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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,882 7,955 13,769
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.20% 19.95% 14.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 21.58% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,918 4,497 8,600
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.47% -10.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,734
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.60% -11.39%

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 61,488 36,863 78,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 92.45% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 20,255 56,794
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,939 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -6 1,964 £70,000 +7.69% 642
North of England -8 1,425 £42,500 -4.49% 544
South East -5 1,277 £45,000 +5.88% 718
Midlands -8 975 £42,000 -1.18% 394
North West -7 736 £45,000 -2.70% 307
South West -6 628 £44,000 +17.33% 255
West Midlands -9 556 £42,500 -5.56% 217
East of England -3 534 £45,000 +28.57% 223
Yorkshire -12 512 £40,500 +15.71% 163
East Midlands -8 416 £35,000 -6.67% 177
North East -12 177 £48,500 +21.25% 89
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
1 380 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 372 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.16%) Confluence
4 64 (0.93%) CMS
5 52 (0.76%) Apache
6 40 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 34 (0.49%) IIS
8 31 (0.45%) WordPress
9 16 (0.23%) SAS
10 15 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
13 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
13 8 (0.12%) WebLogic
13 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
15 6 (0.087%) Drupal
15 6 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 427 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 374 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 33 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.12%) Trello
10 7 (0.10%) Simulink
11 5 (0.073%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.073%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.044%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.044%) Blender
12 3 (0.044%) Lightworks
12 3 (0.044%) Maya
12 3 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 72 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 62 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 18 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.23%) Magento
7 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.19%) iTrent
9 11 (0.16%) Maximo
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.12%) SAP Business One
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,503 (21.84%) Azure
2 1,111 (16.14%) Microsoft 365
3 893 (12.98%) AWS
4 527 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 325 (4.72%) SaaS
6 308 (4.48%) Entra ID
7 305 (4.43%) GCP
8 178 (2.59%) Serverless
9 160 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 148 (2.15%) GitHub
11 137 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
12 125 (1.82%) Power Automate
13 105 (1.53%) PowerApps
14 91 (1.32%) OneDrive
15 90 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 77 (1.12%) Google Workspace
17 73 (1.06%) PaaS
18 72 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 72 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 457 (6.64%) Firewall
2 409 (5.94%) DNS
3 354 (5.14%) DHCP
4 287 (4.17%) VPN
5 236 (3.43%) WAN
6 219 (3.18%) TCP/IP
7 212 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
8 211 (3.07%) LAN
9 183 (2.66%) Broadband
10 141 (2.05%) VLAN
11 135 (1.96%) Wireless
12 106 (1.54%) VoIP
13 101 (1.47%) Network Security
14 62 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 50 (0.73%) Internet
16 46 (0.67%) BGP
17 45 (0.65%) OSPF
18 43 (0.62%) SAN
19 37 (0.54%) HTTP
20 29 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (6.12%) Power BI
2 300 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 132 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 107 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 107 (1.55%) Tableau
6 97 (1.41%) MySQL
6 97 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 91 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 78 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 68 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 57 (0.83%) MongoDB
11 55 (0.80%) Power Query
12 51 (0.74%) Big Data
13 49 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
14 42 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 41 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
16 38 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 38 (0.55%) Metadata
17 27 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 287 (4.17%) Git
2 209 (3.04%) JIRA
3 99 (1.44%) GitLab
4 98 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.35%) Selenium
7 23 (0.33%) Cucumber
8 21 (0.31%) JUnit
9 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
10 19 (0.28%) Subversion
10 19 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.26%) Chocolatey
11 18 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.25%) Burp Suite
12 17 (0.25%) Maven
12 17 (0.25%) Metasploit
13 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
14 15 (0.22%) SonarQube
15 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 3,232 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 1,996 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1,355 (19.69%) Finance
4 433 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 400 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 366 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 331 (4.81%) Law
8 313 (4.55%) Retail
9 304 (4.42%) Marketing
10 282 (4.10%) Legal
11 275 (4.00%) Public Sector
12 269 (3.91%) Banking
13 156 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 141 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 134 (1.95%) Electronics
16 130 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 110 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
18 93 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 87 (1.26%) Advertising
20 80 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 895 (13.00%) Analyst
2 844 (12.26%) Senior
3 698 (10.14%) IT Support
4 670 (9.74%) Developer
5 590 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 418 (6.07%) IT Engineer
6 418 (6.07%) Lead
7 328 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 302 (4.39%) Consultant
9 246 (3.57%) Support Analyst
9 246 (3.57%) Support Technician
10 239 (3.47%) Software Engineer
11 237 (3.44%) Architect
12 236 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
13 194 (2.82%) Technical Support
14 190 (2.76%) IT Technician
15 179 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 163 (2.37%) Senior Developer
17 162 (2.35%) Administrator
18 161 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (4.04%) .NET
2 270 (3.92%) React
3 216 (3.14%) HTML
4 194 (2.82%) REST
5 181 (2.63%) CSS
6 148 (2.15%) Node.js
7 138 (2.01%) RESTful
8 104 (1.51%) SOAP
9 98 (1.42%) Middleware
10 88 (1.28%) JSON
11 84 (1.22%) Spring
12 79 (1.15%) Vue
13 74 (1.08%) AngularJS
14 69 (1.00%) XML
15 65 (0.94%) Kafka
15 65 (0.94%) Web Services
16 63 (0.92%) OAuth
17 55 (0.80%) gRPC
18 53 (0.77%) Spring Boot
19 51 (0.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 420 (6.10%) Driving Licence
2 390 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 323 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 257 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 253 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 192 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 168 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 159 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 154 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 118 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 99 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 98 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 89 (1.29%) Data Structures
14 84 (1.22%) Social Media
15 80 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
16 76 (1.10%) Algorithms
17 70 (1.02%) Low-Code
18 67 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.94%) Virtual Team
20 61 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,108 (16.10%) Windows
2 485 (7.05%) Windows Server
3 468 (6.80%) Linux
4 170 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 130 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 110 (1.60%) Android
7 90 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 89 (1.29%) Mac OS
9 65 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.65%) Unix
11 41 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.45%) CentOS
12 31 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (0.38%) VMS
15 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
15 14 (0.20%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.17%) Debian
17 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,084 (15.75%) Agile
3 1,005 (14.60%) Customer Service
4 771 (11.20%) Mentoring
5 761 (11.06%) AI
6 747 (10.85%) CI/CD
7 737 (10.71%) Decision-Making
8 647 (9.40%) Analytics
9 634 (9.21%) DevOps
10 608 (8.83%) Software Engineering
11 585 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 561 (8.15%) ITIL
13 540 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
14 538 (7.82%) Roadmaps
15 531 (7.72%) Computer Science
16 489 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
16 489 (7.11%) Project Management
17 451 (6.55%) Collaborative Working
18 441 (6.41%) Coaching
19 413 (6.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (15.32%) Python
1 1,054 (15.32%) SQL
2 472 (6.86%) JavaScript
3 359 (5.22%) C#
4 352 (5.11%) Java
5 320 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 213 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 166 (2.41%) Bash
8 152 (2.21%) C++
9 93 (1.35%) PHP
10 87 (1.26%) Go
11 61 (0.89%) C
11 61 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 56 (0.81%) Scala
13 54 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 45 (0.65%) PL/SQL
15 42 (0.61%) R
16 41 (0.60%) Rust
17 38 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 34 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,123 (16.32%) Degree
2 561 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 383 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 272 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 227 (3.30%) DBS Check
6 193 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 126 (1.83%) CISSP
8 121 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 117 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 112 (1.63%) Master's Degree
11 102 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.09%) CCNA
15 73 (1.06%) PMP
16 72 (1.05%) A+ Certification
16 72 (1.05%) ACCA
17 67 (0.97%) CIMA
18 60 (0.87%) CISM
18 60 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (5.46%) QA
2 329 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 281 (4.08%) GDPR
4 204 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 199 (2.89%) SLA
6 182 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 162 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 151 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 149 (2.17%) NIST
10 55 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.64%) PMO
12 36 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 31 (0.45%) GRC
13 31 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 27 (0.39%) COBIT
15 20 (0.29%) GMP
16 19 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.22%) IFRS
19 12 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 759 (11.03%) Active Directory
2 309 (4.49%) Docker
3 256 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 219 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 48 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.49%) Firmware
8 28 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.38%) vSphere
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.15%) IAG
13 9 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.10%) XenApp
15 6 (0.087%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.073%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 303 (4.40%) Terraform
2 265 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 260 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (2.17%) Ansible
5 95 (1.38%) Grafana
6 81 (1.18%) SCCM
7 58 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 29 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.28%) Kibana
12 18 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 14 (0.20%) Argo
14 14 (0.20%) Autotask
14 14 (0.20%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.17%) Kubeflow
15 12 (0.17%) Puppet
16 11 (0.16%) logstash
16 11 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,910 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 330 (4.80%) VMware
3 186 (2.70%) Oracle
4 175 (2.54%) Google
5 164 (2.38%) SAP
6 151 (2.19%) Cisco
7 144 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 136 (1.98%) SolarWinds
9 129 (1.87%) Veeam
10 126 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 124 (1.80%) Splunk
12 107 (1.55%) Databricks
13 81 (1.18%) Apple
14 73 (1.06%) Tanium
15 71 (1.03%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (1.02%) Brocade
17 63 (0.92%) Adobe
18 58 (0.84%) Dell
19 53 (0.77%) Sage
20 52 (0.76%) Red Hat