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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 120 241 327
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.77% 25.08% 25.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.67% 26.51% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 97 99 107
10th Percentile £30,500 £42,200 £25,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £50,967 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +50.00% -16.88%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £56,375
90th Percentile £69,750 £76,000 £82,000
South East median annual salary £41,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.90% +10.53% -13.64%

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 1,125 909 1,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.24% 94.59% 90.05%
Number of salaries quoted 669 389 707
10th Percentile £30,200 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £63,092
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,650
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -8 69 £60,000 - 49
Bletchley -5 11 £27,500 -48.84% 2
Marlow -10 6 £32,500 -35.62% 1
Amersham +2 5 £40,000 -36.99%
Olney +1 1 - -
Aylesbury -5 1 £48,500 -3.00%
High Wycombe -12 1 - - 40
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 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.50%) Notion
4 1 (0.83%) Civil 3D
4 1 (0.83%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.83%) Navisworks
4 1 (0.83%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.67%) Azure
2 20 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 14 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.50%) Power Automate
5 7 (5.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 7 (5.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 6 (5.00%) GCP
7 5 (4.17%) iPaaS
8 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.33%) SaaS
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.50%) Canva
9 3 (2.50%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.50%) Zapier
10 2 (1.67%) AWS
11 1 (0.83%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.83%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) DHCP
1 2 (1.67%) DNS
1 2 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (0.83%) 5G
2 1 (0.83%) Broadband
2 1 (0.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.67%) Power BI
2 14 (11.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.83%) Power Query
4 7 (5.83%) PowerPivot
5 5 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.33%) MySQL
7 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.83%) GIS
9 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Git
2 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.33%) Selenium
2 4 (3.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
General
1 80 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.83%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (24.17%) Finance
4 21 (17.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.50%) Law
6 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
7 10 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 10 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.83%) Marketing
9 5 (4.17%) Retail
10 4 (3.33%) Legal
10 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.67%) Banking
12 1 (0.83%) Advertising
12 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.83%) Automotive
12 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Developer
2 19 (15.83%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.67%) IT Support
3 14 (11.67%) Software Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) Analyst
5 12 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (10.00%) Software Support Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Business Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.83%) Financial Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 6 (5.00%) Support Specialist
9 6 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.50%) .NET
2 19 (15.83%) REST
3 17 (14.17%) .NET Framework
4 12 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 12 (10.00%) SOAP
4 12 (10.00%) WinForms
5 11 (9.17%) Middleware
6 10 (8.33%) ASP.NET
7 7 (5.83%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (5.83%) SAP CO-PA
7 7 (5.83%) Visualforce
8 5 (4.17%) JSON
8 5 (4.17%) XML
9 4 (3.33%) CSS
9 4 (3.33%) Playwright
10 3 (2.50%) HTML
10 3 (2.50%) React
11 1 (0.83%) jQuery
11 1 (0.83%) Symfony
11 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.83%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (3.33%) Social Media
5 3 (2.50%) Midjourney
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.67%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (3.33%) Linux
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.17%) Computer Science
2 31 (25.83%) Agile
3 25 (20.83%) DevOps
4 23 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 16 (13.33%) Analytics
8 14 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.83%) Data Analysis
9 13 (10.83%) Data Modelling
9 13 (10.83%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (10.00%) Business Strategy
10 12 (10.00%) CRM
10 12 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
10 12 (10.00%) Visualisation
11 11 (9.17%) Community of Practice
11 11 (9.17%) ETL
12 10 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 10 (8.33%) Project Management
12 10 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.33%) SQL
2 25 (20.83%) C#
3 18 (15.00%) Java
4 16 (13.33%) Python
5 15 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (11.67%) T-SQL
7 8 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.83%) Apex Code
8 7 (5.83%) VBA
9 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.67%) C
10 2 (1.67%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (43.33%) Degree
2 26 (21.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.67%) ACCA
5 8 (6.67%) CIMA
6 4 (3.33%) HNC
7 3 (2.50%) AAT
7 3 (2.50%) CIPD
8 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.83%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) ARP4754
5 1 (0.83%) ARP4761
5 1 (0.83%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.83%) DO-254
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) Control-M
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) Kibana
2 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (14.17%) SAP
2 16 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.00%) Sage
3 12 (10.00%) Xamarin
4 8 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 8 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.00%) Google
6 5 (4.17%) Zoho
7 3 (2.50%) YouTube
8 2 (1.67%) Cognos
8 2 (1.67%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle
8 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) Workday
9 1 (0.83%) Dell
9 1 (0.83%) Epicor
9 1 (0.83%) Informatica
9 1 (0.83%) Software AG
9 1 (0.83%) TIBCO