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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 133 297 532
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.48% 27.68% 25.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 29.12% 29.89%
Number of salaries quoted 98 98 244
10th Percentile £30,948 £28,850 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £29,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.56% +10.30%
75th Percentile £64,813 £58,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £71,250 £64,125 £69,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -13.46%

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 1,315 1,020 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 73.96% 95.06% 84.48%
Number of salaries quoted 884 336 1,029
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £43,137 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.18% -4.14% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -12 79 £57,000 -5.00% 70
Aylesbury +1 13 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Marlow -12 12 - - 5
Bletchley -1 8 £37,500 +29.31% 4
Newport Pagnell -1 2 - - 1
Chesham -2 2 £42,500 -
Beaconsfield -2 1 £29,000 -
Gerrards Cross -3 1 £37,000 -35.65%
High Wycombe -11 1 £37,500 -36.44% 36
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 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.09%) Azure
2 12 (9.02%) AWS
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.27%) Asana
3 11 (8.27%) Sprout Social
4 10 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.76%) Cloudflare
8 5 (3.76%) GCP
8 5 (3.76%) iPaaS
9 4 (3.01%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.26%) IaaS
10 3 (2.26%) PaaS
10 3 (2.26%) SaaS
10 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) DNS
2 5 (3.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.76%) SSL
2 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.26%) LAN
3 3 (2.26%) VLAN
3 3 (2.26%) VPN
3 3 (2.26%) WAN
3 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.26%) Wireless
4 2 (1.50%) Network Security
4 2 (1.50%) OSPF
4 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.50%) WLAN
5 1 (0.75%) DHCP
5 1 (0.75%) Internet
5 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
2 8 (6.02%) Power BI
3 7 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) GIS
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.75%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (6.02%) JIRA
2 2 (1.50%) JUnit
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 81 (60.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (37.59%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (12.78%) Finance
5 12 (9.02%) Marketing
6 9 (6.77%) Law
6 9 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.26%) Electronics
8 7 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.76%) Local Government
9 5 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.76%) Retail
10 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.26%) Social Science
12 1 (0.75%) Automotive
12 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.75%) Legal
12 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Senior
3 15 (11.28%) Architect
4 14 (10.53%) Developer
5 12 (9.02%) Support Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Social Media Executive
6 11 (8.27%) Support Analyst
7 10 (7.52%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Integration Architect
7 10 (7.52%) Technical Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Technical Support
7 10 (7.52%) Technical Support Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Applications Architect
9 7 (5.26%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Applications Support Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Business Developer
10 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 6 (4.51%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) Middleware
1 15 (11.28%) REST
1 15 (11.28%) SOAP
2 12 (9.02%) JSON
2 12 (9.02%) XML
3 6 (4.51%) SAP CO-PA
4 5 (3.76%) JWT
4 5 (3.76%) Kafka
4 5 (3.76%) OAuth
4 5 (3.76%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.01%) MFC
5 4 (3.01%) RESTful
5 4 (3.01%) XML Messaging
6 3 (2.26%) .NET
6 3 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.26%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.50%) HTML
8 1 (0.75%) CSS
8 1 (0.75%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.27%) NHS
2 11 (8.27%) Social Media
2 11 (8.27%) Video Editing
3 10 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
5 7 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.76%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
8 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.50%) AS400
10 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.55%) Windows
2 10 (7.52%) Linux
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) Analytics
2 39 (29.32%) Agile
3 28 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (21.05%) DevOps
4 27 (20.30%) Computer Science
5 25 (18.80%) Data Modelling
6 23 (17.29%) CI/CD
7 22 (16.54%) AI
7 22 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (16.54%) Decision-Making
8 19 (14.29%) ITIL
9 18 (13.53%) ERP
10 17 (12.78%) Customer-Centricity
11 16 (12.03%) CRM
11 16 (12.03%) Project Management
12 13 (9.77%) Business Strategy
12 13 (9.77%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (9.77%) ETL
13 12 (9.02%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (9.02%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (32.33%) SQL
2 18 (13.53%) Python
3 15 (11.28%) Java
4 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.51%) C++
5 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.76%) C#
7 3 (2.26%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.50%) R
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Delphi
9 1 (0.75%) Pascal
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (32.33%) Degree
2 16 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) City & Guilds
6 6 (4.51%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (3.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (2.26%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.26%) HNC
8 3 (2.26%) ICAEW
9 2 (1.50%) CCNA
9 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.50%) HND
9 2 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.02%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) SLA
3 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (8.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.51%) Docker
3 4 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.76%) Graylog
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.01%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Autotask
4 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 43 (32.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) Adobe
2 11 (8.27%) Hootsuite
2 11 (8.27%) Instagram
2 11 (8.27%) Wrike
3 6 (4.51%) SAP
4 4 (3.01%) Databricks
5 3 (2.26%) Aruba
5 3 (2.26%) Cisco
5 3 (2.26%) Google
5 3 (2.26%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.50%) Meraki
6 2 (1.50%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (1.50%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) WatchGuard
7 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.75%) Sophos
7 1 (0.75%) VMware