Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,099 13,737 9,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.62% 14.61% 12.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.46% 17.70% 13.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,125 8,356 5,881
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,474 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £95,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% -10.91% -

All Process and 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 47,068 77,593 75,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 91.44% 82.52% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24,489 54,995 47,414
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in England.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +8 2,681 £65,000 -3.70% 5,064
North of England +3 2,471 £37,500 -16.67% 1,649
South East +2 1,831 £43,773 -2.73% 1,682
North West -2 1,262 £46,000 -1.60% 953
Midlands +1 1,203 £40,434 +1.08% 996
South West +5 803 £34,000 -28.42% 700
Yorkshire -1 784 £33,750 -23.30% 529
East of England -1 663 £35,000 -21.35% 658
West Midlands -2 654 £45,000 +5.88% 609
East Midlands +4 548 £37,500 - 375
North East +4 425 £25,087 -39.95% 183
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 307 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 239 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 92 (0.91%) Confluence
4 71 (0.70%) CMS
5 69 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 60 (0.59%) Apache
7 46 (0.46%) IIS
8 33 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 33 (0.33%) IBM Domino
8 33 (0.33%) OpenEdge
9 23 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 21 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 19 (0.19%) WordPress
12 16 (0.16%) nginx
13 13 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 10 (0.099%) SAS
15 9 (0.089%) Headless CMS
16 7 (0.069%) OpenStack
17 6 (0.059%) Drupal
17 6 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 457 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
2 376 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 205 (2.03%) Simulink
4 94 (0.93%) Mathcad
5 90 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 52 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 47 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 39 (0.39%) Trello
9 19 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 19 (0.19%) Maya
10 14 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 11 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 10 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 9 (0.089%) InDesign
14 8 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 8 (0.079%) AutoCAD
15 7 (0.069%) Sketch
16 6 (0.059%) Adobe After Effects
16 6 (0.059%) Adobe Illustrator
16 6 (0.059%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 118 (1.17%) NetSuite
2 103 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 87 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 60 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 31 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
6 30 (0.30%) Shopify
7 24 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
8 19 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 18 (0.18%) Sage 200
10 17 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
11 16 (0.16%) Sage CRM
12 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
13 10 (0.099%) Exchequer
13 10 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
13 10 (0.099%) SAP WM
14 9 (0.089%) Infor CloudSuite
14 9 (0.089%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
14 9 (0.089%) Magento
14 9 (0.089%) Primavera
14 9 (0.089%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 1,726 (17.09%) Azure
2 982 (9.72%) AWS
3 821 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 523 (5.18%) GCP
5 508 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 375 (3.71%) Serverless
7 344 (3.41%) SaaS
8 306 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 192 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 170 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 144 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 125 (1.24%) GitHub
13 113 (1.12%) OneDrive
14 112 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 107 (1.06%) Power Automate
16 84 (0.83%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
18 69 (0.68%) PaaS
19 64 (0.63%) Amazon S3
20 58 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1,725 (17.08%) Broadband
2 587 (5.81%) VPN
3 443 (4.39%) Firewall
4 282 (2.79%) Cisco IOS
5 235 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 221 (2.19%) DNS
7 199 (1.97%) WAN
8 196 (1.94%) LAN
9 148 (1.47%) DHCP
10 132 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 123 (1.22%) Network Security
12 114 (1.13%) VLAN
13 79 (0.78%) VoIP
14 68 (0.67%) SAN
15 66 (0.65%) Wireless
16 43 (0.43%) MPLS
17 41 (0.41%) SD-WAN
18 34 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
19 33 (0.33%) Internet
20 32 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 434 (4.30%) Power BI
2 398 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 177 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 163 (1.61%) MySQL
5 161 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 130 (1.29%) Tableau
7 129 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 119 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 109 (1.08%) Big Data
10 97 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 85 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 79 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 69 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 58 (0.57%) Data Mining
15 55 (0.54%) Metadata
16 51 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
17 49 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
18 44 (0.44%) Redis
19 37 (0.37%) BigQuery
20 36 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 357 (3.54%) Git
2 316 (3.13%) JIRA
3 115 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
4 112 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 71 (0.70%) Cucumber
6 68 (0.67%) Robot Framework
7 47 (0.47%) Selenium
8 43 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 41 (0.41%) GitLab
10 40 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
11 33 (0.33%) JUnit
12 29 (0.29%) Cypress.io
13 27 (0.27%) Postman
14 26 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
15 22 (0.22%) MSBuild
16 20 (0.20%) IntelliJ
17 18 (0.18%) Maven
18 17 (0.17%) JMeter
18 17 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
19 16 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 4,678 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 2,848 (28.20%) Analytical Skills
3 2,020 (20.00%) Finance
4 1,163 (11.52%) Manufacturing
5 1,130 (11.19%) Retail
6 1,113 (11.02%) Banking
7 1,063 (10.53%) Games
8 880 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 648 (6.42%) Law
10 489 (4.84%) Marketing
11 395 (3.91%) Electronics
12 330 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
13 267 (2.64%) Legal
14 231 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 206 (2.04%) Public Sector
16 203 (2.01%) Dutch Language
17 202 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
18 197 (1.95%) Finnish Language
18 197 (1.95%) Norwegian Language
19 155 (1.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,514 (14.99%) Senior
2 1,014 (10.04%) Analyst
3 968 (9.59%) Lead
4 797 (7.89%) Developer
5 738 (7.31%) Trainer
6 713 (7.06%) Customer Service Advisor
7 520 (5.15%) IT Support
8 424 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
9 392 (3.88%) Support Engineer
10 390 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 350 (3.47%) Support Analyst
12 304 (3.01%) Software Engineer
13 245 (2.43%) Technical Support
14 231 (2.29%) Architect
14 231 (2.29%) Consultant
15 224 (2.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 212 (2.10%) Junior
17 208 (2.06%) 2nd Line Support
18 193 (1.91%) Applications Support
19 185 (1.83%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (3.68%) .NET
2 318 (3.15%) React
3 291 (2.88%) HTML
4 289 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 285 (2.82%) CSS
6 276 (2.73%) GraphQL
7 225 (2.23%) REST
8 218 (2.16%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 215 (2.13%) WebGL
10 180 (1.78%) RESTful
11 149 (1.48%) Node.js
12 123 (1.22%) AngularJS
13 116 (1.15%) ASP.NET
14 108 (1.07%) XML
15 97 (0.96%) JSON
16 91 (0.90%) Kafka
17 89 (0.88%) .NET Framework
18 82 (0.81%) Web Services
19 76 (0.75%) SOAP
20 75 (0.74%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 773 (7.65%) Robotics
2 590 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
3 369 (3.65%) Cyberattack
4 362 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 225 (2.23%) Driving Licence
6 224 (2.22%) Animation
7 215 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 208 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 200 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 163 (1.61%) FMCG
11 158 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 157 (1.55%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 102 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 99 (0.98%) Operational Technology
16 97 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 85 (0.84%) Social Media
18 79 (0.78%) Manufacturing Execution System
19 78 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
20 75 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1,383 (13.69%) Windows
2 637 (6.31%) Linux
3 387 (3.83%) Android
4 370 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 207 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 119 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 94 (0.93%) Unix
8 84 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 37 (0.37%) Windows Vista
10 32 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 29 (0.29%) Windows 7
12 26 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (0.099%) Mac OS X
16 9 (0.089%) CentOS
16 9 (0.089%) Ubuntu
16 9 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.050%) zOS
18 4 (0.040%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,637 (16.21%) Customer Service
2 1,617 (16.01%) Agile
3 1,586 (15.70%) Mentoring
4 1,567 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1,348 (13.35%) Machine Learning
6 1,331 (13.18%) Computer Science
7 1,103 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,058 (10.48%) Roadmaps
9 994 (9.84%) DevOps
10 912 (9.03%) Project Management
11 828 (8.20%) Generative AI
11 828 (8.20%) LLM
12 790 (7.82%) CI/CD
13 768 (7.60%) Analytics
14 762 (7.55%) Mathematics
15 746 (7.39%) Product Management
16 740 (7.33%) Decision-Making
17 738 (7.31%) Red Team
18 715 (7.08%) Software Engineering
19 708 (7.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1,544 (15.29%) Python
2 1,178 (11.66%) SQL
3 599 (5.93%) PowerShell
4 587 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 481 (4.76%) Java
6 475 (4.70%) C#
7 453 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 437 (4.33%) Bash
9 215 (2.13%) HLSL
10 210 (2.08%) MATLAB
11 126 (1.25%) C++
12 124 (1.23%) PHP
13 74 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 57 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 56 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 53 (0.52%) Go
17 47 (0.47%) C
18 46 (0.46%) PL/SQL
19 38 (0.38%) VBA
20 36 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 3,337 (33.04%) Degree
2 952 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 452 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 360 (3.56%) Security Cleared
5 287 (2.84%) PhD
6 262 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 243 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 201 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 184 (1.82%) SC Cleared
10 166 (1.64%) DV Cleared
11 155 (1.53%) PMP
12 153 (1.52%) PMI Certification
13 135 (1.34%) HNC
14 128 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
15 127 (1.26%) Azure Certification
16 113 (1.12%) CISSP
17 99 (0.98%) A+ Certification
18 96 (0.95%) CCNA
19 94 (0.93%) HND
20 72 (0.71%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (4.41%) QA
2 232 (2.30%) GDPR
3 182 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 171 (1.69%) SLA
5 157 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 126 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 88 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 84 (0.83%) NIST
9 79 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 48 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 37 (0.37%) PMO
12 36 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 33 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 30 (0.30%) HIPAA
15 29 (0.29%) GRC
16 25 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 22 (0.22%) DO-254
18 19 (0.19%) WCAG
19 18 (0.18%) PMBOK
20 17 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 626 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 615 (6.09%) Docker
3 387 (3.83%) Hyper-V
4 286 (2.83%) vSphere
5 271 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 198 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
7 61 (0.60%) Firmware
8 38 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
9 35 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 32 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (0.15%) XenApp
12 11 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 10 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
15 5 (0.050%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.040%) Dovecot
16 4 (0.040%) HDFS
16 4 (0.040%) NFS
16 4 (0.040%) Postfix
16 4 (0.040%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 541 (5.36%) Terraform
2 373 (3.69%) Ansible
3 364 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 215 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 60 (0.59%) Grafana
6 43 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 41 (0.41%) SCCM
8 33 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.27%) Nagios
10 19 (0.19%) QRadar
11 17 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.15%) Puppet
13 14 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.13%) PaperCut
15 11 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
16 10 (0.099%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.079%) Argo
17 8 (0.079%) Nessus
17 8 (0.079%) RSA Archer
18 7 (0.069%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,738 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 1,019 (10.09%) Google
3 912 (9.03%) Databricks
4 824 (8.16%) Adobe
5 723 (7.16%) BT
6 512 (5.07%) Cisco
7 326 (3.23%) Splunk
8 306 (3.03%) Juniper
9 291 (2.88%) SAP
10 268 (2.65%) VMware
11 262 (2.59%) 3PAR
12 228 (2.26%) Oracle
13 175 (1.73%) Salesforce
14 161 (1.59%) IBM
15 158 (1.56%) ServiceNow
16 94 (0.93%) MathWorks
17 78 (0.77%) Siemens
18 77 (0.76%) Apple
19 75 (0.74%) Rockwell
20 64 (0.63%) Citrix