Problem-Solving Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Problem Solving
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 307 531 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.63% 26.33% 15.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.41% 30.94% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 101 246 121
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £40,796
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.30% -10.34%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,313 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £71,250
South East median annual salary £42,799 £45,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year -4.89% -12.37% +2.70%

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 1,044 1,716 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 93.97% 85.08% 92.51%
Number of salaries quoted 359 984 718
10th Percentile £24,750 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 30 June 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 30 June 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 42 £48,000 +6.67% 175
Marlow +20 39 £37,500 -6.25% 12
Amersham - 18 £43,773 - 2
Gerrards Cross - 18 £57,500 - 3
Buckingham +6 16 - - 4
Chesham +5 15 - - 9
Beaconsfield 0 15 - -
Chalfont St Giles - 15 - -
Bletchley -3 13 £29,000 - 6
Newport Pagnell -7 4 £47,500 +15.85% 1
High Wycombe +1 3 £59,000 +47.50% 82
Aylesbury +2 2 £45,000 -5.26% 10
Princes Risborough - 2 - -
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 15 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.30%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.07%) Azure
2 22 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (3.91%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.58%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.93%) AWS
6 7 (2.28%) GCP
7 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.65%) Contentsquare
7 2 (0.65%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.33%) PaaS
8 1 (0.33%) SaaS
8 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.79%) VPN
2 26 (8.47%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.23%) Firewall
4 11 (3.58%) IP Telephony
5 7 (2.28%) Broadband
6 5 (1.63%) Network Security
7 4 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.98%) LAN
9 1 (0.33%) BGP
9 1 (0.33%) MPLS
9 1 (0.33%) OSPF
9 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.26%) Power BI
2 10 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.98%) Tableau
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.33%) Impala
7 1 (0.33%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (8.14%) Cucumber
1 25 (8.14%) Robot Framework
2 15 (4.89%) JIRA
3 5 (1.63%) Git
3 5 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.30%) Subversion
5 3 (0.98%) GitLab
5 3 (0.98%) JUnit
5 3 (0.98%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 139 (45.28%) Manufacturing
1 139 (45.28%) Retail
2 87 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 57 (18.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (11.73%) Dutch Language
5 36 (11.73%) Finnish Language
5 36 (11.73%) Norwegian Language
6 27 (8.79%) Telecoms
7 19 (6.19%) Finance
8 9 (2.93%) Catalan Language
9 5 (1.63%) Banking
10 4 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.30%) Aviation
10 4 (1.30%) Electronics
11 3 (0.98%) Marketing
11 3 (0.98%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.65%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 135 (43.97%) Trainer
2 35 (11.40%) Senior
3 33 (10.75%) Analyst
4 25 (8.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 25 (8.14%) Test Engineer
5 24 (7.82%) Support Analyst
6 14 (4.56%) Support Technician
7 12 (3.91%) Technical Support
8 11 (3.58%) Applications Support
8 11 (3.58%) Applications Support Analyst
8 11 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (3.26%) Lead
10 8 (2.61%) Developer
11 7 (2.28%) IT Support
12 6 (1.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (1.63%) 1st Line Support
13 5 (1.63%) Junior
14 4 (1.30%) Java Developer
14 4 (1.30%) Junior QA Analyst
14 4 (1.30%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.63%) AngularJS
1 5 (1.63%) React
2 4 (1.30%) Kafka
2 4 (1.30%) RESTful
2 4 (1.30%) Spring
2 4 (1.30%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.98%) Hibernate
3 3 (0.98%) OAuth
3 3 (0.98%) OAuth2
3 3 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (0.98%) Vue
4 2 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.33%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.33%) JSON
5 1 (0.33%) JWT
5 1 (0.33%) Laravel
5 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (43.97%) Robotics
2 25 (8.14%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.30%) CPLD
5 4 (1.30%) FPGA
5 4 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.98%) Digital Signage
6 3 (0.98%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.33%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.33%) IoT
7 1 (0.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.57%) Windows
2 28 (9.12%) Linux
3 15 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.58%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (47.56%) Artificial Intelligence
2 137 (44.63%) Machine Learning
3 135 (43.97%) Generative AI
3 135 (43.97%) LLM
3 135 (43.97%) Red Team
4 99 (32.25%) Data Privacy
5 43 (14.01%) DevOps
6 39 (12.70%) Mentoring
7 33 (10.75%) Test Automation
8 26 (8.47%) Coaching
9 25 (8.14%) System Testing
9 25 (8.14%) Test Management
10 23 (7.49%) Invoice Processing
11 22 (7.17%) Process Improvement
12 21 (6.84%) CI/CD
12 21 (6.84%) Customer Service
13 20 (6.51%) Roadmaps
14 17 (5.54%) Computer Science
14 17 (5.54%) ERP
15 13 (4.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.38%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.10%) Python
3 26 (8.47%) Bash
3 26 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.21%) SQL
5 7 (2.28%) C#
5 7 (2.28%) Java
6 5 (1.63%) C++
7 4 (1.30%) C
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 188 (61.24%) Degree
2 19 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.95%) MCSE
5 4 (1.30%) MCSA
5 4 (1.30%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.30%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
6 2 (0.65%) CCNP
6 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.33%) CCNA
7 1 (0.33%) CISSP
7 1 (0.33%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.45%) QA
2 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.58%) Terminal Services
3 6 (1.95%) Docker
4 1 (0.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (3.91%) Terraform
2 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.95%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.33%) Nessus
4 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 137 (44.63%) Google
2 135 (43.97%) Adobe
2 135 (43.97%) Databricks
3 52 (16.94%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.58%) Apple
5 6 (1.95%) Cisco
5 6 (1.95%) VMware
6 4 (1.30%) Agilent
6 4 (1.30%) SAP
7 3 (0.98%) Veeam
8 1 (0.33%) BT
8 1 (0.33%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.33%) Informatica
8 1 (0.33%) Juniper
8 1 (0.33%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Tenable