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

6 months to
24 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 6,942 7,981 13,670
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.21% 19.91% 14.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 21.56% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,972 4,522 8,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
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 £87,500 £84,964
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 62,060 37,011 77,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.39% 92.32% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 43,762 20,363 56,096
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,444
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 £78,250 £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% -9.54%

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 24 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 24 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 1,972 £70,000 +7.69% 887
North of England -8 1,433 £42,500 -1.16% 586
South East -5 1,306 £45,000 +5.88% 733
Midlands -8 980 £42,000 -1.18% 423
North West -7 747 £45,000 -2.17% 326
South West -6 628 £44,000 +17.33% 264
West Midlands -9 563 £42,500 -5.56% 234
East of England -3 544 £45,000 +28.57% 237
Yorkshire -12 508 £40,500 +15.71% 193
East Midlands -9 414 £35,000 -4.11% 189
North East -11 178 £48,500 +21.25% 84
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
1 379 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 376 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.15%) Confluence
4 64 (0.92%) CMS
5 52 (0.75%) Apache
6 40 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 35 (0.50%) IIS
9 31 (0.45%) WordPress
10 17 (0.24%) 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 (0.086%) Moodle
16 6 (0.086%) nginx
Applications
1 431 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
2 376 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.48%) 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 73 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.23%) Magento
5 16 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.20%) iTrent
6 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 11 (0.16%) Maximo
8 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
11 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
11 7 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1,513 (21.79%) Azure
2 1,115 (16.06%) Microsoft 365
3 895 (12.89%) AWS
4 531 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 329 (4.74%) SaaS
6 313 (4.51%) Entra ID
7 309 (4.45%) GCP
8 178 (2.56%) Serverless
9 162 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (2.16%) GitHub
11 141 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
12 127 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 108 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 93 (1.34%) OneDrive
15 92 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 76 (1.09%) Google Workspace
17 74 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
17 74 (1.07%) PaaS
18 71 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
19 70 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 466 (6.71%) Firewall
2 407 (5.86%) DNS
3 353 (5.08%) DHCP
4 294 (4.24%) VPN
5 236 (3.40%) WAN
6 226 (3.26%) TCP/IP
7 217 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
8 212 (3.05%) LAN
9 184 (2.65%) Broadband
10 143 (2.06%) VLAN
11 136 (1.96%) Wireless
12 107 (1.54%) VoIP
13 104 (1.50%) Network Security
14 61 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 51 (0.73%) Internet
16 48 (0.69%) BGP
17 46 (0.66%) OSPF
18 42 (0.61%) SAN
19 37 (0.53%) HTTP
20 30 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (6.11%) Power BI
2 305 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 133 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (1.53%) Tableau
5 105 (1.51%) NoSQL
6 103 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 98 (1.41%) MySQL
7 98 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 92 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 80 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 71 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 56 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 56 (0.81%) Power Query
12 52 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
13 50 (0.72%) Big Data
14 43 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 40 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (0.52%) DynamoDB
16 36 (0.52%) Metadata
17 30 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 287 (4.13%) Git
2 209 (3.01%) JIRA
3 99 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 98 (1.41%) GitLab
5 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 24 (0.35%) Selenium
7 21 (0.30%) JUnit
8 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 19 (0.27%) Subversion
10 18 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 18 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 17 (0.24%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.24%) Maven
12 16 (0.23%) Burp Suite
12 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.23%) Metasploit
12 16 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,265 (47.03%) Social Skills
2 1,996 (28.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1,360 (19.59%) Finance
4 434 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 411 (5.92%) Manufacturing
6 373 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 331 (4.77%) Law
8 318 (4.58%) Retail
9 303 (4.36%) Marketing
10 284 (4.09%) Legal
11 276 (3.98%) Public Sector
12 271 (3.90%) Banking
13 156 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 141 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 131 (1.89%) Electronics
16 128 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
17 114 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
18 94 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 90 (1.30%) Advertising
20 83 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 904 (13.02%) Analyst
2 845 (12.17%) Senior
3 706 (10.17%) IT Support
4 671 (9.67%) Developer
5 599 (8.63%) Support Engineer
6 424 (6.11%) Lead
7 422 (6.08%) IT Engineer
8 330 (4.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 305 (4.39%) Consultant
10 251 (3.62%) Support Analyst
11 248 (3.57%) Support Technician
12 245 (3.53%) Software Engineer
13 233 (3.36%) Architect
14 230 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
15 202 (2.91%) Technical Support
16 192 (2.77%) IT Technician
17 180 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 165 (2.38%) Administrator
19 164 (2.36%) Data Engineer
20 162 (2.33%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (4.06%) .NET
2 272 (3.92%) React
3 217 (3.13%) HTML
4 195 (2.81%) REST
5 180 (2.59%) CSS
6 148 (2.13%) Node.js
7 141 (2.03%) RESTful
8 105 (1.51%) SOAP
9 100 (1.44%) Middleware
10 89 (1.28%) JSON
11 84 (1.21%) Spring
12 83 (1.20%) Vue
13 78 (1.12%) AngularJS
14 71 (1.02%) XML
15 66 (0.95%) Kafka
15 66 (0.95%) Web Services
16 62 (0.89%) OAuth
17 55 (0.79%) gRPC
18 53 (0.76%) Spring Boot
19 50 (0.72%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 423 (6.09%) Driving Licence
2 395 (5.69%) Onboarding
3 332 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 259 (3.73%) Cloud Native
5 255 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 191 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 171 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 160 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
9 148 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
10 119 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 101 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 100 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 87 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 84 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 83 (1.20%) Social Media
16 76 (1.09%) Algorithms
17 70 (1.01%) Low-Code
18 69 (0.99%) Public Cloud
19 64 (0.92%) Virtual Team
20 61 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,115 (16.06%) Windows
2 485 (6.99%) Windows Server
3 465 (6.70%) Linux
4 173 (2.49%) Windows 10
5 123 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 111 (1.60%) Android
7 91 (1.31%) Mac OS
8 90 (1.30%) Apple iOS
9 64 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.63%) Unix
11 41 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.45%) CentOS
12 31 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.42%) VMS
14 27 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
17 12 (0.17%) Debian
18 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
19 6 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,438 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,100 (15.85%) Agile
3 1,018 (14.66%) Customer Service
4 781 (11.25%) Mentoring
5 768 (11.06%) AI
6 757 (10.90%) CI/CD
7 741 (10.67%) Decision-Making
8 653 (9.41%) Analytics
9 641 (9.23%) DevOps
10 618 (8.90%) Software Engineering
11 596 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 570 (8.21%) ITIL
13 547 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
14 544 (7.84%) Roadmaps
15 527 (7.59%) Computer Science
16 492 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
17 485 (6.99%) Project Management
18 452 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
19 440 (6.34%) Coaching
20 420 (6.05%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (15.49%) SQL
2 1,055 (15.20%) Python
3 473 (6.81%) JavaScript
4 368 (5.30%) C#
5 351 (5.06%) Java
6 327 (4.71%) PowerShell
7 215 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 172 (2.48%) Bash
9 155 (2.23%) C++
10 94 (1.35%) PHP
11 88 (1.27%) Go
12 62 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 61 (0.88%) C
14 58 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.81%) Scala
16 44 (0.63%) 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 1,115 (16.06%) Degree
2 559 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 378 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 269 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 227 (3.27%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 126 (1.82%) CISSP
8 121 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 117 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 111 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 107 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 80 (1.15%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.08%) 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 59 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 384 (5.53%) QA
2 332 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 288 (4.15%) GDPR
4 201 (2.90%) SLA
5 200 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 185 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 165 (2.38%) Accessibility
8 150 (2.16%) NIST
9 144 (2.07%) PCI DSS
10 55 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.63%) PMO
12 37 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 32 (0.46%) SOC 2
14 31 (0.45%) GRC
15 28 (0.40%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 17 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.22%) IFRS
19 13 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 764 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 313 (4.51%) Docker
3 255 (3.67%) Hyper-V
4 226 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.91%) Terminal Server
6 50 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 34 (0.49%) Firmware
8 30 (0.43%) vSphere
9 29 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
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 (0.086%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.072%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.043%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 311 (4.48%) Terraform
2 268 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 260 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 152 (2.19%) Ansible
5 97 (1.40%) Grafana
6 80 (1.15%) SCCM
7 58 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 31 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 20 (0.29%) 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
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 1,932 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 330 (4.75%) VMware
3 181 (2.61%) Oracle
4 177 (2.55%) Google
5 163 (2.35%) SAP
6 151 (2.18%) Cisco
7 147 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 129 (1.86%) SolarWinds
9 127 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 122 (1.76%) Veeam
11 116 (1.67%) Splunk
12 106 (1.53%) Databricks
13 79 (1.14%) Apple
14 66 (0.95%) Tanium
15 64 (0.92%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.91%) Adobe
16 63 (0.91%) Brocade
17 57 (0.82%) Dell
18 53 (0.76%) Red Hat
18 53 (0.76%) Sage