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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 126 251 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 11.66% 23.55% 18.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.50% 26.59% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 97 98 101
10th Percentile £29,300 £35,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £57,500 £46,550
Median % change year-on-year -33.04% +23.52% -6.90%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,438 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -2.91%

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 933 944 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 86.31% 88.56% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 545 403 555
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,500 £82,000
South East median annual salary £47,520 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.14% +1.82% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -6 52 £55,000 - 58
Marlow -1 13 £37,500 -25.00% 3
Bletchley -8 11 £27,500 -52.17% 11
Amersham +2 8 £40,000 -47.37%
Gerrards Cross -5 5 £57,500 -36.11%
Newport Pagnell -10 3 - -
Olney +2 1 - -
High Wycombe -9 1 - - 6
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 12 (9.52%) IIS
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Appian
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.38%) Notion
4 1 (0.79%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.79%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.79%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.79%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) Azure
2 14 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 7 (5.56%) GCP
7 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.38%) AWS
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.38%) Canva
8 3 (2.38%) ChatGPT
8 3 (2.38%) SaaS
8 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (2.38%) Zapier
9 1 (0.79%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.79%) GitHub
9 1 (0.79%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.79%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (4.76%) IP Telephony
3 3 (2.38%) VPN
4 2 (1.59%) DHCP
4 2 (1.59%) DNS
4 2 (1.59%) LAN
4 2 (1.59%) WAN
5 1 (0.79%) 5G
5 1 (0.79%) Broadband
5 1 (0.79%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) Power BI
1 14 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.56%) Power Query
3 7 (5.56%) PowerPivot
4 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.17%) MySQL
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) GIS
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.79%) Metadata
9 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 4 (3.17%) Selenium
4 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.38%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (60.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.63%) Finance
3 21 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.94%) Law
5 10 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.17%) Legal
7 4 (3.17%) Marketing
7 4 (3.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.59%) Banking
8 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 30 (23.81%) Analyst
2 19 (15.08%) Support Engineer
3 15 (11.90%) Developer
4 14 (11.11%) IT Support
4 14 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) Applications Support
6 12 (9.52%) IT Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Senior
6 12 (9.52%) Software Support Engineer
6 12 (9.52%) Technical Support
7 11 (8.73%) Support Analyst
8 9 (7.14%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.35%) Support Technician
10 7 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
10 7 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
11 6 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.67%) .NET
2 15 (11.90%) .NET Framework
3 12 (9.52%) Entity Framework
3 12 (9.52%) WinForms
4 10 (7.94%) ASP.NET
5 9 (7.14%) REST
6 4 (3.17%) SOAP
7 3 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.38%) Middleware
7 3 (2.38%) Playwright
7 3 (2.38%) RESTful
7 3 (2.38%) Visualforce
8 2 (1.59%) React
8 2 (1.59%) Spring
8 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.79%) jQuery
9 1 (0.79%) JSON
9 1 (0.79%) Kafka
9 1 (0.79%) Web Services
9 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.17%) Social Media
3 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.38%) Midjourney
5 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.59%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.79%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Windows
2 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.59%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.84%) DevOps
2 24 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (18.25%) Computer Science
4 18 (14.29%) Agile
5 15 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (11.90%) CI/CD
5 15 (11.90%) Software Engineering
6 14 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 13 (10.32%) Mentoring
8 12 (9.52%) Process Improvement
8 12 (9.52%) Workflow
9 11 (8.73%) Customer Service
9 11 (8.73%) Decision-Making
9 11 (8.73%) SDLC
10 10 (7.94%) Software Testing
11 9 (7.14%) AI
11 9 (7.14%) Project Management
11 9 (7.14%) Roadmaps
12 8 (6.35%) Data Management
13 7 (5.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.54%) SQL
2 22 (17.46%) C#
3 14 (11.11%) Python
3 14 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.73%) Java
5 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (5.56%) VBA
7 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.38%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.59%) C
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (33.33%) Degree
2 22 (17.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.35%) ACCA
4 8 (6.35%) CIMA
5 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.17%) HNC
8 3 (2.38%) AAT
8 3 (2.38%) CIPD
9 2 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.59%) MCSE
9 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.79%) CCNP
10 1 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.79%) City & Guilds
10 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.70%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) GDPR
3 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) ARP4754
5 1 (0.79%) ARP4761
5 1 (0.79%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.79%) DO-254
System Software
1 9 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.76%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.79%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Terraform
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) Control-M
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Sage
2 12 (9.52%) Xamarin
3 8 (6.35%) SAP
4 6 (4.76%) Apple
4 6 (4.76%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Zoho
6 4 (3.17%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle
7 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.38%) YouTube
8 2 (1.59%) Cognos
8 2 (1.59%) IBM
8 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.59%) VMware
9 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.79%) IFS
9 1 (0.79%) Jitterbit
9 1 (0.79%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.79%) Workday