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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 400 297 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 20.92% 13.92% 17.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.30% 16.32% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 125 125 133
10th Percentile £27,620 £28,000 £28,058
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,013 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% +25.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £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 1,646 1,820 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.09% 85.33% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 707 901 1,122
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,982 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £48,701 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +2.28% -

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 25 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 25 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 -3 122 £65,000 -3.70% 11
Maidenhead -4 88 £21,500 -59.05% 17
Windsor +10 75 £45,500 -44.85% 5
Reading -4 37 £57,500 +30.16% 66
Hungerford +3 12 £41,000 -41.43%
Bracknell +20 7 £32,500 -10.96% 9
Ascot 0 5 £82,500 - 2
Wokingham - 4 £46,250 - 9
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 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.00%) Confluence
3 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 99 (24.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.00%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 6 (1.50%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.50%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.50%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.50%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 128 (32.00%) Azure
2 69 (17.25%) Power Platform
3 41 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (7.25%) AWS
5 20 (5.00%) GCP
5 20 (5.00%) SaaS
6 15 (3.75%) Collibra
6 15 (3.75%) Vertex AI
7 12 (3.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (1.25%) SonarCloud
9 4 (1.00%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.75%) Boomi
10 3 (0.75%) iPaaS
10 3 (0.75%) Serverless
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.00%) Firewall
2 10 (2.50%) WAN
3 9 (2.25%) LAN
4 7 (1.75%) DNS
5 6 (1.50%) DHCP
6 4 (1.00%) Wireless
7 3 (0.75%) VoIP
7 3 (0.75%) VPN
8 1 (0.25%) 5G
8 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.25%) MIMO
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) NGN
8 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (19.50%) Data Lake
2 68 (17.00%) Power BI
3 63 (15.75%) SAP BW
4 16 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.75%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.00%) OLTP
7 4 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.50%) Metadata
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.50%) Tableau
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.25%) Big Data
9 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) DTS
9 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.00%) Git
2 5 (1.25%) MSBuild
2 5 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
2 5 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.00%) JIRA
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 288 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 132 (33.00%) Finance
3 129 (32.25%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (20.25%) Marketing
5 77 (19.25%) Manufacturing
6 45 (11.25%) Law
7 42 (10.50%) Retail
8 18 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.00%) French Language
12 4 (1.00%) Military
12 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Advertising
13 2 (0.50%) Electronics
13 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.50%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 164 (41.00%) Senior
2 129 (32.25%) Analyst
3 109 (27.25%) Lead
4 58 (14.50%) Senior Analyst
5 57 (14.25%) SAP Analyst
6 35 (8.75%) Report Analyst
7 29 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 28 (7.00%) IT Support
8 28 (7.00%) Sustainability Analyst
9 25 (6.25%) Support Analyst
10 23 (5.75%) Developer
11 22 (5.50%) Senior Manager
12 18 (4.50%) Senior Developer
13 17 (4.25%) IT Analyst
14 16 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (4.00%) IT Support Analyst
15 15 (3.75%) Data Model Manager
16 14 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 14 (3.50%) Support Engineer
16 14 (3.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.75%) HTML
2 20 (5.00%) CSS
2 20 (5.00%) Node.js
3 18 (4.50%) React
4 15 (3.75%) RESTful
5 10 (2.50%) XML
6 8 (2.00%) REST
7 7 (1.75%) .NET
8 6 (1.50%) EDI
8 6 (1.50%) JSON
9 5 (1.25%) ASP.NET
9 5 (1.25%) Bootstrap
9 5 (1.25%) gRPC
9 5 (1.25%) SOAP
10 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.50%) Mustache
10 2 (0.50%) SAPUI5
10 2 (0.50%) Spring
10 2 (0.50%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 28 (7.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 21 (5.25%) Driving Licence
5 16 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.50%) FMCG
7 6 (1.50%) Life Science
8 5 (1.25%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.75%) SCADA
9 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.50%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.25%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.75%) Windows
2 6 (1.50%) Linux
3 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (33.00%) Analytics
2 105 (26.25%) Data Modelling
3 103 (25.75%) ERP
4 99 (24.75%) SAP Implementation
5 85 (21.25%) Quality Management
6 75 (18.75%) Incident Management
7 74 (18.50%) Business Intelligence
8 68 (17.00%) Agile
9 67 (16.75%) Technical Leadership
10 62 (15.50%) Data Cleansing
11 61 (15.25%) Data Management
12 60 (15.00%) Logistics
13 59 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (14.75%) Translating Business Requirements
14 58 (14.50%) Architectural Design
14 58 (14.50%) User Acceptance Testing
15 57 (14.25%) Data Collection
15 57 (14.25%) Decision Quality
15 57 (14.25%) Impact Analysis
16 49 (12.25%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.50%) SQL
2 25 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.50%) Java
5 5 (1.25%) C#
5 5 (1.25%) Python
6 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) Bicep
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) R
8 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 135 (33.75%) Degree
2 7 (1.75%) SC Cleared
2 7 (1.75%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.00%) A+ Certification
3 4 (1.00%) CISA
3 4 (1.00%) CISM
3 4 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 3 (0.75%) CIMA
4 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.75%) MCSE
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.50%) ACCA
5 2 (0.50%) CISSP
5 2 (0.50%) HND
5 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (0.50%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (0.50%) OCP
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.25%) QA
3 9 (2.25%) GDPR
4 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) GxP
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.25%) Docker
3 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.50%) Terraform
4 4 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Netcool
5 1 (0.25%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 168 (42.00%) SAP
2 70 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.75%) Google
4 16 (4.00%) Oracle
5 15 (3.75%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.00%) JD Edwards
7 6 (1.50%) Cisco
8 5 (1.25%) Draytek
8 5 (1.25%) Meraki
8 5 (1.25%) Sophos
8 5 (1.25%) Workday
9 4 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.00%) IBM
10 3 (0.75%) Adobe
10 3 (0.75%) Databricks
10 3 (0.75%) Dell
10 3 (0.75%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.75%) VMware
11 2 (0.50%) Salesforce