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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 148 203 503
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.65% 28.00% 26.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.22% 29.72% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 108 113 229
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +13.26% +10.30%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -13.88%

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 1,319 683 1,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.13% 94.21% 87.49%
Number of salaries quoted 827 356 1,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,850
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,926 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.15% -6.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £85,400 £75,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 12 April 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 12 April 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 86 £60,000 - 43
Marlow -6 16 £32,500 +12.07% 3
Bletchley -1 15 £37,500 +17.19% 2
Aylesbury -3 5 £36,750 -26.50% 2
Beaconsfield -5 1 £29,000 -54.32% 1
Gerrards Cross -10 1 £37,000 -35.65% 1
Newport Pagnell -11 1 - -
High Wycombe -17 1 - - 8
Chalfont St Giles - 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 4 (2.70%) IIS
2 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.08%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.68%) Azure
2 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.43%) Asana
3 11 (7.43%) Sprout Social
4 10 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.08%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (5.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
8 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.38%) SaaS
9 4 (2.70%) AWS
9 4 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.03%) IaaS
10 3 (2.03%) PaaS
11 2 (1.35%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.35%) GCP
12 1 (0.68%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) DNS
2 3 (2.03%) DHCP
3 2 (1.35%) Firewall
3 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
4 1 (0.68%) Broadband
4 1 (0.68%) Internet
4 1 (0.68%) Intranet
4 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) Power BI
2 10 (6.76%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.41%) PowerPivot
4 7 (4.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.73%) Power Query
5 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.35%) Metadata
8 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) GIS
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) MySQL
9 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Tableau
9 1 (0.68%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) JIRA
2 7 (4.73%) Git
3 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.35%) Selenium
3 2 (1.35%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.68%) GitLab
General
1 107 (72.30%) Social Skills
2 40 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (20.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (16.22%) Finance
5 18 (12.16%) Law
6 15 (10.14%) Marketing
6 15 (10.14%) Public Sector
7 12 (8.11%) Manufacturing
7 12 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.73%) Electronics
9 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.38%) Retail
11 2 (1.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (17.57%) Developer
2 22 (14.86%) Support Engineer
3 21 (14.19%) Analyst
3 21 (14.19%) Senior
4 15 (10.14%) Technical Engineer
4 15 (10.14%) Technical Support
4 15 (10.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 11 (7.43%) Applications Support
5 11 (7.43%) Social Media Executive
6 10 (6.76%) Architect
6 10 (6.76%) Business Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (6.76%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Power BI Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 8 (5.41%) Power BI Specialist
8 8 (5.41%) Salesforce Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.86%) REST
2 19 (12.84%) .NET
3 16 (10.81%) SOAP
4 15 (10.14%) Middleware
5 9 (6.08%) .NET Framework
5 9 (6.08%) SAP CO-PA
6 8 (5.41%) JSON
6 8 (5.41%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (5.41%) Visualforce
6 8 (5.41%) XML
7 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.70%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.70%) React
8 4 (2.70%) WinForms
9 3 (2.03%) CSS
9 3 (2.03%) HTML
10 2 (1.35%) Laravel
10 2 (1.35%) Playwright
10 2 (1.35%) RESTful
11 1 (0.68%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
1 12 (8.11%) Social Media
2 11 (7.43%) Video Editing
3 8 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.73%) Augmented Reality
4 7 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.73%) NHS
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.68%) AS400
7 1 (0.68%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.14%) Windows
2 4 (2.70%) Linux
3 3 (2.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.03%) Analytics
2 36 (24.32%) Agile
3 35 (23.65%) DevOps
4 34 (22.97%) Computer Science
5 29 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (18.24%) Data Modelling
7 26 (17.57%) Decision-Making
8 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
9 22 (14.86%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (12.16%) AI
10 18 (12.16%) Business Strategy
10 18 (12.16%) ETL
11 17 (11.49%) CRM
11 17 (11.49%) Customer-Centricity
11 17 (11.49%) Project Management
12 16 (10.81%) Data Analysis
13 15 (10.14%) Technology Strategy
14 14 (9.46%) Customer Service
14 14 (9.46%) Digital Marketing
14 14 (9.46%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 59 (39.86%) SQL
2 23 (15.54%) Python
3 19 (12.84%) Java
4 17 (11.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (9.46%) C#
6 9 (6.08%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.41%) Apex Code
8 7 (4.73%) VBA
9 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.35%) C
10 2 (1.35%) R
10 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) Bash
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (37.16%) Degree
2 19 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) ACCA
4 8 (5.41%) CIMA
4 8 (5.41%) City & Guilds
5 6 (4.05%) HNC
6 3 (2.03%) CIPD
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AAT
8 1 (0.68%) HND
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.81%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.03%) Terraform
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Autotask
4 1 (0.68%) Control-M
4 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.84%) SAP
3 11 (7.43%) Adobe
3 11 (7.43%) Hootsuite
3 11 (7.43%) Instagram
3 11 (7.43%) Wrike
4 9 (6.08%) MuleSoft
4 9 (6.08%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.70%) Databricks
5 4 (2.70%) Sage
5 4 (2.70%) Xamarin
6 2 (1.35%) Google
6 2 (1.35%) IBM
6 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.35%) Workday
7 1 (0.68%) Dell
7 1 (0.68%) Infor
7 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.68%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.68%) Zend