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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 268 487 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 8.21% 24.30% 13.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.75% 27.55% 15.95%
Number of salaries quoted 207 135 128
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,350 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -11.46% -23.20%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,477 £71,250
90th Percentile £69,550 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -2.44%

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 2,281 1,768 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 69.84% 88.22% 81.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,551 707 1,154
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 99 £50,000 - 96
Slough +1 49 £45,000 +5.88% 17
Windsor +2 14 £35,000 +18.64% 9
Wokingham -3 11 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Maidenhead -15 7 £28,500 +32.56% 11
Bracknell -17 6 £50,000 - 23
Thatcham -2 3 - - 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 21 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.75%) Gentran
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.24%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.24%) Revit
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.37%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.73%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.40%) Azure
2 37 (13.81%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (11.57%) Power Platform
4 24 (8.96%) AWS
5 18 (6.72%) Google Workspace
6 17 (6.34%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.73%) GCP
8 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.49%) Datadog
9 3 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.12%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.12%) GitHub
9 3 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.12%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.12%) Serverless
9 3 (1.12%) WeChat
10 2 (0.75%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.58%) Firewall
2 20 (7.46%) DNS
3 17 (6.34%) DHCP
4 16 (5.97%) VPN
5 15 (5.60%) VoIP
6 13 (4.85%) VLAN
6 13 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (4.10%) SSL
8 7 (2.61%) Network Security
9 5 (1.87%) LAN
9 5 (1.87%) WAN
10 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.12%) Wireless
12 1 (0.37%) DNSSEC
12 1 (0.37%) HTTP
12 1 (0.37%) RS-485
12 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.82%) Power BI
2 8 (2.99%) OLTP
3 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.49%) MySQL
4 4 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.49%) Tableau
5 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.75%) Power Query
6 2 (0.75%) Redis
7 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.37%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Git
1 8 (2.99%) GitLab
2 5 (1.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.75%) Mocha
3 2 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.75%) Selenium
3 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (52.61%) Social Skills
2 78 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (20.52%) Finance
4 26 (9.70%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (8.58%) Manufacturing
6 19 (7.09%) Legal
7 16 (5.97%) Electronics
8 12 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.48%) Retail
9 11 (4.10%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (3.73%) Marketing
11 6 (2.24%) Advertising
11 6 (2.24%) Law
12 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.12%) Billing
13 3 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.12%) Military
14 2 (0.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 54 (20.15%) Analyst
2 31 (11.57%) Senior
2 31 (11.57%) Support Analyst
3 27 (10.07%) Developer
4 26 (9.70%) IT Support
5 19 (7.09%) Support Engineer
6 15 (5.60%) Applications Support
6 15 (5.60%) Applications Support Analyst
7 14 (5.22%) IT Engineer
7 14 (5.22%) Lead
8 13 (4.85%) Business Systems Analyst
8 13 (4.85%) Systems Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) Business Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) Business Support Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (4.48%) Systems Support
9 12 (4.48%) Systems Support Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) Test Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Senior IT Support
10 11 (4.10%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.10%) HTML
2 9 (3.36%) SOAP
3 8 (2.99%) XML
4 6 (2.24%) .NET
5 5 (1.87%) JSON
5 5 (1.87%) Node.js
6 4 (1.49%) Middleware
6 4 (1.49%) Terraform
6 4 (1.49%) YAML
7 3 (1.12%) CSS
7 3 (1.12%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.12%) HTML5
7 3 (1.12%) Jinja
7 3 (1.12%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.12%) React
7 3 (1.12%) REST
8 2 (0.75%) EDI
8 2 (0.75%) Express.js
8 2 (0.75%) Jest
8 2 (0.75%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.31%) Driving Licence
2 20 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 19 (7.09%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.24%) Smart Home
7 5 (1.87%) Blog
8 4 (1.49%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.12%) Arduino
9 3 (1.12%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.94%) Windows
2 25 (9.33%) Linux
3 20 (7.46%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.48%) Mac OS
5 9 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.24%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.12%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Rocky
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 54 (20.15%) Customer Service
3 41 (15.30%) Collaborative Working
4 37 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (11.94%) Process Improvement
6 31 (11.57%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (9.70%) CRM
9 25 (9.33%) Decision-Making
10 23 (8.58%) Project Delivery
11 22 (8.21%) Business Analysis
12 20 (7.46%) AI
12 20 (7.46%) Project Management
12 20 (7.46%) Software Engineering
13 18 (6.72%) CAPA
13 18 (6.72%) Data Privacy
13 18 (6.72%) ITIL
14 17 (6.34%) Analytics
14 17 (6.34%) Kalman Filter
14 17 (6.34%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.67%) SQL
2 30 (11.19%) Python
3 19 (7.09%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.34%) Java
5 11 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.73%) C++
7 8 (2.99%) C#
7 8 (2.99%) PL/SQL
7 8 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.61%) C
9 6 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.12%) Pascal
11 3 (1.12%) Rust
12 2 (0.75%) Bash
12 2 (0.75%) PHP
12 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (26.12%) Degree
2 21 (7.84%) DBS Check
3 18 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (5.60%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.22%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (3.73%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.61%) HNC
8 7 (2.61%) HND
8 7 (2.61%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.87%) ACCA
9 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.49%) CIMA
11 3 (1.12%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.12%) CISM
11 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.75%) CISA
12 2 (0.75%) CISSP
12 2 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.19%) QA
2 20 (7.46%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.72%) Good Clinical Practice
4 13 (4.85%) Data Quality
5 11 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (3.73%) GDPR
7 8 (2.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 8 (2.99%) GLP
7 8 (2.99%) GMP
7 8 (2.99%) GxP
8 3 (1.12%) NIST
8 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
8 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.75%) COBIT
9 2 (0.75%) COSO
9 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.75%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 21 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.97%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.87%) ClearTrust
5 3 (1.12%) Docker
5 3 (1.12%) KVM
5 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.10%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.87%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.75%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.96%) Google
3 21 (7.84%) VMware
4 15 (5.60%) Apple
5 14 (5.22%) Cisco
6 13 (4.85%) Oracle
7 11 (4.10%) Datto
7 11 (4.10%) SonicWALL
7 11 (4.10%) Veeam
8 10 (3.73%) CA Agile Central
8 10 (3.73%) Sage
9 6 (2.24%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.49%) EMC
11 4 (1.49%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.49%) IBM
12 3 (1.12%) Aruba
12 3 (1.12%) Juniper
12 3 (1.12%) Motorola
12 3 (1.12%) Red Hat