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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 623 1,027 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 19.70% 16.91% 14.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.04% 20.86% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 385 687 317
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -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 2,961 4,923 5,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 93.64% 81.04% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,473 3,687 2,242
10th Percentile £28,300 £25,809 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,254 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 5 May 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 5 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
Hertfordshire +6 193 £50,967 +10.80% 157
Cambridgeshire +2 120 £49,000 +8.89% 244
Suffolk -9 104 £30,000 -27.27% 54
Bedfordshire -12 87 £50,000 +33.33% 81
Essex -2 64 £32,500 -18.75% 129
Norfolk -10 53 £40,101 +0.25% 42
East Anglia -1 4 £57,500 -35.75% 212
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 29 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.25%) IIS
3 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.64%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.48%) nginx
7 2 (0.32%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Confluence
8 1 (0.16%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.25%) Simulink
4 4 (0.64%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.64%) Sketch
4 4 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.16%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 93 (14.93%) Power Platform
2 84 (13.48%) Azure
3 76 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (7.38%) SaaS
5 29 (4.65%) AWS
6 26 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.89%) Power Automate
8 13 (2.09%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.61%) OneDrive
10 8 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.12%) Google Workspace
12 6 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (0.96%) GitHub
13 5 (0.80%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.80%) Figma
13 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.64%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.82%) Firewall
2 27 (4.33%) VPN
3 23 (3.69%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.73%) DNS
4 17 (2.73%) WAN
5 14 (2.25%) LAN
6 13 (2.09%) DHCP
7 11 (1.77%) VLAN
8 10 (1.61%) Network Security
8 10 (1.61%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.12%) BGP
10 7 (1.12%) FTP
10 7 (1.12%) Intranet
11 6 (0.96%) Internet
11 6 (0.96%) VoIP
12 5 (0.80%) RS-485
12 5 (0.80%) SSL
12 5 (0.80%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (14.13%) Power BI
2 66 (10.59%) Geospatial Data
2 66 (10.59%) GIS
2 66 (10.59%) Power Query
3 32 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.77%) MySQL
6 9 (1.44%) Redis
7 7 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.64%) Big Data
9 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.48%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (3.37%) Git
2 18 (2.89%) JIRA
3 15 (2.41%) Cucumber
3 15 (2.41%) Robot Framework
4 13 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.96%) GitLab
6 6 (0.96%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.48%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.32%) Moq
9 2 (0.32%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.32%) Vite
9 2 (0.32%) webpack
10 1 (0.16%) NUnit
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 403 (64.69%) Social Skills
2 222 (35.63%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.59%) Finance
4 61 (9.79%) Influencing Skills
5 53 (8.51%) Electronics
6 38 (6.10%) Manufacturing
7 34 (5.46%) Marketing
8 26 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 22 (3.53%) Local Government
9 22 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.73%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.41%) Law
13 12 (1.93%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.44%) Automotive
15 9 (1.44%) Czech Language
15 9 (1.44%) Legal
16 7 (1.12%) Retail
17 5 (0.80%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 134 (21.51%) Analyst
2 61 (9.79%) Business Change Analyst
2 61 (9.79%) Change Analyst
3 51 (8.19%) Senior
4 35 (5.62%) Applications Support
4 35 (5.62%) Developer
5 34 (5.46%) Support Engineer
6 32 (5.14%) IT Support
6 32 (5.14%) Support Analyst
7 21 (3.37%) 1st Line Support
7 21 (3.37%) Technical Support
8 20 (3.21%) Junior
8 20 (3.21%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (3.05%) Administrator
9 19 (3.05%) Architect
10 18 (2.89%) Systems Engineer
11 17 (2.73%) Lead
11 17 (2.73%) Support Technician
11 17 (2.73%) Test Automation Engineer
11 17 (2.73%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.14%) .NET
1 32 (5.14%) CSS
2 28 (4.49%) HTML
3 23 (3.69%) ASP.NET
4 14 (2.25%) CSS3
4 14 (2.25%) HTML5
5 13 (2.09%) REST
5 13 (2.09%) RESTful
6 12 (1.93%) .NET Framework
6 12 (1.93%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (1.77%) Entity Framework
8 10 (1.61%) .NET Core
8 10 (1.61%) jQuery
8 10 (1.61%) Node.js
8 10 (1.61%) SOAP
9 9 (1.44%) AngularJS
9 9 (1.44%) React
9 9 (1.44%) Sass
9 9 (1.44%) Web Services
10 8 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.00%) Algorithms
2 38 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.09%) Driving Licence
5 13 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.12%) FPGA
7 7 (1.12%) Life Science
8 6 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 6 (0.96%) Verilog
9 5 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.80%) Robotics
10 4 (0.64%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.64%) EPoS
10 4 (0.64%) IoT
10 4 (0.64%) Social Media
11 3 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 103 (16.53%) Windows
2 51 (8.19%) Linux
3 27 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.57%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.96%) Unix
7 3 (0.48%) Android
7 3 (0.48%) SUSE
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.16%) CentOS
9 1 (0.16%) Rocky
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
2 108 (17.34%) Collaborative Working
3 102 (16.37%) Service Delivery
4 93 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
5 90 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 82 (13.16%) Project Management
7 78 (12.52%) Business Analysis
7 78 (12.52%) Change Management
7 78 (12.52%) Computer Science
8 76 (12.20%) Data Management
9 73 (11.72%) Asset Management
10 71 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
11 67 (10.75%) Customer Service
11 67 (10.75%) Use Case
12 66 (10.59%) Strategic Planning
13 63 (10.11%) Business Case
13 63 (10.11%) Strategic Thinking
13 63 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
14 62 (9.95%) Agile
15 61 (9.79%) MoSCoW
Programming Languages
1 133 (21.35%) SQL
2 59 (9.47%) Python
3 54 (8.67%) JavaScript
4 35 (5.62%) C#
4 35 (5.62%) PowerShell
5 29 (4.65%) Java
6 24 (3.85%) Bash
7 20 (3.21%) C++
8 19 (3.05%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.73%) PHP
10 15 (2.41%) MATLAB
11 14 (2.25%) C
12 5 (0.80%) Objective-C
12 5 (0.80%) VBA
13 4 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.32%) Go
16 1 (0.16%) Rust
16 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 161 (25.84%) Degree
2 78 (12.52%) CBAP
3 48 (7.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (5.62%) Master's Degree
5 33 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (3.53%) PMP
8 20 (3.21%) PMI Certification
9 17 (2.73%) A+ Certification
10 13 (2.09%) Security Cleared
11 11 (1.77%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.61%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.12%) CCNA
15 6 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.96%) NVQ Level 3
15 6 (0.96%) NVQ Level 4
16 5 (0.80%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.80%) MCP
17 4 (0.64%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.90%) QA
2 16 (2.57%) GDPR
3 15 (2.41%) SLA
4 7 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.64%) PMO
6 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.32%) NIST
6 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.16%) COBIT
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 72 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 13 (2.09%) Docker
5 6 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.96%) vSphere
6 5 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (0.80%) Firmware
7 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (0.96%) Ansible
4 5 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.64%) Puppet
6 3 (0.48%) Graylog
6 3 (0.48%) Nagios
6 3 (0.48%) Rundeck
6 3 (0.48%) Terraform
7 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.32%) Rancher
7 2 (0.32%) SCCM
7 2 (0.32%) SCOM
7 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.32%) vRealize
7 2 (0.32%) VxRail
7 2 (0.32%) WSUS
8 1 (0.16%) Autotask
Vendors
1 127 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.62%) YouTube
3 27 (4.33%) VMware
4 18 (2.89%) Citrix
5 17 (2.73%) Cisco
6 16 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.25%) IBM
8 12 (1.93%) Google
9 11 (1.77%) Oracle
9 11 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.61%) IFS
10 10 (1.61%) Intel
11 8 (1.28%) Adobe
11 8 (1.28%) EMC
12 7 (1.12%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.96%) WatchGuard
14 5 (0.80%) Dell
14 5 (0.80%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.80%) Pure Storage
14 5 (0.80%) Xamarin