Problem-Solving Job Trends in Coventry

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 19 33 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 7.17% 16.42% 19.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 16.92% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 45
10th Percentile £29,750 £45,250 £34,450
25th Percentile £33,938 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,774 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +6.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,875 £63,500 £70,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 195 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 84.91% 97.01% 98.43%
Number of salaries quoted 103 100 233
10th Percentile £25,100 £33,350 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +12.24% -6.08%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £78,540 £72,950 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Coventry

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Coventry over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Coventry

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.26%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Figma
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) SonarCloud
4 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Bluetooth
2 1 (5.26%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Metadata
2 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (10.53%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 2 (10.53%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Balsamiq
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) Snyk
General
1 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Governance Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Governance Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Data Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Governance Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) React
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) Django
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Flask
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) pytest
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Reference Data
2 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.53%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Derivative
4 1 (5.26%) Learning Management System
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (31.58%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (21.05%) Data Management
4 4 (21.05%) Data Stewardship
4 4 (21.05%) Data Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Master Data Management
4 4 (21.05%) Metadata Management
4 4 (21.05%) Technology Enablement
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) C++
3 1 (5.26%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Nagios
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) ConnectWise
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) Sophos
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Sage
2 1 (5.26%) SAP