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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,698 7,876 13,639
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.13% 20.03% 14.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.14% 21.60% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,763 4,418 8,568
10th Percentile £27,400 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,669
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.67% -9.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -10.91%

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 60,140 36,455 77,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.96% 92.71% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42,197 19,854 56,054
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 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 12 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 1,970 £70,000 +7.69% 757
North of England -8 1,377 £42,500 -4.49% 589
South East -5 1,221 £45,000 +5.88% 718
Midlands -8 941 £40,000 -11.11% 404
North West -5 706 £45,000 -3.23% 335
South West -6 596 £43,500 +8.75% 292
West Midlands -9 537 £42,500 -10.53% 239
East of England -3 508 £45,000 +28.57% 268
Yorkshire -11 507 £40,500 +15.71% 186
East Midlands -9 401 £35,000 -6.67% 167
North East -13 164 £48,472 +21.18% 79
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
1 360 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 356 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.16%) Confluence
4 64 (0.96%) CMS
5 52 (0.78%) Apache
6 40 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.51%) IIS
8 33 (0.49%) Apache Spark
9 29 (0.43%) WordPress
10 16 (0.24%) SAS
11 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.10%) nginx
15 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.090%) Drupal
16 6 (0.090%) Moodle
17 5 (0.075%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 406 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 360 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 37 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.10%) Fusion 360
10 7 (0.10%) Trello
11 5 (0.075%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.075%) Simulink
12 3 (0.045%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.045%) Blender
12 3 (0.045%) Maya
13 2 (0.030%) Lightworks
13 2 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 68 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.30%) Shopify
6 16 (0.24%) Magento
7 15 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.18%) iTrent
10 11 (0.16%) Maximo
10 11 (0.16%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 8 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
13 7 (0.10%) Endur
13 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
13 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,447 (21.60%) Azure
2 1,055 (15.75%) Microsoft 365
3 860 (12.84%) AWS
4 499 (7.45%) Power Platform
5 322 (4.81%) SaaS
6 294 (4.39%) GCP
7 293 (4.37%) Entra ID
8 175 (2.61%) Serverless
9 163 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 143 (2.13%) GitHub
11 138 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 118 (1.76%) Power Automate
13 98 (1.46%) PowerApps
14 89 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 86 (1.28%) OneDrive
16 81 (1.21%) Google Workspace
17 74 (1.10%) PaaS
18 70 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
18 70 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
19 69 (1.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 434 (6.48%) Firewall
2 395 (5.90%) DNS
3 335 (5.00%) DHCP
4 273 (4.08%) VPN
5 229 (3.42%) WAN
6 205 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
7 204 (3.05%) TCP/IP
8 202 (3.02%) LAN
9 178 (2.66%) Broadband
10 134 (2.00%) VLAN
11 129 (1.93%) Wireless
12 107 (1.60%) VoIP
13 91 (1.36%) Network Security
14 66 (0.99%) SD-WAN
15 47 (0.70%) BGP
15 47 (0.70%) SAN
16 46 (0.69%) Internet
17 45 (0.67%) OSPF
18 33 (0.49%) HTTP
19 31 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (5.91%) Power BI
2 289 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 127 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 110 (1.64%) Tableau
5 97 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 95 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 89 (1.33%) MySQL
8 85 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 76 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 66 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 55 (0.82%) Big Data
11 55 (0.82%) Power Query
12 54 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 42 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (0.60%) Metadata
15 38 (0.57%) Data Lake
16 37 (0.55%) DynamoDB
17 23 (0.34%) Db2
Development Applications
1 280 (4.18%) Git
2 208 (3.11%) JIRA
3 97 (1.45%) GitLab
4 96 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.37%) Selenium
7 21 (0.31%) JUnit
8 19 (0.28%) Chocolatey
8 19 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 18 (0.27%) Maven
9 18 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 16 (0.24%) Metasploit
10 16 (0.24%) Subversion
11 14 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 14 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 13 (0.19%) Eclipse
12 13 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 3,122 (46.61%) Social Skills
2 1,973 (29.46%) Analytical Skills
3 1,349 (20.14%) Finance
4 425 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
5 368 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 367 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 332 (4.96%) Law
8 318 (4.75%) Marketing
9 294 (4.39%) Retail
10 282 (4.21%) Legal
11 270 (4.03%) Public Sector
12 266 (3.97%) Banking
13 161 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 137 (2.05%) Electronics
15 136 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
16 121 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
17 107 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
18 87 (1.30%) Advertising
18 87 (1.30%) Aerospace
19 74 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 879 (13.12%) Analyst
2 834 (12.45%) Senior
3 679 (10.14%) IT Support
4 639 (9.54%) Developer
5 578 (8.63%) Support Engineer
6 415 (6.20%) IT Engineer
7 407 (6.08%) Lead
8 324 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
9 294 (4.39%) Consultant
10 240 (3.58%) Support Analyst
11 237 (3.54%) Architect
11 237 (3.54%) Support Technician
12 229 (3.42%) Software Engineer
13 224 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
14 185 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 180 (2.69%) IT Technician
16 177 (2.64%) Technical Support
17 162 (2.42%) 2nd Line Support
17 162 (2.42%) Senior Developer
18 159 (2.37%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (4.02%) .NET
2 259 (3.87%) React
3 212 (3.17%) HTML
4 182 (2.72%) REST
5 180 (2.69%) CSS
6 142 (2.12%) Node.js
7 128 (1.91%) RESTful
8 98 (1.46%) SOAP
9 88 (1.31%) Middleware
10 85 (1.27%) JSON
11 82 (1.22%) Spring
12 74 (1.10%) Vue
13 71 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 69 (1.03%) XML
15 64 (0.96%) Kafka
16 62 (0.93%) OAuth
17 61 (0.91%) Web Services
18 56 (0.84%) gRPC
19 51 (0.76%) Spring Boot
20 49 (0.73%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 401 (5.99%) Driving Licence
2 387 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 309 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
4 255 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 231 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 189 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 169 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 157 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 143 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 121 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 97 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 87 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 87 (1.30%) Social Media
13 85 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 82 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
15 74 (1.10%) Algorithms
16 71 (1.06%) Low-Code
17 64 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 63 (0.94%) Public Cloud
19 61 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,049 (15.66%) Windows
2 451 (6.73%) Windows Server
3 437 (6.52%) Linux
4 164 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 122 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 104 (1.55%) Android
7 86 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 84 (1.25%) Mac OS
9 66 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.66%) Unix
11 41 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.48%) CentOS
13 30 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 24 (0.36%) VMS
15 14 (0.21%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.19%) Windows 7
17 11 (0.16%) Debian
18 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
18 7 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,323 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,060 (15.83%) Agile
3 966 (14.42%) Customer Service
4 743 (11.09%) AI
5 741 (11.06%) Mentoring
6 719 (10.73%) CI/CD
6 719 (10.73%) Decision-Making
7 645 (9.63%) Analytics
8 623 (9.30%) DevOps
9 580 (8.66%) Software Engineering
10 560 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 544 (8.12%) ITIL
12 529 (7.90%) Roadmaps
13 514 (7.67%) Computer Science
14 493 (7.36%) Project Management
15 483 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
16 465 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
17 445 (6.64%) Coaching
18 439 (6.55%) Collaborative Working
19 385 (5.75%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (15.30%) Python
2 1,006 (15.02%) SQL
3 449 (6.70%) JavaScript
4 345 (5.15%) Java
5 337 (5.03%) C#
6 303 (4.52%) PowerShell
7 203 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 154 (2.30%) Bash
9 136 (2.03%) C++
10 92 (1.37%) PHP
11 88 (1.31%) Go
12 62 (0.93%) Scala
13 59 (0.88%) C
13 59 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 50 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 47 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 45 (0.67%) R
17 41 (0.61%) Rust
18 37 (0.55%) Kotlin
19 35 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,115 (16.65%) Degree
2 524 (7.82%) Security Cleared
3 362 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 258 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 223 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 187 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 121 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
8 119 (1.78%) CISSP
9 113 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 110 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 93 (1.39%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.21%) PMI Certification
14 77 (1.15%) CCNA
15 75 (1.12%) A+ Certification
16 71 (1.06%) PMP
17 68 (1.02%) ACCA
18 63 (0.94%) CIMA
19 57 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
19 57 (0.85%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (5.39%) QA
2 322 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 273 (4.08%) GDPR
4 197 (2.94%) SLA
5 186 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 169 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 157 (2.34%) Accessibility
8 147 (2.19%) NIST
9 138 (2.06%) PCI DSS
10 50 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.66%) PMO
12 35 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 28 (0.42%) GRC
13 28 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 26 (0.39%) COBIT
15 22 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.27%) GMP
17 15 (0.22%) IFRS
17 15 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.18%) TickIT
System Software
1 718 (10.72%) Active Directory
2 288 (4.30%) Docker
3 237 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 211 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.94%) Terminal Server
6 45 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.51%) Firmware
8 25 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 24 (0.36%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) KVM
10 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.15%) IAG
12 7 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.10%) XenApp
13 6 (0.090%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.060%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.045%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 298 (4.45%) Terraform
2 253 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 247 (3.69%) Kubernetes
4 144 (2.15%) Ansible
5 90 (1.34%) Grafana
6 80 (1.19%) SCCM
7 56 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 36 (0.54%) Nagios
9 32 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (0.27%) Kibana
12 17 (0.25%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 14 (0.21%) Autotask
14 14 (0.21%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.18%) Puppet
16 11 (0.16%) Argo
16 11 (0.16%) Kubeflow
16 11 (0.16%) Nessus
17 10 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,801 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 312 (4.66%) VMware
3 187 (2.79%) Oracle
4 172 (2.57%) Google
5 156 (2.33%) SAP
6 155 (2.31%) Cisco
7 139 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 132 (1.97%) SolarWinds
9 125 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 122 (1.82%) Veeam
11 119 (1.78%) Splunk
12 105 (1.57%) Databricks
13 82 (1.22%) Apple
14 65 (0.97%) Tanium
15 64 (0.96%) Adobe
15 64 (0.96%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.94%) Brocade
17 57 (0.85%) Dell
18 52 (0.78%) Meraki
18 52 (0.78%) Red Hat