Problem-Solving Jobs in the East Midlands

Problem Solving
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 622 433 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.41% 15.07% 16.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.81% 15.67% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 438 231 304
10th Percentile £24,675 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,125 £28,082
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,000 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £62,125
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,493 2,763 3,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.93% 96.14% 91.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 1,338 2,100
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,350 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,140 £37,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,000 £65,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +7 184 £46,000 -14.81% 81
Leicestershire +6 166 £36,500 -18.89% 65
Derbyshire +8 124 £37,500 -16.67% 70
Northamptonshire +16 91 £40,000 -27.27% 58
Lincolnshire -9 54 £37,500 -33.33% 30
Rutland - 1 - - 1
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 29 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.61%) IIS
3 10 (1.61%) WordPress
4 8 (1.29%) Apache
5 5 (0.80%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.64%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) Confluence
7 2 (0.32%) JBoss
7 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) Kentico
8 1 (0.16%) PrestaShop
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) TYPO3
Applications
1 61 (9.81%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.09%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.64%) Sketch
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (1.29%) Misys Midas
2 7 (1.13%) Shopify
3 5 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.48%) iTrent
5 3 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.32%) Magento
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.16%) Primavera
7 1 (0.16%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (20.58%) Azure
2 80 (12.86%) AWS
3 66 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (4.66%) GCP
5 21 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.05%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.89%) SaaS
8 17 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 12 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (1.93%) WhatsApp
10 9 (1.45%) Figma
11 8 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (1.29%) Cloudflare
11 8 (1.29%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.96%) GitHub
13 6 (0.96%) Google Sheets
13 6 (0.96%) Serverless
14 5 (0.80%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.64%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.40%) Firewall
2 31 (4.98%) DNS
3 24 (3.86%) VPN
4 21 (3.38%) DHCP
4 21 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.22%) Network Security
6 14 (2.25%) Wireless
7 12 (1.93%) Internet
7 12 (1.93%) SAN
7 12 (1.93%) WAN
8 11 (1.77%) Broadband
8 11 (1.77%) LAN
9 7 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
10 5 (0.80%) IPsec
10 5 (0.80%) SNMP
11 4 (0.64%) NAS
11 4 (0.64%) NetScaler
11 4 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.93%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.18%) BigQuery
2 26 (4.18%) Looker
3 20 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (3.22%) Tableau
4 19 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.57%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (2.57%) MySQL
6 14 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.25%) Power BI
7 12 (1.93%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.13%) RDBMS
9 7 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.96%) MariaDB
10 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
11 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (5.47%) Git
2 11 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (1.45%) JIRA
4 6 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.48%) Appium
6 3 (0.48%) Gatling
6 3 (0.48%) GitLab
6 3 (0.48%) gulp
6 3 (0.48%) JBehave
6 3 (0.48%) JDeveloper
6 3 (0.48%) JMeter
6 3 (0.48%) JUnit
6 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.32%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.32%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.16%) webpack
8 1 (0.16%) WiX
General
1 303 (48.71%) Social Skills
2 218 (35.05%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (12.22%) Retail
4 69 (11.09%) Finance
5 45 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 34 (5.47%) Marketing
7 32 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.38%) Law
10 16 (2.57%) Automotive
11 11 (1.77%) Games
11 11 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.77%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.61%) Billing
12 10 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.45%) Legal
13 9 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 75 (12.06%) Analyst
2 59 (9.49%) Lead
3 58 (9.32%) Developer
4 52 (8.36%) Support Engineer
5 46 (7.40%) Senior
6 39 (6.27%) IT Support
7 30 (4.82%) IT Engineer
8 28 (4.50%) Architect
9 27 (4.34%) Applications Support
9 27 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (3.54%) IT Manager
11 21 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
11 21 (3.38%) Applications Support Engineer
11 21 (3.38%) Data Analyst
12 20 (3.22%) Consultant
13 19 (3.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.05%) IT Technician
14 17 (2.73%) Software Engineer
14 17 (2.73%) Support Analyst
15 16 (2.57%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.43%) .NET
2 28 (4.50%) HTML
3 23 (3.70%) React
4 18 (2.89%) REST
5 15 (2.41%) ASP.NET
5 15 (2.41%) CSS
6 14 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 14 (2.25%) Node.js
7 13 (2.09%) Laravel
8 10 (1.61%) Web Services
9 9 (1.45%) ATL
10 8 (1.29%) jQuery
10 8 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.13%) CSS3
11 7 (1.13%) HTML5
12 6 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (0.96%) Express.js
12 6 (0.96%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (0.96%) Twig
12 6 (0.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (6.43%) Management Information System
3 35 (5.63%) Driving Licence
4 19 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.57%) Taxonomies
7 15 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.25%) CCTV
8 14 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.13%) Clustering
11 6 (0.96%) FMCG
11 6 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
13 4 (0.64%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (17.20%) Windows
2 64 (10.29%) Windows Server
3 44 (7.07%) Linux
4 9 (1.45%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.45%) Unix
5 8 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.96%) Android
7 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.80%) CentOS
7 5 (0.80%) Data ONTAP
7 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.64%) SUSE
8 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) AIX
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (15.27%) Agile
2 89 (14.31%) Customer Service
3 83 (13.34%) Project Management
4 74 (11.90%) DevOps
5 64 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (8.36%) Mentoring
7 47 (7.56%) Actionable Insight
7 47 (7.56%) ERP
8 46 (7.40%) Business Strategy
9 44 (7.07%) Analytics
10 42 (6.75%) Process Improvement
11 41 (6.59%) Mathematics
12 40 (6.43%) Service Management
13 39 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (6.27%) Decision-Making
14 38 (6.11%) Computer Science
15 37 (5.95%) ITIL
15 37 (5.95%) Migration
16 36 (5.79%) Data Analysis
16 36 (5.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 116 (18.65%) SQL
2 60 (9.65%) Python
3 52 (8.36%) C#
4 38 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.18%) PHP
6 22 (3.54%) Java
7 17 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 17 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.77%) Bash
8 11 (1.77%) C
9 8 (1.29%) C++
9 8 (1.29%) Ruby
9 8 (1.29%) Rust
10 6 (0.96%) Bicep
11 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.64%) Go
12 4 (0.64%) Perl
13 3 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.48%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (16.56%) Degree
2 29 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 28 (4.50%) DBS Check
4 25 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.45%) CISSP
8 8 (1.29%) CISM
8 8 (1.29%) HNC
8 8 (1.29%) ISEB
8 8 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.96%) A+ Certification
9 6 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.96%) MCP
10 5 (0.80%) CCNA
10 5 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.80%) OCA
10 5 (0.80%) OCP
10 5 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.64%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.59%) QA
2 33 (5.31%) GDPR
3 26 (4.18%) SLA
4 13 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.29%) PMO
6 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.64%) WCAG
9 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.86%) Hyper-V
3 23 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.73%) Docker
5 5 (0.80%) Firmware
5 5 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.32%) pfSense
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.29%) Ansible
4 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.96%) Terraform
6 5 (0.80%) Data Guard
6 5 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.80%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.80%) WSUS
7 4 (0.64%) SCOM
8 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.16%) Grafana
9 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 142 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.91%) Google
3 28 (4.50%) VMware
4 20 (3.22%) Veeam
5 17 (2.73%) Oracle
5 17 (2.73%) SAP
6 15 (2.41%) Databricks
7 14 (2.25%) Cisco
8 11 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.45%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.29%) Acronis
10 8 (1.29%) Meraki
11 7 (1.13%) Minitab
11 7 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.96%) Dell
12 6 (0.96%) JDA
12 6 (0.96%) WooCommerce
13 5 (0.80%) Citrix
13 5 (0.80%) HP
13 5 (0.80%) SolidFire