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 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 142 178 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.10% 11.42% 17.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.90% 13.21% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 61 112 163
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,400 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +25.05% -18.01%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £73,072
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,872 £79,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,101 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.58% -5.00% -4.76%

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 840 1,347 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.24% 86.46% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 379 923 983
10th Percentile £26,793 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £46,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% +3.52%
75th Percentile £77,170 £73,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,717 £91,847 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 (4.23%) CMS
2 3 (2.11%) Drupal
3 2 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.11%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (2.11%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.15%) AWS
2 11 (7.75%) Azure
3 8 (5.63%) SaaS
4 5 (3.52%) Google Analytics
5 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (2.82%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.82%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.11%) GCP
6 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.41%) Contentsquare
8 1 (0.70%) Firebase
8 1 (0.70%) GitHub
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.70%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Internet
2 2 (1.41%) FTP
3 1 (0.70%) 802.11
3 1 (0.70%) BGP
3 1 (0.70%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) HSRP
3 1 (0.70%) IPsec
3 1 (0.70%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) OSPF
3 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.70%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) WAN
3 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
1 6 (4.23%) Tableau
2 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.11%) Power BI
4 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.41%) DB2
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Visual Studio
2 9 (6.34%) Git
3 3 (2.11%) GitLab
3 3 (2.11%) JIRA
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (48.59%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (43.66%) Social Skills
3 55 (38.73%) Finance
4 25 (17.61%) Banking
5 19 (13.38%) Retail
6 17 (11.97%) Telecoms
7 16 (11.27%) Games
7 16 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (10.56%) Legal
9 11 (7.75%) Front Office
10 6 (4.23%) Advertising
10 6 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (3.52%) Marketing
11 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (2.11%) Law
14 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.41%) Wholesale Banking
15 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 32 (22.54%) Senior
2 30 (21.13%) Developer
3 28 (19.72%) Analyst
4 16 (11.27%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (5.63%) C++ Developer
7 8 (5.63%) Lead
8 7 (4.93%) C++/Java Developer
8 7 (4.93%) Senior C++ Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Consultant
9 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Account Manager
10 5 (3.52%) Finance Manager
10 5 (3.52%) Risk Officer
11 4 (2.82%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.82%) Incident Analyst
11 4 (2.82%) Risk Manager
11 4 (2.82%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.63%) REST
2 7 (4.93%) HTML
2 7 (4.93%) MFC
3 6 (4.23%) RESTful
4 5 (3.52%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.82%) Middleware
5 4 (2.82%) React
5 4 (2.82%) WebSockets
6 3 (2.11%) ADO
6 3 (2.11%) CSS
7 2 (1.41%) .NET
7 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.41%) J2EE
7 2 (1.41%) Java EE
7 2 (1.41%) SOAP
7 2 (1.41%) Spring
7 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.70%) CSS3
8 1 (0.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.11%) Blog
4 3 (2.11%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.11%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.11%) Social Media
4 3 (2.11%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.41%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.41%) iSeries
5 2 (1.41%) Life Science
5 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.41%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.86%) Linux
2 10 (7.04%) Windows
3 6 (4.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.54%) Agile
2 28 (19.72%) Mentoring
3 25 (17.61%) Project Management
4 24 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (16.20%) Decision-Making
6 20 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (14.08%) DevOps
7 18 (12.68%) Analytics
8 17 (11.97%) CI/CD
8 17 (11.97%) Mathematics
9 15 (10.56%) Statistics
10 13 (9.15%) Validation
11 11 (7.75%) Customer Experience
11 11 (7.75%) Model Validation
11 11 (7.75%) Quantitative Analysis
11 11 (7.75%) Quantitative Finance
12 10 (7.04%) Coaching
13 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (6.34%) Incident Management
13 9 (6.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.83%) Java
1 31 (21.83%) Python
2 17 (11.97%) SQL
3 16 (11.27%) C++
4 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.52%) C
6 4 (2.82%) VBA
7 3 (2.11%) C#
7 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.41%) RPG
8 2 (1.41%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.70%) Cypher
9 1 (0.70%) Groovy
9 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.70%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (21.83%) Degree
2 14 (9.86%) Master's Degree
3 11 (7.75%) PhD
4 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.11%) CISSP
6 2 (1.41%) CBAP
6 2 (1.41%) CISM
6 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.41%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) CCNA
7 1 (0.70%) CCNP
7 1 (0.70%) CISA
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) HNC
7 1 (0.70%) HND
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) GAAP
2 3 (2.11%) IFRS
2 3 (2.11%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.11%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) ECSS
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) BT
2 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) Google
4 4 (2.82%) Blue Prism
4 4 (2.82%) UiPath
5 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.41%) Adobe
6 2 (1.41%) IBM
6 2 (1.41%) Informatica
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco
7 1 (0.70%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.70%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.70%) Planview