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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 137 314 523
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.70% 29.82% 26.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.24% 31.12% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 100 105 228
10th Percentile £34,700 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +11.11% +17.07%
75th Percentile £64,063 £58,750 £55,313
90th Percentile £71,250 £64,500 £70,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -14.29%

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 1,338 1,009 1,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 75.17% 95.82% 85.98%
Number of salaries quoted 881 331 1,012
10th Percentile £30,250 £24,750 £28,775
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,009 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -9 85 £60,000 - 41
Aylesbury -1 13 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Marlow -13 12 - - 3
Bletchley -4 8 £37,500 +29.31% 1
Newport Pagnell -3 2 - -
Beaconsfield -3 1 £29,000 -43.10% 1
Chesham -4 1 £42,500 -16.61% 1
Gerrards Cross -5 1 £37,000 -35.65% 1
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 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.57%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 12 (8.76%) AWS
2 12 (8.76%) Power Platform
3 11 (8.03%) Asana
3 11 (8.03%) Sprout Social
4 10 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.65%) iPaaS
7 5 (3.65%) SaaS
8 4 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.92%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.92%) GCP
8 4 (2.92%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (2.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.19%) IaaS
9 3 (2.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) DNS
2 4 (2.92%) SSL
3 3 (2.19%) Firewall
3 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.46%) VLAN
5 1 (0.73%) DHCP
5 1 (0.73%) Internet
5 1 (0.73%) LAN
5 1 (0.73%) Network Security
5 1 (0.73%) OSPF
5 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.73%) WAN
5 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.73%) Wireless
5 1 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) Power BI
2 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.46%) GIS
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.73%) Metadata
6 1 (0.73%) MySQL
6 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.73%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.73%) Tableau
6 1 (0.73%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) JUnit
4 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.73%) GitLab
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
4 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (64.96%) Social Skills
2 50 (36.50%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (13.14%) Finance
5 15 (10.95%) Marketing
6 12 (8.76%) Manufacturing
7 10 (7.30%) Law
7 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.11%) Electronics
8 7 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.11%) Retail
9 6 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.92%) Local Government
11 3 (2.19%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.19%) Social Science
12 1 (0.73%) Automotive
12 1 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.06%) Analyst
2 20 (14.60%) Developer
3 17 (12.41%) Senior
4 15 (10.95%) Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Support Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) Support Analyst
7 11 (8.03%) Social Media Executive
7 11 (8.03%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) Technical Support
7 11 (8.03%) Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Business Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (7.30%) Integration Architect
8 10 (7.30%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Applications Architect
9 9 (6.57%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 8 (5.84%) Power BI Specialist
11 7 (5.11%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) REST
2 16 (11.68%) Middleware
2 16 (11.68%) SOAP
3 12 (8.76%) JSON
3 12 (8.76%) XML
4 9 (6.57%) SAP CO-PA
5 6 (4.38%) .NET
6 5 (3.65%) JWT
6 5 (3.65%) Kafka
6 5 (3.65%) OAuth
6 5 (3.65%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (2.92%) RESTful
7 4 (2.92%) Visualforce
7 4 (2.92%) XML Messaging
8 3 (2.19%) CSS
8 3 (2.19%) HTML
8 3 (2.19%) MFC
9 2 (1.46%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Cloud Native
1 11 (8.03%) Social Media
1 11 (8.03%) Video Editing
2 10 (7.30%) NHS
2 10 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.11%) Augmented Reality
5 6 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.65%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.92%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.46%) AS400
9 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.73%) IoT
10 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.87%) Windows
2 9 (6.57%) Linux
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.58%) Analytics
2 40 (29.20%) Agile
3 32 (23.36%) Computer Science
4 31 (22.63%) DevOps
5 26 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (18.98%) Data Modelling
6 25 (18.25%) CI/CD
7 23 (16.79%) Decision-Making
8 21 (15.33%) CRM
9 20 (14.60%) AI
10 18 (13.14%) Customer-Centricity
11 17 (12.41%) Business Strategy
11 17 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (12.41%) ERP
11 17 (12.41%) ETL
12 15 (10.95%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (10.95%) ITIL
12 15 (10.95%) Project Management
13 14 (10.22%) Digital Marketing
14 13 (9.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (33.58%) SQL
2 19 (13.87%) Python
3 17 (12.41%) Java
4 10 (7.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.38%) C#
6 4 (2.92%) Apex Code
6 4 (2.92%) C++
6 4 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.46%) R
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (35.04%) Degree
2 18 (13.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.49%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.11%) City & Guilds
5 4 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.19%) HNC
6 3 (2.19%) ICAEW
7 2 (1.46%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.46%) HND
8 1 (0.73%) CCNA
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.68%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) SLA
3 4 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.11%) Docker
2 6 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.65%) Terraform
3 4 (2.92%) Graylog
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.73%) Ansible
5 1 (0.73%) Autotask
5 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (25.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) Adobe
2 11 (8.03%) Hootsuite
2 11 (8.03%) Instagram
2 11 (8.03%) SAP
2 11 (8.03%) Wrike
3 5 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.92%) Databricks
4 4 (2.92%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.46%) Google
6 1 (0.73%) Aruba
6 1 (0.73%) Cisco
6 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.73%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.73%) Sophos
6 1 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.73%) WatchGuard
6 1 (0.73%) Zend