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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 336 441 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 9.30% 23.27% 13.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.97% 26.03% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 234 119 109
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £41,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -34.40% +19.05%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £80,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £41,585 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.96% -20.00% -

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 2,591 1,694 1,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.71% 89.39% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 685 928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +2 123 £48,250 +48.46% 90
Slough -7 38 £45,000 +5.88% 50
Wokingham -1 17 £65,000 +30.00% 16
Windsor -4 14 £35,000 -25.53% 24
Maidenhead -13 11 £28,500 +32.56% 14
Bracknell -10 7 £33,250 -44.58% 20
Thatcham 0 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 27 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (9.82%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.38%) AutoCAD
3 8 (2.38%) Revit
4 5 (1.49%) Mathematica
5 3 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.30%) Mathcad
7 1 (0.30%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.46%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.79%) Shopify
3 2 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.60%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 50 (14.88%) Azure
2 42 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (10.12%) Power Platform
4 23 (6.85%) AWS
5 21 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 21 (6.25%) Google Workspace
6 8 (2.38%) GCP
6 8 (2.38%) SaaS
7 7 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.19%) Datadog
9 3 (0.89%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (0.89%) Azure AI
9 3 (0.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (0.89%) GitHub
9 3 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (0.89%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.89%) Serverless
9 3 (0.89%) WeChat
10 2 (0.60%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.85%) DNS
1 23 (6.85%) Firewall
2 20 (5.95%) DHCP
3 19 (5.65%) VoIP
4 16 (4.76%) VLAN
4 16 (4.76%) VPN
5 15 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.27%) SSL
7 10 (2.98%) LAN
7 10 (2.98%) WAN
8 9 (2.68%) Network Security
9 5 (1.49%) 5G
9 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.89%) Wireless
10 3 (0.89%) WLAN
11 2 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
12 1 (0.30%) 4G
12 1 (0.30%) Modbus
12 1 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.52%) Power BI
2 6 (1.79%) OLTP
2 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (1.49%) Tableau
4 4 (1.19%) MySQL
4 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.60%) Power Query
6 2 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.30%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.38%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Git
3 4 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (0.89%) Selenium
5 2 (0.60%) Mocha
5 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) JMeter
6 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 174 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (21.13%) Finance
4 40 (11.90%) Organisational Skills
5 32 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 26 (7.74%) Retail
7 24 (7.14%) Electronics
8 22 (6.55%) Legal
9 21 (6.25%) Aerospace
10 16 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.57%) Marketing
12 9 (2.68%) Advertising
12 9 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (2.38%) Billing
13 8 (2.38%) Law
14 7 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.89%) Military
16 3 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 59 (17.56%) Analyst
2 40 (11.90%) Senior
2 40 (11.90%) Support Analyst
3 33 (9.82%) IT Support
4 29 (8.63%) Support Engineer
5 27 (8.04%) Developer
6 20 (5.95%) IT Engineer
7 19 (5.65%) Lead
8 18 (5.36%) Business Systems Analyst
8 18 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (5.36%) Systems Analyst
8 18 (5.36%) Systems Support
9 17 (5.06%) Business Support Analyst
9 17 (5.06%) Systems Support Analyst
10 16 (4.76%) Applications Support
11 15 (4.46%) Applications Support Analyst
12 12 (3.57%) Business Analyst
12 12 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.57%) Test Engineer
13 11 (3.27%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.57%) HTML
2 9 (2.68%) XML
3 7 (2.08%) Node.js
3 7 (2.08%) SOAP
4 5 (1.49%) .NET
5 4 (1.19%) CSS
5 4 (1.19%) JSON
5 4 (1.19%) Middleware
5 4 (1.19%) Terraform
6 3 (0.89%) FastAPI
6 3 (0.89%) HTML5
6 3 (0.89%) Jest
6 3 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (0.89%) React
6 3 (0.89%) RESTful
7 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.60%) Express.js
7 2 (0.60%) jQuery
7 2 (0.60%) Laravel
7 2 (0.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.69%) Driving Licence
2 24 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.49%) Blog
8 5 (1.49%) Smart Home
8 5 (1.49%) Synthetic Data
9 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.89%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.60%) Device Driver
11 2 (0.60%) PKI
11 2 (0.60%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.80%) Windows
2 24 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.25%) Linux
4 15 (4.46%) macOS
5 9 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.89%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Rocky
9 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (18.45%) Customer Service
3 51 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (13.10%) Collaborative Working
5 42 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 41 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (11.31%) CRM
8 33 (9.82%) AI
9 32 (9.52%) Agile
9 32 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (9.52%) Project Delivery
10 31 (9.23%) Project Management
11 26 (7.74%) Kalman Filter
12 24 (7.14%) Business Analysis
12 24 (7.14%) Decision-Making
13 22 (6.55%) ITIL
13 22 (6.55%) Preventative Maintenance
13 22 (6.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (6.25%) Mentoring
15 20 (5.95%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.29%) SQL
2 35 (10.42%) Python
3 23 (6.85%) Java
4 20 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 18 (5.36%) C++
6 15 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 12 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.08%) C#
9 6 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.49%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.19%) C
12 2 (0.60%) Bash
12 2 (0.60%) PHP
12 2 (0.60%) R
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (25.00%) Degree
2 30 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.74%) DBS Check
4 20 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.46%) Network+ Certification
7 12 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (3.27%) HNC
8 11 (3.27%) HND
9 8 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.49%) PhD
11 4 (1.19%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.89%) ACCA
12 3 (0.89%) CIMA
12 3 (0.89%) City & Guilds
12 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.23%) Accessibility
1 31 (9.23%) QA
2 18 (5.36%) Good Clinical Practice
3 14 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (2.68%) GDPR
6 8 (2.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 8 (2.38%) GLP
6 8 (2.38%) GMP
6 8 (2.38%) GxP
7 7 (2.08%) PMO
8 2 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.60%) COSO
8 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) GAAP
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.49%) ClearTrust
5 4 (1.19%) Docker
5 4 (1.19%) Firmware
5 4 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.30%) LXC
8 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.89%) Ansible
5 2 (0.60%) Autotask
5 2 (0.60%) N-central
6 1 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.33%) Google
3 19 (5.65%) Apple
4 17 (5.06%) VMware
5 15 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.17%) Sage
7 13 (3.87%) CA Agile Central
7 13 (3.87%) Datto
8 11 (3.27%) Cisco
8 11 (3.27%) SonicWALL
8 11 (3.27%) Veeam
9 10 (2.98%) Oracle
9 10 (2.98%) Thales
10 7 (2.08%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.49%) Adobe
11 5 (1.49%) EMC
11 5 (1.49%) SAP
12 4 (1.19%) ConnectWise
12 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.89%) OpenAI