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 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 670 385 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 15.92% 19.70% 19.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.65% 21.21% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 284 219 400
10th Percentile £27,423 £26,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,207 £30,752
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £44,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% +18.75%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,256
90th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

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 3,593 1,815 5,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 85.36% 92.89% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 1,266 2,518
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +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 8 December 2024.

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 8 December 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
Hertfordshire -2 198 £61,250 +22.50% 81
Cambridgeshire -4 163 £55,000 +37.50% 98
Essex +2 100 £53,750 +36.94% 49
Bedfordshire -2 80 £47,500 +15.15% 25
Suffolk +6 72 £27,500 -38.20% 25
Norfolk -9 57 £53,000 +47.22% 14
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 22 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.94%) Confluence
4 8 (1.19%) CMS
4 8 (1.19%) WordPress
5 3 (0.45%) Drupal
5 3 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.30%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.30%) Documentum
6 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 30 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Simulink
4 4 (0.60%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.60%) CANalyzer
4 4 (0.60%) Sketch
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Shopify
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Magento
4 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.30%) ResourceLink
4 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 102 (15.22%) Azure
2 95 (14.18%) Power Platform
3 78 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (5.82%) SaaS
5 38 (5.67%) AWS
6 25 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (3.13%) GitHub
8 16 (2.39%) Serverless
9 15 (2.24%) PowerApps
10 13 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 13 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 13 (1.94%) Power Automate
11 11 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (0.60%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (0.60%) AWS KMS
13 4 (0.60%) Figma
13 4 (0.60%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.63%) DNS
1 31 (4.63%) Firewall
2 25 (3.73%) WAN
3 23 (3.43%) LAN
4 20 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.69%) DHCP
6 17 (2.54%) Internet
6 17 (2.54%) Network Security
7 14 (2.09%) Intrusion Detection
8 12 (1.79%) BGP
8 12 (1.79%) VPN
9 10 (1.49%) 2G
9 10 (1.49%) 3G
9 10 (1.49%) 4G
9 10 (1.49%) 5G
10 9 (1.34%) Wireless
11 8 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.04%) MPLS
12 7 (1.04%) SAN
13 6 (0.90%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.13%) Power BI
2 66 (9.85%) Geospatial Data
2 66 (9.85%) GIS
2 66 (9.85%) Power Query
3 61 (9.10%) SQL Server
4 34 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (3.13%) MySQL
6 16 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.90%) Redis
10 5 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.60%) Data Hub
11 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.60%) SQLite
12 3 (0.45%) Big Data
13 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 59 (8.81%) Git
2 42 (6.27%) JIRA
3 22 (3.28%) Bitbucket
4 10 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.04%) Mercurial
5 7 (1.04%) Postman
6 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.60%) CANoe
8 3 (0.45%) GitLab
8 3 (0.45%) Subversion
9 2 (0.30%) Log4j
9 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.30%) TestCafe
9 2 (0.30%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.15%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 350 (52.24%) Social Skills
2 216 (32.24%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (12.99%) Finance
4 42 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
5 39 (5.82%) Legal
5 39 (5.82%) Marketing
6 37 (5.52%) Telecoms
7 34 (5.07%) Retail
8 27 (4.03%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (3.28%) Electronics
11 20 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.84%) Automotive
13 10 (1.49%) Public Sector
14 9 (1.34%) Local Government
15 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.90%) Advertising
17 5 (0.75%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.75%) Banking
17 5 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (15.22%) Senior
2 97 (14.48%) Developer
3 76 (11.34%) Analyst
4 35 (5.22%) Senior Developer
5 33 (4.93%) IT Support
6 32 (4.78%) Architect
7 29 (4.33%) IT Engineer
8 27 (4.03%) Graduate
8 27 (4.03%) Support Engineer
8 27 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
9 26 (3.88%) Lead
10 24 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 23 (3.43%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.13%) Engineering Manager
13 18 (2.69%) Business Development Manager
13 18 (2.69%) Business Manager
13 18 (2.69%) Development Manager
13 18 (2.69%) Senior .NET Developer
13 18 (2.69%) Service Analyst
13 18 (2.69%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (11.34%) HTML
2 70 (10.45%) CSS
3 61 (9.10%) .NET
4 47 (7.01%) HTML5
5 44 (6.57%) CSS3
6 43 (6.42%) .NET Framework
7 41 (6.12%) ASP.NET
8 38 (5.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 38 (5.67%) Entity Framework
9 29 (4.33%) Sass
10 28 (4.18%) LESS
11 19 (2.84%) React
12 14 (2.09%) Vue
13 13 (1.94%) jQuery
14 12 (1.79%) AngularJS
15 11 (1.64%) Node.js
16 10 (1.49%) JSON
16 10 (1.49%) RESTful
16 10 (1.49%) XML
17 9 (1.34%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.49%) Algorithms
2 44 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (5.22%) Management Information System
4 30 (4.48%) FPGA
5 22 (3.28%) IoT
6 18 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.69%) Verilog
7 17 (2.54%) Embedded Systems
8 16 (2.39%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.24%) Driving Licence
10 14 (2.09%) VHDL
11 13 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.94%) ASIC
11 13 (1.94%) Cyberattack
12 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.49%) Data Centre
14 8 (1.19%) EPoS
14 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.19%) Life Science
15 7 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.00%) Windows
2 48 (7.16%) Linux
3 24 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.84%) Unix
5 18 (2.69%) Android
6 15 (2.24%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.19%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.45%) SUSE
11 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.15%) CentOS
12 1 (0.15%) Debian
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Rocky
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (15.97%) Service Delivery
2 94 (14.03%) Agile
3 91 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (13.58%) Data Management
4 79 (11.79%) Project Management
5 78 (11.64%) Asset Management
6 73 (10.90%) DevOps
7 69 (10.30%) Actionable Insight
8 68 (10.15%) Computer Science
8 68 (10.15%) Mentoring
9 66 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (9.85%) Strategic Planning
10 64 (9.55%) Decision-Making
11 57 (8.51%) Customer Service
12 56 (8.36%) Project Delivery
13 51 (7.61%) ITIL
13 51 (7.61%) Validation
14 45 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (5.97%) Software Engineering
16 39 (5.82%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 153 (22.84%) SQL
2 79 (11.79%) JavaScript
3 71 (10.60%) C#
4 63 (9.40%) Python
5 52 (7.76%) C++
6 50 (7.46%) C
7 33 (4.93%) Java
8 32 (4.78%) PHP
8 32 (4.78%) T-SQL
9 21 (3.13%) Objective-C
10 19 (2.84%) Bash
11 16 (2.39%) TypeScript
12 14 (2.09%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.94%) Assembly Language
13 13 (1.94%) PowerShell
13 13 (1.94%) SystemVerilog
13 13 (1.94%) Tcl
14 6 (0.90%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 167 (24.93%) Degree
2 54 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (5.37%) Master's Degree
4 35 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 34 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (2.84%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.94%) CISM
8 13 (1.94%) CISSP
9 12 (1.79%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.64%) CISA
11 9 (1.34%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (1.19%) CCNA
12 8 (1.19%) CCSP
12 8 (1.19%) PMP
13 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.90%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.93%) QA
2 22 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.84%) SLA
4 17 (2.54%) GDPR
5 15 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.19%) ISO 9001
6 8 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.04%) NIST
7 7 (1.04%) PMO
8 5 (0.75%) NEBOSH
9 4 (0.60%) AUTOSAR
9 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.60%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.60%) MISRA
9 4 (0.60%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) COBIT
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.79%) Docker
4 8 (1.19%) vSphere
5 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.75%) Firmware
6 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.15%) GlusterFS
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.64%) Ansible
3 9 (1.34%) WSUS
4 7 (1.04%) Grafana
4 7 (1.04%) Puppet
4 7 (1.04%) ZABBIX
5 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.45%) SCCM
6 3 (0.45%) Terraform
7 2 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.30%) SCOM
7 2 (0.30%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.30%) vRealize
7 2 (0.30%) VxRail
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) Graylog
8 1 (0.15%) Marathon
8 1 (0.15%) SELinux
Vendors
1 187 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.07%) Xamarin
3 31 (4.63%) VMware
4 23 (3.43%) Cisco
5 16 (2.39%) EMC
5 16 (2.39%) Intel
5 16 (2.39%) YouTube
6 13 (1.94%) Xilinx
7 12 (1.79%) SAP
8 11 (1.64%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.34%) Google
9 9 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.04%) Citrix
10 7 (1.04%) Commvault
10 7 (1.04%) HP
10 7 (1.04%) Oracle
11 6 (0.90%) Adobe
11 6 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.90%) Remedy
11 6 (0.90%) Salesforce