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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 254 453 322
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.90% 23.66% 12.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.30% 26.74% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 194 139 139
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,400 £28,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £42,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -11.46% -20.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,227 £70,250
90th Percentile £71,100 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £43,000 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% -11.46% -6.66%

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 2,248 1,694 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 69.92% 88.46% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 694 1,217
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.25% +7.18%
75th Percentile £71,535 £72,500 £75,000
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 20 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 20 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 -5 90 £50,000 - 51
Slough +1 51 £45,000 +5.88% 15
Windsor +3 14 £35,000 +18.64% 13
Wokingham -1 12 £54,442 +8.88% 7
Bracknell -23 7 £47,500 -5.00% 11
Maidenhead -16 6 £28,500 +32.56% 14
Thatcham -1 3 - - 2
Hungerford -3 1 £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 15 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.79%) Confluence
3 2 (0.79%) Gentran
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.97%) AutoCAD
3 5 (1.97%) Revit
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.76%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.90%) Azure
2 32 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (10.63%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.45%) AWS
5 15 (5.91%) Google Workspace
6 11 (4.33%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.94%) GCP
8 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.57%) Datadog
9 3 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.18%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.18%) GitHub
9 3 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.18%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.18%) Serverless
9 3 (1.18%) WeChat
10 2 (0.79%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.48%) Firewall
2 15 (5.91%) DNS
3 12 (4.72%) DHCP
3 12 (4.72%) VoIP
3 12 (4.72%) VPN
4 9 (3.54%) SSL
4 9 (3.54%) VLAN
4 9 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.97%) Network Security
6 3 (1.18%) LAN
6 3 (1.18%) WAN
7 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.39%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.39%) HTTP
8 1 (0.39%) RS-485
8 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.39%) Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.84%) Power BI
2 9 (3.54%) OLTP
3 7 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.97%) MySQL
4 5 (1.97%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.57%) Tableau
6 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.79%) Power Query
7 2 (0.79%) Redis
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Git
1 8 (3.15%) GitLab
2 5 (1.97%) JIRA
3 2 (0.79%) Mocha
3 2 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.79%) Selenium
3 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 132 (51.97%) Social Skills
2 78 (30.71%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (20.08%) Finance
4 24 (9.45%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (9.06%) Manufacturing
6 19 (7.48%) Legal
7 16 (6.30%) Electronics
8 11 (4.33%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.54%) Retail
11 8 (3.15%) Marketing
12 6 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.36%) Law
13 5 (1.97%) Advertising
14 3 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.18%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.18%) Military
15 2 (0.79%) Games
15 2 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (18.90%) Analyst
2 28 (11.02%) Developer
2 28 (11.02%) Senior
3 25 (9.84%) IT Support
3 25 (9.84%) Support Analyst
4 17 (6.69%) Support Engineer
5 16 (6.30%) Applications Support
6 15 (5.91%) Applications Support Analyst
6 15 (5.91%) Lead
7 13 (5.12%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.72%) Test Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.94%) Auditor
10 10 (3.94%) Electronics Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) IT Analyst
10 10 (3.94%) IT Support Analyst
10 10 (3.94%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) SQL Developer
11 9 (3.54%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.12%) HTML
2 10 (3.94%) SOAP
3 9 (3.54%) XML
4 7 (2.76%) .NET
5 5 (1.97%) JSON
5 5 (1.97%) Node.js
6 4 (1.57%) CSS
6 4 (1.57%) Middleware
6 4 (1.57%) Terraform
6 4 (1.57%) YAML
7 3 (1.18%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.18%) HTML5
7 3 (1.18%) Jinja
7 3 (1.18%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.18%) React
7 3 (1.18%) REST
8 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.79%) Express.js
8 2 (0.79%) Jest
8 2 (0.79%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.02%) Driving Licence
2 21 (8.27%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.36%) Smart Home
7 5 (1.97%) Blog
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.18%) Arduino
9 3 (1.18%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.63%) Windows
2 23 (9.06%) Linux
3 15 (5.91%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.54%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.18%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Rocky
9 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (24.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 49 (19.29%) Customer Service
3 39 (15.35%) Collaborative Working
4 34 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (11.02%) Process Improvement
6 27 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (9.06%) Decision-Making
8 22 (8.66%) Business Analysis
9 21 (8.27%) CRM
10 20 (7.87%) AI
10 20 (7.87%) Project Delivery
10 20 (7.87%) Software Engineering
11 18 (7.09%) CAPA
12 17 (6.69%) ITIL
13 16 (6.30%) Data Privacy
13 16 (6.30%) Line Management
13 16 (6.30%) Validation
14 15 (5.91%) Analytics
14 15 (5.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.75%) SQL
2 30 (11.81%) Python
3 16 (6.30%) Java
4 15 (5.91%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.94%) C++
7 9 (3.54%) C#
7 9 (3.54%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.76%) C
10 5 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.18%) Pascal
11 3 (1.18%) Rust
12 2 (0.79%) Bash
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.39%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 67 (26.38%) Degree
2 20 (7.87%) DBS Check
3 15 (5.91%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.33%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (3.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.76%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.36%) ACCA
9 6 (2.36%) HNC
9 6 (2.36%) HND
10 5 (1.97%) CIMA
10 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.18%) CISM
11 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.79%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.79%) CISA
12 2 (0.79%) CISSP
12 2 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.81%) QA
2 20 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.09%) Good Clinical Practice
4 10 (3.94%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (3.54%) GDPR
6 8 (3.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (3.15%) GLP
6 8 (3.15%) GMP
6 8 (3.15%) GxP
7 4 (1.57%) SLA
8 3 (1.18%) NIST
8 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.79%) COBIT
9 2 (0.79%) COSO
9 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.39%) GAAP
10 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.72%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.97%) ClearTrust
5 3 (1.18%) Docker
5 3 (1.18%) KVM
5 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.54%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.97%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Kibana
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 56 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.27%) Google
3 17 (6.69%) VMware
4 14 (5.51%) Oracle
5 12 (4.72%) Cisco
6 11 (4.33%) Apple
7 9 (3.54%) Datto
7 9 (3.54%) SonicWALL
7 9 (3.54%) Veeam
8 8 (3.15%) Sage
9 5 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.57%) EMC
10 4 (1.57%) IBM
11 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.18%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.18%) Juniper
11 3 (1.18%) Motorola
11 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.18%) Salesforce