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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 210 343 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.09% 21.28% 12.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 23.25% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 161 136 248
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +18.34% -23.18%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,313 £59,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £71,250
South East median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,849 1,475 2,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 71.20% 91.50% 82.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 559 1,823
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,183 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,750 £84,750
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 77 £46,575 -15.32% 42
Slough -1 48 £45,000 -33.33% 17
Hungerford - 13 £49,000 -
Bracknell -18 10 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Wokingham -6 7 £48,885 -2.23% 6
Windsor +1 5 £70,000 +137.29% 5
Maidenhead -18 4 £42,500 -26.09% 3
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 10 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) CMS
3 2 (0.95%) Confluence
3 2 (0.95%) Gentran
3 2 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.48%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.71%) Azure
2 29 (13.81%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (12.38%) AWS
4 22 (10.48%) Power Platform
5 18 (8.57%) GCP
6 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.81%) Google Workspace
9 6 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.38%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.38%) SaaS
11 4 (1.90%) Serverless
12 3 (1.43%) Datadog
13 2 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.95%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.48%) Azure Machine Learning
14 1 (0.48%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.48%) Firewall
2 12 (5.71%) DNS
3 9 (4.29%) VPN
4 6 (2.86%) DHCP
4 6 (2.86%) VLAN
4 6 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.38%) SSL
6 4 (1.90%) Network Security
6 4 (1.90%) VoIP
6 4 (1.90%) Wireless
7 3 (1.43%) WAN
8 2 (0.95%) HTTP
8 2 (0.95%) LAN
9 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.48%) SMTP
9 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.10%) OLTP
2 10 (4.76%) Power BI
3 6 (2.86%) MySQL
4 3 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.95%) Redis
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Metadata
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.71%) Git
1 12 (5.71%) GitLab
2 6 (2.86%) JIRA
3 4 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.95%) Mocha
4 2 (0.95%) Selenium
5 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 49 (23.33%) Finance
4 14 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.29%) Marketing
6 8 (3.81%) Legal
6 8 (3.81%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.33%) Retail
8 5 (2.38%) Electronics
9 4 (1.90%) Local Government
10 3 (1.43%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (21.43%) Developer
2 39 (18.57%) Analyst
3 35 (16.67%) Senior
4 21 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 20 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
5 20 (9.52%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 16 (7.62%) IT Support
7 15 (7.14%) SQL Developer
8 14 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (6.67%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
8 14 (6.67%) Senior SQL Developer
9 12 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
9 12 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
10 11 (5.24%) Report Analyst
11 9 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Financial Analyst
12 8 (3.81%) Lead
12 8 (3.81%) Procurement Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.43%) HTML
2 18 (8.57%) SOAP
3 17 (8.10%) XML
4 10 (4.76%) JSON
5 6 (2.86%) YAML
6 5 (2.38%) CSS
6 5 (2.38%) Jinja
7 4 (1.90%) Middleware
7 4 (1.90%) Node.js
8 3 (1.43%) .NET
8 3 (1.43%) HTML5
8 3 (1.43%) Laravel
8 3 (1.43%) OLE
8 3 (1.43%) REST
9 2 (0.95%) EDI
9 2 (0.95%) Express.js
9 2 (0.95%) Jest
9 2 (0.95%) Next.js
9 2 (0.95%) React
9 2 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 14 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 12 (5.71%) Low-Code
4 10 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.29%) Client/Server
5 9 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.43%) Arduino
7 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.43%) PMI
7 3 (1.43%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.95%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.43%) Linux
2 23 (10.95%) Windows
3 9 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.48%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.48%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 38 (18.10%) Customer Service
3 35 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (13.81%) Decision-Making
5 27 (12.86%) CI/CD
6 24 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (11.43%) DevOps
7 23 (10.95%) Software Testing
8 22 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 20 (9.52%) Validation
10 18 (8.57%) Data Governance
11 16 (7.62%) Computer Science
11 16 (7.62%) Line Management
11 16 (7.62%) Project Delivery
11 16 (7.62%) Software Engineering
12 15 (7.14%) Agile
13 13 (6.19%) Business Analysis
13 13 (6.19%) CRM
13 13 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.57%) Python
2 34 (16.19%) SQL
3 21 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.52%) PL/SQL
5 17 (8.10%) C#
6 12 (5.71%) C
7 11 (5.24%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.76%) Java
9 9 (4.29%) C++
9 9 (4.29%) Rust
10 3 (1.43%) Pascal
10 3 (1.43%) PHP
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) ABAP
12 1 (0.48%) Bicep
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) Korn
12 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (28.57%) Degree
2 20 (9.52%) ACCA
3 19 (9.05%) CIMA
4 16 (7.62%) DBS Check
5 12 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.90%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.43%) CISM
9 3 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.95%) HNC
10 2 (0.95%) HND
10 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.81%) GDPR
4 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.86%) Good Clinical Practice
5 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.43%) NIST
6 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.43%) SLA
6 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (8.57%) Hyper-V
2 17 (8.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.24%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.76%) KVM
5 4 (1.90%) ClearTrust
5 4 (1.90%) Docker
6 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.43%) Terraform
5 2 (0.95%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Netcool
6 1 (0.48%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.48%) Packer
6 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.43%) Oracle
3 17 (8.10%) VMware
4 11 (5.24%) Google
5 9 (4.29%) Cisco
6 5 (2.38%) IBM
6 5 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.38%) Veeam
7 4 (1.90%) Apple
7 4 (1.90%) Datto
7 4 (1.90%) SonicWALL
8 3 (1.43%) Databricks
8 3 (1.43%) Motorola
8 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.95%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 2 (0.95%) Logitech
9 2 (0.95%) SAP
9 2 (0.95%) Yealink
10 1 (0.48%) Zscaler