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

6 months to
19 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 7,372 8,283 12,391
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.34% 19.08% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 21.18% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,311 4,724 7,498
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £84,974
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -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 65,293 39,112 69,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.12% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46,254 22,446 49,410
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%

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 19 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 19 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 2,027 £68,950 +6.08% 947
North of England -10 1,509 £45,000 +5.88% 582
South East -3 1,402 £45,000 +5.88% 697
Midlands -8 1,063 £42,000 +3.70% 347
North West -6 800 £46,000 - 297
South West -6 706 £44,000 +17.33% 275
West Midlands -9 596 £42,500 -5.56% 193
East of England -4 578 £42,500 +21.43% 232
Yorkshire -10 512 £42,500 +21.43% 200
East Midlands -10 463 £35,000 -2.78% 154
North East -15 197 £52,130 +33.32% 94
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
1 412 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 411 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.11%) Confluence
4 66 (0.90%) CMS
5 53 (0.72%) Apache
6 40 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 38 (0.52%) IIS
8 37 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 33 (0.45%) WordPress
10 19 (0.26%) SAS
11 16 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.12%) nginx
14 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
16 7 (0.095%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.095%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 471 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 428 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 39 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.16%) 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 (0.068%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.068%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.068%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Civil 3D
12 3 (0.041%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 84 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 45 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.26%) Shopify
6 16 (0.22%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 13 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.16%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 11 (0.15%) iTrent
10 11 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 10 (0.14%) Maximo
12 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,577 (21.39%) Azure
2 1,212 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
3 932 (12.64%) AWS
4 588 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 348 (4.72%) Entra ID
6 345 (4.68%) SaaS
7 336 (4.56%) GCP
8 181 (2.46%) Serverless
9 158 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (2.14%) GitHub
10 156 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
11 142 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 130 (1.76%) PowerApps
13 103 (1.40%) OneDrive
14 96 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 86 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
16 82 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
17 79 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 72 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 495 (6.71%) Firewall
2 440 (5.97%) DNS
3 378 (5.13%) DHCP
4 297 (4.03%) VPN
5 258 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 237 (3.21%) WAN
7 225 (3.05%) LAN
8 214 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
9 178 (2.41%) Broadband
10 162 (2.20%) Wireless
11 153 (2.08%) VLAN
12 122 (1.65%) Network Security
13 102 (1.38%) VoIP
14 50 (0.68%) SD-WAN
15 44 (0.60%) BGP
15 44 (0.60%) Internet
16 42 (0.57%) HTTP
16 42 (0.57%) OSPF
17 40 (0.54%) SAN
18 32 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 462 (6.27%) Power BI
2 346 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 141 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 109 (1.48%) Tableau
6 107 (1.45%) MySQL
7 104 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 102 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 100 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 92 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 84 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 56 (0.76%) Power Query
14 53 (0.72%) Big Data
15 50 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 47 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 37 (0.50%) DynamoDB
18 34 (0.46%) Metadata
19 33 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
20 27 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 301 (4.08%) Git
2 231 (3.13%) JIRA
3 111 (1.51%) GitLab
4 107 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 31 (0.42%) Selenium
6 27 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 27 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.31%) Subversion
9 22 (0.30%) JUnit
10 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.26%) Postman
12 17 (0.23%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.18%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.16%) Maven
15 12 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3,520 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 2,136 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
3 1,394 (18.91%) Finance
4 472 (6.40%) Manufacturing
5 468 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 373 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 362 (4.91%) Law
8 339 (4.60%) Retail
9 308 (4.18%) Marketing
10 291 (3.95%) Legal
11 280 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 275 (3.73%) Banking
13 173 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 151 (2.05%) Electronics
15 141 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 136 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
17 109 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
18 102 (1.38%) Aerospace
19 98 (1.33%) Advertising
20 87 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 965 (13.09%) Analyst
2 871 (11.81%) Senior
3 729 (9.89%) Developer
4 724 (9.82%) IT Support
5 600 (8.14%) Support Engineer
6 443 (6.01%) Lead
7 425 (5.77%) IT Engineer
8 338 (4.58%) Consultant
9 325 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
10 292 (3.96%) Support Analyst
11 263 (3.57%) Software Engineer
12 257 (3.49%) Support Technician
13 254 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
14 245 (3.32%) Architect
15 222 (3.01%) Technical Support
16 203 (2.75%) IT Technician
17 187 (2.54%) Technical Engineer
18 181 (2.46%) Data Engineer
19 179 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 170 (2.31%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (4.18%) .NET
2 282 (3.83%) React
3 229 (3.11%) HTML
4 221 (3.00%) REST
5 183 (2.48%) CSS
6 152 (2.06%) RESTful
7 151 (2.05%) Node.js
8 111 (1.51%) SOAP
9 98 (1.33%) Middleware
10 93 (1.26%) JSON
11 91 (1.23%) Spring
12 87 (1.18%) AngularJS
12 87 (1.18%) Vue
13 77 (1.04%) Kafka
14 72 (0.98%) XML
15 70 (0.95%) Web Services
16 63 (0.85%) OAuth
17 58 (0.79%) ASP.NET
17 58 (0.79%) Spring Boot
18 56 (0.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 454 (6.16%) Driving Licence
2 433 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 365 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 280 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 276 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 202 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 179 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 176 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 165 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 127 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 109 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 103 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
13 94 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 84 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 83 (1.13%) Mobile App
16 76 (1.03%) Social Media
17 75 (1.02%) IoT
18 71 (0.96%) Public Cloud
18 71 (0.96%) Virtual Team
19 67 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,188 (16.12%) Windows
2 523 (7.09%) Linux
3 519 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 172 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 131 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (1.53%) Android
7 97 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 96 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 54 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (0.62%) Unix
11 42 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.39%) CentOS
14 28 (0.38%) VMS
15 18 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Debian
17 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 7 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,612 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,156 (15.68%) Agile
3 1,102 (14.95%) Customer Service
4 858 (11.64%) AI
5 822 (11.15%) CI/CD
6 806 (10.93%) Mentoring
7 782 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 685 (9.29%) Analytics
8 685 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 683 (9.26%) DevOps
10 676 (9.17%) Software Engineering
11 642 (8.71%) ITIL
12 593 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
13 569 (7.72%) Roadmaps
14 536 (7.27%) Computer Science
15 533 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
16 512 (6.95%) Project Management
17 489 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
18 475 (6.44%) Project Delivery
19 452 (6.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (15.68%) SQL
2 1,097 (14.88%) Python
3 499 (6.77%) JavaScript
4 407 (5.52%) C#
5 378 (5.13%) Java
6 344 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 223 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 194 (2.63%) C++
9 171 (2.32%) Bash
10 94 (1.28%) PHP
11 92 (1.25%) Go
12 70 (0.95%) C
13 65 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 63 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.76%) Scala
16 43 (0.58%) Rust
17 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 39 (0.53%) R
19 36 (0.49%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,172 (15.90%) Degree
2 619 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 430 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 269 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 222 (3.01%) DBS Check
6 193 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 139 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 125 (1.70%) CISSP
10 120 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 105 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 84 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 83 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 77 (1.04%) CCNA
14 77 (1.04%) PMP
15 74 (1.00%) CCNP
16 70 (0.95%) ACCA
17 65 (0.88%) CIMA
18 64 (0.87%) CISM
19 62 (0.84%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (5.44%) QA
2 356 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 302 (4.10%) GDPR
4 217 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 216 (2.93%) SLA
6 196 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 184 (2.50%) Accessibility
8 166 (2.25%) PCI DSS
9 153 (2.08%) NIST
10 58 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 57 (0.77%) PMO
12 37 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 35 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 34 (0.46%) GRC
15 26 (0.35%) COBIT
16 23 (0.31%) GMP
17 17 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
17 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 805 (10.92%) Active Directory
2 343 (4.65%) Docker
3 279 (3.78%) Hyper-V
4 238 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 77 (1.04%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.57%) Firmware
8 34 (0.46%) vSphere
9 32 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 14 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 13 (0.18%) KVM
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.095%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.095%) XenApp
14 6 (0.081%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.068%) ClearTrust
16 3 (0.041%) Squid
16 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 338 (4.58%) Terraform
2 291 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 285 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (2.12%) Ansible
5 104 (1.41%) Grafana
6 81 (1.10%) SCCM
7 65 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 32 (0.43%) Nagios
9 29 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.22%) Puppet
13 15 (0.20%) Argo
13 15 (0.20%) Autotask
14 14 (0.19%) Kibana
15 12 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
16 11 (0.15%) logstash
16 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,130 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 352 (4.77%) VMware
3 187 (2.54%) Oracle
4 185 (2.51%) Google
5 179 (2.43%) SAP
6 166 (2.25%) Cisco
7 150 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 149 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 135 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 135 (1.83%) Veeam
10 129 (1.75%) Splunk
11 108 (1.47%) Databricks
12 85 (1.15%) Tanium
13 79 (1.07%) Apple
14 78 (1.06%) Nimble Storage
15 77 (1.04%) Brocade
16 65 (0.88%) Dell
17 59 (0.80%) Adobe
18 58 (0.79%) Sage
19 55 (0.75%) Red Hat