Creative Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 591 712
Rank change year-on-year +106 +121 +60
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 215 237 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 153 114 106
10th Percentile £33,915 £34,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% -30.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £71,750 £96,250 £116,250
UK median annual salary £40,101 £52,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.62% -30.00% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,644 73,553 84,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.10% 85.14% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,839 53,945 50,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England +6 52 £40,101 -33.17% 31
London +99 48 £67,500 +3.85% 176
South East +116 42 £40,101 -23.62% 52
Yorkshire +74 32 £40,101 -15.58% 8
Midlands +68 27 £40,101 -34.53% 14
South West +94 25 £40,101 -5.65% 13
North West -44 20 £40,101 -33.17% 21
East of England +54 19 £40,101 +33.67% 20
East Midlands +33 16 £40,101 -49.87% 3
West Midlands +42 11 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (2.33%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 105 (48.84%) Simulink
2 12 (5.58%) Photoshop
3 9 (4.19%) Adobe After Effects
3 9 (4.19%) Adobe Premiere
3 9 (4.19%) CapCut
3 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.47%) Blender
5 1 (0.47%) CATIA
5 1 (0.47%) Houdini
5 1 (0.47%) InDesign
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 103 (47.91%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.16%) AWS
2 18 (8.37%) Azure
3 9 (4.19%) Canva
3 9 (4.19%) Dropbox
3 9 (4.19%) Google Drive
4 8 (3.72%) GCP
5 6 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (2.79%) Figma
5 6 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.79%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.79%) SaaS
6 5 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.33%) Kibo
6 5 (2.33%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.47%) Serverless
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) Internet
2 3 (1.40%) WAN
2 3 (1.40%) Wireless
3 1 (0.47%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.19%) Metadata
1 9 (4.19%) MySQL
2 7 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.79%) Data Hub
3 6 (2.79%) Power BI
4 4 (1.86%) Tableau
5 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 103 (47.91%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (2.33%) Git
2 5 (2.33%) JIRA
3 3 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (0.93%) Vite
4 2 (0.93%) webpack
5 1 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 163 (75.81%) Social Skills
2 107 (49.77%) Electronics
3 105 (48.84%) Aerospace
4 34 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (14.88%) Finance
6 14 (6.51%) Marketing
7 13 (6.05%) Banking
8 12 (5.58%) Retail
9 6 (2.79%) Law
10 5 (2.33%) Brand Awareness
10 5 (2.33%) Games
11 4 (1.86%) Czech Language
12 3 (1.40%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.40%) Automotive
12 3 (1.40%) Aviation
12 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Avionics
13 2 (0.93%) Legal
13 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (48.84%) Junior
1 105 (48.84%) Systems Engineer
2 103 (47.91%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 17 (7.91%) Developer
3 17 (7.91%) Senior
4 10 (4.65%) Lead
5 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (4.19%) Project Manager
6 7 (3.26%) Analyst
6 7 (3.26%) Designer
6 7 (3.26%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 7 (3.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 6 (2.79%) IT Engineer
8 5 (2.33%) .NET Developer
8 5 (2.33%) Graduate
8 5 (2.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 5 (2.33%) Product Designer
8 5 (2.33%) Product Manager
8 5 (2.33%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.65%) Node.js
2 7 (3.26%) Middleware
2 7 (3.26%) Svelte
3 6 (2.79%) .NET
3 6 (2.79%) AngularJS
3 6 (2.79%) CSS
3 6 (2.79%) HTML
3 6 (2.79%) jQuery
3 6 (2.79%) React
3 6 (2.79%) Vue
4 5 (2.33%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.33%) Loki
5 4 (1.86%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.86%) Flutter
6 3 (1.40%) HTML5
7 2 (0.93%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.93%) CSS3
7 2 (0.93%) Laravel
7 2 (0.93%) Sass
8 1 (0.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.51%) Social Media
2 10 (4.65%) Graphic Design
3 9 (4.19%) Video Editing
4 8 (3.72%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.40%) Life Science
7 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.47%) Animation
9 1 (0.47%) Blog
9 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.47%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.79%) Android
1 6 (2.79%) Windows
2 5 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.40%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (54.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 117 (54.42%) Project Management
4 115 (53.49%) Computer Science
5 108 (50.23%) UML
6 105 (48.84%) Systems Engineering
7 103 (47.91%) Mathematics
7 103 (47.91%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 103 (47.91%) Physics
7 103 (47.91%) PLM
7 103 (47.91%) SysML
8 39 (18.14%) Agile
9 18 (8.37%) User Experience
10 17 (7.91%) Analytics
10 17 (7.91%) E-Commerce
11 14 (6.51%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.05%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (6.05%) CI/CD
12 13 (6.05%) Decision-Making
13 11 (5.12%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (48.84%) MATLAB
2 21 (9.77%) JavaScript
3 14 (6.51%) TypeScript
4 8 (3.72%) Python
5 7 (3.26%) C
6 6 (2.79%) C#
6 6 (2.79%) Java
7 5 (2.33%) Bash
7 5 (2.33%) Go
8 3 (1.40%) SQL
9 2 (0.93%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 125 (58.14%) Degree
2 103 (47.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (4.19%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.79%) PMP
5 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) HNC
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (2.33%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) Docker
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.79%) Terraform
2 5 (2.33%) Grafana
2 5 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (47.91%) IBM
2 22 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.05%) Adobe
4 12 (5.58%) Google
5 6 (2.79%) Hitachi
6 4 (1.86%) HubSpot
6 4 (1.86%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Alias
7 1 (0.47%) Apple
7 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco
7 1 (0.47%) Dell
7 1 (0.47%) HP
7 1 (0.47%) Perforce
7 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow