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

6 months to
17 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 256 453 321
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.00% 23.82% 12.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.39% 26.93% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 194 140 139
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,288 £29,563 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £42,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -11.46% -18.30%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £71,100 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £42,750 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% -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 2,247 1,682 2,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 70.22% 88.43% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,511 694 1,218
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +5.36%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 17 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 17 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 -7 87 £48,500 -7.62% 81
Slough +1 53 £45,000 +5.88% 16
Windsor +3 14 £35,000 +18.64% 10
Wokingham 0 13 £48,885 -2.23% 14
Bracknell -21 7 £47,500 -5.00% 19
Maidenhead -17 6 £28,500 +32.56% 10
Thatcham -1 3 - - 1
Hungerford -3 2 £49,000 +19.51% 3
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 (5.86%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.78%) Confluence
3 2 (0.78%) 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 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.56%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.56%) Revit
4 2 (0.78%) 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 (2.73%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.14%) Azure
2 33 (12.89%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (10.55%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.77%) AWS
5 15 (5.86%) Google Workspace
6 11 (4.30%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.30%) GCP
7 4 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.56%) Datadog
7 4 (1.56%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.17%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.17%) GitHub
8 3 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.17%) Serverless
8 3 (1.17%) WeChat
9 2 (0.78%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.81%) Firewall
2 15 (5.86%) DNS
3 12 (4.69%) DHCP
3 12 (4.69%) VoIP
3 12 (4.69%) VPN
4 9 (3.52%) SSL
4 9 (3.52%) VLAN
4 9 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.95%) Network Security
6 3 (1.17%) LAN
6 3 (1.17%) WAN
7 2 (0.78%) 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 (9.77%) Power BI
2 10 (3.91%) OLTP
3 7 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.95%) MySQL
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.56%) Tableau
6 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.78%) Power Query
7 2 (0.78%) 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 9 (3.52%) Git
1 9 (3.52%) GitLab
2 5 (1.95%) JIRA
3 3 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.78%) Mocha
4 2 (0.78%) Selenium
4 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 130 (50.78%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (19.53%) Finance
4 24 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Manufacturing
6 19 (7.42%) Legal
7 16 (6.25%) Electronics
8 12 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.52%) Retail
12 8 (3.13%) Marketing
13 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (2.34%) Law
15 5 (1.95%) Advertising
16 3 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.17%) Local Government
16 3 (1.17%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (1.17%) Military
17 2 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 48 (18.75%) Analyst
2 29 (11.33%) Developer
3 28 (10.94%) Senior
4 27 (10.55%) IT Support
5 24 (9.38%) Support Analyst
6 17 (6.64%) Support Engineer
7 16 (6.25%) Applications Support
7 16 (6.25%) Lead
8 15 (5.86%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (5.08%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.69%) Test Engineer
11 11 (4.30%) 1st Line Support
11 11 (4.30%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.30%) SQL Developer
12 10 (3.91%) Auditor
12 10 (3.91%) Electronics Engineer
12 10 (3.91%) IT Analyst
12 10 (3.91%) IT Support Analyst
12 10 (3.91%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.47%) HTML
2 11 (4.30%) SOAP
3 10 (3.91%) XML
4 7 (2.73%) .NET
5 6 (2.34%) JSON
6 5 (1.95%) Node.js
6 5 (1.95%) YAML
7 4 (1.56%) CSS
7 4 (1.56%) Jinja
7 4 (1.56%) Middleware
8 3 (1.17%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.17%) HTML5
8 3 (1.17%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.17%) React
8 3 (1.17%) REST
9 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.78%) EDI
9 2 (0.78%) Express.js
9 2 (0.78%) Jest
9 2 (0.78%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.55%) Driving Licence
2 23 (8.98%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.86%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.34%) Smart Home
7 5 (1.95%) Blog
7 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.17%) Arduino
9 3 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.94%) Windows
2 24 (9.38%) Linux
3 15 (5.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.52%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.95%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.17%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Rocky
9 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 49 (19.14%) Customer Service
3 39 (15.23%) Collaborative Working
4 34 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (11.33%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (10.55%) Process Improvement
7 25 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (9.38%) Decision-Making
9 22 (8.59%) Business Analysis
10 21 (8.20%) Project Delivery
10 21 (8.20%) Software Engineering
11 20 (7.81%) CRM
12 19 (7.42%) AI
13 18 (7.03%) CAPA
13 18 (7.03%) Validation
14 17 (6.64%) ITIL
15 16 (6.25%) Data Privacy
15 16 (6.25%) Line Management
16 15 (5.86%) Analytics
16 15 (5.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 41 (16.02%) SQL
2 31 (12.11%) Python
3 15 (5.86%) Java
3 15 (5.86%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.91%) C++
5 10 (3.91%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.52%) C#
7 8 (3.13%) C
8 7 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.56%) Rust
11 3 (1.17%) Pascal
12 2 (0.78%) Bash
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.39%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (26.56%) Degree
2 21 (8.20%) DBS Check
3 15 (5.86%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.30%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.73%) ACCA
8 7 (2.73%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.34%) CIMA
10 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.95%) HNC
10 5 (1.95%) HND
11 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.17%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (1.17%) CISM
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.78%) CRISC
12 2 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.11%) QA
2 20 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.03%) Good Clinical Practice
4 9 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.52%) GDPR
5 8 (3.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 8 (3.13%) GLP
5 8 (3.13%) GMP
5 8 (3.13%) GxP
6 4 (1.56%) SLA
7 3 (1.17%) NIST
7 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.78%) COBIT
8 2 (0.78%) COSO
8 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.39%) GAAP
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.08%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.95%) ClearTrust
5 4 (1.56%) KVM
6 3 (1.17%) Docker
6 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.52%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.56%) Terraform
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 57 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.20%) Google
3 18 (7.03%) VMware
4 15 (5.86%) Oracle
5 13 (5.08%) Cisco
6 11 (4.30%) Apple
7 9 (3.52%) Datto
7 9 (3.52%) SonicWALL
7 9 (3.52%) Veeam
8 8 (3.13%) Sage
9 5 (1.95%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.56%) EMC
10 4 (1.56%) IBM
10 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.17%) Aruba
11 3 (1.17%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.17%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.17%) Juniper
11 3 (1.17%) Motorola