Problem-Solving Jobs in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 156 205 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.07% 13.41% 14.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.53% 14.82% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 83 126 156
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £39,679 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,556 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -0.74% +14.29%
75th Percentile £69,057 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,253 £74,443 £80,627
Scotland median annual salary £48,004 £45,543 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.40% -17.19% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 890 1,383 2,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.37% 90.45% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 427 972 1,174
10th Percentile £26,929 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,404 £90,773
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 1 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
Balerno - 5 £26,929 -
Problem-Solving
Scotland

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (3.85%) CMS
2 3 (1.92%) Drupal
3 2 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.28%) Apache
3 2 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.28%) Confluence
3 2 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.64%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (1.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.31%) Azure
2 23 (14.74%) AWS
3 12 (7.69%) GCP
3 12 (7.69%) SaaS
4 5 (3.21%) Google Analytics
4 5 (3.21%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (2.56%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.28%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.28%) Contentsquare
8 1 (0.64%) PaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) Internet
2 2 (1.28%) FTP
3 1 (0.64%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.64%) Firewall
3 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.21%) Power BI
3 5 (3.21%) Tableau
4 3 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
4 3 (1.92%) MySQL
5 2 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.28%) DB2
5 2 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.64%) Big Data
6 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.64%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.64%) Metadata
6 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.64%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Git
1 10 (6.41%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (3.21%) JIRA
4 4 (2.56%) GitLab
5 3 (1.92%) webpack
6 1 (0.64%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.64%) Gradle
6 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.64%) MLflow
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.64%) Xcode
General
1 64 (41.03%) Finance
2 62 (39.74%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (35.90%) Social Skills
4 44 (28.21%) Banking
5 27 (17.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (10.90%) Retail
6 17 (10.90%) Telecoms
7 16 (10.26%) Games
8 12 (7.69%) Legal
9 8 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.49%) Front Office
11 4 (2.56%) Advertising
12 3 (1.92%) Law
12 3 (1.92%) Marketing
12 3 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.28%) Digital Health
13 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.28%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 50 (32.05%) Senior
2 33 (21.15%) Developer
3 21 (13.46%) Analyst
4 18 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 16 (10.26%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.41%) Lead
7 10 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (5.13%) C++ Developer
8 8 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) C++/Java Developer
9 7 (4.49%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (4.49%) Technical Support
10 6 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
11 5 (3.21%) Audit Manager
11 5 (3.21%) Digital Analyst
11 5 (3.21%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (3.21%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.26%) React
2 13 (8.33%) HTML
3 10 (6.41%) CSS
3 10 (6.41%) Spring
4 9 (5.77%) RESTful
5 8 (5.13%) REST
5 8 (5.13%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.49%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.49%) MFC
7 6 (3.85%) Node.js
8 5 (3.21%) Redux
9 4 (2.56%) .NET
9 4 (2.56%) Middleware
9 4 (2.56%) WebSockets
10 3 (1.92%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.28%) ADO
11 2 (1.28%) Hibernate
11 2 (1.28%) Java EE
11 2 (1.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.92%) Blog
5 3 (1.92%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.92%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.92%) Social Media
5 3 (1.92%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.92%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.28%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.28%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.28%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.90%) Linux
2 12 (7.69%) Windows
3 8 (5.13%) Unix
4 2 (1.28%) Android
4 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.36%) Agile
2 33 (21.15%) DevOps
3 29 (18.59%) Mentoring
4 24 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 23 (14.74%) Customer Experience
6 22 (14.10%) CI/CD
7 21 (13.46%) Coaching
7 21 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (12.82%) Project Management
9 18 (11.54%) Analytics
9 18 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (10.90%) Microservices
11 16 (10.26%) Decision-Making
12 15 (9.62%) SDLC
13 14 (8.97%) Risk Management
14 12 (7.69%) Customer Service
14 12 (7.69%) Mathematics
15 11 (7.05%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (7.05%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (6.41%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.64%) Java
2 29 (18.59%) Python
3 17 (10.90%) JavaScript
3 17 (10.90%) SQL
4 16 (10.26%) C++
5 9 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.85%) C
7 5 (3.21%) Go
7 5 (3.21%) VBA
8 4 (2.56%) C#
9 2 (1.28%) RPG
9 2 (1.28%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.64%) Groovy
10 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.64%) Perl
10 1 (0.64%) PHP
10 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (12.82%) Degree
2 8 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.49%) PhD
4 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.92%) CISA
6 3 (1.92%) CISM
6 3 (1.92%) CISSP
7 2 (1.28%) CBAP
7 2 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.28%) PMP
8 1 (0.64%) CEH
8 1 (0.64%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.92%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.28%) NIST
2 2 (1.28%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) ECSS
3 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.28%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 16 (10.26%) BT
2 12 (7.69%) Google
3 10 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.85%) Oracle
5 4 (2.56%) Blue Prism
5 4 (2.56%) UiPath
6 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.28%) Adobe
7 2 (1.28%) Draytek
7 2 (1.28%) IBM
7 2 (1.28%) Informatica
7 2 (1.28%) NETGEAR
7 2 (1.28%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.28%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.64%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.64%) Planview
8 1 (0.64%) StreamSets