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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,165 8,172 13,302
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.29% 19.28% 14.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.23% 21.19% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,154 4,661 8,250
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
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 £88,750 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -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 63,821 38,568 75,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.98% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45,100 21,810 54,142
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,990 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £73,410
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 6 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 6 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 2,003 £70,000 +7.69% 1,282
North of England -9 1,467 £44,447 +4.58% 695
South East -4 1,375 £45,000 +5.88% 834
Midlands -7 1,012 £42,000 - 454
North West -7 770 £45,000 -2.17% 383
South West -6 655 £44,000 +17.33% 338
West Midlands -9 570 £42,500 -5.56% 247
East of England -4 567 £44,000 +25.71% 289
Yorkshire -12 513 £42,500 +21.43% 219
East Midlands -10 439 £35,000 -4.11% 208
North East -16 184 £50,500 +26.25% 110
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
1 404 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 389 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 80 (1.12%) Confluence
4 66 (0.92%) CMS
5 52 (0.73%) Apache
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.54%) IIS
7 38 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 33 (0.46%) WordPress
9 17 (0.24%) 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
13 7 (0.098%) nginx
13 7 (0.098%) OpenEdge
14 6 (0.084%) Moodle
Applications
1 452 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 400 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 73 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.13%) Simulink
9 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.070%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.070%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.070%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.042%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.042%) Blender
12 3 (0.042%) Maya
12 3 (0.042%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.28%) Shopify
6 16 (0.22%) Magento
7 15 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 13 (0.18%) iTrent
10 11 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 11 (0.15%) Maximo
11 10 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
12 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
12 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,554 (21.69%) Azure
2 1,165 (16.26%) Microsoft 365
3 917 (12.80%) AWS
4 558 (7.79%) Power Platform
5 339 (4.73%) SaaS
6 334 (4.66%) Entra ID
7 328 (4.58%) GCP
8 179 (2.50%) Serverless
9 164 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
10 155 (2.16%) GitHub
11 145 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 136 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 118 (1.65%) PowerApps
14 100 (1.40%) OneDrive
15 96 (1.34%) Amazon S3
16 80 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
17 77 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
18 75 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 75 (1.05%) PaaS
19 71 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 494 (6.89%) Firewall
2 427 (5.96%) DNS
3 367 (5.12%) DHCP
4 307 (4.28%) VPN
5 242 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 238 (3.32%) WAN
7 220 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
8 219 (3.06%) LAN
9 172 (2.40%) Broadband
10 150 (2.09%) Wireless
11 148 (2.07%) VLAN
12 107 (1.49%) Network Security
13 106 (1.48%) VoIP
14 56 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 50 (0.70%) Internet
16 46 (0.64%) BGP
17 44 (0.61%) OSPF
18 40 (0.56%) HTTP
18 40 (0.56%) SAN
19 30 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (6.22%) Power BI
2 329 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 138 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 106 (1.48%) Tableau
6 104 (1.45%) MySQL
7 101 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 100 (1.40%) NoSQL
9 98 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 88 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 79 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (0.80%) Power Query
13 55 (0.77%) MongoDB
14 50 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 49 (0.68%) Big Data
16 45 (0.63%) Data Lake
17 37 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.46%) DynamoDB
19 31 (0.43%) Metadata
20 30 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (4.02%) Git
2 217 (3.03%) JIRA
3 105 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 103 (1.44%) GitLab
5 28 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 25 (0.35%) Selenium
8 22 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 21 (0.29%) Eclipse
9 21 (0.29%) JUnit
9 21 (0.29%) Subversion
10 19 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.24%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.24%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.21%) Maven
13 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.20%) Metasploit
13 14 (0.20%) Postman
13 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,401 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 2,054 (28.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1,381 (19.27%) Finance
4 451 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 448 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 377 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 346 (4.83%) Law
8 332 (4.63%) Retail
9 306 (4.27%) Marketing
10 286 (3.99%) Legal
11 283 (3.95%) Public Sector
12 271 (3.78%) Banking
13 162 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 144 (2.01%) Electronics
15 138 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
17 116 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
18 102 (1.42%) Aerospace
19 96 (1.34%) Advertising
20 82 (1.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 928 (12.95%) Analyst
2 859 (11.99%) Senior
3 730 (10.19%) IT Support
4 689 (9.62%) Developer
5 615 (8.58%) Support Engineer
6 435 (6.07%) IT Engineer
7 429 (5.99%) Lead
8 336 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 318 (4.44%) Consultant
10 278 (3.88%) Support Analyst
11 255 (3.56%) Software Engineer
12 254 (3.55%) Support Technician
13 239 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
14 235 (3.28%) Architect
15 216 (3.01%) Technical Support
16 199 (2.78%) IT Technician
17 177 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 174 (2.43%) Data Engineer
18 174 (2.43%) Technical Engineer
19 171 (2.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (4.05%) .NET
2 280 (3.91%) React
3 218 (3.04%) HTML
4 207 (2.89%) REST
5 179 (2.50%) CSS
6 149 (2.08%) Node.js
7 143 (2.00%) RESTful
8 106 (1.48%) SOAP
9 101 (1.41%) Middleware
10 88 (1.23%) JSON
11 87 (1.21%) Spring
12 85 (1.19%) Vue
13 84 (1.17%) AngularJS
14 68 (0.95%) Kafka
14 68 (0.95%) Web Services
14 68 (0.95%) XML
15 61 (0.85%) OAuth
16 56 (0.78%) gRPC
17 55 (0.77%) Spring Boot
18 51 (0.71%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 440 (6.14%) Driving Licence
2 422 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 352 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 279 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 266 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 194 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 173 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 171 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 146 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 123 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 105 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 91 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 90 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 89 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 80 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 80 (1.12%) Social Media
16 70 (0.98%) Low-Code
17 69 (0.96%) IoT
17 69 (0.96%) Public Cloud
18 64 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,152 (16.08%) Windows
2 503 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 493 (6.88%) Linux
4 180 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 122 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 114 (1.59%) Android
7 93 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 92 (1.28%) Mac OS
9 61 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.63%) Unix
11 44 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.43%) CentOS
12 31 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.39%) VMS
14 20 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
15 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 15 (0.21%) Debian
17 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
18 8 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
19 7 (0.098%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,519 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,114 (15.55%) Agile
3 1,062 (14.82%) Customer Service
4 807 (11.26%) AI
5 799 (11.15%) Mentoring
6 790 (11.03%) CI/CD
7 761 (10.62%) Decision-Making
8 674 (9.41%) Analytics
9 670 (9.35%) DevOps
10 643 (8.97%) Software Engineering
11 630 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 598 (8.35%) ITIL
13 579 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
14 551 (7.69%) Roadmaps
15 533 (7.44%) Computer Science
16 510 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
17 491 (6.85%) Project Management
18 477 (6.66%) Collaborative Working
19 444 (6.20%) Coaching
20 433 (6.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,120 (15.63%) SQL
2 1,083 (15.12%) Python
3 483 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 382 (5.33%) C#
5 359 (5.01%) Java
6 348 (4.86%) PowerShell
7 221 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 176 (2.46%) C++
9 172 (2.40%) Bash
10 95 (1.33%) PHP
11 91 (1.27%) Go
12 70 (0.98%) C
13 64 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 61 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 55 (0.77%) Scala
16 45 (0.63%) Rust
17 41 (0.57%) PL/SQL
18 40 (0.56%) R
19 36 (0.50%) Bicep
19 36 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,130 (15.77%) Degree
2 586 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 396 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 273 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 230 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 195 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 128 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (1.79%) CISSP
8 124 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 115 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 109 (1.52%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 77 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 76 (1.06%) CCNA
14 74 (1.03%) PMP
15 70 (0.98%) ACCA
16 69 (0.96%) A+ Certification
17 65 (0.91%) CIMA
17 65 (0.91%) CISM
18 64 (0.89%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (5.47%) QA
2 345 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 296 (4.13%) GDPR
4 211 (2.94%) SLA
5 202 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 195 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 173 (2.41%) Accessibility
8 152 (2.12%) NIST
8 152 (2.12%) PCI DSS
9 57 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 52 (0.73%) PMO
11 37 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 34 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 33 (0.46%) GRC
14 28 (0.39%) COBIT
15 21 (0.29%) GMP
16 18 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
19 14 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 790 (11.03%) Active Directory
2 331 (4.62%) Docker
3 264 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 236 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.88%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (0.54%) Firmware
8 34 (0.47%) vSphere
9 30 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.22%) KVM
11 13 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
13 10 (0.14%) IAG
14 7 (0.098%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.098%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.098%) XenApp
15 5 (0.070%) ClearTrust
16 4 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.042%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 332 (4.63%) Terraform
2 290 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 273 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 160 (2.23%) Ansible
5 100 (1.40%) Grafana
6 79 (1.10%) SCCM
7 61 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.47%) Nagios
9 30 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (0.24%) Kibana
12 16 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (0.21%) Puppet
14 14 (0.20%) Argo
14 14 (0.20%) Autotask
15 12 (0.17%) logstash
15 12 (0.17%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.17%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2,029 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 339 (4.73%) VMware
3 181 (2.53%) Google
4 178 (2.48%) Oracle
5 169 (2.36%) SAP
6 154 (2.15%) Cisco
7 148 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 139 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 123 (1.72%) SolarWinds
10 122 (1.70%) Veeam
11 115 (1.61%) Splunk
12 106 (1.48%) Databricks
13 78 (1.09%) Apple
14 67 (0.94%) Tanium
15 64 (0.89%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.88%) Brocade
17 59 (0.82%) Dell
18 57 (0.80%) Adobe
18 57 (0.80%) Sage
19 56 (0.78%) Red Hat