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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,680 7,871 13,620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.12% 20.04% 14.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 21.61% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,743 4,419 8,576
10th Percentile £27,340 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,919
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.16% -9.24%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 60,030 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 42,034 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
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 11 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 11 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 -5 1,964 £70,000 +7.69% 832
North of England -8 1,372 £42,500 -4.49% 609
South East -5 1,218 £45,000 +5.88% 734
Midlands -9 939 £40,000 -11.11% 398
North West -6 704 £45,000 -3.23% 347
South West -6 598 £43,500 +8.75% 289
West Midlands -9 535 £42,500 -10.53% 235
East of England -3 505 £45,000 +28.57% 283
Yorkshire -12 504 £41,500 +18.57% 188
East Midlands -9 401 £35,000 -6.67% 165
North East -14 164 £48,472 +7.72% 84
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
1 361 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 355 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.15%) Confluence
4 63 (0.94%) CMS
5 52 (0.78%) Apache
6 41 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.51%) IIS
8 33 (0.49%) Apache Spark
9 28 (0.42%) WordPress
10 16 (0.24%) SAS
11 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.10%) nginx
15 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.090%) Drupal
16 6 (0.090%) Moodle
17 5 (0.075%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 404 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
2 356 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 37 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.12%) Fusion 360
10 7 (0.10%) Trello
11 5 (0.075%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.060%) Simulink
13 3 (0.045%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.045%) Blender
13 3 (0.045%) Maya
14 2 (0.030%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 69 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.30%) Shopify
6 16 (0.24%) Magento
7 15 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.18%) iTrent
10 11 (0.16%) Maximo
10 11 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 8 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.10%) Endur
13 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,443 (21.60%) Azure
2 1,052 (15.75%) Microsoft 365
3 854 (12.78%) AWS
4 498 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 322 (4.82%) SaaS
6 292 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 291 (4.36%) GCP
8 175 (2.62%) Serverless
9 164 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 141 (2.11%) GitHub
11 137 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 117 (1.75%) Power Automate
13 97 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 89 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 85 (1.27%) OneDrive
16 82 (1.23%) Google Workspace
17 76 (1.14%) PaaS
18 71 (1.06%) IaaS
19 70 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
20 69 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 432 (6.47%) Firewall
2 394 (5.90%) DNS
3 335 (5.01%) DHCP
4 271 (4.06%) VPN
5 227 (3.40%) WAN
6 204 (3.05%) TCP/IP
6 204 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
7 201 (3.01%) LAN
8 178 (2.66%) Broadband
9 134 (2.01%) VLAN
10 128 (1.92%) Wireless
11 108 (1.62%) VoIP
12 90 (1.35%) Network Security
13 65 (0.97%) SD-WAN
14 47 (0.70%) SAN
15 46 (0.69%) BGP
16 44 (0.66%) OSPF
17 43 (0.64%) Internet
18 33 (0.49%) HTTP
19 31 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (5.90%) Power BI
2 289 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 127 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (1.65%) Tableau
5 108 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 97 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 95 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 90 (1.35%) MySQL
9 85 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 76 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 66 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (0.84%) Big Data
13 55 (0.82%) Power Query
14 54 (0.81%) MongoDB
15 43 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 40 (0.60%) Metadata
18 38 (0.57%) Data Lake
19 37 (0.55%) DynamoDB
20 23 (0.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 280 (4.19%) Git
2 206 (3.08%) JIRA
3 98 (1.47%) GitLab
4 94 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.37%) Selenium
7 21 (0.31%) JUnit
8 19 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 19 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 18 (0.27%) Maven
9 18 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 16 (0.24%) Metasploit
10 16 (0.24%) Subversion
11 14 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 13 (0.19%) Claude Code
12 13 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 3,119 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 1,970 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
3 1,347 (20.16%) Finance
4 423 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
5 369 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 366 (5.48%) Manufacturing
7 332 (4.97%) Law
8 318 (4.76%) Marketing
9 292 (4.37%) Retail
10 281 (4.21%) Legal
11 269 (4.03%) Public Sector
12 267 (4.00%) Banking
13 162 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 137 (2.05%) Electronics
15 136 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
16 120 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
17 107 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
18 88 (1.32%) Aerospace
19 86 (1.29%) Advertising
20 73 (1.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 877 (13.13%) Analyst
2 832 (12.46%) Senior
3 679 (10.16%) IT Support
4 632 (9.46%) Developer
5 578 (8.65%) Support Engineer
6 415 (6.21%) IT Engineer
7 405 (6.06%) Lead
8 323 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
9 294 (4.40%) Consultant
10 244 (3.65%) Support Analyst
11 237 (3.55%) Support Technician
12 236 (3.53%) Architect
13 229 (3.43%) Software Engineer
14 225 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
15 186 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 179 (2.68%) IT Technician
17 176 (2.63%) Technical Support
18 162 (2.43%) 2nd Line Support
19 161 (2.41%) Senior Developer
20 159 (2.38%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (4.03%) .NET
2 259 (3.88%) React
3 211 (3.16%) HTML
4 182 (2.72%) REST
5 180 (2.69%) CSS
6 141 (2.11%) Node.js
7 126 (1.89%) RESTful
8 98 (1.47%) SOAP
9 90 (1.35%) Middleware
10 84 (1.26%) JSON
11 80 (1.20%) Spring
12 75 (1.12%) Vue
13 72 (1.08%) AngularJS
14 69 (1.03%) XML
15 64 (0.96%) Kafka
16 62 (0.93%) OAuth
17 60 (0.90%) Web Services
18 56 (0.84%) gRPC
19 50 (0.75%) Spring Boot
20 49 (0.73%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 399 (5.97%) Driving Licence
2 385 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 303 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
4 251 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 227 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 189 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 168 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 155 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
9 142 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 122 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 97 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 87 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 87 (1.30%) Social Media
13 83 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 82 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 73 (1.09%) Algorithms
16 71 (1.06%) Low-Code
17 64 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 63 (0.94%) Public Cloud
19 61 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,044 (15.63%) Windows
2 450 (6.74%) Windows Server
3 436 (6.53%) Linux
4 165 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 122 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 104 (1.56%) Android
7 86 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 83 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 66 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.66%) Unix
11 41 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.48%) CentOS
13 30 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 24 (0.36%) VMS
15 14 (0.21%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 11 (0.16%) Debian
18 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
18 7 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,312 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,052 (15.75%) Agile
3 968 (14.49%) Customer Service
4 740 (11.08%) AI
4 740 (11.08%) Mentoring
5 718 (10.75%) CI/CD
6 717 (10.73%) Decision-Making
7 641 (9.60%) Analytics
8 624 (9.34%) DevOps
9 575 (8.61%) Software Engineering
10 563 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 544 (8.14%) ITIL
12 529 (7.92%) Roadmaps
13 508 (7.60%) Computer Science
14 487 (7.29%) Project Management
15 477 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
16 461 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
17 447 (6.69%) Coaching
18 439 (6.57%) Collaborative Working
19 386 (5.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (15.30%) Python
2 1,002 (15.00%) SQL
3 447 (6.69%) JavaScript
4 341 (5.10%) Java
5 335 (5.01%) C#
6 304 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 202 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 154 (2.31%) Bash
9 134 (2.01%) C++
10 93 (1.39%) PHP
11 88 (1.32%) Go
12 62 (0.93%) Scala
13 59 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 57 (0.85%) C
15 51 (0.76%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 45 (0.67%) R
18 40 (0.60%) Rust
19 37 (0.55%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,112 (16.65%) Degree
2 518 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 357 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 253 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 225 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 187 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 119 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
8 118 (1.77%) CISSP
9 115 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 110 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 92 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 83 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 76 (1.14%) A+ Certification
14 75 (1.12%) CCNA
15 72 (1.08%) PMP
16 68 (1.02%) ACCA
17 63 (0.94%) CIMA
18 57 (0.85%) HNC
19 55 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (5.39%) QA
2 323 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 271 (4.06%) GDPR
4 197 (2.95%) SLA
5 184 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 166 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 154 (2.31%) Accessibility
8 147 (2.20%) NIST
9 137 (2.05%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 42 (0.63%) PMO
12 34 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 28 (0.42%) GRC
14 27 (0.40%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 18 (0.27%) GMP
18 15 (0.22%) IFRS
19 14 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 12 (0.18%) TickIT
System Software
1 717 (10.73%) Active Directory
2 288 (4.31%) Docker
3 236 (3.53%) Hyper-V
4 212 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.94%) Terminal Server
6 45 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (0.52%) Firmware
8 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.36%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) KVM
10 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.15%) IAG
12 7 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.10%) XenApp
13 6 (0.090%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.060%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.045%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 302 (4.52%) Terraform
2 254 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 247 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 143 (2.14%) Ansible
5 90 (1.35%) Grafana
6 80 (1.20%) SCCM
7 56 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 36 (0.54%) Nagios
9 33 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (0.27%) Kibana
12 17 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 14 (0.21%) Autotask
14 14 (0.21%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.18%) Puppet
16 11 (0.16%) Argo
16 11 (0.16%) Kubeflow
16 11 (0.16%) Nessus
17 10 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,797 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 313 (4.69%) VMware
3 184 (2.75%) Oracle
4 169 (2.53%) Google
5 160 (2.40%) SAP
6 155 (2.32%) Cisco
7 139 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 133 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 124 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 122 (1.83%) Veeam
11 120 (1.80%) Splunk
12 106 (1.59%) Databricks
13 81 (1.21%) Apple
14 65 (0.97%) Tanium
15 64 (0.96%) Adobe
15 64 (0.96%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.94%) Brocade
17 57 (0.85%) Dell
18 52 (0.78%) Meraki
18 52 (0.78%) Red Hat