517 1,719 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.10% 89.35% 81.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 693 983
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £33,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -20.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
Reading +6 119 £50,000 +17.65% 168
Slough -6 42 £45,000 +5.88% 77
Wokingham -1 16 £65,000 +30.00% 23
Windsor -3 14 £35,000 +11.11% 16
Maidenhead -12 10 £28,500 +32.56% 18
Bracknell -7 9 £40,000 -50.00% 30
Thatcham +2 3 - - 4
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.92%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) Gentran
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.45%) AutoCAD
3 8 (2.45%) Revit
4 4 (1.23%) Mathematica
5 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.31%) Mathcad
6 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.31%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.60%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.84%) Shopify
3 2 (0.61%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.72%) Azure
2 41 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.75%) AWS
4 22 (6.75%) Google Workspace
5 21 (6.44%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.45%) GCP
7 7 (2.15%) SaaS
8 5 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.23%) Datadog
10 3 (0.92%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.92%) Azure AI
10 3 (0.92%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (0.92%) GitHub
10 3 (0.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (0.92%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.92%) Serverless
10 3 (0.92%) WeChat
11 2 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.75%) DNS
2 21 (6.44%) Firewall
3 19 (5.83%) DHCP
3 19 (5.83%) VoIP
4 16 (4.91%) VPN
5 14 (4.29%) VLAN
5 14 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.37%) SSL
7 9 (2.76%) LAN
7 9 (2.76%) Network Security
7 9 (2.76%) WAN
8 4 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.92%) 5G
9 3 (0.92%) Wireless
10 2 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (0.61%) WLAN
11 1 (0.31%) 4G
11 1 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.31%) Modbus
11 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.82%) Power BI
2 6 (1.84%) OLTP
2 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.53%) Tableau
4 4 (1.23%) MySQL
4 4 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.61%) Power Query
6 2 (0.61%) Redis
6 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.31%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.07%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) Git
2 4 (1.23%) GitLab
3 3 (0.92%) Selenium
4 2 (0.61%) Mocha
4 2 (0.61%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.31%) JMeter
5 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
General
1 172 (52.76%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (21.47%) Finance
4 40 (12.27%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (9.20%) Manufacturing
6 25 (7.67%) Retail
7 22 (6.75%) Legal
8 21 (6.44%) Electronics
9 16 (4.91%) Aerospace
10 15 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.37%) Marketing
12 9 (2.76%) Advertising
13 8 (2.45%) Billing
13 8 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (2.15%) Law
14 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.92%) Military
16 3 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 63 (19.33%) Analyst
2 40 (12.27%) Support Analyst
3 38 (11.66%) Senior
4 31 (9.51%) IT Support
5 29 (8.90%) Support Engineer
6 24 (7.36%) Developer
7 20 (6.13%) IT Engineer
8 19 (5.83%) Lead
9 18 (5.52%) Business Systems Analyst
9 18 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
9 18 (5.52%) Systems Analyst
10 17 (5.21%) Business Support Analyst
10 17 (5.21%) Systems Support
10 17 (5.21%) Systems Support Analyst
11 16 (4.91%) Applications Support
12 15 (4.60%) Applications Support Analyst
13 13 (3.99%) Business Analyst
14 12 (3.68%) Test Engineer
15 11 (3.37%) Senior IT Support
15 11 (3.37%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.07%) HTML
2 8 (2.45%) XML
3 7 (2.15%) SOAP
4 6 (1.84%) Node.js
5 5 (1.53%) .NET
6 4 (1.23%) JSON
6 4 (1.23%) Middleware
7 3 (0.92%) CSS
7 3 (0.92%) FastAPI
7 3 (0.92%) HTML5
7 3 (0.92%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (0.92%) React
7 3 (0.92%) RESTful
7 3 (0.92%) Terraform
8 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.61%) EDI
8 2 (0.61%) Express.js
8 2 (0.61%) Jest
8 2 (0.61%) REST
8 2 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.19%) Driving Licence
2 23 (7.06%) Data Centre
2 23 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.07%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.84%) Smart Home
6 5 (1.53%) Blog
6 5 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
8 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.92%) e-Learning
8 3 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.61%) Device Driver
9 2 (0.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.58%) Windows
2 24 (7.36%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.13%) Linux
4 15 (4.60%) Mac OS
5 9 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.92%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
2 63 (19.33%) Customer Service
3 49 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (14.11%) Collaborative Working
5 41 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (12.27%) Process Improvement
7 37 (11.35%) CRM
8 31 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (9.51%) Project Delivery
9 30 (9.20%) Project Management
10 29 (8.90%) Agile
10 29 (8.90%) AI
11 25 (7.67%) Decision-Making
12 24 (7.36%) Business Analysis
12 24 (7.36%) Kalman Filter
13 22 (6.75%) ITIL
14 21 (6.44%) Preventative Maintenance
15 20 (6.13%) Data Privacy
15 20 (6.13%) Mentoring
15 20 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.42%) SQL
2 35 (10.74%) Python
3 25 (7.67%) Java
4 20 (6.13%) PowerShell
5 17 (5.21%) C++
6 14 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.76%) C#
9 6 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.84%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.23%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.92%) C
12 2 (0.61%) Bash
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) R
12 2 (0.61%) Rust
13 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (23.62%) Degree
2 25 (7.67%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.06%) DBS Check
4 19 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.60%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (4.29%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (3.37%) HNC
8 11 (3.37%) HND
9 10 (3.07%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.23%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.23%) PhD
11 4 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.92%) ACCA
12 3 (0.92%) CIMA
12 3 (0.92%) City & Guilds
12 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.20%) QA
2 27 (8.28%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.52%) Good Clinical Practice
4 16 (4.91%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (2.76%) GDPR
7 8 (2.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 8 (2.45%) GLP
7 8 (2.45%) GMP
7 8 (2.45%) GxP
8 5 (1.53%) PMO
9 3 (0.92%) SLA
10 2 (0.61%) COBIT
10 2 (0.61%) COSO
10 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) GAAP
11 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.53%) ClearTrust
5 3 (0.92%) Docker
5 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.61%) Firmware
7 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (6.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.68%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.31%) Autotask
5 1 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Kibana
5 1 (0.31%) N-central
Vendors
1 80 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.90%) Google
3 19 (5.83%) Apple
4 17 (5.21%) VMware
5 15 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.29%) Sage
7 13 (3.99%) CA Agile Central
8 12 (3.68%) Datto
9 11 (3.37%) Cisco
9 11 (3.37%) SonicWALL
9 11 (3.37%) Veeam
10 9 (2.76%) Oracle
10 9 (2.76%) Thales
11 7 (2.15%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.84%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.53%) EMC
14 4 (1.23%) Adobe
14 4 (1.23%) ConnectWise
15 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.92%) SAP