Problem-Solving Jobs in Berkshire

Problem Solving
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 377 432 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.01% 12.93% 14.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.42% 15.67% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 143 233 170
10th Percentile £27,840 £26,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £56,457
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -24.72% +12.91%
75th Percentile £74,375 £62,500 £85,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £71,250 £112,500
South East median annual salary £43,773 £45,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year -2.73% -12.37% +2.70%

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 1,544 2,757 2,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.13% 82.52% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 619 1,758 1,484
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,189 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,995 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.99% +1.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -3 108 £65,000 -3.70% 45
Reading +2 81 £55,000 +24.50% 101
Windsor -4 65 £29,500 -30.59% 5
Maidenhead -2 64 £31,250 -47.92% 21
Bracknell +30 22 £50,000 +29.87% 20
Ascot - 9 £82,500 - 1
Wokingham -2 4 £50,000 +42.86% 9
Thatcham - 2 £51,000 - 2
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.86%) Apache
3 5 (1.33%) CMS
3 5 (1.33%) IIS
3 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.06%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.27%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.27%) InDesign
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.27%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.18%) NetSuite
1 12 (3.18%) Sage 200
2 11 (2.92%) Sage CRM
3 6 (1.59%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (1.06%) Shopify
5 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.79%) Azure
2 30 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (7.96%) Vertex AI
3 24 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (5.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
5 20 (5.31%) SonarCloud
6 15 (3.98%) AWS
7 14 (3.71%) Salsify
8 13 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (3.18%) GCP
10 11 (2.92%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.33%) IaaS
11 5 (1.33%) Serverless
12 4 (1.06%) GitHub
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.10%) DNS
2 16 (4.24%) Firewall
2 16 (4.24%) VPN
3 14 (3.71%) VLAN
4 13 (3.45%) DHCP
4 13 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.92%) Broadband
6 10 (2.65%) VoIP
7 6 (1.59%) LAN
7 6 (1.59%) WAN
7 6 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.33%) SAN
9 3 (0.80%) Network Security
10 2 (0.53%) Internet
10 2 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.27%) DMZ
11 1 (0.27%) DWDM
11 1 (0.27%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.27%) MPLS
11 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.34%) Data Lake
1 39 (10.34%) Data Mining
2 20 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (3.71%) Metadata
4 13 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.18%) OLTP
6 10 (2.65%) Power BI
7 8 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.06%) Metabase
10 4 (1.06%) MySQL
10 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.53%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.53%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (7.16%) Git
2 20 (5.31%) MSBuild
2 20 (5.31%) Octopus Deploy
2 20 (5.31%) Team Foundation Server
2 20 (5.31%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.33%) JIRA
4 3 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) MLflow
5 2 (0.53%) Mocha
5 2 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) JUnit
General
1 238 (63.13%) Social Skills
2 168 (44.56%) Law
3 157 (41.64%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (22.28%) Finance
5 73 (19.36%) Retail
6 42 (11.14%) Influencing Skills
7 31 (8.22%) Marketing
8 26 (6.90%) Manufacturing
9 22 (5.84%) Legal
10 9 (2.39%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.12%) German Language
11 8 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.59%) Advertising
13 6 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.33%) Back Office
14 5 (1.33%) Local Government
15 3 (0.80%) Automotive
15 3 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 129 (34.22%) Senior
2 123 (32.63%) Lead
3 25 (6.63%) Architect
4 24 (6.37%) Developer
5 22 (5.84%) Analyst
5 22 (5.84%) Senior Manager
6 20 (5.31%) Technical Architect
7 15 (3.98%) Technical Support
8 13 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
8 13 (3.45%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.18%) Oracle Developer
9 12 (3.18%) PL/SQL Developer
9 12 (3.18%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.18%) Senior Developer
9 12 (3.18%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 12 (3.18%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
9 12 (3.18%) Senior SQL Developer
9 12 (3.18%) SQL Developer
10 11 (2.92%) Sage 200 Support
10 11 (2.92%) Sage Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.55%) HTML
2 33 (8.75%) XML
3 26 (6.90%) REST
4 25 (6.63%) .NET
5 24 (6.37%) CSS
6 22 (5.84%) ASP.NET
7 21 (5.57%) JSON
8 20 (5.31%) Bootstrap
8 20 (5.31%) gRPC
9 14 (3.71%) SOAP
10 6 (1.59%) Node.js
10 6 (1.59%) React
11 5 (1.33%) SAML
12 4 (1.06%) HTML5
12 4 (1.06%) Kafka
13 3 (0.80%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.80%) Spring
13 3 (0.80%) Web Services
14 2 (0.53%) .NET Framework
14 2 (0.53%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 41 (10.88%) Algorithms
3 23 (6.10%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.71%) Taxonomies
5 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.12%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.12%) PKI
7 7 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.59%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.06%) CCTV
9 4 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.80%) SCADA
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.61%) Windows
2 18 (4.77%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.92%) Linux
4 9 (2.39%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.80%) Android
5 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (35.54%) Agile
2 126 (33.42%) Roadmaps
3 108 (28.65%) Analytics
4 87 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 87 (23.08%) Strategic Thinking
5 84 (22.28%) Data Science
6 76 (20.16%) DevOps
7 71 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (16.71%) Artificial Intelligence
9 62 (16.45%) Thought Leadership
10 59 (15.65%) Change Management
10 59 (15.65%) Customer Service
11 58 (15.38%) Project Management
12 54 (14.32%) Strategic Roadmap
13 52 (13.79%) Product Management
14 50 (13.26%) Business Transformation
15 48 (12.73%) Incident Management
16 46 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
16 46 (12.20%) Generative AI
16 46 (12.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (17.24%) SQL
2 28 (7.43%) JavaScript
3 24 (6.37%) C#
4 21 (5.57%) Python
5 12 (3.18%) PL/SQL
6 10 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.39%) C++
8 7 (1.86%) Java
9 4 (1.06%) R
10 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.53%) Go
10 2 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.27%) Bash
11 1 (0.27%) Fortran
11 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.27%) VBScript
11 1 (0.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 58 (15.38%) Degree
2 21 (5.57%) PMI Certification
2 21 (5.57%) PMP
3 16 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (2.92%) A+ Certification
5 10 (2.65%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.12%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.86%) MCP
7 7 (1.86%) NVQ Level 3
7 7 (1.86%) NVQ Level 4
7 7 (1.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.59%) CCNP
8 6 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.33%) CCNA
10 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.06%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.06%) MCSA
11 3 (0.80%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.84%) GDPR
2 15 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.39%) SLA
4 7 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.06%) GMP
5 4 (1.06%) QA
6 2 (0.53%) GxP
6 2 (0.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (8.75%) Docker
2 26 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.18%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.53%) HDFS
6 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.53%) vSphere
7 1 (0.27%) NFS
7 1 (0.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 12 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.33%) Terraform
3 5 (1.33%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.80%) Ansible
5 2 (0.53%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.53%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.53%) vRealize
6 1 (0.27%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 95 (25.20%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.67%) SAP
3 30 (7.96%) Google
3 30 (7.96%) OpenAI
4 22 (5.84%) VMware
5 20 (5.31%) IBM
5 20 (5.31%) Workday
6 19 (5.04%) Concur
7 18 (4.77%) Oracle
8 12 (3.18%) Databricks
8 12 (3.18%) Sage
9 5 (1.33%) Dell
9 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.33%) Veeam
10 4 (1.06%) Apple
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco
11 3 (0.80%) SonicWALL
12 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
13 1 (0.27%) Meraki