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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 225 279 373
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.93% 18.40% 12.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 19.97% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 176 121 257
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,875 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,688 £38,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +62.50% -22.10%
75th Percentile £58,750 £83,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £71,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

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 1,808 1,397 2,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.77% 92.15% 85.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 511 1,852
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,625 £71,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £86,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -8 79 £47,500 -20.83% 26
Slough +1 46 £67,500 - 14
Hungerford 0 16 £49,000 -30.00% 1
Bracknell -7 15 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Maidenhead -23 10 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Wokingham -3 9 £48,885 -53.44% 10
Windsor +2 4 £70,000 +137.29% 4
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 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.89%) Gentran
2 2 (0.89%) SAS
3 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.78%) Azure
2 33 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (12.00%) AWS
4 26 (11.56%) Power Platform
5 19 (8.44%) GCP
6 15 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.00%) SaaS
8 7 (3.11%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.67%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.22%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.33%) Datadog
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.89%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.89%) Serverless
13 1 (0.44%) Asana
13 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.78%) Firewall
2 10 (4.44%) DNS
3 7 (3.11%) WAN
4 6 (2.67%) LAN
4 6 (2.67%) Wireless
5 5 (2.22%) VPN
6 4 (1.78%) DHCP
6 4 (1.78%) VoIP
7 2 (0.89%) HTTP
7 2 (0.89%) Network Security
7 2 (0.89%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.89%) VLAN
7 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.44%) SMTP
8 1 (0.44%) SSL
8 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.67%) OLTP
2 11 (4.89%) Power BI
3 4 (1.78%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.33%) MySQL
4 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.89%) Metadata
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.89%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.89%) Tableau
6 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.44%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.33%) Git
2 10 (4.44%) GitLab
3 4 (1.78%) JIRA
4 3 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (36.44%) Analytical Skills
2 75 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 54 (24.00%) Finance
4 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.44%) Marketing
5 10 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.56%) Retail
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Local Government
10 3 (1.33%) Electronics
11 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (20.00%) Developer
2 42 (18.67%) Analyst
3 38 (16.89%) Senior
4 22 (9.78%) IT Support
5 19 (8.44%) Senior Developer
6 18 (8.00%) Oracle Developer
6 18 (8.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 15 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
7 15 (6.67%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 15 (6.67%) Senior SQL Developer
7 15 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 14 (6.22%) Report Analyst
9 12 (5.33%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.00%) Lead
10 9 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.56%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (3.56%) Project Engineer
11 8 (3.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.44%) HTML
2 16 (7.11%) SOAP
3 15 (6.67%) XML
4 9 (4.00%) JSON
5 6 (2.67%) YAML
6 5 (2.22%) Jinja
7 3 (1.33%) .NET
7 3 (1.33%) CSS
7 3 (1.33%) Middleware
7 3 (1.33%) Next.js
7 3 (1.33%) Node.js
7 3 (1.33%) OLE
8 2 (0.89%) EDI
8 2 (0.89%) React
8 2 (0.89%) REST
8 2 (0.89%) RESTful
8 2 (0.89%) SAPUI5
8 2 (0.89%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 14 (6.22%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.00%) Client/Server
7 7 (3.11%) Life Science
8 5 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.33%) Arduino
9 3 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.33%) PMI
9 3 (1.33%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.89%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.56%) Linux
2 24 (10.67%) Windows
3 8 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.44%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (17.33%) Customer Service
3 33 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (14.22%) CI/CD
5 30 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 28 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (12.00%) DevOps
8 24 (10.67%) Validation
9 22 (9.78%) Agile
9 22 (9.78%) Mentoring
9 22 (9.78%) Software Testing
10 21 (9.33%) Data Governance
11 18 (8.00%) Computer Science
12 17 (7.56%) Software Engineering
13 16 (7.11%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (6.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 15 (6.67%) Business Process Analysis
14 15 (6.67%) CRM
15 14 (6.22%) Collaborative Culture
16 13 (5.78%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (17.78%) Python
2 32 (14.22%) SQL
3 22 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.44%) C#
5 18 (8.00%) PL/SQL
6 16 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.33%) C
8 11 (4.89%) C++
9 9 (4.00%) Java
9 9 (4.00%) Rust
10 3 (1.33%) Pascal
11 2 (0.89%) ABAP
11 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) Bash
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (21.78%) Degree
2 23 (10.22%) ACCA
2 23 (10.22%) CIMA
3 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.89%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.00%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.33%) CISM
8 3 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.89%) HNC
9 2 (0.89%) HND
10 1 (0.44%) CCIE
10 1 (0.44%) CCNA
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.56%) QA
2 9 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.22%) SLA
5 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.33%) NIST
5 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.11%) Hyper-V
3 15 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.44%) KVM
5 3 (1.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.22%) Terraform
3 4 (1.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Netcool
5 1 (0.44%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.44%) Packer
5 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 65 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.22%) Oracle
3 15 (6.67%) VMware
4 7 (3.11%) Cisco
4 7 (3.11%) Google
5 5 (2.22%) Adobe
5 5 (2.22%) IBM
5 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.78%) Databricks
6 4 (1.78%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.33%) Motorola
7 3 (1.33%) SAP
7 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.89%) Draytek
8 2 (0.89%) Informatica
8 2 (0.89%) Meraki
8 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.89%) Sophos
8 2 (0.89%) Yealink