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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,254 8,249 13,192
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.36% 19.15% 14.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 21.13% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,210 4,696 8,197
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
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 £88,750 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -10.00%

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 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £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 £73,750
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% -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 9 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 9 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 2,020 £70,000 +7.69% 1,329
North of England -9 1,478 £45,000 +5.88% 750
South East -3 1,391 £45,000 +5.88% 815
Midlands -8 1,031 £42,000 +0.60% 454
North West -7 782 £45,000 -2.17% 384
South West -6 674 £44,000 +17.33% 364
West Midlands -9 585 £42,500 -5.56% 264
East of England -4 573 £44,250 +26.43% 271
Yorkshire -12 509 £42,500 +21.43% 246
East Midlands -10 443 £35,000 -4.11% 190
North East -14 187 £50,500 +26.25% 134
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
1 405 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 402 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 81 (1.12%) Confluence
4 66 (0.91%) CMS
5 55 (0.76%) Apache
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.52%) IIS
8 33 (0.45%) WordPress
9 18 (0.25%) SAS
10 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 10 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.11%) nginx
13 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
14 6 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 460 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
2 409 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 37 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.12%) Simulink
9 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.069%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.069%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.069%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Blender
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
12 3 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 80 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 43 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.28%) Shopify
6 16 (0.22%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 12 (0.17%) iTrent
9 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.15%) Elite 3E
10 10 (0.14%) Maximo
10 10 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 7 (0.096%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,579 (21.77%) Azure
2 1,185 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
3 933 (12.86%) AWS
4 570 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 338 (4.66%) Entra ID
5 338 (4.66%) SaaS
6 333 (4.59%) GCP
7 181 (2.50%) Serverless
8 164 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 157 (2.16%) GitHub
10 148 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 135 (1.86%) Power Automate
12 118 (1.63%) PowerApps
13 101 (1.39%) OneDrive
14 96 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 83 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
16 78 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 78 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
17 75 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
18 74 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 502 (6.92%) Firewall
2 438 (6.04%) DNS
3 374 (5.16%) DHCP
4 310 (4.27%) VPN
5 249 (3.43%) TCP/IP
6 236 (3.25%) WAN
7 220 (3.03%) LAN
7 220 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
8 173 (2.38%) Broadband
9 154 (2.12%) Wireless
10 149 (2.05%) VLAN
11 108 (1.49%) Network Security
12 105 (1.45%) VoIP
13 55 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 49 (0.68%) Internet
15 46 (0.63%) BGP
16 44 (0.61%) OSPF
17 40 (0.55%) HTTP
17 40 (0.55%) SAN
18 30 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (6.23%) Power BI
2 330 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 139 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 117 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 106 (1.46%) MySQL
5 106 (1.46%) Tableau
6 104 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 102 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 98 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 79 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 58 (0.80%) Power Query
12 55 (0.76%) MongoDB
13 51 (0.70%) Big Data
14 48 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (0.66%) Data Lake
15 36 (0.50%) DynamoDB
16 35 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 30 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
17 30 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 295 (4.07%) Git
2 223 (3.07%) JIRA
3 110 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 108 (1.49%) GitLab
5 29 (0.40%) Selenium
6 28 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 28 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
7 23 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.30%) Eclipse
8 22 (0.30%) JUnit
8 22 (0.30%) Subversion
9 19 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 18 (0.25%) SonarQube
11 17 (0.23%) Chocolatey
11 17 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.23%) Postman
12 15 (0.21%) Maven
13 14 (0.19%) CircleCI
13 14 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 12 (0.17%) Burp Suite
General
1 3,451 (47.57%) Social Skills
2 2,080 (28.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1,378 (19.00%) Finance
4 457 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
5 450 (6.20%) Manufacturing
6 379 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 347 (4.78%) Law
8 334 (4.60%) Retail
9 306 (4.22%) Marketing
10 288 (3.97%) Public Sector
11 282 (3.89%) Legal
12 273 (3.76%) Banking
13 165 (2.27%) Telecoms
14 147 (2.03%) Electronics
15 135 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
17 113 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
18 103 (1.42%) Aerospace
19 99 (1.36%) Advertising
20 84 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 948 (13.07%) Analyst
2 868 (11.97%) Senior
3 728 (10.04%) IT Support
4 696 (9.59%) Developer
5 610 (8.41%) Support Engineer
6 437 (6.02%) Lead
7 433 (5.97%) IT Engineer
8 332 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 324 (4.47%) Consultant
10 284 (3.92%) Support Analyst
11 264 (3.64%) Software Engineer
12 254 (3.50%) Support Technician
13 248 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
14 238 (3.28%) Architect
15 217 (2.99%) Technical Support
16 200 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 179 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 178 (2.45%) Technical Engineer
19 177 (2.44%) Data Engineer
20 169 (2.33%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (4.03%) .NET
2 280 (3.86%) React
3 219 (3.02%) HTML
4 210 (2.89%) REST
5 178 (2.45%) CSS
6 149 (2.05%) RESTful
7 148 (2.04%) Node.js
8 110 (1.52%) SOAP
9 101 (1.39%) Middleware
10 90 (1.24%) JSON
11 89 (1.23%) Spring
12 87 (1.20%) Vue
13 84 (1.16%) AngularJS
14 70 (0.96%) Kafka
14 70 (0.96%) XML
15 69 (0.95%) Web Services
16 63 (0.87%) OAuth
17 56 (0.77%) gRPC
17 56 (0.77%) Spring Boot
18 53 (0.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 448 (6.18%) Driving Licence
2 423 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 355 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
4 282 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 272 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 199 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 181 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 172 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 154 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 125 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 106 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 94 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 89 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 89 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 80 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 80 (1.10%) Social Media
15 72 (0.99%) IoT
16 70 (0.96%) Public Cloud
17 66 (0.91%) Low-Code
18 64 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,173 (16.17%) Windows
2 513 (7.07%) Windows Server
3 512 (7.06%) Linux
4 179 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 129 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (1.56%) Android
7 95 (1.31%) Mac OS
8 93 (1.28%) Apple iOS
9 60 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.61%) Unix
11 42 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.41%) CentOS
14 28 (0.39%) VMS
15 19 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
16 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
17 15 (0.21%) Debian
18 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
20 7 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,552 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,136 (15.66%) Agile
3 1,080 (14.89%) Customer Service
4 824 (11.36%) AI
5 813 (11.21%) CI/CD
6 805 (11.10%) Mentoring
7 770 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 685 (9.44%) Analytics
8 685 (9.44%) DevOps
9 657 (9.06%) Software Engineering
10 646 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 618 (8.52%) ITIL
12 582 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
13 560 (7.72%) Roadmaps
14 532 (7.33%) Computer Science
15 518 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
16 499 (6.88%) Project Management
17 481 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
18 445 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 441 (6.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (15.52%) SQL
2 1,103 (15.21%) Python
3 492 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 390 (5.38%) C#
5 372 (5.13%) Java
6 349 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 225 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 183 (2.52%) C++
9 176 (2.43%) Bash
10 94 (1.30%) Go
10 94 (1.30%) PHP
11 71 (0.98%) C
12 65 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 60 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 56 (0.77%) Scala
15 47 (0.65%) Rust
16 42 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 39 (0.54%) R
18 37 (0.51%) Kotlin
19 36 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,147 (15.81%) Degree
2 602 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 408 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 273 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 232 (3.20%) DBS Check
6 197 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 128 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 128 (1.76%) CISSP
8 125 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 116 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 109 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 81 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 75 (1.03%) CCNA
13 75 (1.03%) PMP
14 70 (0.96%) ACCA
15 66 (0.91%) A+ Certification
16 65 (0.90%) CCNP
16 65 (0.90%) CIMA
16 65 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (5.53%) QA
2 350 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 298 (4.11%) GDPR
4 212 (2.92%) SLA
5 210 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 196 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 174 (2.40%) Accessibility
8 159 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 154 (2.12%) NIST
10 58 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 34 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 33 (0.45%) GRC
15 28 (0.39%) COBIT
16 22 (0.30%) GMP
17 18 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 804 (11.08%) Active Directory
2 341 (4.70%) Docker
3 273 (3.76%) Hyper-V
4 240 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (0.96%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.57%) Firmware
8 35 (0.48%) vSphere
9 30 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 17 (0.23%) KVM
11 14 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 13 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
13 10 (0.14%) IAG
14 7 (0.096%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.096%) XenApp
15 5 (0.069%) ClearTrust
16 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 343 (4.73%) Terraform
2 300 (4.14%) Kubernetes
3 277 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 168 (2.32%) Ansible
5 106 (1.46%) Grafana
6 82 (1.13%) SCCM
7 64 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.47%) Nagios
9 30 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.23%) Kibana
13 15 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (0.21%) Argo
13 15 (0.21%) Autotask
13 15 (0.21%) Puppet
14 13 (0.18%) logstash
15 12 (0.17%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.17%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 2,073 (28.58%) Microsoft
2 350 (4.82%) VMware
3 183 (2.52%) Google
4 177 (2.44%) Oracle
5 168 (2.32%) SAP
6 156 (2.15%) Cisco
7 149 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 145 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 131 (1.81%) SolarWinds
10 130 (1.79%) Veeam
11 122 (1.68%) Splunk
12 106 (1.46%) Databricks
13 79 (1.09%) Apple
14 76 (1.05%) Tanium
15 71 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (0.96%) Brocade
17 62 (0.85%) Dell
18 57 (0.79%) Adobe
19 55 (0.76%) Red Hat
19 55 (0.76%) Sage