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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 150 172 484
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 9.41% 24.82% 26.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.03% 26.14% 30.02%
Number of salaries quoted 112 105 222
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,063 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £54,375
90th Percentile £69,875 £76,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -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 1,247 658 1,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.23% 94.95% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 772 355 1,020
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,070 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 80 £60,000 - 44
Marlow -5 18 £32,500 +12.07% 3
Bletchley 0 17 £37,500 +7.14% 2
Aylesbury -5 3 £48,500 -3.00% 2
Beaconsfield -4 1 £29,000 -54.32% 1
Gerrards Cross -8 1 £37,000 -35.65% 1
High Wycombe -14 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 10 (6.67%) IIS
2 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.00%) Azure
2 19 (12.67%) Power Platform
3 12 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.33%) Asana
4 11 (7.33%) Sprout Social
5 10 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.00%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 8 (5.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 6 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.00%) SaaS
9 5 (3.33%) GCP
9 5 (3.33%) iPaaS
10 4 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.00%) AWS
11 3 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.33%) IaaS
12 2 (1.33%) PaaS
13 1 (0.67%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.00%) DHCP
1 3 (2.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.33%) Firewall
2 2 (1.33%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) 5G
3 1 (0.67%) Broadband
3 1 (0.67%) Intranet
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) Power BI
2 10 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.33%) PowerPivot
5 7 (4.67%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.67%) Power Query
6 6 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.33%) Metadata
8 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.67%) MySQL
9 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.67%) Tableau
9 1 (0.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Git
1 7 (4.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) Selenium
2 2 (1.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 106 (70.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (21.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (19.33%) Finance
5 17 (11.33%) Law
6 15 (10.00%) Marketing
7 14 (9.33%) Public Sector
8 12 (8.00%) Manufacturing
9 11 (7.33%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (4.67%) Electronics
11 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (4.00%) Retail
12 4 (2.67%) Legal
13 2 (1.33%) Banking
14 1 (0.67%) Automotive
14 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.67%) Support Engineer
2 26 (17.33%) Developer
3 21 (14.00%) Senior
4 19 (12.67%) Analyst
5 15 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (10.00%) Technical Support
5 15 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) IT Support
7 12 (8.00%) Applications Support
7 12 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) IT Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) Social Media Executive
9 10 (6.67%) Business Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Software Support Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Data Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.67%) .NET
2 19 (12.67%) REST
3 15 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 13 (8.67%) SOAP
5 12 (8.00%) Middleware
6 10 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 10 (6.67%) WinForms
7 9 (6.00%) SAP CO-PA
8 8 (5.33%) ASP.NET
8 8 (5.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (5.33%) Visualforce
9 5 (3.33%) JSON
9 5 (3.33%) XML
10 4 (2.67%) React
11 3 (2.00%) CSS
11 3 (2.00%) HTML
12 2 (1.33%) Laravel
12 2 (1.33%) Playwright
13 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
13 1 (0.67%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Social Media
2 11 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (7.33%) Video Editing
3 7 (4.67%) Augmented Reality
3 7 (4.67%) NHS
3 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.33%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.67%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.67%) Linux
3 3 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.00%) Analytics
2 36 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 36 (24.00%) DevOps
3 35 (23.33%) Agile
4 26 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 24 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 23 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (13.33%) AI
8 20 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
9 19 (12.67%) CI/CD
10 18 (12.00%) ETL
10 18 (12.00%) Project Management
11 17 (11.33%) Data Analysis
12 16 (10.67%) Business Strategy
13 15 (10.00%) CRM
13 15 (10.00%) Customer Service
14 14 (9.33%) Digital Marketing
14 14 (9.33%) Technology Strategy
15 13 (8.67%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.00%) SQL
2 23 (15.33%) Python
3 20 (13.33%) C#
4 17 (11.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (10.67%) Java
6 10 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 9 (6.00%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.33%) Apex Code
9 7 (4.67%) VBA
10 2 (1.33%) C
10 2 (1.33%) R
10 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
11 1 (0.67%) C++
11 1 (0.67%) PHP
11 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (38.00%) Degree
2 22 (14.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.33%) ACCA
4 8 (5.33%) CIMA
4 8 (5.33%) City & Guilds
5 6 (4.00%) HNC
6 3 (2.00%) AAT
6 3 (2.00%) CIPD
7 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) HND
8 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Autotask
3 1 (0.67%) Control-M
3 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.67%) Kibana
3 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.67%) SAP
3 11 (7.33%) Adobe
3 11 (7.33%) Hootsuite
3 11 (7.33%) Instagram
3 11 (7.33%) Wrike
4 10 (6.67%) Sage
4 10 (6.67%) Xamarin
5 9 (6.00%) MuleSoft
5 9 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.33%) Google
7 4 (2.67%) Databricks
7 4 (2.67%) Zoho
8 2 (1.33%) IBM
8 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.33%) Workday
9 1 (0.67%) Dell
9 1 (0.67%) Informatica
9 1 (0.67%) Software AG
9 1 (0.67%) TIBCO