Problem-Solving Jobs in Croydon

Problem Solving
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 17 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 +35
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 18 38 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 9.89% 17.84% 28.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.29% 18.36% 30.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 24
10th Percentile - £24,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.68% +1.67% +2.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,544 £48,750
90th Percentile £64,500 £77,500 £75,000
South London median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 207 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 96.15% 97.18% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31 147 112
10th Percentile - £24,750 £32,275
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,341 £41,889
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,272 £81,786 £65,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £87,250
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Coulsdon - 1 £55,000 -
South Croydon - 1 - - 1
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
South London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Modbus
1 1 (5.56%) MQTT
1 1 (5.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 9 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JMeter
3 1 (5.56%) MSI
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
1 9 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Development Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
3 1 (5.56%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Node.js
2 9 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (50.00%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) CSS3
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) HTML5
2 9 (50.00%) NgRx
2 9 (50.00%) RxJS
2 9 (50.00%) Sass
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) Mustache
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (11.11%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 9 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 9 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 9 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 9 (50.00%) User Experience
1 9 (50.00%) UX Design
1 9 (50.00%) Web Design
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) B2B Sales
4 2 (11.11%) Coaching
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Energy Management
4 2 (11.11%) Microservices
4 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CISMP
1 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.11%) PMBOK
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Apple