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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 132 316 523
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.47% 29.53% 26.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.89% 30.77% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 96 120 226
10th Percentile £35,250 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +13.26% +24.14%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,125 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.75% +11.11% -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 1,335 1,027 1,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 75.59% 95.98% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 870 359 1,012
10th Percentile £30,250 £24,750 £28,525
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +13.26% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,201 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,625 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% +9.25% -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 16 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 16 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 -11 82 £60,000 - 50
Aylesbury -1 12 £43,750 -12.50% 2
Marlow -10 12 - - 2
Bletchley -3 8 £37,500 +17.19% 1
Newport Pagnell -5 2 - -
Beaconsfield -3 1 £29,000 -54.32% 1
Gerrards Cross -6 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Apache
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (6.82%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.09%) Azure
2 13 (9.85%) Power Platform
3 11 (8.33%) Asana
3 11 (8.33%) Sprout Social
4 10 (7.58%) AWS
4 10 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.79%) iPaaS
7 5 (3.79%) SaaS
7 5 (3.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 5 (3.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (3.03%) Cloudflare
8 4 (3.03%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.27%) IaaS
9 3 (2.27%) PaaS
10 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) DNS
2 4 (3.03%) SSL
3 2 (1.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) DHCP
4 1 (0.76%) Internet
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.85%) Power BI
2 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.52%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) GIS
6 1 (0.76%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) MySQL
6 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Power Query
6 1 (0.76%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) Git
3 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.76%) GitLab
4 1 (0.76%) JUnit
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 86 (65.15%) Social Skills
2 45 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.12%) Finance
5 15 (11.36%) Marketing
6 12 (9.09%) Manufacturing
7 10 (7.58%) Law
8 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.30%) Electronics
10 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.55%) Retail
11 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.27%) Local Government
12 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.52%) Social Science
13 1 (0.76%) Automotive
13 1 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.67%) Analyst
2 20 (15.15%) Developer
3 16 (12.12%) Senior
4 15 (11.36%) Architect
5 13 (9.85%) Support Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Support Analyst
7 11 (8.33%) Social Media Executive
7 11 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Technical Support
7 11 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Business Developer
8 10 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (7.58%) Integration Architect
8 10 (7.58%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (6.82%) Applications Architect
9 9 (6.82%) Data Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Applications Support
10 8 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 8 (6.06%) Power BI Specialist
11 7 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.39%) REST
2 17 (12.88%) Middleware
2 17 (12.88%) SOAP
3 12 (9.09%) JSON
3 12 (9.09%) XML
4 9 (6.82%) SAP CO-PA
5 7 (5.30%) .NET
6 5 (3.79%) JWT
6 5 (3.79%) Kafka
6 5 (3.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (3.79%) OAuth
6 5 (3.79%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.79%) Visualforce
7 4 (3.03%) RESTful
7 4 (3.03%) XML Messaging
8 3 (2.27%) CSS
8 3 (2.27%) HTML
9 2 (1.52%) Laravel
9 2 (1.52%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Social Media
1 11 (8.33%) Video Editing
2 10 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.82%) NHS
3 9 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.30%) Augmented Reality
4 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.27%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.52%) AS400
10 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Windows
2 8 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (1.52%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.33%) Analytics
2 38 (28.79%) Agile
3 32 (24.24%) Computer Science
3 32 (24.24%) DevOps
4 27 (20.45%) Data Modelling
5 26 (19.70%) CI/CD
6 24 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 21 (15.91%) CRM
9 17 (12.88%) AI
9 17 (12.88%) Business Strategy
9 17 (12.88%) Customer-Centricity
9 17 (12.88%) ETL
10 16 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (12.12%) ERP
11 15 (11.36%) ITIL
12 14 (10.61%) Digital Marketing
12 14 (10.61%) Project Management
13 13 (9.85%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 45 (34.09%) SQL
2 20 (15.15%) Python
3 18 (13.64%) Java
4 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.79%) Apex Code
5 5 (3.79%) C#
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.27%) C++
8 2 (1.52%) R
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (36.36%) Degree
2 18 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.30%) City & Guilds
5 4 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.27%) HNC
7 2 (1.52%) HND
7 2 (1.52%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.76%) ACCA
8 1 (0.76%) CIMA
8 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.12%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.79%) Terraform
3 4 (3.03%) Graylog
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) Autotask
5 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.09%) SAP
3 11 (8.33%) Adobe
3 11 (8.33%) Hootsuite
3 11 (8.33%) Instagram
3 11 (8.33%) Wrike
4 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) ConnectWise
7 1 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.76%) Datto
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) Meraki
7 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.76%) Sophos
7 1 (0.76%) Workday
7 1 (0.76%) Zend