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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,299 8,279 12,914
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.34% 19.08% 14.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 21.11% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,254 4,719 7,932
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,617
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,045 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -9.09%

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 64,786 39,214 72,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.00% 90.35% 82.40%
Number of salaries quoted 45,806 22,355 52,169
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £77,500 £73,750
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 12 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 12 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 2,017 £70,000 +7.69% 1,443
North of England -8 1,498 £45,000 +5.88% 759
South East -3 1,399 £45,000 +5.88% 858
Midlands -8 1,041 £42,000 -0.76% 450
North West -7 789 £45,000 -2.17% 400
South West -6 683 £44,000 +17.33% 505
West Midlands -9 587 £42,500 -5.56% 262
East of England -3 573 £44,000 +25.71% 269
Yorkshire -12 517 £42,500 +21.43% 251
East Midlands -10 451 £35,000 -4.11% 188
North East -17 192 £51,000 +28.95% 121
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
1 408 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 402 (5.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (1.08%) Confluence
4 66 (0.90%) CMS
5 56 (0.77%) Apache
6 40 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 39 (0.53%) IIS
8 34 (0.47%) WordPress
9 18 (0.25%) SAS
10 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
13 8 (0.11%) nginx
14 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
15 6 (0.082%) Moodle
Applications
1 461 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 408 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 38 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.12%) Simulink
9 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.069%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.069%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Blender
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
12 3 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 81 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.27%) Shopify
6 17 (0.23%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 12 (0.16%) iTrent
9 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.14%) Maximo
10 10 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,589 (21.77%) Azure
2 1,196 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
3 937 (12.84%) AWS
4 575 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 342 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 341 (4.67%) SaaS
7 337 (4.62%) GCP
8 179 (2.45%) Serverless
9 162 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 159 (2.18%) GitHub
11 149 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 138 (1.89%) Power Automate
13 123 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 103 (1.41%) OneDrive
15 95 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 83 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 80 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
18 77 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (1.03%) PaaS
20 74 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 507 (6.95%) Firewall
2 434 (5.95%) DNS
3 371 (5.08%) DHCP
4 310 (4.25%) VPN
5 254 (3.48%) TCP/IP
6 240 (3.29%) WAN
7 225 (3.08%) LAN
8 223 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
9 174 (2.38%) Broadband
10 157 (2.15%) Wireless
11 153 (2.10%) VLAN
12 113 (1.55%) Network Security
13 105 (1.44%) VoIP
14 55 (0.75%) SD-WAN
15 49 (0.67%) Internet
16 46 (0.63%) BGP
17 44 (0.60%) OSPF
18 40 (0.55%) HTTP
19 39 (0.53%) SAN
20 29 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (6.22%) Power BI
2 335 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 141 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 117 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 110 (1.51%) MySQL
6 106 (1.45%) Tableau
7 105 (1.44%) Relational Database
8 103 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 101 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
10 90 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 80 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (0.78%) MongoDB
13 56 (0.77%) Power Query
14 52 (0.71%) Big Data
15 50 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 48 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 37 (0.51%) DynamoDB
18 36 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.47%) Metadata
20 30 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 298 (4.08%) Git
2 223 (3.06%) JIRA
3 109 (1.49%) GitLab
3 109 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 28 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
4 28 (0.38%) Selenium
5 23 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 22 (0.30%) Eclipse
6 22 (0.30%) Subversion
7 21 (0.29%) JUnit
8 19 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 19 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.23%) Chocolatey
10 17 (0.23%) Postman
11 14 (0.19%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.19%) Maven
12 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 12 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,465 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 2,098 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
3 1,379 (18.89%) Finance
4 461 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
5 455 (6.23%) Manufacturing
6 375 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 352 (4.82%) Law
8 335 (4.59%) Retail
9 308 (4.22%) Marketing
10 292 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 286 (3.92%) Legal
12 271 (3.71%) Banking
13 166 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 149 (2.04%) Electronics
15 135 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 134 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
17 113 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
18 103 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 99 (1.36%) Advertising
20 86 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 951 (13.03%) Analyst
2 874 (11.97%) Senior
3 733 (10.04%) IT Support
4 708 (9.70%) Developer
5 613 (8.40%) Support Engineer
6 437 (5.99%) Lead
7 436 (5.97%) IT Engineer
8 335 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 324 (4.44%) Consultant
10 287 (3.93%) Support Analyst
11 261 (3.58%) Software Engineer
12 256 (3.51%) Support Technician
13 250 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
14 242 (3.32%) Architect
15 219 (3.00%) Technical Support
16 200 (2.74%) IT Technician
17 181 (2.48%) Technical Engineer
18 180 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 179 (2.45%) Data Engineer
20 171 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (4.07%) .NET
2 278 (3.81%) React
3 225 (3.08%) HTML
4 214 (2.93%) REST
5 183 (2.51%) CSS
6 149 (2.04%) Node.js
6 149 (2.04%) RESTful
7 110 (1.51%) SOAP
8 102 (1.40%) Middleware
9 92 (1.26%) JSON
10 91 (1.25%) Spring
11 87 (1.19%) Vue
12 84 (1.15%) AngularJS
13 73 (1.00%) Kafka
14 71 (0.97%) XML
15 69 (0.95%) Web Services
16 64 (0.88%) OAuth
17 59 (0.81%) Spring Boot
18 56 (0.77%) gRPC
19 55 (0.75%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 448 (6.14%) Driving Licence
2 425 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 359 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 280 (3.84%) Cloud Native
5 276 (3.78%) Management Information System
6 201 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 183 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 173 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 154 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 126 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 108 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 99 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 91 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 87 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 81 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 80 (1.10%) Social Media
17 73 (1.00%) IoT
18 71 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.89%) Virtual Team
20 64 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,184 (16.22%) Windows
2 515 (7.06%) Linux
2 515 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 177 (2.42%) Windows 10
4 128 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 112 (1.53%) Android
6 96 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 94 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 58 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 45 (0.62%) Unix
10 41 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 34 (0.47%) Ubuntu
12 29 (0.40%) CentOS
12 29 (0.40%) VMS
13 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.21%) Debian
16 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
17 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 7 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,576 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,141 (15.63%) Agile
3 1,087 (14.89%) Customer Service
4 830 (11.37%) AI
5 818 (11.21%) CI/CD
6 812 (11.12%) Mentoring
7 775 (10.62%) Decision-Making
8 687 (9.41%) Analytics
8 687 (9.41%) DevOps
9 664 (9.10%) Software Engineering
10 650 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 627 (8.59%) ITIL
12 590 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
13 564 (7.73%) Roadmaps
14 536 (7.34%) Computer Science
15 520 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
16 500 (6.85%) Project Management
17 485 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
18 448 (6.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 446 (6.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,135 (15.55%) SQL
2 1,101 (15.08%) Python
3 495 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 393 (5.38%) C#
5 373 (5.11%) Java
6 350 (4.80%) PowerShell
7 225 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 185 (2.53%) C++
9 177 (2.42%) Bash
10 94 (1.29%) PHP
11 93 (1.27%) Go
12 68 (0.93%) C
13 65 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 61 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.77%) Scala
16 47 (0.64%) Rust
17 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 38 (0.52%) R
19 37 (0.51%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,153 (15.80%) Degree
2 607 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 413 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 274 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 230 (3.15%) DBS Check
6 194 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 132 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.75%) CISSP
9 126 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 117 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 104 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 85 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.11%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.03%) CCNA
14 75 (1.03%) PMP
15 70 (0.96%) ACCA
16 69 (0.95%) CCNP
17 65 (0.89%) CIMA
17 65 (0.89%) CISM
18 64 (0.88%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (5.44%) QA
2 355 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 299 (4.10%) GDPR
4 213 (2.92%) SLA
5 211 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 200 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 178 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 160 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 154 (2.11%) NIST
10 58 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 35 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 34 (0.47%) GRC
15 27 (0.37%) COBIT
16 22 (0.30%) GMP
17 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
19 15 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 804 (11.02%) Active Directory
2 340 (4.66%) Docker
3 273 (3.74%) Hyper-V
4 239 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (0.96%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.56%) Firmware
8 35 (0.48%) vSphere
9 30 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.22%) KVM
11 13 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.096%) XenApp
14 5 (0.069%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 346 (4.74%) Terraform
2 299 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 280 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 169 (2.32%) Ansible
5 107 (1.47%) Grafana
6 83 (1.14%) SCCM
7 64 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.47%) Nagios
9 30 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.23%) Kibana
13 16 (0.22%) Puppet
14 15 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.21%) Argo
14 15 (0.21%) Autotask
15 13 (0.18%) logstash
16 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
17 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,093 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 348 (4.77%) VMware
3 189 (2.59%) Google
4 179 (2.45%) Oracle
5 170 (2.33%) SAP
6 161 (2.21%) Cisco
7 148 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 146 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 130 (1.78%) SolarWinds
10 128 (1.75%) Veeam
11 121 (1.66%) Splunk
12 106 (1.45%) Databricks
13 78 (1.07%) Apple
14 77 (1.05%) Tanium
15 71 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (0.96%) Brocade
17 62 (0.85%) Dell
18 57 (0.78%) Adobe
19 56 (0.77%) Red Hat
19 56 (0.77%) Sage