Problem-Solving Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Problem Solving
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 192 281 292
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 9.45% 23.18% 24.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.52% 25.41% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 147 94 102
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,150 £33,200
25th Percentile £35,250 £31,563 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +4.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £69,875
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -1.96%

All Process & 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 1,420 1,106 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 69.92% 91.25% 84.97%
Number of salaries quoted 988 437 489
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

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 10 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
Milton Keynes -4 99 £50,000 -1.48% 61
Aylesbury - 16 £42,500 - 7
Bletchley +9 12 £30,000 +13.21% 4
Buckingham +1 7 £40,000 - 2
High Wycombe -2 7 £37,500 -36.44% 14
Marlow -11 5 £30,250 -19.33% 8
Newport Pagnell +3 2 - -
Chesham 0 2 £42,500 - 2
Amersham 0 2 £26,000 -35.00% 2
Beaconsfield -1 1 £29,000 -
Gerrards Cross -5 1 £37,000 -35.65%
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 20 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
3 5 (2.60%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Magento
1 3 (1.56%) NetSuite
1 3 (1.56%) Sage X3
1 3 (1.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.29%) Azure
2 16 (8.33%) AWS
3 15 (7.81%) Entra ID
3 15 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.73%) GCP
6 7 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.13%) Cloudflare
7 6 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 6 (3.13%) SaaS
8 4 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.08%) GitHub
8 4 (2.08%) PaaS
9 3 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.56%) IaaS
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.29%) DNS
2 9 (4.69%) Firewall
3 6 (3.13%) SSL
3 6 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.08%) VLAN
5 4 (2.08%) WAN
6 3 (1.56%) LAN
6 3 (1.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.56%) VPN
6 3 (1.56%) Wireless
6 3 (1.56%) WLAN
7 2 (1.04%) Network Security
7 2 (1.04%) OSPF
7 2 (1.04%) SNMP
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.52%) DHCP
8 1 (0.52%) NGN
8 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.08%) Power BI
5 3 (1.56%) GIS
5 3 (1.56%) MySQL
5 3 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.04%) Metadata
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.17%) JIRA
2 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.04%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) JUnit
3 2 (1.04%) Subversion
4 1 (0.52%) GitLab
General
1 101 (52.60%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.63%) Finance
4 28 (14.58%) Manufacturing
5 15 (7.81%) Retail
6 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.65%) Local Government
10 6 (3.13%) Electronics
10 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Law
11 3 (1.56%) Advertising
11 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.56%) Legal
11 3 (1.56%) Social Science
11 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (14.58%) Analyst
2 19 (9.90%) Developer
2 19 (9.90%) Senior
3 15 (7.81%) Support Engineer
3 15 (7.81%) Technical Support
4 14 (7.29%) Architect
5 11 (5.73%) Data Engineer
5 11 (5.73%) Technical Engineer
5 11 (5.73%) Technical Support Engineer
6 10 (5.21%) Coordinator
6 10 (5.21%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.69%) Applications Support
7 9 (4.69%) Business Developer
7 9 (4.69%) Support Analyst
7 9 (4.69%) Systems Developer
8 8 (4.17%) Graduate
8 8 (4.17%) Service Analyst
8 8 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
9 7 (3.65%) IT Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.25%) HTML
1 12 (6.25%) REST
1 12 (6.25%) SOAP
2 9 (4.69%) Middleware
3 8 (4.17%) JSON
3 8 (4.17%) OAuth
3 8 (4.17%) XML
4 7 (3.65%) CSS
5 6 (3.13%) .NET
5 6 (3.13%) MFC
6 5 (2.60%) JWT
6 5 (2.60%) Kafka
6 5 (2.60%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.60%) ODBC
6 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.60%) RESTful
6 5 (2.60%) Terraform
6 5 (2.60%) Web Services
7 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.29%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.77%) Driving Licence
3 12 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (3.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.13%) NHS
9 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.60%) EPoS
10 4 (2.08%) CMDB
10 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.56%) TM Forum
11 3 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.00%) Windows
2 18 (9.38%) Linux
3 8 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.65%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (19.27%) Agile
3 35 (18.23%) Analytics
3 35 (18.23%) ERP
4 33 (17.19%) Computer Science
5 29 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (14.06%) DevOps
7 26 (13.54%) AI
7 26 (13.54%) Decision-Making
8 25 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (11.46%) ITIL
10 20 (10.42%) CI/CD
11 18 (9.38%) Customer Service
11 18 (9.38%) Software Engineering
12 17 (8.85%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (8.33%) Data Modelling
14 15 (7.81%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.81%) Translating Business Requirements
15 14 (7.29%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.88%) SQL
2 18 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 16 (8.33%) Python
4 13 (6.77%) C#
5 12 (6.25%) Java
5 12 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.69%) C++
7 4 (2.08%) C
7 4 (2.08%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.56%) Ladder Logic
8 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.04%) Delphi
9 2 (1.04%) Pascal
10 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 54 (28.13%) Degree
2 24 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.98%) SC Cleared
4 21 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.65%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (3.65%) HNC
5 7 (3.65%) HND
6 6 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.08%) ICAEW
9 3 (1.56%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.04%) CCNA
10 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.04%) City & Guilds
10 2 (1.04%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.21%) SLA
2 9 (4.69%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.60%) GDPR
3 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.17%) Docker
3 6 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.60%) Squid
4 5 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.04%) Firmware
5 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.13%) Graylog
3 5 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.52%) Autotask
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.52%) WMI
Vendors
1 76 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.13%) Google
2 6 (3.13%) Sage
2 6 (3.13%) SAP
2 6 (3.13%) VMware
3 5 (2.60%) Veeam
4 4 (2.08%) Cisco
4 4 (2.08%) Oracle
4 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.56%) Aruba
5 3 (1.56%) Databricks
5 3 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.04%) Meraki
6 2 (1.04%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (1.04%) Splunk
6 2 (1.04%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.52%) Apple
7 1 (0.52%) BMC
7 1 (0.52%) EMC
7 1 (0.52%) Sophos