Problem-Solving Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Problem Solving
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 0
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 209 486 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 24.59% 24.78% 14.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.03% 28.44% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 120 229 108
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.00% -18.48%
75th Percentile £62,813 £52,500 £52,688
90th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £67,500
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
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 1,709 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 94.47% 87.15% 92.35%
Number of salaries quoted 363 1,058 707
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,425 £28,954
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £67,250 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,050
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Milton Keynes -4 50 £60,000 +33.33% 64
Marlow +16 35 £29,000 -17.14% 4
Bletchley 0 16 £35,000 - 6
High Wycombe +9 13 £59,000 +47.50% 17
Gerrards Cross - 13 £57,500 - 6
Aylesbury +5 10 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Princes Risborough - 6 £63,484 -
Newport Pagnell -3 5 £50,967 +24.31% 2
Buckingham - 5 £63,484 - 11
Chesham +7 4 £63,484 +41.07% 10
Beaconsfield +1 4 £63,484 +41.07% 14
Iver - 4 £63,484 - 1
Olney - 4 £63,484 -
Amersham - 3 £63,484 - 13
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 15 (7.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) IBM Domino
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.44%) Power Platform
2 22 (10.53%) Azure
3 17 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.74%) AWS
5 5 (2.39%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.39%) GCP
5 5 (2.39%) SaaS
6 3 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (1.44%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.96%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.96%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.48%) Figma
8 1 (0.48%) IaaS
8 1 (0.48%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.40%) TCP/IP
1 28 (13.40%) VPN
2 7 (3.35%) Network Security
3 6 (2.87%) Firewall
4 4 (1.91%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.44%) Internet
5 3 (1.44%) IP Telephony
5 3 (1.44%) MPLS
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.96%) DWDM
6 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.96%) GPON
6 2 (0.96%) IPv4
6 2 (0.96%) IPv6
6 2 (0.96%) VSAN
6 2 (0.96%) WAN
6 2 (0.96%) Wireless
7 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.14%) Power BI
2 28 (13.40%) Geospatial Data
2 28 (13.40%) GIS
2 28 (13.40%) Power Query
3 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.87%) Tableau
5 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.48%) Big Data
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Impala
8 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (11.96%) Cucumber
1 25 (11.96%) Robot Framework
2 11 (5.26%) JIRA
3 4 (1.91%) Git
3 4 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.91%) Subversion
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 3 (1.44%) JUnit
4 3 (1.44%) Mockito
5 1 (0.48%) ERwin
5 1 (0.48%) Redmine
5 1 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 102 (48.80%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (14.35%) Telecoms
5 27 (12.92%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (7.18%) Finance
7 9 (4.31%) Retail
8 7 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.39%) Banking
11 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.91%) Aviation
11 4 (1.91%) Electronics
11 4 (1.91%) Legal
12 3 (1.44%) Games
12 3 (1.44%) Local Government
12 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Billing
13 1 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (21.53%) Analyst
2 36 (17.22%) Senior
3 27 (12.92%) Business Change Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Change Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Test Engineer
4 25 (11.96%) Test Automation Engineer
5 13 (6.22%) Developer
6 12 (5.74%) Support Analyst
7 9 (4.31%) .NET Developer
7 9 (4.31%) .NET Software Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Angular Developer
7 9 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (4.31%) C# Developer
7 9 (4.31%) C# Software Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (4.31%) Software Developer
8 8 (3.83%) IT Support
9 7 (3.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.74%) AngularJS
2 9 (4.31%) .NET
3 5 (2.39%) React
4 4 (1.91%) Kafka
5 3 (1.44%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.44%) OAuth
5 3 (1.44%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.44%) RESTful
5 3 (1.44%) Spring
5 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.44%) Vue
6 1 (0.48%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.48%) JSON
6 1 (0.48%) Laravel
6 1 (0.48%) XML
6 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.27%) Algorithms
2 27 (12.92%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.39%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.91%) CPLD
5 4 (1.91%) FPGA
5 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.44%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.44%) IoT
6 3 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.96%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.96%) Online Games
7 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) IVR
8 1 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.44%) Windows
2 32 (15.31%) Linux
3 7 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.91%) Android
4 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (18.18%) DevOps
2 37 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
3 36 (17.22%) Mentoring
4 35 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (16.75%) Test Automation
5 33 (15.79%) Coaching
5 33 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 32 (15.31%) Collaborative Working
6 32 (15.31%) Strategic Thinking
7 31 (14.83%) Data Management
7 31 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (14.35%) Business Analysis
9 29 (13.88%) Actionable Insight
9 29 (13.88%) Change Management
9 29 (13.88%) Use Case
10 28 (13.40%) Asset Management
10 28 (13.40%) Strategic Planning
11 27 (12.92%) Business Case
11 27 (12.92%) MoSCoW
11 27 (12.92%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.40%) SQL
2 36 (17.22%) Python
3 34 (16.27%) PowerShell
4 26 (12.44%) Bash
4 26 (12.44%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.66%) C#
6 7 (3.35%) Java
7 5 (2.39%) C++
8 4 (1.91%) C
9 3 (1.44%) Go
9 3 (1.44%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) VB
10 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (19.62%) Degree
2 27 (12.92%) CBAP
3 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.87%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.39%) MCSE
6 4 (1.91%) MCSA
7 3 (1.44%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.44%) CCNP
7 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CCSE
8 2 (0.96%) CCSM
8 2 (0.96%) CISSP
8 2 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.48%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.27%) QA
2 6 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.83%) Docker
3 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
3 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) HDFS
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.48%) Nessus
5 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.31%) Cisco
3 6 (2.87%) VMware
4 4 (1.91%) Agilent
4 4 (1.91%) Fortinet
4 4 (1.91%) SAP
5 3 (1.44%) Apple
5 3 (1.44%) Veeam
6 2 (0.96%) CheckPoint
6 2 (0.96%) F5
6 2 (0.96%) Nokia
6 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.48%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.48%) Datto
7 1 (0.48%) Intapp
7 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.48%) Tenable
7 1 (0.48%) Xerox