Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 6 13 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,219 15,413 14,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.56% 14.30% 12.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.58% 14.94% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,748 7,510 7,865
10th Percentile £28,290 £29,375 £29,198
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £74,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +1.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,550 103,186 106,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.87% 95.77% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32,183 64,548 73,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,664 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,469 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +2 2,421 £70,000 +1.71% 1,877
North of England +11 1,376 £45,000 -5.26% 953
South East -1 1,363 £50,000 -4.76% 1,002
Midlands +1 853 £50,000 +2.04% 633
South West +6 718 £50,000 +11.11% 423
North West +17 682 £47,500 - 520
Yorkshire +7 628 £45,000 -10.00% 308
West Midlands +2 572 £50,000 +5.26% 418
East of England +2 385 £44,500 -6.32% 425
East Midlands 0 282 £50,000 - 214
North East +13 66 £40,000 -4.78% 141
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
1 218 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 128 (1.77%) SAS
3 117 (1.62%) Confluence
4 71 (0.98%) IIS
5 57 (0.79%) Apache
6 54 (0.75%) MS Exchange
7 38 (0.53%) JBoss
8 36 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
9 28 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 26 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 25 (0.35%) CMS
12 23 (0.32%) WordPress
13 20 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
14 19 (0.26%) WebSphere
15 13 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
16 11 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 11 (0.15%) OpenStack
16 11 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
17 10 (0.14%) Tomcat
18 9 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 488 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 394 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 145 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.29%) Simulink
7 15 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 15 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.17%) InDesign
9 11 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
10 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 10 (0.14%) Trello
11 8 (0.11%) Sketch
11 8 (0.11%) SPSS
11 8 (0.11%) Windchill
12 6 (0.083%) Adobe Premiere
12 6 (0.083%) Blender
12 6 (0.083%) Maya
12 6 (0.083%) PTC Creo
13 5 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 93 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 85 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 42 (0.58%) Endur
4 17 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.14%) ResourceLink
6 9 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.11%) iTrent
7 8 (0.11%) Magento
7 8 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.097%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (0.097%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.083%) Adaptiv
9 6 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.083%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.083%) Shopify
10 5 (0.069%) Infor SunSystems
10 5 (0.069%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,452 (20.11%) Azure
2 821 (11.37%) AWS
3 673 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
4 483 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 299 (4.14%) GCP
6 292 (4.04%) Serverless
7 273 (3.78%) SaaS
8 232 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
9 164 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 164 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 158 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 147 (2.04%) GitHub
12 122 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 91 (1.26%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.14%) IaaS
15 76 (1.05%) WhatsApp
16 70 (0.97%) PaaS
17 55 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
17 55 (0.76%) OneDrive
18 50 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 417 (5.78%) Firewall
2 290 (4.02%) DNS
3 265 (3.67%) WAN
4 217 (3.01%) VPN
5 204 (2.83%) DHCP
6 196 (2.72%) Wireless
7 189 (2.62%) LAN
8 173 (2.40%) Internet
9 161 (2.23%) TCP/IP
10 119 (1.65%) SAN
11 115 (1.59%) Network Security
12 91 (1.26%) VLAN
13 89 (1.23%) SD-WAN
14 85 (1.18%) MPLS
15 84 (1.16%) BGP
16 77 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
17 75 (1.04%) OSPF
18 73 (1.01%) VoIP
19 54 (0.75%) HTTP
20 48 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 565 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 407 (5.64%) Power BI
3 231 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 186 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 169 (2.34%) MySQL
6 146 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
7 145 (2.01%) Tableau
8 134 (1.86%) RDBMS
9 101 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 101 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 94 (1.30%) Oracle Database
11 92 (1.27%) Metadata
12 86 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 80 (1.11%) Base SAS
14 77 (1.07%) MongoDB
15 76 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 66 (0.91%) Big Data
17 52 (0.72%) Data Lake
18 50 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
19 48 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 555 (7.69%) Git
2 291 (4.03%) JIRA
3 227 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 93 (1.29%) LabVIEW
5 90 (1.25%) GitLab
6 77 (1.07%) Selenium
7 74 (1.03%) Maven
8 48 (0.66%) IntelliJ
9 39 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 29 (0.40%) Subversion
10 29 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 28 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 25 (0.35%) webpack
13 22 (0.30%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.30%) JMeter
14 21 (0.29%) JDeveloper
15 20 (0.28%) Cucumber
16 19 (0.26%) TeamCity
17 17 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 3,592 (49.76%) Social Skills
2 1,992 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 1,675 (23.20%) Finance
4 486 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 396 (5.49%) Banking
6 388 (5.37%) Retail
7 373 (5.17%) Manufacturing
8 335 (4.64%) Marketing
9 284 (3.93%) Public Sector
10 259 (3.59%) Legal
11 257 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
12 232 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
13 202 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 178 (2.47%) Electronics
15 166 (2.30%) Law
16 133 (1.84%) Games
17 117 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
17 117 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 116 (1.61%) Automotive
19 110 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,108 (15.35%) Senior
2 1,099 (15.22%) Analyst
3 1,062 (14.71%) Developer
4 514 (7.12%) Software Engineer
5 427 (5.91%) Architect
6 367 (5.08%) Lead
7 351 (4.86%) Support Engineer
8 263 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 260 (3.60%) Senior Developer
10 256 (3.55%) Consultant
11 226 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 225 (3.12%) IT Support
13 208 (2.88%) Graduate
14 197 (2.73%) Java Developer
15 192 (2.66%) Support Analyst
16 183 (2.53%) Project Manager
17 177 (2.45%) IT Engineer
18 175 (2.42%) Business Analyst
19 164 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
20 162 (2.24%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (6.83%) .NET
2 480 (6.65%) React
3 429 (5.94%) HTML
4 379 (5.25%) CSS
5 305 (4.22%) AngularJS
6 293 (4.06%) Node.js
7 285 (3.95%) Spring
8 258 (3.57%) RESTful
9 228 (3.16%) REST
10 223 (3.09%) XML
11 168 (2.33%) JSON
12 164 (2.27%) Web Services
13 147 (2.04%) SOAP
14 129 (1.79%) ASP.NET
15 127 (1.76%) J2EE
16 109 (1.51%) Ruby on Rails
17 99 (1.37%) .NET Framework
18 88 (1.22%) .NET Core
19 87 (1.21%) Kafka
20 85 (1.18%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 593 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
2 328 (4.54%) Management Information System
3 201 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 160 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 152 (2.11%) Driving Licence
6 148 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 142 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 124 (1.72%) Life Science
9 116 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 100 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 97 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 92 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 92 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
13 89 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 87 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 85 (1.18%) Arduino
16 74 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 71 (0.98%) Cloud Native
18 69 (0.96%) IoT
19 66 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,029 (14.25%) Windows
2 439 (6.08%) Linux
3 411 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 268 (3.71%) Windows 10
5 122 (1.69%) Unix
6 121 (1.68%) Android
7 99 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 94 (1.30%) Mac OS
9 92 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 90 (1.25%) Apple iOS
10 90 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 72 (1.00%) Windows 7
12 31 (0.43%) Windows 8
13 24 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 22 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 16 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
16 14 (0.19%) CentOS
17 12 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
18 11 (0.15%) VMS
19 10 (0.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (23.59%) Agile
2 908 (12.58%) Computer Science
3 869 (12.04%) DevOps
4 847 (11.73%) Software Engineering
5 820 (11.36%) Analytics
6 808 (11.19%) Project Management
7 802 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
8 744 (10.31%) Mentoring
9 681 (9.43%) Customer Service
10 677 (9.38%) ITIL
11 600 (8.31%) Decision-Making
12 564 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 539 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
14 490 (6.79%) CI/CD
15 484 (6.70%) Collaborative Working
16 472 (6.54%) Microservices
17 438 (6.07%) SDLC
18 398 (5.51%) Project Delivery
19 388 (5.37%) Containerisation
19 388 (5.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,254 (17.37%) SQL
2 1,217 (16.86%) Python
3 881 (12.20%) Java
4 731 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 645 (8.93%) C#
6 348 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 260 (3.60%) Bash
8 237 (3.28%) C++
9 202 (2.80%) Ruby
9 202 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 151 (2.09%) C
11 130 (1.80%) VB
12 118 (1.63%) PHP
13 114 (1.58%) Go
14 106 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 100 (1.39%) R
16 88 (1.22%) Perl
17 80 (1.11%) SAS Macro
18 57 (0.79%) MATLAB
19 55 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,955 (27.08%) Degree
2 952 (13.19%) Security Cleared
3 707 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 551 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 280 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 131 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 126 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 115 (1.59%) HNC
9 108 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 93 (1.29%) DBS Check
10 93 (1.29%) DV Cleared
11 85 (1.18%) CCNA
12 79 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 73 (1.01%) PhD
14 65 (0.90%) CISSP
15 62 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 61 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
17 56 (0.78%) PMP
18 55 (0.76%) CCNP
19 48 (0.66%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (6.76%) QA
2 241 (3.34%) SLA
3 184 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 134 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 83 (1.15%) GDPR
6 80 (1.11%) CDISC
7 76 (1.05%) PMO
8 72 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 72 (1.00%) NIST
9 68 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 49 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 37 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 33 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 33 (0.46%) GAAP
13 28 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 25 (0.35%) GRC
15 20 (0.28%) ISO 26262
15 20 (0.28%) WCAG
16 19 (0.26%) IFRS
16 19 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 711 (9.85%) Active Directory
2 379 (5.25%) Docker
3 319 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 180 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 91 (1.26%) Firmware
6 85 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 43 (0.60%) vSphere
9 40 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.19%) KVM
11 14 (0.19%) VMware NSX
12 11 (0.15%) XenApp
13 9 (0.12%) Ceph
13 9 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 8 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 8 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
16 5 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
16 5 (0.069%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 388 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 222 (3.08%) Terraform
3 175 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 141 (1.95%) Ansible
5 135 (1.87%) SCCM
6 73 (1.01%) FortiGate
7 69 (0.96%) SCOM
8 47 (0.65%) Grafana
9 39 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.48%) Puppet
11 28 (0.39%) Prometheus
12 26 (0.36%) OpenSSO
13 23 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
14 22 (0.30%) Nagios
15 19 (0.26%) EnCase
15 19 (0.26%) SCVMM
16 16 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 15 (0.21%) Icinga
18 14 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
18 14 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,657 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 434 (6.01%) VMware
3 338 (4.68%) Oracle
4 249 (3.45%) Cisco
5 236 (3.27%) Google
6 171 (2.37%) SAP
7 140 (1.94%) Citrix
8 119 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 99 (1.37%) Veeam
10 98 (1.36%) HP
10 98 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 85 (1.18%) Apple
12 82 (1.14%) Meraki
13 71 (0.98%) IBM
14 70 (0.97%) Databricks
15 62 (0.86%) Fortinet
16 61 (0.84%) CheckPoint
17 57 (0.79%) Juniper
18 52 (0.72%) Dell
19 51 (0.71%) Adobe