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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 120 239 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.95% 24.72% 26.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.84% 26.18% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 97 99 84
10th Percentile £30,500 £42,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £50,967 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +42.86% -12.73%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £82,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% -9.09%

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 1,107 913 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.55% 94.42% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 657 397 594
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £77,500
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 14 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 14 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 -7 69 £60,000 - 45
Bletchley -6 11 £27,500 -48.84% 1
Marlow -11 6 £32,500 -35.62% 1
Amersham +2 5 £40,000 -36.99%
Olney +1 1 - - 1
Aylesbury -5 1 £48,500 -3.00% 1
High Wycombe -11 1 - - 22
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%) Confluence
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 31 (25.83%) Azure
2 20 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 14 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.50%) Power Automate
5 6 (5.00%) GCP
5 6 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 6 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (3.33%) iPaaS
6 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.33%) SaaS
7 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.50%) Canva
7 3 (2.50%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.50%) Zapier
8 2 (1.67%) AWS
9 1 (0.83%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
9 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 3 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 79 (65.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (24.17%) Finance
3 20 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (11.67%) Law
5 13 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (7.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.83%) Marketing
9 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.17%) Retail
10 4 (3.33%) Legal
11 2 (1.67%) Banking
12 1 (0.83%) Advertising
12 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Developer
2 19 (15.83%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.67%) Analyst
3 14 (11.67%) IT Support
3 14 (11.67%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) Senior
4 12 (10.00%) Software Support Engineer
5 9 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (7.50%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.67%) Business Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.83%) Applications Support
7 7 (5.83%) Financial Analyst
8 6 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 6 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Support Specialist
8 6 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.67%) .NET
2 17 (14.17%) .NET Framework
2 17 (14.17%) REST
3 12 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 12 (10.00%) WinForms
4 10 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 10 (8.33%) SOAP
5 9 (7.50%) Middleware
6 7 (5.83%) SAP CO-PA
7 6 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (5.00%) Visualforce
8 4 (3.33%) CSS
8 4 (3.33%) JSON
8 4 (3.33%) Playwright
8 4 (3.33%) XML
9 3 (2.50%) HTML
9 3 (2.50%) React
10 2 (1.67%) RESTful
11 1 (0.83%) HTML5
11 1 (0.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) 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 34 (28.33%) Computer Science
2 28 (23.33%) Agile
3 25 (20.83%) DevOps
4 23 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (15.83%) Decision-Making
7 16 (13.33%) Analytics
8 14 (11.67%) Data Analysis
8 14 (11.67%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.83%) Visualisation
10 12 (10.00%) Business Strategy
11 11 (9.17%) CRM
11 11 (9.17%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.17%) ETL
11 11 (9.17%) Technology Strategy
11 11 (9.17%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (8.33%) CI/CD
12 10 (8.33%) Community of Practice
12 10 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 10 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.33%) SQL
2 25 (20.83%) C#
3 17 (14.17%) Java
4 15 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (12.50%) Python
5 14 (11.67%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.83%) VBA
7 6 (5.00%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.67%) C
9 2 (1.67%) PHP
10 1 (0.83%) Bash
10 1 (0.83%) C++
10 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (41.67%) Degree
2 25 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) 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%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) 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 7 (5.83%) MuleSoft
4 7 (5.83%) 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