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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 201 325 383
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.72% 20.38% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.86% 21.97% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 155 132 244
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £37,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -19.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £79,063 £59,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £71,250
South East median annual salary £46,663 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.35% +3.33% -14.29%

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 1,850 1,479 2,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.02% 92.73% 84.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,197 531 1,797
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,183 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,001 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -10 74 £47,500 -15.56% 46
Slough -1 43 £67,500 - 13
Hungerford - 15 £49,000 -
Bracknell -9 12 £42,500 -15.00% 9
Wokingham -5 8 £48,885 -36.92% 2
Windsor 0 3 £70,000 +137.29% 18
Maidenhead -22 3 £42,500 -27.66% 4
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 8 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) CMS
3 2 (1.00%) Gentran
3 2 (1.00%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.87%) Azure
2 25 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (11.94%) AWS
3 24 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 18 (8.96%) GCP
5 15 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (2.99%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.49%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.99%) SaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Datadog
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.00%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.00%) Serverless
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.95%) Firewall
2 10 (4.98%) DNS
3 7 (3.48%) VPN
4 4 (1.99%) DHCP
4 4 (1.99%) Network Security
4 4 (1.99%) VLAN
4 4 (1.99%) WAN
4 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.99%) Wireless
5 3 (1.49%) LAN
5 3 (1.49%) SSL
5 3 (1.49%) VoIP
6 2 (1.00%) HTTP
6 2 (1.00%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.50%) SMTP
7 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.96%) OLTP
2 9 (4.48%) Power BI
3 4 (1.99%) MySQL
4 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Git
2 10 (4.98%) GitLab
3 4 (1.99%) JIRA
3 4 (1.99%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (40.80%) Analytical Skills
2 67 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 51 (25.37%) Finance
4 11 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
4 11 (5.47%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Marketing
7 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.99%) Legal
8 6 (2.99%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.99%) Local Government
9 4 (1.99%) Retail
10 3 (1.49%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (23.88%) Developer
2 37 (18.41%) Analyst
3 34 (16.92%) Senior
4 22 (10.95%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.45%) Oracle Developer
5 21 (10.45%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 17 (8.46%) IT Support
7 16 (7.96%) PL/SQL Developer
7 16 (7.96%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
7 16 (7.96%) Senior SQL Developer
7 16 (7.96%) SQL Developer
8 15 (7.46%) Power Platform Developer
9 13 (6.47%) Report Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (4.48%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.98%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.98%) Logistics Analyst
11 8 (3.98%) Procurement Analyst
11 8 (3.98%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) HTML
2 19 (9.45%) SOAP
3 18 (8.96%) XML
4 10 (4.98%) JSON
5 6 (2.99%) YAML
6 5 (2.49%) Jinja
7 4 (1.99%) Middleware
8 3 (1.49%) CSS
8 3 (1.49%) Laravel
8 3 (1.49%) OLE
8 3 (1.49%) REST
9 2 (1.00%) .NET
9 2 (1.00%) EDI
9 2 (1.00%) Next.js
9 2 (1.00%) RESTful
10 1 (0.50%) CodeIgniter
10 1 (0.50%) Java EE
10 1 (0.50%) jQuery
10 1 (0.50%) Spring MVC
10 1 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.95%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.46%) Low-Code
3 12 (5.97%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.48%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.49%) Arduino
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.49%) PMI
7 3 (1.49%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Smart Home
8 2 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.94%) Linux
2 19 (9.45%) Windows
3 8 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.50%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 33 (16.42%) Customer Service
2 33 (16.42%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (13.93%) CI/CD
3 28 (13.93%) Decision-Making
4 25 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (12.44%) DevOps
4 25 (12.44%) Software Testing
5 21 (10.45%) Data Governance
5 21 (10.45%) Mentoring
6 20 (9.95%) Validation
7 16 (7.96%) Deployment Automation
7 16 (7.96%) Software Engineering
8 15 (7.46%) Agile
8 15 (7.46%) Business Process Analysis
8 15 (7.46%) Computer Science
9 14 (6.97%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (6.97%) Line Management
10 13 (6.47%) Budgeting and Forecasting
10 13 (6.47%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.40%) Python
2 33 (16.42%) SQL
3 22 (10.95%) JavaScript
4 21 (10.45%) PL/SQL
5 19 (9.45%) C#
6 12 (5.97%) C
7 11 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.98%) C++
9 9 (4.48%) Rust
10 8 (3.98%) Java
11 3 (1.49%) Pascal
11 3 (1.49%) PHP
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) Groovy
12 1 (0.50%) Korn
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
12 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (26.37%) Degree
2 22 (10.95%) ACCA
3 21 (10.45%) CIMA
4 13 (6.47%) DBS Check
5 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.47%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.99%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.99%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.49%) CISM
9 3 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.00%) HNC
10 2 (1.00%) HND
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.50%) GCIA
11 1 (0.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.95%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.99%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (1.99%) SLA
5 3 (1.49%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (7.96%) Hyper-V
2 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.97%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.98%) KVM
5 2 (1.00%) Docker
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) ClearTrust
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.49%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.00%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Netcool
4 1 (0.50%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.50%) Packer
4 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (24.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.44%) Oracle
3 15 (7.46%) VMware
4 9 (4.48%) Google
5 7 (3.48%) Cisco
6 5 (2.49%) IBM
6 5 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.49%) Databricks
7 3 (1.49%) Motorola
7 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.49%) Veeam
8 2 (1.00%) Adobe
8 2 (1.00%) Apple
8 2 (1.00%) Datto
8 2 (1.00%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.00%) Informatica
8 2 (1.00%) Logitech
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.00%) Yealink