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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 241 376 396
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.41% 21.06% 13.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 23.66% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 183 140 210
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,988 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £47,500 £42,920
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +10.67% -30.21%
75th Percentile £54,375 £71,875 £61,875
90th Percentile £72,250 £83,750 £75,000
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 2,031 1,589 2,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 70.91% 89.02% 81.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 661 1,596
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,188
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 17 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 17 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 77 £47,500 -13.64% 34
Slough +1 57 £45,000 +5.88% 8
Windsor +6 13 £35,000 +18.64% 11
Wokingham -3 10 £48,885 -2.23% 4
Hungerford +1 9 £49,000 -38.75%
Maidenhead -12 7 £34,000 +36.00% 5
Bracknell -26 6 £43,750 -12.50% 8
Thatcham 0 3 - - 2
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 13 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) Confluence
3 2 (0.83%) 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 24 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (21.16%) Azure
2 32 (13.28%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (11.20%) AWS
4 24 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.39%) GCP
6 7 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.90%) Google Workspace
7 6 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.07%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.66%) Datadog
9 4 (1.66%) Serverless
10 3 (1.24%) SaaS
10 3 (1.24%) WeChat
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.83%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.30%) Firewall
2 11 (4.56%) DNS
3 9 (3.73%) VPN
4 7 (2.90%) DHCP
5 6 (2.49%) VLAN
5 6 (2.49%) VoIP
5 6 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.07%) Network Security
6 5 (2.07%) SSL
7 4 (1.66%) WAN
7 4 (1.66%) Wireless
8 3 (1.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.83%) HTTP
9 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.41%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.41%) SMTP
10 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.88%) Power BI
2 12 (4.98%) OLTP
3 6 (2.49%) MySQL
3 6 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.66%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.66%) Tableau
5 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.41%) Metadata
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.98%) Git
2 10 (4.15%) GitLab
3 6 (2.49%) JIRA
4 3 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.83%) Mocha
5 2 (0.83%) 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
General
1 108 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 91 (37.76%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (21.58%) Finance
4 24 (9.96%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (7.88%) Legal
5 19 (7.88%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.81%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (5.39%) Electronics
8 8 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.90%) Marketing
10 6 (2.49%) Law
10 6 (2.49%) Retail
11 5 (2.07%) Advertising
12 4 (1.66%) Local Government
13 3 (1.24%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.83%) Games
15 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 50 (20.75%) Analyst
2 33 (13.69%) Developer
3 27 (11.20%) Senior
4 24 (9.96%) IT Support
5 17 (7.05%) Support Analyst
6 16 (6.64%) Lead
7 14 (5.81%) 1st Line Support
7 14 (5.81%) Applications Support
7 14 (5.81%) Business Analyst
7 14 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.39%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (5.39%) Oracle Developer
8 13 (5.39%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 13 (5.39%) SQL Developer
9 12 (4.98%) Support Engineer
9 12 (4.98%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.15%) Auditor
10 10 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Electronics Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.05%) HTML
2 13 (5.39%) SOAP
3 12 (4.98%) XML
4 8 (3.32%) JSON
5 6 (2.49%) YAML
6 5 (2.07%) CSS
6 5 (2.07%) Jinja
7 4 (1.66%) Middleware
7 4 (1.66%) Node.js
8 3 (1.24%) .NET
8 3 (1.24%) HTML5
8 3 (1.24%) Laravel
8 3 (1.24%) REST
9 2 (0.83%) EDI
9 2 (0.83%) Express.js
9 2 (0.83%) Jest
9 2 (0.83%) Next.js
9 2 (0.83%) OLE
9 2 (0.83%) React
9 2 (0.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.54%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.05%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.81%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.49%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.49%) Smart Home
7 5 (2.07%) Blog
7 5 (2.07%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.24%) Arduino
8 3 (1.24%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.20%) Windows
2 25 (10.37%) Linux
3 11 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.66%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.66%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.24%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.41%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.41%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (16.60%) Customer Service
3 37 (15.35%) Collaborative Working
4 32 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (12.45%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (12.03%) Decision-Making
7 22 (9.13%) Business Analysis
7 22 (9.13%) Process Improvement
8 20 (8.30%) Line Management
9 18 (7.47%) CI/CD
9 18 (7.47%) Validation
10 17 (7.05%) CAPA
10 17 (7.05%) Mentoring
11 16 (6.64%) ITIL
11 16 (6.64%) Software Engineering
11 16 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (6.22%) CRM
12 15 (6.22%) DevOps
12 15 (6.22%) Project Delivery
12 15 (6.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.35%) SQL
2 34 (14.11%) Python
3 18 (7.47%) PowerShell
4 16 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.39%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.98%) Java
7 10 (4.15%) C#
7 10 (4.15%) C++
8 9 (3.73%) C
9 6 (2.49%) Rust
10 5 (2.07%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.24%) Pascal
11 3 (1.24%) PHP
12 2 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) ABAP
13 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (25.31%) Degree
2 16 (6.64%) ACCA
2 16 (6.64%) DBS Check
3 15 (6.22%) CIMA
4 13 (5.39%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.90%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.24%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (1.24%) CISM
11 2 (0.83%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.83%) CISA
11 2 (0.83%) CISSP
11 2 (0.83%) CRISC
11 2 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.62%) QA
2 19 (7.88%) Accessibility
3 17 (7.05%) Good Clinical Practice
4 9 (3.73%) GDPR
5 7 (2.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 7 (2.90%) GLP
5 7 (2.90%) GMP
5 7 (2.90%) GxP
6 6 (2.49%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.66%) SLA
8 3 (1.24%) NIST
8 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.24%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.83%) COBIT
9 2 (0.83%) COSO
9 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.81%) Hyper-V
3 13 (5.39%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.90%) KVM
5 5 (2.07%) ClearTrust
6 4 (1.66%) Docker
7 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.66%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) Netcool
5 1 (0.41%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.41%) Packer
5 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.05%) Oracle
3 15 (6.22%) VMware
4 11 (4.56%) Google
5 9 (3.73%) Cisco
6 6 (2.49%) Sage
6 6 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.07%) Apple
7 5 (2.07%) IBM
7 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.07%) Veeam
8 4 (1.66%) Datto
8 4 (1.66%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.24%) Aruba
9 3 (1.24%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.24%) Juniper
9 3 (1.24%) Motorola
10 2 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.83%) Informatica
10 2 (0.83%) SAP