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

6 months to
23 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 6,912 7,967 13,739
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.20% 19.90% 14.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.18% 21.55% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,941 4,514 8,560
10th Percentile £27,300 £26,500 £25,863
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,302
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -10.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,793
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.47% -11.29%

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 61,814 36,977 77,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.36% 92.34% 81.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43,548 20,347 56,521
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,440
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% -9.41%

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 23 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 23 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 1,967 £70,000 +7.69% 796
North of England -8 1,426 £42,500 -1.16% 564
South East -5 1,293 £45,000 +5.88% 732
Midlands -8 982 £42,000 -1.18% 404
North West -7 737 £45,000 -2.70% 311
South West -6 625 £44,000 +17.33% 251
West Midlands -9 563 £42,500 -5.56% 220
East of England -3 540 £45,000 +28.57% 226
Yorkshire -11 511 £40,500 +15.71% 183
East Midlands -7 416 £35,000 -4.11% 184
North East -12 178 £48,500 +21.25% 86
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
1 378 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 374 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.17%) Confluence
4 64 (0.93%) CMS
5 54 (0.78%) Apache
6 41 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 35 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.49%) IIS
9 31 (0.45%) WordPress
10 17 (0.25%) SAS
11 15 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.087%) Drupal
16 6 (0.087%) nginx
Applications
1 427 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 374 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 34 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.45%) 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 (0.072%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.072%) 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 72 (1.04%) 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 17 (0.25%) 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 (0.14%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
11 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,509 (21.83%) Azure
2 1,112 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
3 894 (12.93%) AWS
4 529 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 326 (4.72%) SaaS
6 313 (4.53%) Entra ID
7 309 (4.47%) GCP
8 176 (2.55%) Serverless
9 164 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (2.17%) GitHub
11 138 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 128 (1.85%) Power Automate
13 108 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 92 (1.33%) OneDrive
15 89 (1.29%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.10%) Google Workspace
17 73 (1.06%) PaaS
18 72 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
19 70 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
19 70 (1.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 465 (6.73%) Firewall
2 405 (5.86%) DNS
3 350 (5.06%) DHCP
4 291 (4.21%) VPN
5 236 (3.41%) WAN
6 223 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 216 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
8 211 (3.05%) LAN
9 184 (2.66%) Broadband
10 143 (2.07%) VLAN
11 135 (1.95%) Wireless
12 106 (1.53%) VoIP
13 104 (1.50%) Network Security
14 62 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 52 (0.75%) Internet
16 48 (0.69%) BGP
17 46 (0.67%) OSPF
18 43 (0.62%) SAN
19 37 (0.54%) HTTP
20 30 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (6.12%) Power BI
2 304 (4.40%) SQL Server
3 134 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 106 (1.53%) Tableau
6 101 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 98 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 97 (1.40%) MySQL
9 91 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 79 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 69 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (0.81%) MongoDB
12 56 (0.81%) Power Query
13 51 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (0.72%) Big Data
15 43 (0.62%) Data Lake
16 40 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
17 39 (0.56%) DynamoDB
17 39 (0.56%) Metadata
18 30 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (4.17%) Git
2 210 (3.04%) JIRA
3 99 (1.43%) GitLab
3 99 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
5 24 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 24 (0.35%) Selenium
6 21 (0.30%) JUnit
7 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 19 (0.27%) Subversion
8 19 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 17 (0.25%) Burp Suite
10 17 (0.25%) Maven
10 17 (0.25%) Metasploit
11 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 3,243 (46.92%) Social Skills
2 1,991 (28.80%) Analytical Skills
3 1,360 (19.68%) Finance
4 434 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
5 409 (5.92%) Manufacturing
6 369 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 330 (4.77%) Law
8 315 (4.56%) Retail
9 303 (4.38%) Marketing
10 284 (4.11%) Legal
11 274 (3.96%) Public Sector
12 270 (3.91%) Banking
13 157 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 142 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 133 (1.92%) Electronics
16 129 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 113 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
18 94 (1.36%) Aerospace
19 91 (1.32%) Advertising
20 82 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 902 (13.05%) Analyst
2 844 (12.21%) Senior
3 703 (10.17%) IT Support
4 671 (9.71%) Developer
5 598 (8.65%) Support Engineer
6 421 (6.09%) IT Engineer
7 420 (6.08%) Lead
8 329 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
9 302 (4.37%) Consultant
10 250 (3.62%) Support Analyst
11 247 (3.57%) Support Technician
12 243 (3.52%) Software Engineer
13 236 (3.41%) Architect
14 230 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
15 200 (2.89%) Technical Support
16 191 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 181 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 162 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support
19 161 (2.33%) Administrator
19 161 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (4.07%) .NET
2 270 (3.91%) React
3 215 (3.11%) HTML
4 197 (2.85%) REST
5 179 (2.59%) CSS
6 147 (2.13%) Node.js
7 139 (2.01%) RESTful
8 105 (1.52%) SOAP
9 99 (1.43%) Middleware
10 90 (1.30%) JSON
11 83 (1.20%) Spring
12 82 (1.19%) Vue
13 75 (1.09%) AngularJS
14 70 (1.01%) XML
15 66 (0.95%) Kafka
16 65 (0.94%) Web Services
17 63 (0.91%) OAuth
18 55 (0.80%) gRPC
19 52 (0.75%) Spring Boot
20 51 (0.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 423 (6.12%) Driving Licence
2 391 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 330 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
4 257 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 257 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 192 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 171 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 159 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 149 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 119 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 101 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 100 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 89 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 85 (1.23%) Social Media
14 81 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 75 (1.09%) Algorithms
16 70 (1.01%) Low-Code
17 68 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 65 (0.94%) Virtual Team
19 61 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,112 (16.09%) Windows
2 482 (6.97%) Windows Server
3 464 (6.71%) Linux
4 173 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 123 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 111 (1.61%) Android
7 90 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 90 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 64 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 45 (0.65%) Unix
10 41 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 31 (0.45%) CentOS
11 31 (0.45%) Ubuntu
12 28 (0.41%) VMS
13 27 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
16 12 (0.17%) Debian
17 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.087%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,426 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,095 (15.84%) Agile
3 1,007 (14.57%) Customer Service
4 773 (11.18%) Mentoring
5 763 (11.04%) AI
6 754 (10.91%) CI/CD
7 733 (10.60%) Decision-Making
8 650 (9.40%) Analytics
9 641 (9.27%) DevOps
10 613 (8.87%) Software Engineering
11 588 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 564 (8.16%) ITIL
13 545 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
14 540 (7.81%) Roadmaps
15 529 (7.65%) Computer Science
16 490 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
17 484 (7.00%) Project Management
18 451 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
19 440 (6.37%) Coaching
20 419 (6.06%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,069 (15.47%) SQL
2 1,054 (15.25%) Python
3 471 (6.81%) JavaScript
4 365 (5.28%) C#
5 351 (5.08%) Java
6 327 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 215 (3.11%) TypeScript
8 171 (2.47%) Bash
9 154 (2.23%) C++
10 94 (1.36%) PHP
11 88 (1.27%) Go
12 62 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 61 (0.88%) C
14 58 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.81%) Scala
16 45 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 42 (0.61%) Rust
18 41 (0.59%) R
19 38 (0.55%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.49%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,118 (16.17%) Degree
2 559 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 379 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 271 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 227 (3.28%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 127 (1.84%) CISSP
8 122 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 116 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 110 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 106 (1.53%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 80 (1.16%) PMI Certification
14 76 (1.10%) CCNA
15 72 (1.04%) A+ Certification
15 72 (1.04%) ACCA
15 72 (1.04%) PMP
16 67 (0.97%) CIMA
17 61 (0.88%) CISM
18 60 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (5.48%) QA
2 331 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 282 (4.08%) GDPR
4 200 (2.89%) SLA
5 199 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 184 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 163 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 150 (2.17%) NIST
9 144 (2.08%) PCI DSS
10 55 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.64%) PMO
12 36 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 32 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 31 (0.45%) GRC
15 28 (0.41%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 18 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 15 (0.22%) IFRS
20 12 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 762 (11.02%) Active Directory
2 312 (4.51%) Docker
3 252 (3.65%) Hyper-V
4 223 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.91%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.49%) Firmware
8 29 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (0.41%) vSphere
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) 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 (0.072%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 309 (4.47%) Terraform
2 267 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 260 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (2.20%) Ansible
5 96 (1.39%) Grafana
6 81 (1.17%) SCCM
7 58 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 29 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 20 (0.29%) Kibana
12 17 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 14 (0.20%) Autotask
13 14 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 12 (0.17%) logstash
14 12 (0.17%) Puppet
15 11 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,919 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 328 (4.75%) VMware
3 183 (2.65%) Oracle
4 176 (2.55%) Google
5 164 (2.37%) SAP
6 153 (2.21%) Cisco
7 147 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 129 (1.87%) SolarWinds
9 127 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 122 (1.77%) Veeam
11 117 (1.69%) Splunk
12 105 (1.52%) Databricks
13 80 (1.16%) Apple
14 66 (0.95%) Tanium
15 64 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.91%) Adobe
16 63 (0.91%) Brocade
17 58 (0.84%) Dell
18 53 (0.77%) Red Hat
18 53 (0.77%) Sage