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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 276 287 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 22.68% 23.82% 16.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.82% 27.68% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 91 99 101
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £38,750 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,894
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.91% -14.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 1,112 1,037 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.37% 86.06% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 437 465 601
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -3.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -5 41 £52,500 +16.67% 50
Marlow - 25 £37,500 - 5
Amersham - 23 £40,000 - 2
Buckingham +7 16 - -
Beaconsfield -1 15 - - 1
Chalfont St Giles - 15 - -
Chesham - 15 - -
Gerrards Cross - 13 £57,500 - 1
Bletchley -12 8 £27,000 -46.00% 4
Newport Pagnell -6 3 - -
Princes Risborough - 2 - - 1
High Wycombe +1 1 £95,000 +72.73% 11
Olney - 1 - -
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 13 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Notion
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Civil 3D
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) MicroStation
3 1 (0.36%) Navisworks
3 1 (0.36%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.59%) Azure
2 17 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.99%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.90%) GCP
6 7 (2.54%) AWS
7 3 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.09%) Canva
7 3 (1.09%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.09%) Zapier
8 2 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.72%) Contentsquare
8 2 (0.72%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.72%) SaaS
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub
9 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.42%) VPN
2 25 (9.06%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.35%) Firewall
4 11 (3.99%) IP Telephony
5 3 (1.09%) LAN
5 3 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.35%) Power BI
2 11 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.81%) MySQL
8 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.36%) GIS
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (9.06%) Cucumber
1 25 (9.06%) Robot Framework
2 17 (6.16%) JIRA
3 5 (1.81%) Git
4 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (1.09%) JUnit
5 3 (1.09%) Mockito
5 3 (1.09%) Selenium
6 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.72%) Subversion
6 2 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 139 (50.36%) Retail
2 137 (49.64%) Manufacturing
3 83 (30.07%) Social Skills
4 42 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (13.04%) Dutch Language
6 36 (13.04%) Finnish Language
6 36 (13.04%) Norwegian Language
7 25 (9.06%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.80%) Finance
9 9 (3.26%) Catalan Language
10 6 (2.17%) Marketing
11 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.72%) Aviation
13 2 (0.72%) Electronics
13 2 (0.72%) Law
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (48.91%) Trainer
2 35 (12.68%) Analyst
3 25 (9.06%) Support Analyst
3 25 (9.06%) Test Automation Engineer
3 25 (9.06%) Test Engineer
4 20 (7.25%) Senior
5 13 (4.71%) Applications Support
5 13 (4.71%) Applications Support Analyst
6 12 (4.35%) Technical Support
7 11 (3.99%) Developer
7 11 (3.99%) Support Technician
8 8 (2.90%) IT Support
9 7 (2.54%) Lead
10 6 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (1.81%) Digital Executive
11 5 (1.81%) Support Engineer
12 4 (1.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (1.45%) IT Support Engineer
12 4 (1.45%) Java Developer
12 4 (1.45%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.81%) RESTful
1 5 (1.81%) Spring
1 5 (1.81%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.45%) Kafka
3 3 (1.09%) .NET
3 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.09%) Hibernate
3 3 (1.09%) OAuth
3 3 (1.09%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (1.09%) React
3 3 (1.09%) Vue
4 2 (0.72%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.72%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.72%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.72%) Playwright
4 2 (0.72%) WinForms
5 1 (0.36%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.36%) JWT
5 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 135 (48.91%) Robotics
2 25 (9.06%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.09%) Social Media
6 2 (0.72%) CPLD
6 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.72%) FPGA
6 2 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.57%) Windows
2 26 (9.42%) Linux
3 12 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.99%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (53.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 136 (49.28%) Machine Learning
3 135 (48.91%) Generative AI
3 135 (48.91%) LLM
3 135 (48.91%) Red Team
4 99 (35.87%) Data Privacy
5 38 (13.77%) DevOps
6 34 (12.32%) Mentoring
7 32 (11.59%) Test Automation
8 26 (9.42%) Coaching
8 26 (9.42%) Test Management
9 25 (9.06%) System Testing
10 19 (6.88%) Customer Service
11 17 (6.16%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.16%) Process Improvement
12 14 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (4.71%) Workflow
14 11 (3.99%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (3.99%) Data Migration
14 11 (3.99%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.77%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.59%) Python
3 25 (9.06%) Bash
3 25 (9.06%) JavaScript
4 22 (7.97%) SQL
5 9 (3.26%) Java
6 7 (2.54%) C#
7 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.09%) C++
9 2 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 184 (66.67%) Degree
2 16 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.17%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.81%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.72%) MCSE
6 2 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.36%) CCNP
7 1 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.32%) QA
2 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) ARP4754
5 1 (0.36%) ARP4761
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.36%) DO-254
System Software
1 13 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.99%) Terminal Services
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (2.17%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 138 (50.00%) Google
2 136 (49.28%) Databricks
3 135 (48.91%) Adobe
4 40 (14.49%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.99%) Apple
6 4 (1.45%) Cisco
7 3 (1.09%) VMware
7 3 (1.09%) YouTube
8 2 (0.72%) Agilent
8 2 (0.72%) Cognos
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle
8 2 (0.72%) Sage
8 2 (0.72%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.36%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.36%) Zoho