Problem-Solving Jobs in Bristol

Problem Solving
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 188 423 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.03% 13.63% 13.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.77% 15.40% 14.48%
Number of salaries quoted 106 292 186
10th Percentile £31,125 £30,000 £28,375
25th Percentile £40,931 £37,500 £37,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,938 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £82,375 £83,750
South West median annual salary £40,101 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.58% -5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,192 2,746 2,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 95.28% 88.47% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 789 2,061 1,503
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £58,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -2.01% +11.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,433 £74,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Bristol

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Bristol

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Bristol

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Bristol

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Bristol region over the 6 months to 1 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
Avonmouth -1 1 £42,500 -10.53%
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.06%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Drupal
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) Luigi
4 1 (0.53%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.72%) Simulink
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.38%) Azure
2 32 (17.02%) AWS
3 28 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.64%) GCP
5 10 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (3.72%) SaaS
8 6 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.66%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.13%) Serverless
11 3 (1.60%) CloudFront
11 3 (1.60%) Collibra
11 3 (1.60%) OCI
11 3 (1.60%) PaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.32%) Firewall
2 7 (3.72%) VPN
2 7 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (3.19%) DNS
3 6 (3.19%) Network Security
4 5 (2.66%) DHCP
4 5 (2.66%) LAN
4 5 (2.66%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.66%) WAN
5 3 (1.60%) BGP
5 3 (1.60%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.60%) OSPF
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.06%) Internet
6 2 (1.06%) MPLS
6 2 (1.06%) SSL
6 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.53%) VLAN
7 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.77%) Power BI
2 10 (5.32%) Tableau
3 7 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.19%) Data Hub
5 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.60%) Ataccama
7 3 (1.60%) Metadata
7 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) Power Query
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (7.98%) Git
2 8 (4.26%) JIRA
3 7 (3.72%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.13%) Selenium
4 4 (2.13%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.53%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (48.94%) Social Skills
2 67 (35.64%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (28.72%) Finance
4 39 (20.74%) Electronics
5 27 (14.36%) Banking
6 23 (12.23%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.72%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.72%) Marketing
8 7 (3.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.72%) Retail
9 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.06%) Advertising
12 2 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (13.30%) Senior
2 22 (11.70%) Developer
3 19 (10.11%) Analyst
3 19 (10.11%) Lead
4 18 (9.57%) Software Engineer
5 10 (5.32%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (4.79%) Junior
6 9 (4.79%) Software Developer
7 8 (4.26%) Consultant
8 7 (3.72%) Junior Systems Engineer
8 7 (3.72%) QA Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Quality Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.19%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) Flutter Developer
9 6 (3.19%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Team Leader
9 6 (3.19%) Technical Manager
10 5 (2.66%) Architect
10 5 (2.66%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.51%) React
2 14 (7.45%) Node.js
3 13 (6.91%) .NET
4 10 (5.32%) RESTful
5 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.72%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.72%) REST
7 6 (3.19%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.19%) Entity Framework
7 6 (3.19%) Flutter
7 6 (3.19%) HTML
8 5 (2.66%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.66%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.66%) Vue
9 4 (2.13%) CSS
9 4 (2.13%) JSON
9 4 (2.13%) Web Services
10 3 (1.60%) SOAP
10 3 (1.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.38%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.32%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.79%) Reinsurance
4 8 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.72%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.19%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.13%) CUDA
8 4 (2.13%) Educational Technology
8 4 (2.13%) Robotics
9 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.60%) Device Driver
9 3 (1.60%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.60%) PCIe
10 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.06%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.77%) Windows
2 19 (10.11%) Apple iOS
3 8 (4.26%) Linux
4 5 (2.66%) Android
5 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.06%) Unix
7 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.79%) Agile
2 51 (27.13%) Software Engineering
3 38 (20.21%) Decision-Making
4 37 (19.68%) Analytics
4 37 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (17.55%) DevOps
6 32 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (14.36%) Systems Engineering
8 26 (13.83%) Mentoring
9 24 (12.77%) Process Improvement
10 22 (11.70%) Computer Science
10 22 (11.70%) Test Automation
11 21 (11.17%) Roadmaps
12 19 (10.11%) CI/CD
12 19 (10.11%) Project Management
13 18 (9.57%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (9.04%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.04%) Machine Learning
14 17 (9.04%) Scrum
14 17 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.09%) SQL
2 29 (15.43%) Python
3 23 (12.23%) C#
4 17 (9.04%) Java
5 15 (7.98%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.85%) C++
7 8 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.72%) MATLAB
8 7 (3.72%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.19%) Dart
10 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.13%) Bash
12 3 (1.60%) C
12 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.60%) R
13 2 (1.06%) Go
13 2 (1.06%) XAML
14 1 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.53%) Swift
14 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (19.15%) Degree
2 28 (14.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.19%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.19%) NVQ Level 3
4 6 (3.19%) NVQ Level 4
5 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.06%) CEH
7 2 (1.06%) CISM
7 2 (1.06%) CISSP
7 2 (1.06%) GIAC
7 2 (1.06%) ISSAP
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.06%) PhD
7 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.06%) PMP
7 2 (1.06%) SANS
8 1 (0.53%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.30%) QA
2 10 (5.32%) GDPR
3 7 (3.72%) GLP
3 7 (3.72%) GMP
3 7 (3.72%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.60%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) COBIT
6 2 (1.06%) NIST
6 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.19%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.60%) Firmware
4 2 (1.06%) vSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.17%) Google
3 12 (6.38%) Databricks
4 10 (5.32%) SAP
5 7 (3.72%) IBM
6 6 (3.19%) Cisco
7 5 (2.66%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.13%) Oracle
9 3 (1.60%) Avaloq
9 3 (1.60%) Graphcore
9 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.60%) Splunk
10 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.06%) Fiserv
10 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.06%) iManage
10 2 (1.06%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (1.06%) TSYS
10 2 (1.06%) Veeam
10 2 (1.06%) Zscaler