Problem-Solving Job Trends in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,307 8,279 12,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.33% 19.11% 14.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 21.20% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,259 4,705 7,589
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,794 39,051 70,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 90.16% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 45,865 22,357 50,018
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

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 Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
London -5 2,007 £70,000 +7.69% 979
North of England -9 1,498 £45,000 +5.88% 804
South East -3 1,396 £45,000 +5.88% 851
Midlands -8 1,059 £42,000 +1.20% 455
North West -7 794 £45,000 -2.17% 413
South West -6 687 £43,750 +16.67% 355
West Midlands -8 595 £42,500 -5.56% 231
East of England -4 574 £42,500 +21.43% 341
Yorkshire -10 512 £42,500 +21.43% 286
East Midlands -8 460 £35,000 -4.11% 224
North East -17 192 £52,315 +32.28% 113
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 411 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 409 (5.60%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.11%) Confluence
4 66 (0.90%) CMS
5 53 (0.73%) Apache
6 38 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.52%) IIS
7 37 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 33 (0.45%) WordPress
9 19 (0.26%) SAS
10 16 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.12%) nginx
13 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.096%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 466 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 423 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 39 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.12%) Simulink
9 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.068%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.068%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.068%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Civil 3D
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
12 3 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 45 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.26%) Shopify
6 16 (0.22%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 13 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.16%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 11 (0.15%) iTrent
10 11 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 10 (0.14%) Maximo
12 9 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,564 (21.40%) Azure
2 1,202 (16.45%) Microsoft 365
3 918 (12.56%) AWS
4 581 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 347 (4.75%) Entra ID
6 344 (4.71%) SaaS
7 330 (4.52%) GCP
8 179 (2.45%) Serverless
9 158 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
10 157 (2.15%) GitHub
11 156 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 142 (1.94%) Power Automate
13 130 (1.78%) PowerApps
14 103 (1.41%) OneDrive
15 93 (1.27%) Amazon S3
16 85 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 82 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
18 77 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
19 74 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
20 71 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 489 (6.69%) Firewall
2 436 (5.97%) DNS
3 374 (5.12%) DHCP
4 295 (4.04%) VPN
5 256 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 237 (3.24%) WAN
7 223 (3.05%) LAN
8 215 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
9 176 (2.41%) Broadband
10 159 (2.18%) Wireless
11 151 (2.07%) VLAN
12 119 (1.63%) Network Security
13 102 (1.40%) VoIP
14 51 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 46 (0.63%) Internet
16 44 (0.60%) BGP
17 42 (0.57%) HTTP
17 42 (0.57%) OSPF
18 38 (0.52%) SAN
19 31 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (6.24%) Power BI
2 341 (4.67%) SQL Server
3 140 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 126 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
5 108 (1.48%) Tableau
6 106 (1.45%) MySQL
7 102 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 100 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 100 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 83 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 57 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 56 (0.77%) Power Query
13 53 (0.73%) Big Data
14 50 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 47 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (0.51%) DynamoDB
17 34 (0.47%) Metadata
18 33 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
19 27 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 297 (4.06%) Git
2 229 (3.13%) JIRA
3 111 (1.52%) GitLab
4 107 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.41%) Selenium
6 27 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 27 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.31%) Subversion
9 22 (0.30%) JUnit
10 21 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.26%) Postman
12 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.18%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.16%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3,491 (47.78%) Social Skills
2 2,106 (28.82%) Analytical Skills
3 1,380 (18.89%) Finance
4 468 (6.40%) Manufacturing
5 467 (6.39%) Organisational Skills
6 370 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 359 (4.91%) Law
8 334 (4.57%) Retail
9 307 (4.20%) Marketing
10 285 (3.90%) Legal
11 278 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 273 (3.74%) Banking
13 168 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 151 (2.07%) Electronics
15 137 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
17 108 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
18 100 (1.37%) Advertising
18 100 (1.37%) Aerospace
19 87 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 958 (13.11%) Analyst
2 864 (11.82%) Senior
3 727 (9.95%) IT Support
4 718 (9.83%) Developer
5 599 (8.20%) Support Engineer
6 439 (6.01%) Lead
7 425 (5.82%) IT Engineer
8 331 (4.53%) Consultant
9 326 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
10 292 (4.00%) Support Analyst
11 261 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 256 (3.50%) Support Technician
13 254 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
14 242 (3.31%) Architect
15 219 (3.00%) Technical Support
16 203 (2.78%) IT Technician
17 184 (2.52%) Technical Engineer
18 176 (2.41%) Data Engineer
18 176 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 168 (2.30%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (4.17%) .NET
2 279 (3.82%) React
3 225 (3.08%) HTML
4 218 (2.98%) REST
5 180 (2.46%) CSS
6 150 (2.05%) Node.js
6 150 (2.05%) RESTful
7 111 (1.52%) SOAP
8 98 (1.34%) Middleware
9 92 (1.26%) JSON
10 90 (1.23%) Spring
11 87 (1.19%) AngularJS
11 87 (1.19%) Vue
12 75 (1.03%) Kafka
13 71 (0.97%) XML
14 70 (0.96%) Web Services
15 63 (0.86%) OAuth
16 58 (0.79%) ASP.NET
17 57 (0.78%) Spring Boot
18 56 (0.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 453 (6.20%) Driving Licence
2 424 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 359 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 277 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 276 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 202 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 177 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 175 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 164 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 125 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 105 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 101 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 93 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 84 (1.15%) Algorithms
15 83 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 77 (1.05%) Social Media
17 75 (1.03%) IoT
18 70 (0.96%) Public Cloud
19 69 (0.94%) Virtual Team
20 64 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,180 (16.15%) Windows
2 518 (7.09%) Linux
3 513 (7.02%) Windows Server
4 175 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 132 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 115 (1.57%) Android
7 97 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 96 (1.31%) Apple iOS
9 55 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.62%) Unix
11 42 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.44%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.40%) CentOS
14 28 (0.38%) VMS
15 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Debian
17 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 7 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,593 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,140 (15.60%) Agile
3 1,099 (15.04%) Customer Service
4 847 (11.59%) AI
5 812 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 795 (10.88%) Mentoring
7 776 (10.62%) Decision-Making
8 681 (9.32%) Analytics
9 675 (9.24%) DevOps
10 671 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 670 (9.17%) Software Engineering
12 631 (8.64%) ITIL
13 586 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
14 566 (7.75%) Roadmaps
15 531 (7.27%) Computer Science
16 524 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
17 506 (6.92%) Project Management
18 483 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
19 462 (6.32%) Project Delivery
20 451 (6.17%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,143 (15.64%) SQL
2 1,080 (14.78%) Python
3 492 (6.73%) JavaScript
4 401 (5.49%) C#
5 374 (5.12%) Java
6 342 (4.68%) PowerShell
7 221 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 191 (2.61%) C++
9 167 (2.29%) Bash
10 93 (1.27%) PHP
11 92 (1.26%) Go
12 70 (0.96%) C
13 65 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 63 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.77%) Scala
16 43 (0.59%) Rust
17 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 38 (0.52%) R
19 36 (0.49%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,161 (15.89%) Degree
2 607 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 425 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 267 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 219 (3.00%) DBS Check
6 194 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 136 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 123 (1.68%) CISSP
9 122 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 118 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 103 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 84 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.11%) PMI Certification
14 76 (1.04%) CCNA
15 75 (1.03%) PMP
16 72 (0.99%) CCNP
17 71 (0.97%) ACCA
18 66 (0.90%) CIMA
19 63 (0.86%) A+ Certification
19 63 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (5.43%) QA
2 350 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 300 (4.11%) GDPR
4 216 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 214 (2.93%) SLA
6 192 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 182 (2.49%) Accessibility
8 166 (2.27%) PCI DSS
9 150 (2.05%) NIST
10 57 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 35 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 33 (0.45%) GRC
15 26 (0.36%) COBIT
16 23 (0.31%) GMP
17 17 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
18 15 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 799 (10.93%) Active Directory
2 340 (4.65%) Docker
3 275 (3.76%) Hyper-V
4 233 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 77 (1.05%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.57%) Firmware
8 34 (0.47%) vSphere
9 32 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
10 14 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.18%) KVM
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.096%) XenApp
14 5 (0.068%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.041%) Squid
15 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 333 (4.56%) Terraform
2 289 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 281 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (2.11%) Ansible
5 104 (1.42%) Grafana
6 79 (1.08%) SCCM
7 65 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 32 (0.44%) Nagios
9 27 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.22%) Autotask
12 16 (0.22%) Puppet
13 15 (0.21%) Argo
14 14 (0.19%) Kibana
15 12 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
16 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,112 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 347 (4.75%) VMware
3 186 (2.55%) Google
4 184 (2.52%) Oracle
5 178 (2.44%) SAP
6 164 (2.24%) Cisco
7 150 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 146 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 135 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 134 (1.83%) Veeam
11 129 (1.77%) Splunk
12 106 (1.45%) Databricks
13 84 (1.15%) Tanium
14 80 (1.09%) Apple
15 78 (1.07%) Nimble Storage
16 77 (1.05%) Brocade
17 63 (0.86%) Dell
18 58 (0.79%) Adobe
18 58 (0.79%) Sage
19 55 (0.75%) Red Hat