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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,441 8,283 11,550
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.35% 19.14% 14.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.31% 21.28% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,313 4,726 6,740
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,132 £33,912
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,200 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -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 65,772 38,931 65,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 89.97% 81.95%
Number of salaries quoted 46,496 22,437 45,318
10th Percentile £31,037 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 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 24 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 2,068 £67,500 +3.85% 1,394
North of England -10 1,508 £45,000 +5.88% 682
South East -3 1,423 £45,000 +5.88% 812
Midlands -8 1,077 £42,000 +5.00% 443
North West -7 789 £45,000 - 355
South West -6 719 £44,000 +17.33% 333
West Midlands -9 603 £42,500 -5.56% 252
East of England -6 562 £42,500 +21.43% 287
Yorkshire -10 519 £42,500 +21.43% 227
East Midlands -10 470 £35,220 -0.79% 191
North East -15 200 £51,500 +35.53% 108
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
1 416 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 414 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 85 (1.14%) Confluence
4 66 (0.89%) CMS
5 53 (0.71%) Apache
6 40 (0.54%) IIS
7 39 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 33 (0.44%) WordPress
9 19 (0.26%) SAS
10 14 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.15%) nginx
11 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.094%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.094%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 473 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 435 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 42 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
5 29 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.12%) Simulink
8 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
8 9 (0.12%) Trello
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.067%) Fusion 360
10 5 (0.067%) Lightworks
10 5 (0.067%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.040%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.040%) Civil 3D
11 3 (0.040%) LaTeX
11 3 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 84 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 48 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 19 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.26%) Shopify
5 17 (0.23%) Magento
6 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 12 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 12 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 11 (0.15%) SAP Business One
10 10 (0.13%) iTrent
10 10 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 9 (0.12%) Maximo
12 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
12 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 7 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
13 7 (0.094%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,585 (21.30%) Azure
2 1,218 (16.37%) Microsoft 365
3 942 (12.66%) AWS
4 606 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 355 (4.77%) SaaS
6 352 (4.73%) Entra ID
7 334 (4.49%) GCP
8 181 (2.43%) Serverless
9 167 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 167 (2.24%) GitHub
10 157 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
11 150 (2.02%) Power Automate
12 135 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 103 (1.38%) OneDrive
14 95 (1.28%) Amazon S3
15 92 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
16 86 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
17 83 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
18 74 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
19 73 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 483 (6.49%) Firewall
2 436 (5.86%) DNS
3 372 (5.00%) DHCP
4 290 (3.90%) VPN
5 257 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 226 (3.04%) WAN
7 216 (2.90%) LAN
8 203 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
9 170 (2.28%) Broadband
10 160 (2.15%) Wireless
11 149 (2.00%) VLAN
12 126 (1.69%) Network Security
13 102 (1.37%) VoIP
14 48 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 45 (0.60%) Internet
16 44 (0.59%) HTTP
17 41 (0.55%) BGP
17 41 (0.55%) OSPF
18 39 (0.52%) SAN
19 33 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (6.38%) Power BI
2 355 (4.77%) SQL Server
3 145 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 116 (1.56%) MySQL
6 113 (1.52%) Tableau
7 110 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 106 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 105 (1.41%) NoSQL
10 96 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 86 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 57 (0.77%) Big Data
14 56 (0.75%) Power Query
15 51 (0.69%) Data Lake
16 48 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (0.52%) DynamoDB
18 36 (0.48%) Metadata
19 35 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
20 28 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 310 (4.17%) Git
2 247 (3.32%) JIRA
3 115 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.51%) GitLab
5 33 (0.44%) Selenium
6 29 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 27 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 25 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 25 (0.34%) Subversion
9 24 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.32%) JUnit
10 23 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 22 (0.30%) Postman
11 22 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.17%) Maven
16 12 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,578 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 2,176 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
3 1,441 (19.37%) Finance
4 481 (6.46%) Manufacturing
5 460 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
6 391 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 390 (5.24%) Law
8 347 (4.66%) Retail
9 316 (4.25%) Marketing
10 291 (3.91%) Legal
11 282 (3.79%) Banking
11 282 (3.79%) Public Sector
12 180 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 156 (2.10%) Electronics
14 136 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 136 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
15 112 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
16 111 (1.49%) Aerospace
17 97 (1.30%) Advertising
18 91 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 982 (13.20%) Analyst
2 884 (11.88%) Senior
3 744 (10.00%) Developer
4 712 (9.57%) IT Support
5 577 (7.75%) Support Engineer
6 446 (5.99%) Lead
7 408 (5.48%) IT Engineer
8 349 (4.69%) Consultant
9 313 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 296 (3.98%) Support Analyst
11 270 (3.63%) Software Engineer
12 262 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
13 254 (3.41%) Support Technician
14 250 (3.36%) Architect
15 224 (3.01%) Technical Support
16 205 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 189 (2.54%) Data Engineer
18 188 (2.53%) Technical Engineer
19 169 (2.27%) Technical Support Engineer
20 167 (2.24%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (4.21%) .NET
2 285 (3.83%) React
3 234 (3.14%) HTML
4 229 (3.08%) REST
5 186 (2.50%) CSS
6 155 (2.08%) RESTful
7 151 (2.03%) Node.js
8 111 (1.49%) SOAP
9 96 (1.29%) Spring
10 93 (1.25%) JSON
11 91 (1.22%) Middleware
12 90 (1.21%) AngularJS
13 87 (1.17%) Vue
14 82 (1.10%) Kafka
15 73 (0.98%) XML
16 71 (0.95%) Web Services
17 68 (0.91%) OAuth
18 65 (0.87%) ASP.NET
19 60 (0.81%) Spring Boot
20 56 (0.75%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 453 (6.09%) Driving Licence
2 443 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 371 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
4 286 (3.84%) Management Information System
5 283 (3.80%) Cloud Native
6 206 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 178 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 176 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 175 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 126 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 108 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 107 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 97 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 84 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 79 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 79 (1.06%) Social Media
16 76 (1.02%) IoT
17 73 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 71 (0.95%) Public Cloud
19 68 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,187 (15.95%) Windows
2 536 (7.20%) Linux
3 518 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 170 (2.28%) Windows 10
5 130 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (1.51%) Android
7 97 (1.30%) Mac OS
8 95 (1.28%) Apple iOS
9 49 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (0.62%) Unix
11 37 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.43%) Ubuntu
13 27 (0.36%) VMS
14 25 (0.34%) CentOS
15 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
15 15 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
16 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.17%) Debian
18 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 8 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,665 (22.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,183 (15.90%) Agile
3 1,113 (14.96%) Customer Service
4 895 (12.03%) AI
5 844 (11.34%) CI/CD
6 808 (10.86%) Decision-Making
7 802 (10.78%) Mentoring
8 716 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 698 (9.38%) DevOps
10 685 (9.21%) Analytics
11 678 (9.11%) Software Engineering
12 642 (8.63%) ITIL
13 598 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
14 574 (7.71%) Roadmaps
15 549 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
16 527 (7.08%) Computer Science
17 516 (6.93%) Project Management
18 485 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
18 485 (6.52%) Project Delivery
19 466 (6.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (15.83%) SQL
2 1,101 (14.80%) Python
3 509 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 410 (5.51%) C#
5 382 (5.13%) Java
6 333 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 228 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 202 (2.71%) C++
9 167 (2.24%) Bash
10 93 (1.25%) Go
10 93 (1.25%) PHP
11 73 (0.98%) C
12 65 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 64 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 59 (0.79%) Scala
15 43 (0.58%) Rust
16 42 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 42 (0.56%) R
17 36 (0.48%) Perl
18 35 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,190 (15.99%) Degree
2 641 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 449 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 270 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 207 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 139 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 131 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 126 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 123 (1.65%) CISSP
11 104 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 92 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 83 (1.12%) PMI Certification
14 77 (1.03%) CCNA
15 76 (1.02%) PMP
16 74 (0.99%) CCNP
17 70 (0.94%) ACCA
18 65 (0.87%) CIMA
19 64 (0.86%) CISM
19 64 (0.86%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (5.48%) QA
2 361 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 301 (4.05%) GDPR
4 222 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
5 215 (2.89%) SLA
6 192 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 192 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 169 (2.27%) PCI DSS
8 150 (2.02%) NIST
9 60 (0.81%) PMO
10 56 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 36 (0.48%) ISO 9001
12 35 (0.47%) GRC
13 32 (0.43%) SOC 2
14 24 (0.32%) GMP
15 23 (0.31%) COBIT
16 18 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
16 18 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 802 (10.78%) Active Directory
2 359 (4.82%) Docker
3 279 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 240 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.13%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.58%) Firmware
8 33 (0.44%) vSphere
9 32 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
12 13 (0.17%) KVM
13 10 (0.13%) IAG
14 7 (0.094%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.094%) XenApp
15 6 (0.081%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.067%) ClearTrust
16 5 (0.067%) Squid
17 4 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
18 3 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 337 (4.53%) Terraform
2 303 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 285 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 151 (2.03%) Ansible
5 104 (1.40%) Grafana
6 82 (1.10%) SCCM
7 65 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (0.40%) Nagios
10 24 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 21 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.23%) Puppet
13 15 (0.20%) Argo
13 15 (0.20%) Autotask
14 13 (0.17%) Kibana
15 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.15%) logstash
16 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,159 (29.01%) Microsoft
2 362 (4.86%) VMware
3 194 (2.61%) Oracle
4 185 (2.49%) Google
4 185 (2.49%) SAP
5 166 (2.23%) Cisco
6 153 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 148 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 142 (1.91%) Veeam
9 141 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 134 (1.80%) Splunk
11 116 (1.56%) Databricks
12 92 (1.24%) Tanium
13 85 (1.14%) Nimble Storage
14 84 (1.13%) Brocade
15 81 (1.09%) Apple
16 63 (0.85%) Dell
17 62 (0.83%) Sage
18 53 (0.71%) Fortinet
19 52 (0.70%) Red Hat