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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 250 412 323
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.87% 22.46% 12.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 25.48% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 190 138 142
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,288 £28,688 £34,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -10.53% -19.49%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £70,800 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -11.46% -6.80%

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 2,218 1,617 2,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 69.84% 88.17% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,493 685 1,229
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +5.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 84 £48,500 -7.62% 71
Slough +2 54 £45,000 +5.88% 17
Windsor +3 14 £35,000 +18.64% 14
Wokingham 0 13 £48,885 -2.23% 12
Bracknell -25 7 £47,500 -5.00% 15
Maidenhead -19 5 £28,500 +32.56% 8
Thatcham -1 3 - - 1
Hungerford -3 2 £49,000 +19.51%
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 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.80%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Gentran
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.60%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.60%) Revit
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.60%) Azure
2 32 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (10.40%) AWS
4 24 (9.60%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.00%) Google Workspace
6 11 (4.40%) GCP
7 10 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.60%) Datadog
8 4 (1.60%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.20%) Serverless
9 3 (1.20%) WeChat
10 2 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.80%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.40%) Firewall
2 15 (6.00%) DNS
3 13 (5.20%) VPN
4 11 (4.40%) DHCP
4 11 (4.40%) VoIP
5 10 (4.00%) SSL
5 10 (4.00%) VLAN
6 9 (3.60%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.00%) Network Security
8 3 (1.20%) LAN
8 3 (1.20%) WAN
9 2 (0.80%) HTTP
9 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.40%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.40%) RS-485
10 1 (0.40%) SMTP
10 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.40%) Wireless
10 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.20%) Power BI
2 10 (4.00%) OLTP
3 7 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (2.00%) MySQL
4 5 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.60%) Tableau
6 3 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.80%) Power Query
7 2 (0.80%) Redis
8 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.40%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.00%) Git
2 9 (3.60%) GitLab
3 5 (2.00%) JIRA
4 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.80%) Mocha
5 2 (0.80%) Selenium
5 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 82 (32.80%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (20.00%) Finance
4 24 (9.60%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (9.20%) Manufacturing
6 19 (7.60%) Legal
7 16 (6.40%) Electronics
8 12 (4.80%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.80%) Marketing
11 7 (2.80%) Retail
12 6 (2.40%) Law
13 5 (2.00%) Advertising
14 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.20%) Local Government
14 3 (1.20%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.80%) Games
15 2 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (18.80%) Analyst
2 27 (10.80%) Developer
2 27 (10.80%) IT Support
2 27 (10.80%) Senior
3 22 (8.80%) Support Analyst
4 17 (6.80%) Support Engineer
5 16 (6.40%) Applications Support
5 16 (6.40%) Lead
6 15 (6.00%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (5.20%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.80%) Test Engineer
9 11 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
9 11 (4.40%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.40%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.40%) SQL Developer
10 10 (4.00%) IT Analyst
10 10 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (4.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 10 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.60%) HTML
2 11 (4.40%) SOAP
3 10 (4.00%) XML
4 6 (2.40%) JSON
5 5 (2.00%) .NET
5 5 (2.00%) YAML
6 4 (1.60%) CSS
6 4 (1.60%) Jinja
6 4 (1.60%) Middleware
6 4 (1.60%) Node.js
7 3 (1.20%) HTML5
7 3 (1.20%) REST
8 2 (0.80%) EDI
8 2 (0.80%) Express.js
8 2 (0.80%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.80%) Jest
8 2 (0.80%) Laravel
8 2 (0.80%) Model Context Protocol
8 2 (0.80%) OLE
8 2 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.40%) Driving Licence
2 22 (8.80%) Onboarding
3 16 (6.40%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.40%) Smart Home
7 5 (2.00%) Blog
7 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.60%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.20%) Arduino
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.80%) Windows
2 24 (9.60%) Linux
3 14 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.60%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.60%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.40%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.40%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Rocky
8 1 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 48 (19.20%) Customer Service
3 38 (15.20%) Collaborative Working
4 32 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (10.40%) Process Improvement
7 25 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 24 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (8.80%) Business Analysis
10 21 (8.40%) Project Delivery
11 20 (8.00%) Software Engineering
12 18 (7.20%) AI
12 18 (7.20%) CAPA
12 18 (7.20%) Validation
13 17 (6.80%) CRM
13 17 (6.80%) Line Management
14 15 (6.00%) Data Privacy
14 15 (6.00%) ITIL
14 15 (6.00%) Project Management
14 15 (6.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (15.60%) SQL
2 31 (12.40%) Python
3 15 (6.00%) Java
3 15 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.00%) C++
5 10 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 8 (3.20%) C
7 7 (2.80%) C#
7 7 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.00%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.60%) Rust
10 3 (1.20%) Bash
10 3 (1.20%) Pascal
11 2 (0.80%) PHP
11 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.40%) Korn
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (26.80%) Degree
2 21 (8.40%) DBS Check
3 15 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (3.20%) ACCA
6 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.80%) CIMA
7 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.00%) HNC
8 5 (2.00%) HND
9 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (1.20%) CISM
10 2 (0.80%) CRISC
10 2 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.40%) QA
2 20 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.20%) Good Clinical Practice
4 9 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (3.60%) GDPR
5 8 (3.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 8 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.20%) GLP
5 8 (3.20%) GMP
5 8 (3.20%) GxP
6 5 (2.00%) SLA
7 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.80%) COBIT
8 2 (0.80%) COSO
8 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.40%) GAAP
9 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (7.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.60%) Hyper-V
3 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.00%) ClearTrust
4 5 (2.00%) KVM
5 3 (1.20%) Docker
5 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.60%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.00%) Terraform
4 3 (1.20%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.40%) Packer
5 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 54 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.00%) Google
3 19 (7.60%) VMware
4 15 (6.00%) Oracle
5 13 (5.20%) Cisco
6 10 (4.00%) Apple
7 9 (3.60%) Datto
7 9 (3.60%) SonicWALL
7 9 (3.60%) Veeam
8 7 (2.80%) Sage
9 5 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.60%) EMC
10 4 (1.60%) IBM
10 4 (1.60%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.20%) Aruba
11 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.20%) Juniper
11 3 (1.20%) Motorola
12 2 (0.80%) HubSpot