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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,257 8,249 13,090
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.35% 19.09% 14.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 21.09% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,219 4,688 8,093
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,863 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,068 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,479 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.04% -10.00%

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 64,347 39,118 73,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.53% 82.51%
Number of salaries quoted 45,425 22,207 52,903
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 10 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 10 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 -4 2,013 £70,000 +7.69% 1,422
North of England -8 1,484 £45,000 +5.88% 771
South East -3 1,391 £45,000 +5.88% 835
Midlands -8 1,035 £42,000 +1.20% 455
North West -7 784 £45,000 -2.17% 397
South West -6 675 £44,000 +17.33% 642
West Midlands -9 586 £42,500 -5.56% 264
East of England -4 571 £44,000 +25.71% 274
Yorkshire -12 510 £42,500 +21.43% 249
East Midlands -10 446 £35,000 -2.78% 191
North East -16 190 £50,500 +27.69% 139
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
1 405 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 403 (5.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (1.09%) Confluence
4 65 (0.90%) CMS
5 55 (0.76%) Apache
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.52%) IIS
8 33 (0.45%) WordPress
9 18 (0.25%) SAS
10 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.11%) nginx
13 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
14 6 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 458 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 406 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 37 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.15%) 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 (0.069%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.069%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Blender
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
12 3 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 81 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.29%) Shopify
5 17 (0.23%) Magento
6 14 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 12 (0.17%) iTrent
8 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 10 (0.14%) Maximo
9 10 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
11 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,580 (21.77%) Azure
2 1,190 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
3 930 (12.82%) AWS
4 569 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 340 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 335 (4.62%) GCP
6 335 (4.62%) SaaS
7 178 (2.45%) Serverless
8 162 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 157 (2.16%) GitHub
10 148 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 136 (1.87%) Power Automate
12 119 (1.64%) PowerApps
13 101 (1.39%) OneDrive
14 94 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 82 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
16 78 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
17 76 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 74 (1.02%) PaaS
19 73 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 503 (6.93%) Firewall
2 437 (6.02%) DNS
3 373 (5.14%) DHCP
4 310 (4.27%) VPN
5 250 (3.44%) TCP/IP
6 240 (3.31%) WAN
7 225 (3.10%) LAN
7 225 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
8 173 (2.38%) Broadband
9 157 (2.16%) Wireless
10 153 (2.11%) VLAN
11 113 (1.56%) Network Security
12 104 (1.43%) VoIP
13 55 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 49 (0.68%) Internet
15 46 (0.63%) BGP
16 44 (0.61%) OSPF
17 41 (0.56%) HTTP
18 39 (0.54%) SAN
19 30 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (6.23%) Power BI
2 331 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 140 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 106 (1.46%) MySQL
5 106 (1.46%) Tableau
6 103 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 103 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 99 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 90 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 80 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 57 (0.79%) Power Query
11 56 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 51 (0.70%) Big Data
13 48 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 48 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 36 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 35 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (0.44%) Metadata
17 30 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 296 (4.08%) Git
2 222 (3.06%) JIRA
3 109 (1.50%) GitLab
3 109 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 28 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
4 28 (0.39%) Selenium
5 23 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 22 (0.30%) Eclipse
6 22 (0.30%) JUnit
6 22 (0.30%) Subversion
7 19 (0.26%) Visual Studio
8 18 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 18 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 17 (0.23%) Chocolatey
9 17 (0.23%) Postman
10 15 (0.21%) Maven
11 14 (0.19%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 12 (0.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,446 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 2,085 (28.73%) Analytical Skills
3 1,374 (18.93%) Finance
4 459 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
5 452 (6.23%) Manufacturing
6 372 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 347 (4.78%) Law
8 333 (4.59%) Retail
9 306 (4.22%) Marketing
10 289 (3.98%) Public Sector
11 280 (3.86%) Legal
12 269 (3.71%) Banking
13 164 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 147 (2.03%) Electronics
15 136 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
17 113 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
18 104 (1.43%) Aerospace
19 97 (1.34%) Advertising
20 84 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 948 (13.06%) Analyst
2 872 (12.02%) Senior
3 733 (10.10%) IT Support
4 696 (9.59%) Developer
5 611 (8.42%) Support Engineer
6 435 (5.99%) IT Engineer
7 433 (5.97%) Lead
8 334 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
9 323 (4.45%) Consultant
10 285 (3.93%) Support Analyst
11 262 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 255 (3.51%) Support Technician
13 248 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
14 240 (3.31%) Architect
15 216 (2.98%) Technical Support
16 200 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 179 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 178 (2.45%) Data Engineer
18 178 (2.45%) Technical Engineer
19 169 (2.33%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (4.05%) .NET
2 277 (3.82%) React
3 219 (3.02%) HTML
4 214 (2.95%) REST
5 179 (2.47%) CSS
6 148 (2.04%) RESTful
7 146 (2.01%) Node.js
8 109 (1.50%) SOAP
9 102 (1.41%) Middleware
10 92 (1.27%) JSON
11 88 (1.21%) Spring
12 86 (1.19%) Vue
13 84 (1.16%) AngularJS
14 71 (0.98%) Kafka
14 71 (0.98%) XML
15 69 (0.95%) Web Services
16 63 (0.87%) OAuth
17 57 (0.79%) Spring Boot
18 56 (0.77%) gRPC
19 53 (0.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 450 (6.20%) Driving Licence
2 423 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 355 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
4 280 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 274 (3.78%) Management Information System
6 197 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 182 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 172 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 154 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 125 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 108 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 96 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 91 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 87 (1.20%) Mobile App
15 81 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 80 (1.10%) Social Media
17 72 (0.99%) IoT
18 70 (0.96%) Public Cloud
19 64 (0.88%) Low-Code
19 64 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,178 (16.23%) Windows
2 514 (7.08%) Linux
3 511 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 179 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 129 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (1.56%) Android
7 97 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 94 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 59 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.62%) Unix
11 42 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.41%) CentOS
14 29 (0.40%) VMS
15 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
17 15 (0.21%) Debian
18 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
20 7 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,559 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,128 (15.54%) Agile
3 1,084 (14.94%) Customer Service
4 825 (11.37%) AI
5 809 (11.15%) Mentoring
6 808 (11.13%) CI/CD
7 769 (10.60%) Decision-Making
8 684 (9.43%) Analytics
9 681 (9.38%) DevOps
10 659 (9.08%) Software Engineering
11 645 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 622 (8.57%) ITIL
13 585 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
14 559 (7.70%) Roadmaps
15 532 (7.33%) Computer Science
16 517 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
17 496 (6.83%) Project Management
18 482 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
19 442 (6.09%) Project Delivery
19 442 (6.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,129 (15.56%) SQL
2 1,101 (15.17%) Python
3 489 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 389 (5.36%) C#
5 372 (5.13%) Java
6 349 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 223 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 185 (2.55%) C++
9 177 (2.44%) Bash
10 94 (1.30%) PHP
11 93 (1.28%) Go
12 69 (0.95%) C
13 65 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 61 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.77%) Scala
16 47 (0.65%) Rust
17 42 (0.58%) PL/SQL
18 39 (0.54%) R
19 37 (0.51%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,144 (15.76%) Degree
2 604 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 409 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 272 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 228 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 132 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.76%) CISSP
9 126 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 116 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 107 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 86 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 80 (1.10%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.03%) CCNA
14 75 (1.03%) PMP
15 70 (0.96%) ACCA
16 69 (0.95%) CCNP
17 66 (0.91%) A+ Certification
18 65 (0.90%) CIMA
18 65 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (5.48%) QA
2 352 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 299 (4.12%) GDPR
4 215 (2.96%) SLA
5 211 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 200 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 175 (2.41%) Accessibility
8 160 (2.20%) PCI DSS
9 155 (2.14%) NIST
10 58 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 34 (0.47%) GRC
13 34 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 27 (0.37%) COBIT
15 22 (0.30%) GMP
16 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
18 15 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 802 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 340 (4.69%) Docker
3 271 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 238 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (0.96%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.56%) Firmware
8 35 (0.48%) vSphere
9 30 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.22%) KVM
11 13 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.096%) XenApp
14 5 (0.069%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 343 (4.73%) Terraform
2 299 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 279 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 168 (2.32%) Ansible
5 106 (1.46%) Grafana
6 81 (1.12%) SCCM
7 64 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.47%) Nagios
9 30 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.23%) Kibana
13 16 (0.22%) Puppet
14 15 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.21%) Argo
14 15 (0.21%) Autotask
15 13 (0.18%) logstash
16 12 (0.17%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2,079 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 347 (4.78%) VMware
3 186 (2.56%) Google
4 178 (2.45%) Oracle
5 170 (2.34%) SAP
6 160 (2.20%) Cisco
7 148 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 144 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 130 (1.79%) SolarWinds
10 129 (1.78%) Veeam
11 121 (1.67%) Splunk
12 106 (1.46%) Databricks
13 79 (1.09%) Apple
14 77 (1.06%) Tanium
15 71 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (0.96%) Brocade
17 62 (0.85%) Dell
18 57 (0.79%) Adobe
19 56 (0.77%) Red Hat
19 56 (0.77%) Sage