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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 243 372 357
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.18% 20.91% 12.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.56% 23.51% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 185 142 176
10th Percentile £28,850 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £44,588
Median % change year-on-year - +0.93% -26.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £76,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -12.37%

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 2,102 1,582 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 70.80% 88.93% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 671 1,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -12 75 £47,500 -13.64% 47
Slough +2 57 £45,000 +5.88% 11
Windsor +6 14 £35,000 +18.64% 12
Wokingham -3 11 £48,885 -2.23% 5
Hungerford -1 8 £49,000 -19.01%
Maidenhead -15 6 £31,250 +25.00% 7
Bracknell -24 6 £43,750 -12.50% 9
Thatcham -1 3 - - 1
Ascot -2 1 - -
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 14 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Gentran
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Revit
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.47%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (20.58%) Azure
2 31 (12.76%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (11.11%) AWS
4 23 (9.47%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.94%) GCP
6 9 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 8 (3.29%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.06%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.65%) Datadog
9 4 (1.65%) Serverless
10 3 (1.23%) WeChat
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.82%) SaaS
12 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.41%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.23%) Firewall
2 12 (4.94%) DNS
3 10 (4.12%) VPN
4 8 (3.29%) DHCP
4 8 (3.29%) VoIP
5 7 (2.88%) SSL
5 7 (2.88%) VLAN
5 7 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.06%) Network Security
7 3 (1.23%) LAN
7 3 (1.23%) WAN
8 2 (0.82%) HTTP
8 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.82%) Wireless
9 1 (0.41%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.41%) SMTP
9 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.82%) Power BI
2 12 (4.94%) OLTP
3 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (2.47%) MySQL
5 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.65%) Tableau
7 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.82%) Redis
9 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.41%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Git
2 10 (4.12%) GitLab
3 6 (2.47%) JIRA
4 3 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.82%) Mocha
5 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 112 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 88 (36.21%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (21.40%) Finance
4 25 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (8.23%) Manufacturing
6 19 (7.82%) Legal
7 14 (5.76%) Electronics
7 14 (5.76%) Telecoms
8 13 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.88%) Marketing
11 6 (2.47%) Law
12 5 (2.06%) Advertising
12 5 (2.06%) Retail
13 4 (1.65%) Local Government
14 3 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.82%) Games
16 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 48 (19.75%) Analyst
2 32 (13.17%) Developer
3 27 (11.11%) Senior
4 26 (10.70%) IT Support
5 18 (7.41%) Support Analyst
6 17 (7.00%) Lead
7 15 (6.17%) Applications Support
8 14 (5.76%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (5.76%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.76%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) 1st Line Support
9 13 (5.35%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.35%) Oracle Developer
9 13 (5.35%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 13 (5.35%) SQL Developer
10 12 (4.94%) Test Engineer
11 10 (4.12%) Auditor
11 10 (4.12%) IT Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) IT Support Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.00%) HTML
2 13 (5.35%) SOAP
3 12 (4.94%) XML
4 8 (3.29%) JSON
5 6 (2.47%) YAML
6 5 (2.06%) CSS
6 5 (2.06%) Jinja
7 4 (1.65%) Middleware
8 3 (1.23%) .NET
8 3 (1.23%) HTML5
8 3 (1.23%) Laravel
8 3 (1.23%) Node.js
8 3 (1.23%) REST
9 2 (0.82%) EDI
9 2 (0.82%) Express.js
9 2 (0.82%) Jest
9 2 (0.82%) Next.js
9 2 (0.82%) OLE
9 2 (0.82%) React
9 2 (0.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.88%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.23%) Driving Licence
3 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.47%) Smart Home
7 5 (2.06%) Blog
7 5 (2.06%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.23%) Arduino
9 3 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.11%) Windows
2 24 (9.88%) Linux
3 11 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.47%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.23%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.41%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.41%) Unix
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (17.28%) Customer Service
3 37 (15.23%) Collaborative Working
4 31 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 24 (9.88%) Process Improvement
8 22 (9.05%) Business Analysis
9 19 (7.82%) Line Management
9 19 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (7.41%) CAPA
10 18 (7.41%) Mentoring
10 18 (7.41%) Project Delivery
10 18 (7.41%) Validation
11 17 (7.00%) CI/CD
11 17 (7.00%) Software Engineering
12 15 (6.17%) ITIL
12 15 (6.17%) Project Management
12 15 (6.17%) Software Testing
13 14 (5.76%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.81%) SQL
2 33 (13.58%) Python
3 16 (6.58%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.58%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.35%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.94%) Java
6 10 (4.12%) C++
7 9 (3.70%) C#
8 8 (3.29%) C
9 6 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.06%) Rust
10 5 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.23%) Pascal
11 3 (1.23%) PHP
12 2 (0.82%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (25.10%) Degree
2 18 (7.41%) DBS Check
3 14 (5.76%) ACCA
3 14 (5.76%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.35%) CIMA
5 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.88%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (1.23%) CISM
11 2 (0.82%) CISA
11 2 (0.82%) CISSP
11 2 (0.82%) CRISC
11 2 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.93%) QA
2 20 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.41%) Good Clinical Practice
4 8 (3.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 8 (3.29%) GDPR
4 8 (3.29%) GLP
4 8 (3.29%) GMP
4 8 (3.29%) GxP
5 6 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (2.47%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.65%) SLA
7 3 (1.23%) NIST
7 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.82%) COBIT
8 2 (0.82%) COSO
8 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (5.35%) Hyper-V
3 12 (4.94%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.47%) KVM
5 5 (2.06%) ClearTrust
6 4 (1.65%) Docker
7 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.65%) Terraform
5 2 (0.82%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) Netcool
6 1 (0.41%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.41%) Packer
6 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.00%) Oracle
3 16 (6.58%) VMware
4 13 (5.35%) Google
5 11 (4.53%) Cisco
6 7 (2.88%) Apple
6 7 (2.88%) Sage
7 6 (2.47%) Datto
7 6 (2.47%) SonicWALL
7 6 (2.47%) Veeam
8 5 (2.06%) IBM
8 5 (2.06%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.23%) Aruba
9 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.23%) Juniper
9 3 (1.23%) Motorola
10 2 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.82%) Databricks
11 1 (0.41%) ConnectWise