Problem-Solving Jobs in the East of England

Problem Solving
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 605 1,005 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 21.04% 17.74% 15.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.64% 21.49% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 367 658 365
10th Percentile £26,400 £25,750 £24,300
25th Percentile £33,199 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% -8.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,672 4,677 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 92.91% 82.55% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,434 3,534 2,419
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Hertfordshire +4 204 £50,967 +7.30% 221
Cambridgeshire +4 119 £50,000 +13.64% 259
Bedfordshire -4 85 £47,500 +26.67% 84
Suffolk -8 73 £30,000 -29.41% 56
Essex -2 69 £30,000 -27.27% 161
Norfolk -10 52 £40,101 +0.25% 50
East Anglia 0 3 £57,500 -35.75% 187
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 25 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.83%) IIS
4 3 (0.50%) Apache
4 3 (0.50%) nginx
4 3 (0.50%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.33%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) Documentum
5 2 (0.33%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.31%) Simulink
4 4 (0.66%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) Sketch
5 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.15%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.17%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 91 (15.04%) Power Platform
2 90 (14.88%) Azure
3 69 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (7.77%) SaaS
5 39 (6.45%) AWS
6 22 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.48%) GitHub
8 14 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (1.65%) Power Automate
9 10 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.49%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.99%) Google Workspace
14 5 (0.83%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.83%) Figma
15 4 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.66%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.28%) Firewall
2 25 (4.13%) DNS
3 17 (2.81%) DHCP
3 17 (2.81%) WAN
4 16 (2.64%) VPN
5 15 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 15 (2.48%) Network Security
5 15 (2.48%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.31%) LAN
7 11 (1.82%) VLAN
8 10 (1.65%) BGP
8 10 (1.65%) Internet
8 10 (1.65%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.32%) Wireshark
10 6 (0.99%) MPLS
10 6 (0.99%) SAN
10 6 (0.99%) VoIP
11 5 (0.83%) RS-485
11 5 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (13.88%) Power BI
2 66 (10.91%) Geospatial Data
2 66 (10.91%) GIS
2 66 (10.91%) Power Query
3 34 (5.62%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.82%) MySQL
7 9 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.49%) Redis
8 8 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.66%) Big Data
10 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (5.79%) Git
2 26 (4.30%) JIRA
3 15 (2.48%) Bitbucket
4 13 (2.15%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.99%) GitLab
7 5 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.66%) Subversion
9 3 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.33%) Log4j
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.33%) Vite
10 2 (0.33%) webpack
11 1 (0.17%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.17%) ClearQuest
11 1 (0.17%) Moq
11 1 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 372 (61.49%) Social Skills
2 216 (35.70%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (14.21%) Finance
4 61 (10.08%) Influencing Skills
5 39 (6.45%) Marketing
6 29 (4.79%) Electronics
7 27 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.30%) Telecoms
9 25 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.14%) Legal
12 18 (2.98%) Local Government
13 17 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.15%) Aerospace
14 13 (2.15%) Law
14 13 (2.15%) Public Sector
15 10 (1.65%) Automotive
16 9 (1.49%) Retail
17 4 (0.66%) Banking
18 3 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 130 (21.49%) Analyst
2 64 (10.58%) Senior
3 61 (10.08%) Business Change Analyst
3 61 (10.08%) Change Analyst
4 44 (7.27%) Developer
5 33 (5.45%) IT Support
6 31 (5.12%) Support Engineer
7 29 (4.79%) Architect
8 27 (4.46%) Support Analyst
9 26 (4.30%) Applications Support
9 26 (4.30%) Junior
10 21 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (3.31%) Graduate
12 19 (3.14%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.98%) Senior Manager
14 16 (2.64%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.48%) 2nd Line Support
15 15 (2.48%) Development Manager
15 15 (2.48%) Engineering Manager
15 15 (2.48%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.93%) HTML
2 41 (6.78%) .NET
2 41 (6.78%) CSS
3 31 (5.12%) ASP.NET
4 23 (3.80%) CSS3
4 23 (3.80%) HTML5
5 21 (3.47%) .NET Framework
6 20 (3.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 20 (3.31%) Entity Framework
7 18 (2.98%) Sass
8 14 (2.31%) LESS
8 14 (2.31%) RESTful
9 10 (1.65%) .NET Core
9 10 (1.65%) jQuery
9 10 (1.65%) Node.js
9 10 (1.65%) Web Services
10 9 (1.49%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.49%) React
10 9 (1.49%) REST
11 7 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.89%) Algorithms
2 36 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.31%) Driving Licence
6 12 (1.98%) Cyberattack
6 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.82%) FPGA
8 10 (1.65%) Verilog
9 9 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.32%) Life Science
10 8 (1.32%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.16%) IoT
12 6 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.83%) VHDL
14 4 (0.66%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.66%) EPoS
15 3 (0.50%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 84 (13.88%) Windows
2 38 (6.28%) Linux
3 28 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.32%) Unix
6 7 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) SUSE
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 100 (16.53%) Collaborative Working
2 100 (16.53%) Service Delivery
3 89 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
4 88 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 78 (12.89%) Change Management
6 76 (12.56%) Project Management
7 74 (12.23%) Asset Management
7 74 (12.23%) Business Analysis
7 74 (12.23%) Data Management
8 71 (11.74%) Actionable Insight
8 71 (11.74%) Use Case
9 66 (10.91%) Strategic Planning
10 64 (10.58%) Business Case
11 63 (10.41%) Computer Science
11 63 (10.41%) Strategic Thinking
11 63 (10.41%) Workshop Facilitation
12 61 (10.08%) MoSCoW
13 58 (9.59%) Agile
14 57 (9.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 128 (21.16%) SQL
2 51 (8.43%) Python
3 47 (7.77%) C#
3 47 (7.77%) JavaScript
4 30 (4.96%) Java
5 29 (4.79%) C++
6 26 (4.30%) C
6 26 (4.30%) PHP
7 25 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.31%) MATLAB
9 14 (2.31%) Objective-C
10 13 (2.15%) Bash
11 5 (0.83%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.50%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (0.50%) Tcl
13 2 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 140 (23.14%) Degree
2 74 (12.23%) CBAP
3 38 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 35 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.12%) Master's Degree
6 29 (4.79%) Security Cleared
7 18 (2.98%) PMP
8 16 (2.64%) PMI Certification
9 14 (2.31%) SC Cleared
10 13 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.82%) A+ Certification
11 11 (1.82%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.32%) CCNA
14 6 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.99%) MCP
14 6 (0.99%) NVQ Level 3
14 6 (0.99%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.47%) QA
2 15 (2.48%) SLA
3 14 (2.31%) GDPR
4 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.66%) PMO
6 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.50%) NIST
7 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.17%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 72 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.64%) Docker
4 14 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.16%) vSphere
6 6 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.66%) Firmware
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.49%) Ansible
4 7 (1.16%) Puppet
5 6 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.50%) Graylog
7 3 (0.50%) Nagios
7 3 (0.50%) Rundeck
7 3 (0.50%) Terraform
8 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.33%) Rancher
8 2 (0.33%) SCCM
8 2 (0.33%) SCOM
8 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.33%) vRealize
8 2 (0.33%) VxRail
8 2 (0.33%) WSUS
9 1 (0.17%) Autotask
Vendors
1 139 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.96%) YouTube
3 27 (4.46%) VMware
4 19 (3.14%) Cisco
5 16 (2.64%) Citrix
6 14 (2.31%) IBM
6 14 (2.31%) Intel
6 14 (2.31%) Xamarin
7 13 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.65%) Google
8 10 (1.65%) IFS
8 10 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.65%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.32%) Adobe
9 8 (1.32%) EMC
10 6 (0.99%) Oracle
10 6 (0.99%) WatchGuard
11 5 (0.83%) Dell
11 5 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.83%) Pure Storage