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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,955 7,984 13,688
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.24% 19.88% 14.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 21.54% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,983 4,526 8,526
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -10.91%

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 62,086 37,058 77,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.52% 92.29% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43,761 20,420 55,963
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -6 1,973 £70,000 +7.69% 587
North of England -8 1,433 £42,500 -2.30% 546
South East -4 1,312 £45,000 +5.88% 720
Midlands -8 980 £42,000 -1.18% 411
North West -7 749 £45,000 -2.70% 296
South West -6 628 £44,000 +17.33% 260
West Midlands -9 563 £42,500 -5.56% 224
East of England -3 550 £45,000 +28.57% 228
Yorkshire -12 506 £41,500 +18.57% 181
East Midlands -10 414 £35,000 -6.67% 187
North East -11 178 £48,500 +21.25% 87
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
1 379 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 377 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (1.15%) Confluence
4 64 (0.92%) CMS
5 52 (0.75%) Apache
6 40 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.52%) IIS
8 32 (0.46%) WordPress
9 16 (0.23%) SAS
10 15 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
13 8 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 6 (0.086%) Drupal
15 6 (0.086%) Moodle
Applications
1 433 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 376 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.12%) Trello
10 7 (0.10%) Simulink
11 5 (0.072%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.072%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.043%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.043%) Blender
12 3 (0.043%) Lightworks
12 3 (0.043%) Maya
12 3 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.23%) Magento
6 15 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.20%) iTrent
7 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.16%) Maximo
9 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
10 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
10 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (21.78%) Azure
2 1,117 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
3 901 (12.95%) AWS
4 534 (7.68%) Power Platform
5 327 (4.70%) SaaS
6 313 (4.50%) Entra ID
7 310 (4.46%) GCP
8 177 (2.54%) Serverless
9 163 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 151 (2.17%) GitHub
11 140 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 131 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 111 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 94 (1.35%) Amazon S3
15 93 (1.34%) OneDrive
16 76 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
16 76 (1.09%) Google Workspace
17 75 (1.08%) PaaS
18 72 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
19 70 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 468 (6.73%) Firewall
2 410 (5.90%) DNS
3 355 (5.10%) DHCP
4 295 (4.24%) VPN
5 237 (3.41%) WAN
6 228 (3.28%) TCP/IP
7 217 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
8 213 (3.06%) LAN
9 182 (2.62%) Broadband
10 144 (2.07%) VLAN
11 138 (1.98%) Wireless
12 107 (1.54%) VoIP
13 105 (1.51%) Network Security
14 60 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 51 (0.73%) Internet
16 47 (0.68%) BGP
17 45 (0.65%) OSPF
18 42 (0.60%) SAN
19 38 (0.55%) HTTP
20 30 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 427 (6.14%) Power BI
2 311 (4.47%) SQL Server
3 134 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (1.51%) Tableau
5 104 (1.50%) NoSQL
6 103 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 100 (1.44%) MySQL
8 99 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 94 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 82 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 73 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (0.81%) Power Query
13 55 (0.79%) MongoDB
14 51 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 49 (0.70%) Big Data
16 43 (0.62%) Data Lake
17 40 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
18 37 (0.53%) DynamoDB
19 36 (0.52%) Metadata
20 30 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (4.14%) Git
2 209 (3.01%) JIRA
3 100 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.42%) GitLab
5 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.36%) Selenium
7 24 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.32%) JUnit
9 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.29%) Subversion
10 19 (0.27%) Eclipse
10 19 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.24%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.24%) Maven
12 16 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.23%) Metasploit
12 16 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,273 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 1,996 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1,358 (19.53%) Finance
4 433 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
5 410 (5.90%) Manufacturing
6 373 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 331 (4.76%) Law
8 317 (4.56%) Retail
9 299 (4.30%) Marketing
10 284 (4.08%) Legal
11 275 (3.95%) Public Sector
12 266 (3.82%) Banking
13 155 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 140 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 131 (1.88%) Electronics
16 130 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 115 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
18 95 (1.37%) Aerospace
19 89 (1.28%) Advertising
20 81 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 908 (13.06%) Analyst
2 852 (12.25%) Senior
3 706 (10.15%) IT Support
4 672 (9.66%) Developer
5 602 (8.66%) Support Engineer
6 425 (6.11%) Lead
7 423 (6.08%) IT Engineer
8 331 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
9 303 (4.36%) Consultant
10 252 (3.62%) Support Analyst
11 248 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 247 (3.55%) Support Technician
13 232 (3.34%) Architect
14 230 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
15 202 (2.90%) Technical Support
16 191 (2.75%) IT Technician
17 178 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 165 (2.37%) Administrator
19 164 (2.36%) Data Engineer
20 163 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (4.08%) .NET
2 277 (3.98%) React
3 215 (3.09%) HTML
4 199 (2.86%) REST
5 177 (2.54%) CSS
6 149 (2.14%) Node.js
7 140 (2.01%) RESTful
8 106 (1.52%) SOAP
9 101 (1.45%) Middleware
10 89 (1.28%) JSON
11 85 (1.22%) Spring
12 83 (1.19%) Vue
13 78 (1.12%) AngularJS
14 71 (1.02%) XML
15 67 (0.96%) Web Services
16 66 (0.95%) Kafka
17 61 (0.88%) OAuth
18 55 (0.79%) gRPC
19 54 (0.78%) Spring Boot
20 51 (0.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 424 (6.10%) Driving Licence
2 399 (5.74%) Onboarding
3 332 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
4 262 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 254 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 191 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 170 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 160 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
9 149 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 119 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 104 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 101 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 86 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 83 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
15 82 (1.18%) Social Media
16 77 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 70 (1.01%) Low-Code
17 70 (1.01%) Public Cloud
18 65 (0.93%) Virtual Team
19 61 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,116 (16.05%) Windows
2 488 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 467 (6.71%) Linux
4 173 (2.49%) Windows 10
5 123 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 111 (1.60%) Android
7 92 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 91 (1.31%) Apple iOS
9 64 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.63%) Unix
11 42 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.45%) CentOS
12 31 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.42%) VMS
14 26 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.17%) Debian
18 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
19 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,444 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,099 (15.80%) Agile
3 1,021 (14.68%) Customer Service
4 790 (11.36%) Mentoring
5 775 (11.14%) AI
6 762 (10.96%) CI/CD
7 740 (10.64%) Decision-Making
8 652 (9.37%) Analytics
9 643 (9.25%) DevOps
10 621 (8.93%) Software Engineering
11 597 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 570 (8.20%) ITIL
13 553 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
14 545 (7.84%) Roadmaps
15 531 (7.63%) Computer Science
16 493 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
17 483 (6.94%) Project Management
18 454 (6.53%) Collaborative Working
19 440 (6.33%) Coaching
20 421 (6.05%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (15.54%) SQL
2 1,059 (15.23%) Python
3 474 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 370 (5.32%) C#
5 356 (5.12%) Java
6 331 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 217 (3.12%) TypeScript
8 172 (2.47%) Bash
9 159 (2.29%) C++
10 95 (1.37%) PHP
11 88 (1.27%) Go
12 63 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 62 (0.89%) C
14 58 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.81%) Scala
16 44 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 42 (0.60%) Rust
18 41 (0.59%) R
19 38 (0.55%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,124 (16.16%) Degree
2 562 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 379 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 271 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 227 (3.26%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 128 (1.84%) CISSP
8 123 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 118 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 111 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 107 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.16%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.08%) CCNA
15 73 (1.05%) PMP
16 72 (1.04%) A+ Certification
16 72 (1.04%) ACCA
17 67 (0.96%) CIMA
18 62 (0.89%) CISM
19 60 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (5.55%) QA
2 335 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 291 (4.18%) GDPR
4 202 (2.90%) SLA
5 199 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 189 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 163 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 152 (2.19%) NIST
9 144 (2.07%) PCI DSS
10 55 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.63%) PMO
12 36 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 32 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 31 (0.45%) GRC
15 28 (0.40%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 19 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.22%) IFRS
20 12 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 764 (10.98%) Active Directory
2 313 (4.50%) Docker
3 256 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 227 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.91%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.49%) Firmware
8 30 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (0.42%) vSphere
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 14 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 9 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.10%) XenApp
15 6 (0.086%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.072%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.043%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 315 (4.53%) Terraform
2 268 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 260 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (2.20%) Ansible
5 96 (1.38%) Grafana
6 80 (1.15%) SCCM
7 58 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 31 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.27%) Kibana
12 17 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 14 (0.20%) Autotask
13 14 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 12 (0.17%) logstash
14 12 (0.17%) Puppet
15 11 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,938 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 331 (4.76%) VMware
3 180 (2.59%) Oracle
4 176 (2.53%) Google
5 162 (2.33%) SAP
6 152 (2.19%) Cisco
7 146 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 128 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 128 (1.84%) SolarWinds
9 122 (1.75%) Veeam
10 118 (1.70%) Splunk
11 106 (1.52%) Databricks
12 80 (1.15%) Apple
13 67 (0.96%) Tanium
14 64 (0.92%) Nimble Storage
15 63 (0.91%) Adobe
15 63 (0.91%) Brocade
16 57 (0.82%) Dell
17 54 (0.78%) Red Hat
17 54 (0.78%) Sage