Problem-Solving Jobs in the East Midlands

Problem Solving
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 547 290 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.07% 11.72% 17.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.58% 12.27% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 296 139 297
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,800 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,282 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +8.00% -1.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £55,000
90th Percentile £66,875 £71,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,510 2,364 3,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.43% 95.52% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,078 1,123 1,946
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,188
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Nottinghamshire +23 180 £45,000 -18.18% 53
Leicestershire +4 153 £37,500 -17.13% 42
Northamptonshire -5 100 £42,500 -14.14% 42
Derbyshire +17 77 £37,500 +20.97% 43
Lincolnshire -3 36 £35,000 -27.08% 31
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 27 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.74%) WordPress
4 12 (2.19%) CMS
5 10 (1.83%) IIS
6 8 (1.46%) Apache
7 3 (0.55%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) PrestaShop
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 41 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (5.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Sketch
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) InDesign
6 1 (0.18%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 12 (2.19%) Shopify
2 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.73%) Magento
7 2 (0.37%) iTrent
7 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.18%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.18%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 110 (20.11%) Azure
2 75 (13.71%) AWS
3 65 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (5.12%) Google Sheets
4 28 (5.12%) SaaS
5 25 (4.57%) GCP
6 21 (3.84%) Google Docs
7 17 (3.11%) Entra ID
7 17 (3.11%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.01%) GitHub
10 10 (1.83%) Serverless
11 9 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.65%) Figma
12 6 (1.10%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.10%) Slack
12 6 (1.10%) Zapier
13 5 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (0.91%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.13%) Firewall
2 35 (6.40%) DNS
3 29 (5.30%) Network Security
4 24 (4.39%) DHCP
4 24 (4.39%) TCP/IP
4 24 (4.39%) VPN
5 22 (4.02%) Internet
6 16 (2.93%) WLAN
7 15 (2.74%) SAN
8 8 (1.46%) LAN
8 8 (1.46%) WAN
8 8 (1.46%) Wireless
9 6 (1.10%) Broadband
9 6 (1.10%) NetScaler
9 6 (1.10%) SNMP
10 5 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (0.91%) IPsec
11 4 (0.73%) 4G
11 4 (0.73%) NAS
11 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.13%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.30%) Tableau
3 23 (4.20%) BigQuery
3 23 (4.20%) Looker
4 17 (3.11%) MySQL
5 16 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.19%) Power BI
7 10 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.73%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.55%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.37%) Power Query
13 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (7.13%) Git
2 7 (1.28%) JIRA
3 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.37%) Android Studio
4 2 (0.37%) GitLab
4 2 (0.37%) gulp
5 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.18%) Mocha
5 1 (0.18%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) Subversion
5 1 (0.18%) Xcode
General
1 283 (51.74%) Social Skills
2 195 (35.65%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (21.02%) Retail
4 76 (13.89%) Finance
4 76 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
5 34 (6.22%) Manufacturing
6 32 (5.85%) Marketing
7 27 (4.94%) Law
8 18 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.38%) Electronics
11 10 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.65%) Games
13 8 (1.46%) Billing
14 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Automotive
15 6 (1.10%) Banking
16 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (14.99%) Analyst
2 72 (13.16%) Support Engineer
3 56 (10.24%) Developer
4 52 (9.51%) IT Engineer
5 45 (8.23%) Data Analyst
6 42 (7.68%) Lead
7 37 (6.76%) IT Support
7 37 (6.76%) Senior
8 35 (6.40%) Applications Support
9 29 (5.30%) Applications Engineer
9 29 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (5.12%) Applications Support Engineer
11 24 (4.39%) Consultant
11 24 (4.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.39%) IT Support Engineer
12 20 (3.66%) Architect
13 19 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (3.47%) Software Engineer
14 18 (3.29%) 2nd Line Support
14 18 (3.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.76%) HTML
2 28 (5.12%) .NET
3 22 (4.02%) CSS
4 20 (3.66%) React
5 15 (2.74%) Laravel
6 11 (2.01%) Web Services
7 10 (1.83%) HTML5
8 9 (1.65%) jQuery
9 8 (1.46%) CSS3
10 7 (1.28%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.28%) Node.js
11 6 (1.10%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.91%) GatsbyJS
12 5 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.91%) REST
12 5 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (0.91%) Twig
12 5 (0.91%) YAML
13 4 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.97%) Onboarding
2 35 (6.40%) Driving Licence
3 33 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.83%) Clustering
7 9 (1.65%) FMCG
7 9 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.28%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
10 6 (1.10%) iPhone
10 6 (1.10%) Replication
11 5 (0.91%) CCTV
11 5 (0.91%) Cyberattack
11 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 127 (23.22%) Windows
2 54 (9.87%) Windows Server
3 50 (9.14%) Linux
4 11 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 11 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.10%) Android
6 6 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.91%) CentOS
7 5 (0.91%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.91%) SUSE
7 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.73%) VMS
9 3 (0.55%) Unix
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.37%) AIX
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (18.65%) Mentoring
2 100 (18.28%) Customer Service
3 96 (17.55%) Data Analysis
4 78 (14.26%) Project Management
5 74 (13.53%) Mathematics
6 72 (13.16%) Computer Science
7 57 (10.42%) ITIL
8 55 (10.05%) Agile
9 51 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
11 43 (7.86%) Analytics
11 43 (7.86%) DevOps
12 41 (7.50%) User Experience
13 40 (7.31%) ERP
13 40 (7.31%) Service Management
14 38 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
15 37 (6.76%) Mechatronics
16 36 (6.58%) Business Strategy
16 36 (6.58%) Line Management
17 35 (6.40%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.58%) SQL
2 58 (10.60%) Python
3 43 (7.86%) C#
4 33 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.75%) PHP
6 19 (3.47%) Java
7 16 (2.93%) C++
8 15 (2.74%) C
9 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.28%) Bash
10 7 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.91%) Bicep
11 5 (0.91%) Rust
12 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.37%) Go
14 2 (0.37%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.37%) Perl
14 2 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 170 (31.08%) Degree
2 54 (9.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (7.13%) HNC
4 36 (6.58%) DBS Check
5 32 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (4.39%) CCNA
6 24 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (4.39%) Security Cleared
7 22 (4.02%) MCP
8 17 (3.11%) MCSE
9 16 (2.93%) CCNP
10 15 (2.74%) LPIC
11 14 (2.56%) CISSP
11 14 (2.56%) SC Cleared
12 13 (2.38%) CISM
13 11 (2.01%) A+ Certification
14 9 (1.65%) Azure Certification
15 7 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
17 5 (0.91%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.75%) GDPR
2 23 (4.20%) QA
3 14 (2.56%) SLA
4 11 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.28%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.10%) PMO
7 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.73%) WCAG
9 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (12.80%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.47%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.11%) Docker
5 8 (1.46%) vSphere
6 7 (1.28%) Firmware
7 6 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.91%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.37%) pfSense
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.83%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (1.28%) Ansible
5 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.73%) WSUS
7 3 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.37%) Terraform
9 1 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 168 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.05%) Google
3 34 (6.22%) VMware
4 30 (5.48%) Cisco
5 22 (4.02%) Databricks
6 21 (3.84%) Veeam
7 15 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.19%) Dell
9 11 (2.01%) Oracle
9 11 (2.01%) WooCommerce
10 9 (1.65%) SAP
11 8 (1.46%) Acronis
11 8 (1.46%) EMC
12 7 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.10%) Citrix
13 6 (1.10%) Meraki
13 6 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.91%) NetApp
14 5 (0.91%) SolidFire
15 4 (0.73%) McAfee