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

6 months to
11 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 7,289 8,259 12,950
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.35% 19.10% 14.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 21.13% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,244 4,698 7,977
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,043
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,383 £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 64,629 39,087 73,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.39% 82.46%
Number of salaries quoted 45,666 22,238 52,403
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% -8.72%

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 11 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 11 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 -4 2,019 £70,000 +7.69% 1,067
North of England -8 1,494 £45,000 +5.88% 668
South East -3 1,396 £45,000 +5.88% 805
Midlands -8 1,038 £42,000 +1.20% 404
North West -7 789 £45,000 -2.17% 356
South West -6 681 £44,000 +17.33% 317
West Midlands -9 587 £42,500 -5.56% 221
East of England -4 573 £44,000 +25.71% 248
Yorkshire -12 513 £42,500 +21.43% 221
East Midlands -10 448 £35,000 -4.11% 183
North East -17 192 £51,000 +28.95% 107
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
1 407 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 402 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (1.08%) Confluence
4 66 (0.91%) CMS
5 56 (0.77%) Apache
6 40 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 38 (0.52%) IIS
9 34 (0.47%) WordPress
10 18 (0.25%) SAS
11 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
13 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (0.11%) nginx
15 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.082%) Moodle
Applications
1 460 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 407 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.59%) 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 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 21 (0.29%) Shopify
5 17 (0.23%) Magento
6 14 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 12 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 12 (0.16%) iTrent
8 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 10 (0.14%) Maximo
9 10 (0.14%) SAP Business One
10 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 8 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
11 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,587 (21.77%) Azure
2 1,195 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
3 935 (12.83%) AWS
4 573 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 342 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 340 (4.66%) SaaS
7 337 (4.62%) GCP
8 179 (2.46%) Serverless
9 162 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 159 (2.18%) GitHub
11 149 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 138 (1.89%) Power Automate
13 122 (1.67%) 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 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (1.03%) PaaS
20 74 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 506 (6.94%) Firewall
2 435 (5.97%) DNS
3 371 (5.09%) DHCP
4 310 (4.25%) VPN
5 252 (3.46%) TCP/IP
6 240 (3.29%) WAN
7 225 (3.09%) LAN
8 223 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
9 174 (2.39%) Broadband
10 156 (2.14%) 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 41 (0.56%) HTTP
19 39 (0.54%) SAN
20 29 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 453 (6.21%) Power BI
2 333 (4.57%) SQL Server
3 141 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 117 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 109 (1.50%) MySQL
6 106 (1.45%) Tableau
7 104 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 103 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 101 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 90 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 80 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 57 (0.78%) Power Query
13 52 (0.71%) Big Data
14 49 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 48 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (0.51%) DynamoDB
17 36 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
18 34 (0.47%) Metadata
19 30 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 298 (4.09%) Git
2 223 (3.06%) JIRA
3 109 (1.50%) GitLab
3 109 (1.50%) 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%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.25%) Claude Code
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 3,460 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 2,097 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1,377 (18.89%) Finance
4 459 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 452 (6.20%) Manufacturing
6 375 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 350 (4.80%) Law
8 333 (4.57%) Retail
9 307 (4.21%) Marketing
10 292 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 285 (3.91%) Legal
12 270 (3.70%) Banking
13 165 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 147 (2.02%) Electronics
15 136 (1.87%) 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 (13.05%) Analyst
2 873 (11.98%) Senior
3 732 (10.04%) IT Support
4 704 (9.66%) Developer
5 613 (8.41%) Support Engineer
6 436 (5.98%) Lead
7 435 (5.97%) IT Engineer
8 334 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 323 (4.43%) Consultant
10 287 (3.94%) 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
15 217 (2.98%) Technical Support
16 200 (2.74%) IT Technician
17 179 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 179 (2.46%) Technical Engineer
18 178 (2.44%) Data Engineer
19 170 (2.33%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (4.06%) .NET
2 278 (3.81%) React
3 224 (3.07%) HTML
4 214 (2.94%) REST
5 182 (2.50%) 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 90 (1.23%) 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 54 (0.74%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 450 (6.17%) Driving Licence
2 424 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 357 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
4 280 (3.84%) Cloud Native
5 275 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 199 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 182 (2.50%) 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 98 (1.34%) 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 72 (0.99%) IoT
18 70 (0.96%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.89%) Virtual Team
20 64 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,182 (16.22%) Windows
2 516 (7.08%) Linux
3 514 (7.05%) Windows Server
4 178 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 128 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (1.55%) Android
7 97 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 94 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 58 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.62%) Unix
11 42 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.41%) CentOS
14 29 (0.40%) VMS
15 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
17 15 (0.21%) Debian
18 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
20 7 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,571 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,141 (15.65%) Agile
3 1,087 (14.91%) Customer Service
4 828 (11.36%) AI
5 816 (11.19%) CI/CD
6 810 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 773 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 687 (9.43%) DevOps
9 686 (9.41%) Analytics
10 663 (9.10%) Software Engineering
11 650 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 627 (8.60%) ITIL
13 586 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
14 561 (7.70%) Roadmaps
15 533 (7.31%) Computer Science
16 519 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
17 498 (6.83%) Project Management
18 485 (6.65%) Collaborative Working
19 446 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 444 (6.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (15.54%) SQL
2 1,103 (15.13%) Python
3 494 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 393 (5.39%) C#
5 372 (5.10%) Java
6 350 (4.80%) PowerShell
7 224 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 184 (2.52%) C++
9 177 (2.43%) Bash
10 95 (1.30%) PHP
11 93 (1.28%) 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 1,150 (15.78%) Degree
2 607 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 413 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 272 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 230 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 195 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 132 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.76%) CISSP
9 126 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 117 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 107 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 85 (1.17%) 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 (5.45%) QA
2 354 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 301 (4.13%) GDPR
4 214 (2.94%) SLA
5 211 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 200 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 178 (2.44%) Accessibility
8 160 (2.20%) PCI DSS
9 155 (2.13%) NIST
10 58 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 34 (0.47%) GRC
13 34 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 27 (0.37%) COBIT
15 22 (0.30%) GMP
16 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
18 15 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 802 (11.00%) Active Directory
2 340 (4.66%) Docker
3 271 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 238 (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 (4.75%) Terraform
2 299 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 280 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 169 (2.32%) Ansible
5 106 (1.45%) 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 2,087 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 347 (4.76%) VMware
3 189 (2.59%) Google
4 177 (2.43%) Oracle
5 170 (2.33%) SAP
6 161 (2.21%) Cisco
7 148 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 145 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 130 (1.78%) SolarWinds
10 129 (1.77%) Veeam
11 121 (1.66%) Splunk
12 106 (1.45%) Databricks
13 79 (1.08%) Apple
14 77 (1.06%) 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