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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 10 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 289 418 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.88% 13.54% 13.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.55% 15.67% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 124 255 208
10th Percentile £26,913 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £30,000 £35,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £40,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -22.10% -6.64%
75th Percentile £83,750 £59,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - £71,250 £110,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

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 1,406 2,668 3,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.84% 86.40% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 522 1,851 1,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,240 £38,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -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 May 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 May 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
Reading +2 79 £60,000 +41.18% 117
Slough -1 72 £67,500 - 47
Maidenhead -3 42 £55,000 -8.33% 38
Windsor -4 40 £29,500 -30.59% 6
Bracknell +28 19 £50,000 +31.58% 15
Ascot - 12 £82,500 -
Wokingham -3 2 £105,000 +200.00% 13
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 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.42%) Apache
3 5 (1.73%) IIS
3 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.38%) CMS
5 3 (1.04%) Confluence
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.35%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.35%) InDesign
4 1 (0.35%) Notion
4 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.35%) Pipeline Pilot
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.04%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.35%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (21.80%) Azure
2 26 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
5 22 (7.61%) SonarCloud
6 15 (5.19%) Vertex AI
7 12 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (3.81%) GCP
9 9 (3.11%) AWS
10 7 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.08%) Salsify
12 4 (1.38%) GitHub
13 3 (1.04%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.04%) Serverless
14 2 (0.69%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.69%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.88%) DNS
2 14 (4.84%) VLAN
3 13 (4.50%) Firewall
3 13 (4.50%) VPN
4 11 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.46%) DHCP
6 8 (2.77%) VoIP
7 6 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.69%) DWDM
8 2 (0.69%) Internet
8 2 (0.69%) LAN
8 2 (0.69%) Network Security
8 2 (0.69%) SAN
8 2 (0.69%) WAN
9 1 (0.35%) DMZ
9 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.35%) MPLS
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.30%) Data Mining
2 22 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (5.88%) OLTP
4 13 (4.50%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.42%) Power BI
6 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.08%) Metadata
6 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.73%) MySQL
8 4 (1.38%) Metabase
8 4 (1.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.69%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.69%) Redis
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.69%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.35%) Big Data
11 1 (0.35%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) Git
2 22 (7.61%) MSBuild
2 22 (7.61%) Octopus Deploy
2 22 (7.61%) Team Foundation Server
2 22 (7.61%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.73%) JIRA
4 3 (1.04%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) MLflow
5 2 (0.69%) Mocha
5 2 (0.69%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 152 (52.60%) Social Skills
2 109 (37.72%) Law
3 89 (30.80%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (24.91%) Finance
5 55 (19.03%) Retail
6 19 (6.57%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.88%) Marketing
8 12 (4.15%) Legal
9 9 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.73%) Back Office
12 5 (1.73%) Local Government
13 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.04%) Advertising
14 3 (1.04%) Automotive
14 3 (1.04%) Electronics
14 3 (1.04%) German Language
Job Titles
1 104 (35.99%) Lead
2 78 (26.99%) Senior
3 28 (9.69%) Architect
3 28 (9.69%) Developer
4 22 (7.61%) Technical Architect
5 17 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
5 17 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 17 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 16 (5.54%) Senior Manager
7 15 (5.19%) Analyst
8 14 (4.84%) Technical Manager
9 13 (4.50%) PL/SQL Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Senior SQL Developer
9 13 (4.50%) SQL Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.46%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.11%) Technical Support
12 7 (2.42%) Senior Support Engineer
13 6 (2.08%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.22%) HTML
2 39 (13.49%) XML
3 27 (9.34%) .NET
3 27 (9.34%) CSS
4 26 (9.00%) REST
5 24 (8.30%) ASP.NET
6 22 (7.61%) Bootstrap
6 22 (7.61%) gRPC
6 22 (7.61%) JSON
7 18 (6.23%) SOAP
8 5 (1.73%) React
9 4 (1.38%) HTML5
9 4 (1.38%) Node.js
10 3 (1.04%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.04%) Kafka
11 2 (0.69%) Middleware
11 2 (0.69%) SAML
11 2 (0.69%) Spring
11 2 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.11%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.08%) Taxonomies
6 5 (1.73%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.38%) CCTV
7 4 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.69%) EPoS
9 2 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.69%) PKI
9 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.35%) Life Science
10 1 (0.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.69%) Windows
2 12 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.46%) Linux
4 9 (3.11%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.04%) Android
5 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.61%) Agile
2 67 (23.18%) Strategic Thinking
3 65 (22.49%) Roadmaps
4 63 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (19.38%) DevOps
6 50 (17.30%) Business Transformation
7 48 (16.61%) Analytics
8 47 (16.26%) Change Management
9 42 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
10 40 (13.84%) Project Management
11 39 (13.49%) Artificial Intelligence
11 39 (13.49%) Machine Learning
11 39 (13.49%) Process Improvement
12 36 (12.46%) Data Science
12 36 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (11.42%) Incident Management
14 31 (10.73%) Visualisation
15 30 (10.38%) Customer Service
15 30 (10.38%) Performance Measurement
16 29 (10.03%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 60 (20.76%) SQL
2 28 (9.69%) JavaScript
3 26 (9.00%) C#
4 19 (6.57%) Python
5 17 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.11%) C++
7 8 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.08%) Java
9 4 (1.38%) R
10 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.69%) Go
10 2 (0.69%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.35%) Fortran
11 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.35%) VBScript
11 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (14.19%) Degree
2 22 (7.61%) PMI Certification
2 22 (7.61%) PMP
3 13 (4.50%) NVQ Level 3
3 13 (4.50%) NVQ Level 4
4 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.42%) MCP
6 6 (2.08%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.38%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.38%) ACCA
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.38%) CIMA
8 4 (1.38%) Dell Certification
8 4 (1.38%) MCSA
8 4 (1.38%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.04%) CCNP
9 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.96%) GDPR
2 7 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.08%) SLA
4 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.38%) GMP
4 4 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) GxP
5 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (11.76%) Docker
2 20 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.69%) HDFS
6 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.69%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
7 1 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 10 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.08%) ZABBIX
3 5 (1.73%) Terraform
4 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Grafana
5 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.69%) vRealize
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 68 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.88%) SAP
3 23 (7.96%) Oracle
4 20 (6.92%) IBM
4 20 (6.92%) Workday
5 19 (6.57%) Concur
6 16 (5.54%) VMware
7 15 (5.19%) Google
7 15 (5.19%) OpenAI
8 12 (4.15%) Databricks
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco
9 5 (1.73%) Dell
10 4 (1.38%) Apple
11 3 (1.04%) SonicWALL
12 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.69%) Veeam
13 1 (0.35%) Nokia
13 1 (0.35%) Sage
13 1 (0.35%) Sophos