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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 289 518 309
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.53% 25.24% 12.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.15% 28.37% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 216 124 114
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,475 £32,688
25th Percentile £36,363 £28,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year - -17.23% -14.42%
75th Percentile £57,500 £69,051 £71,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £83,375
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -1.96%

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 2,379 1,826 1,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 70.22% 88.99% 81.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,604 702 1,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 0 106 £50,000 +5.26% 110
Slough -4 46 £45,000 +5.88% 28
Windsor 0 14 £35,000 +18.64% 12
Wokingham -5 9 £66,250 +32.50% 10
Maidenhead -15 8 £28,500 +32.56% 17
Bracknell -14 7 £47,500 -29.63% 17
Thatcham 0 3 - -
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 23 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) Gentran
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (8.30%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.77%) AutoCAD
3 8 (2.77%) Revit
4 2 (0.69%) Mathematica
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.84%) NetSuite
2 6 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.73%) Shopify
4 2 (0.69%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.30%) Azure
2 39 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 22 (7.61%) AWS
5 20 (6.92%) Google Workspace
6 19 (6.57%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.77%) GCP
8 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.38%) Datadog
9 3 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.04%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.04%) GitHub
9 3 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.04%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.04%) Serverless
9 3 (1.04%) WeChat
10 2 (0.69%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.92%) DNS
1 20 (6.92%) Firewall
2 17 (5.88%) DHCP
3 16 (5.54%) VoIP
3 16 (5.54%) VPN
4 13 (4.50%) VLAN
4 13 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (3.81%) SSL
6 7 (2.42%) Network Security
7 6 (2.08%) LAN
7 6 (2.08%) WAN
8 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.04%) 5G
9 3 (1.04%) Wireless
10 1 (0.35%) 3G
10 1 (0.35%) 4G
10 1 (0.35%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.07%) Power BI
2 7 (2.42%) OLTP
2 7 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.38%) MySQL
3 4 (1.38%) Tableau
4 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.69%) Power Query
5 2 (0.69%) Redis
6 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.35%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.77%) JIRA
2 5 (1.73%) Git
2 5 (1.73%) GitLab
3 2 (0.69%) Mocha
3 2 (0.69%) Selenium
3 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 156 (53.98%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.30%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (20.76%) Finance
4 31 (10.73%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (7.61%) Legal
5 22 (7.61%) Manufacturing
6 19 (6.57%) Retail
7 18 (6.23%) Electronics
8 13 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.81%) Marketing
10 10 (3.46%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.77%) Advertising
11 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.08%) Law
14 5 (1.73%) Billing
15 3 (1.04%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (1.04%) Military
16 2 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 60 (20.76%) Analyst
2 36 (12.46%) Support Analyst
3 34 (11.76%) Senior
4 28 (9.69%) IT Support
5 25 (8.65%) Developer
6 22 (7.61%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.88%) IT Engineer
8 16 (5.54%) Business Systems Analyst
8 16 (5.54%) Systems Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) Applications Support
9 15 (5.19%) Applications Support Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) Business Support Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) Systems Support
9 15 (5.19%) Systems Support Analyst
10 13 (4.50%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.50%) Lead
11 12 (4.15%) Test Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Senior IT Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.81%) HTML
2 8 (2.77%) SOAP
3 7 (2.42%) XML
4 5 (1.73%) .NET
4 5 (1.73%) Node.js
5 4 (1.38%) Middleware
5 4 (1.38%) Terraform
6 3 (1.04%) CSS
6 3 (1.04%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.04%) HTML5
6 3 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (1.04%) React
6 3 (1.04%) REST
7 2 (0.69%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.69%) EDI
7 2 (0.69%) Express.js
7 2 (0.69%) Jest
7 2 (0.69%) JSON
7 2 (0.69%) Laravel
8 1 (0.35%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.49%) Driving Licence
2 23 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.08%) Smart Home
7 5 (1.73%) Blog
8 4 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.69%) Arduino
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.11%) Windows
2 24 (8.30%) Linux
3 21 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.84%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.04%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (20.07%) Customer Service
3 45 (15.57%) Collaborative Working
4 42 (14.53%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (12.46%) Process Improvement
7 32 (11.07%) CRM
8 31 (10.73%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (9.00%) AI
10 24 (8.30%) Project Delivery
11 23 (7.96%) Agile
11 23 (7.96%) Business Analysis
11 23 (7.96%) Decision-Making
12 22 (7.61%) Project Management
13 20 (6.92%) Data Privacy
13 20 (6.92%) ITIL
13 20 (6.92%) Kalman Filter
13 20 (6.92%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.57%) Analytics
14 19 (6.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.57%) SQL
2 29 (10.03%) Python
3 21 (7.27%) Java
3 21 (7.27%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.15%) C++
4 12 (4.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.42%) C#
6 7 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (2.42%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.38%) C
9 2 (0.69%) Bash
9 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.69%) Pascal
9 2 (0.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (26.30%) Degree
2 23 (7.96%) DBS Check
3 19 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.84%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (4.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (3.46%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.46%) HNC
7 10 (3.46%) HND
7 10 (3.46%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.38%) ACCA
10 3 (1.04%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.04%) CIMA
10 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.69%) CRISC
11 2 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.07%) QA
2 27 (9.34%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.23%) Good Clinical Practice
4 15 (5.19%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.46%) GDPR
7 8 (2.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 8 (2.77%) GLP
7 8 (2.77%) GMP
7 8 (2.77%) GxP
8 3 (1.04%) PMO
8 3 (1.04%) SLA
9 2 (0.69%) COBIT
9 2 (0.69%) COSO
9 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.84%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.73%) ClearTrust
5 3 (1.04%) Docker
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) KVM
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.81%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.73%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Kibana
5 1 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 68 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.00%) Google
3 19 (6.57%) VMware
4 17 (5.88%) Apple
5 14 (4.84%) Sage
6 12 (4.15%) CA Agile Central
7 11 (3.81%) Cisco
7 11 (3.81%) Datto
7 11 (3.81%) Oracle
7 11 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.81%) SonicWALL
7 11 (3.81%) Veeam
8 6 (2.08%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.73%) EMC
9 5 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.73%) Thales
10 4 (1.38%) IBM
11 3 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.04%) Juniper
11 3 (1.04%) SAP