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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,001 7,995 13,569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.27% 19.81% 14.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.23% 21.49% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,023 4,530 8,435
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,329
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.36% -10.31%

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 62,329 37,196 76,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.59% 92.18% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 43,937 20,499 55,155
10th Percentile £30,806 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,926 £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 £72,500
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% -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 27 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 27 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 1,990 £70,000 +7.69% 765
North of England -8 1,448 £43,500 -1.14% 551
South East -4 1,320 £45,000 +5.88% 729
Midlands -8 986 £42,000 -1.18% 411
North West -6 758 £45,000 -2.17% 303
South West -6 631 £44,000 +17.33% 267
West Midlands -9 564 £42,500 -5.56% 228
East of England -3 547 £45,000 +28.57% 235
Yorkshire -12 508 £41,955 +19.87% 184
East Midlands -10 419 £35,000 -4.11% 183
North East -11 182 £50,000 +25.00% 83
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
1 386 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 382 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (1.13%) Confluence
4 65 (0.93%) CMS
5 51 (0.73%) Apache
6 40 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 37 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 36 (0.51%) IIS
9 32 (0.46%) WordPress
10 16 (0.23%) SAS
11 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.100%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.086%) Drupal
16 6 (0.086%) Moodle
Applications
1 439 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 382 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Simulink
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.071%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.071%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.043%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.043%) Blender
12 3 (0.043%) Lightworks
12 3 (0.043%) Maya
12 3 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 41 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.29%) Shopify
6 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.23%) Magento
7 15 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 14 (0.20%) iTrent
8 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 11 (0.16%) Maximo
10 10 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
11 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 6 (0.086%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 1,528 (21.83%) Azure
2 1,127 (16.10%) Microsoft 365
3 905 (12.93%) AWS
4 539 (7.70%) Power Platform
5 334 (4.77%) SaaS
6 316 (4.51%) Entra ID
7 314 (4.49%) GCP
8 179 (2.56%) Serverless
9 165 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 153 (2.19%) GitHub
11 140 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 133 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 113 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 96 (1.37%) Amazon S3
15 93 (1.33%) OneDrive
16 77 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
17 76 (1.09%) PaaS
18 75 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
19 74 (1.06%) Google Workspace
20 73 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 477 (6.81%) Firewall
2 415 (5.93%) DNS
3 360 (5.14%) DHCP
4 301 (4.30%) VPN
5 240 (3.43%) WAN
6 229 (3.27%) TCP/IP
7 221 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
8 217 (3.10%) LAN
9 181 (2.59%) Broadband
10 148 (2.11%) VLAN
11 145 (2.07%) Wireless
12 107 (1.53%) VoIP
13 106 (1.51%) Network Security
14 60 (0.86%) SD-WAN
15 50 (0.71%) Internet
16 47 (0.67%) BGP
17 45 (0.64%) OSPF
18 42 (0.60%) SAN
19 38 (0.54%) HTTP
20 30 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (6.16%) Power BI
2 322 (4.60%) SQL Server
3 136 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
4 105 (1.50%) NoSQL
4 105 (1.50%) Tableau
5 103 (1.47%) MySQL
6 98 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
7 97 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 83 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 76 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 57 (0.81%) Power Query
11 55 (0.79%) MongoDB
12 52 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 49 (0.70%) Big Data
14 43 (0.61%) Data Lake
15 39 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (0.53%) DynamoDB
17 36 (0.51%) Metadata
18 29 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (4.11%) Git
2 209 (2.99%) JIRA
3 102 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 101 (1.44%) GitLab
5 29 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.36%) Selenium
7 24 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 22 (0.31%) JUnit
9 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 20 (0.29%) Eclipse
9 20 (0.29%) Subversion
10 19 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.26%) Chocolatey
12 17 (0.24%) Maven
13 16 (0.23%) Burp Suite
13 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
13 16 (0.23%) Metasploit
13 16 (0.23%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
14 14 (0.20%) Postman
General
1 3,296 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 2,018 (28.82%) Analytical Skills
3 1,368 (19.54%) Finance
4 440 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
5 417 (5.96%) Manufacturing
6 372 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 339 (4.84%) Law
8 323 (4.61%) Retail
9 302 (4.31%) Marketing
10 283 (4.04%) Legal
11 277 (3.96%) Public Sector
12 273 (3.90%) Banking
13 156 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 145 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 134 (1.91%) Electronics
16 132 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 115 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
18 97 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 90 (1.29%) Advertising
20 83 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 908 (12.97%) Analyst
2 859 (12.27%) Senior
3 711 (10.16%) IT Support
4 681 (9.73%) Developer
5 603 (8.61%) Support Engineer
6 428 (6.11%) Lead
7 426 (6.08%) IT Engineer
8 331 (4.73%) IT Support Engineer
9 310 (4.43%) Consultant
10 254 (3.63%) Support Analyst
11 248 (3.54%) Support Technician
12 246 (3.51%) Software Engineer
13 232 (3.31%) Architect
14 231 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
15 202 (2.89%) Technical Support
16 193 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 179 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 168 (2.40%) Data Engineer
19 166 (2.37%) Administrator
20 163 (2.33%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (4.09%) .NET
2 275 (3.93%) React
3 217 (3.10%) HTML
4 200 (2.86%) REST
5 179 (2.56%) CSS
6 148 (2.11%) Node.js
7 140 (2.00%) RESTful
8 104 (1.49%) SOAP
9 102 (1.46%) Middleware
10 88 (1.26%) JSON
11 84 (1.20%) Spring
12 82 (1.17%) Vue
13 79 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 69 (0.99%) XML
15 67 (0.96%) Web Services
16 65 (0.93%) Kafka
17 59 (0.84%) OAuth
18 55 (0.79%) gRPC
19 53 (0.76%) Spring Boot
20 51 (0.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 430 (6.14%) Driving Licence
2 404 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 336 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 267 (3.81%) Cloud Native
5 260 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 192 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 170 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 163 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
9 148 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 121 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 105 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 100 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 87 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 85 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 81 (1.16%) Social Media
16 78 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 73 (1.04%) Low-Code
18 70 (1.00%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.93%) Virtual Team
20 61 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,120 (16.00%) Windows
2 490 (7.00%) Windows Server
3 475 (6.78%) Linux
4 173 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 124 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 111 (1.59%) Android
7 92 (1.31%) Mac OS
8 90 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 64 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.64%) Unix
11 43 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.44%) CentOS
12 31 (0.44%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.40%) VMS
14 25 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.20%) Debian
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
17 7 (0.100%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,463 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,103 (15.75%) Agile
3 1,028 (14.68%) Customer Service
4 793 (11.33%) Mentoring
5 785 (11.21%) AI
6 771 (11.01%) CI/CD
7 739 (10.56%) Decision-Making
8 659 (9.41%) Analytics
9 648 (9.26%) DevOps
10 626 (8.94%) Software Engineering
11 609 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 574 (8.20%) ITIL
13 559 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
14 546 (7.80%) Roadmaps
15 532 (7.60%) Computer Science
16 495 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
17 481 (6.87%) Project Management
18 460 (6.57%) Collaborative Working
19 440 (6.28%) Coaching
20 422 (6.03%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (15.71%) SQL
2 1,069 (15.27%) Python
3 476 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 374 (5.34%) C#
5 352 (5.03%) Java
6 338 (4.83%) PowerShell
7 218 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 172 (2.46%) Bash
9 163 (2.33%) C++
10 96 (1.37%) PHP
11 91 (1.30%) Go
12 64 (0.91%) C
13 63 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 59 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 55 (0.79%) Scala
16 45 (0.64%) PL/SQL
17 42 (0.60%) Rust
18 41 (0.59%) R
19 37 (0.53%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,122 (16.03%) Degree
2 570 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 385 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 270 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 225 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 194 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 129 (1.84%) CISSP
8 126 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 119 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 111 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 108 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 79 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 77 (1.10%) CCNA
15 72 (1.03%) A+ Certification
15 72 (1.03%) PMP
16 70 (1.00%) ACCA
17 65 (0.93%) CIMA
17 65 (0.93%) CISM
18 61 (0.87%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 386 (5.51%) QA
2 338 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 295 (4.21%) GDPR
4 204 (2.91%) SLA
5 198 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 190 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 164 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 151 (2.16%) NIST
9 148 (2.11%) PCI DSS
10 55 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.63%) PMO
12 37 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 33 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.46%) GRC
15 28 (0.40%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 19 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.21%) IFRS
20 12 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 767 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 318 (4.54%) Docker
3 256 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 228 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.90%) Terminal Server
6 50 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (0.50%) Firmware
8 33 (0.47%) vSphere
9 30 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 14 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.100%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.100%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.100%) XenApp
14 5 (0.071%) ClearTrust
15 4 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 321 (4.59%) Terraform
2 273 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 261 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 155 (2.21%) Ansible
5 97 (1.39%) Grafana
6 79 (1.13%) SCCM
7 59 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 29 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.27%) Kibana
12 17 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 14 (0.20%) Autotask
14 13 (0.19%) Puppet
14 13 (0.19%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.17%) Kubeflow
15 12 (0.17%) logstash
16 11 (0.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,961 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 331 (4.73%) VMware
3 187 (2.67%) Oracle
4 178 (2.54%) Google
5 163 (2.33%) SAP
6 154 (2.20%) Cisco
7 149 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 130 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 126 (1.80%) SolarWinds
10 121 (1.73%) Veeam
11 115 (1.64%) Splunk
12 108 (1.54%) Databricks
13 80 (1.14%) Apple
14 67 (0.96%) Tanium
15 64 (0.91%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.90%) Adobe
16 63 (0.90%) Brocade
17 57 (0.81%) Dell
18 55 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 55 (0.79%) Sage