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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 411 295 323
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 21.64% 13.58% 17.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.79% 16.18% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 125 118 133
10th Percentile £27,620 £30,275 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,013 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +25.00% +8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £83,750 £86,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -2.91%

All Process and 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 1,658 1,823 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.31% 83.93% 91.24%
Number of salaries quoted 705 892 1,129
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,982 £48,881 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -5.21%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,100
South East median annual salary £47,520 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.14% +1.82% -

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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
Slough -3 126 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Maidenhead -2 91 £21,500 -54.01% 15
Windsor +10 78 £45,500 -44.85% 7
Reading -6 43 £53,500 +21.11% 92
Hungerford +2 11 £41,000 -41.43%
Bracknell +17 7 £32,500 -10.96% 9
Ascot +1 6 £82,500 - 1
Wokingham - 4 £50,000 - 14
Thatcham - 2 £51,000 -
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 12 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.97%) Confluence
3 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 99 (24.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (18.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.95%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 6 (1.46%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.46%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.46%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.46%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.97%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.49%) Sage CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 134 (32.60%) Azure
2 69 (16.79%) Power Platform
3 38 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (6.81%) AWS
5 19 (4.62%) GCP
6 18 (4.38%) SaaS
7 15 (3.65%) Collibra
7 15 (3.65%) Vertex AI
8 11 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (1.46%) SonarCloud
10 3 (0.73%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.73%) Boomi
10 3 (0.73%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.73%) iPaaS
10 3 (0.73%) Serverless
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.65%) Firewall
2 10 (2.43%) WAN
3 9 (2.19%) LAN
4 7 (1.70%) DNS
5 6 (1.46%) DHCP
6 3 (0.73%) VoIP
6 3 (0.73%) Wireless
7 2 (0.49%) VPN
8 1 (0.24%) 5G
8 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.24%) MIMO
8 1 (0.24%) Network Security
8 1 (0.24%) NGN
8 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.24%) SAN
8 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.44%) Data Lake
2 68 (16.55%) Power BI
3 63 (15.33%) SAP BW
4 16 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.65%) Data Mining
6 6 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.22%) OLTP
8 4 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.49%) Metadata
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.49%) Tableau
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.24%) Big Data
10 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.24%) MySQL
10 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (6.08%) Git
2 6 (1.46%) MSBuild
2 6 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.97%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 300 (72.99%) Social Skills
2 137 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (32.85%) Finance
4 80 (19.46%) Marketing
5 79 (19.22%) Manufacturing
6 54 (13.14%) Law
7 42 (10.22%) Retail
8 27 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.97%) French Language
12 4 (0.97%) Legal
12 4 (0.97%) Military
12 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Advertising
13 2 (0.49%) Electronics
13 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 174 (42.34%) Senior
2 128 (31.14%) Analyst
3 109 (26.52%) Lead
4 58 (14.11%) Senior Analyst
5 57 (13.87%) SAP Analyst
6 34 (8.27%) Report Analyst
7 29 (7.06%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 28 (6.81%) Sustainability Analyst
9 27 (6.57%) IT Support
10 25 (6.08%) Senior Manager
10 25 (6.08%) Support Analyst
11 24 (5.84%) Developer
12 19 (4.62%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (3.89%) IT Analyst
14 15 (3.65%) Data Model Manager
14 15 (3.65%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (3.41%) Full-Stack Web Developer
15 14 (3.41%) Senior Web Developer
15 14 (3.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.08%) HTML
2 21 (5.11%) CSS
3 20 (4.87%) Node.js
4 18 (4.38%) React
5 15 (3.65%) RESTful
6 12 (2.92%) XML
7 9 (2.19%) REST
8 8 (1.95%) .NET
9 7 (1.70%) JSON
10 6 (1.46%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.46%) Bootstrap
10 6 (1.46%) EDI
10 6 (1.46%) gRPC
10 6 (1.46%) SOAP
11 2 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.49%) Kafka
11 2 (0.49%) Mustache
11 2 (0.49%) SAPUI5
11 2 (0.49%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 28 (6.81%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.87%) Driving Licence
5 16 (3.89%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.46%) FMCG
7 6 (1.46%) Life Science
8 5 (1.22%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.73%) PKI
10 3 (0.73%) SCADA
10 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.49%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.76%) Windows
2 6 (1.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (34.31%) Analytics
2 105 (25.55%) Data Modelling
2 105 (25.55%) ERP
3 99 (24.09%) SAP Implementation
4 85 (20.68%) Quality Management
5 79 (19.22%) Agile
6 75 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (18.25%) Incident Management
7 68 (16.55%) Technical Leadership
8 63 (15.33%) Data Management
9 62 (15.09%) Data Cleansing
10 60 (14.60%) Logistics
11 59 (14.36%) Translating Business Requirements
12 58 (14.11%) Architectural Design
12 58 (14.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 57 (13.87%) Data Collection
13 57 (13.87%) Decision Quality
13 57 (13.87%) Impact Analysis
14 55 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (12.65%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.25%) SQL
2 26 (6.33%) JavaScript
3 13 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.46%) C#
4 6 (1.46%) Java
5 5 (1.22%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.22%) Python
6 2 (0.49%) ABAP
7 1 (0.24%) Bash
7 1 (0.24%) Bicep
7 1 (0.24%) C++
7 1 (0.24%) R
7 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 137 (33.33%) Degree
2 8 (1.95%) SC Cleared
2 8 (1.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.22%) A+ Certification
4 4 (0.97%) CISA
4 4 (0.97%) CISM
4 4 (0.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.73%) MCSE
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.49%) CCNA
6 2 (0.49%) CIMA
6 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.49%) CISSP
6 2 (0.49%) HND
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (0.49%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (0.49%) OCP
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.14%) QA
3 10 (2.43%) GDPR
4 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) GxP
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 26 (6.33%) Docker
3 5 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.22%) Terraform
4 3 (0.73%) Ansible
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Netcool
5 1 (0.24%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (40.88%) SAP
2 68 (16.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.38%) Google
4 17 (4.14%) Oracle
5 15 (3.65%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.95%) JD Edwards
7 6 (1.46%) Cisco
8 5 (1.22%) Draytek
8 5 (1.22%) Meraki
8 5 (1.22%) Sophos
8 5 (1.22%) Workday
9 4 (0.97%) IBM
9 4 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.97%) VMware
10 3 (0.73%) Adobe
10 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.73%) Databricks
10 3 (0.73%) Dell
10 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.73%) ServiceNow