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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,278 8,280 12,897
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.31% 19.07% 14.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.24% 21.11% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,236 4,725 7,915
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,540 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -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 64,779 39,218 72,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.95% 90.32% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 45,743 22,382 52,059
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £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 13 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 13 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 2,007 £70,000 +7.69% 1,832
North of England -8 1,497 £45,000 +5.88% 747
South East -3 1,395 £45,000 +5.88% 859
Midlands -8 1,039 £42,000 -0.76% 445
North West -7 791 £45,000 -2.17% 393
South West -6 679 £44,000 +17.33% 525
West Midlands -9 585 £42,500 -5.56% 263
East of England -4 573 £44,000 +25.71% 277
Yorkshire -12 515 £42,500 +21.43% 241
East Midlands -10 451 £35,000 -4.11% 181
North East -16 191 £51,250 +29.58% 123
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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 400 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 78 (1.07%) Confluence
4 66 (0.91%) CMS
5 55 (0.76%) Apache
6 39 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.54%) IIS
7 38 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.47%) WordPress
9 18 (0.25%) SAS
10 15 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
11 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
11 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
13 8 (0.11%) nginx
14 7 (0.096%) OpenEdge
15 6 (0.082%) Drupal
Applications
1 460 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 409 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 38 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 27 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 12 (0.16%) 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%) Civil 3D
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 44 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.27%) Shopify
6 17 (0.23%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 12 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 12 (0.16%) 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%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,578 (21.68%) Azure
2 1,189 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
3 934 (12.83%) AWS
4 575 (7.90%) Power Platform
5 341 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 340 (4.67%) SaaS
7 334 (4.59%) GCP
8 179 (2.46%) Serverless
9 162 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 159 (2.18%) GitHub
11 150 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 138 (1.90%) Power Automate
13 123 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 102 (1.40%) OneDrive
15 95 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 83 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 80 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
18 77 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
19 74 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
20 73 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 504 (6.92%) Firewall
2 431 (5.92%) DNS
3 368 (5.06%) DHCP
4 307 (4.22%) VPN
5 254 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 238 (3.27%) WAN
7 223 (3.06%) LAN
8 221 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
9 174 (2.39%) Broadband
10 157 (2.16%) Wireless
11 150 (2.06%) VLAN
12 111 (1.53%) Network Security
13 104 (1.43%) VoIP
14 55 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 49 (0.67%) Internet
16 46 (0.63%) BGP
17 44 (0.60%) OSPF
18 40 (0.55%) HTTP
19 38 (0.52%) SAN
20 29 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (6.24%) Power BI
2 331 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 139 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 117 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 110 (1.51%) MySQL
6 105 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 105 (1.44%) Tableau
7 103 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 101 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 80 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 57 (0.78%) MongoDB
12 56 (0.77%) Power Query
13 52 (0.71%) Big Data
14 49 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 48 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (0.51%) DynamoDB
17 35 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
18 34 (0.47%) Metadata
19 30 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 298 (4.09%) Git
2 221 (3.04%) JIRA
3 109 (1.50%) GitLab
3 109 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 28 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
4 28 (0.38%) Selenium
5 23 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 22 (0.30%) Eclipse
6 22 (0.30%) Subversion
7 21 (0.29%) JUnit
8 19 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 19 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 17 (0.23%) Postman
11 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
12 14 (0.19%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.19%) Maven
13 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 12 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,455 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 2,088 (28.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1,375 (18.89%) Finance
4 461 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
5 454 (6.24%) Manufacturing
6 373 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 351 (4.82%) Law
8 335 (4.60%) Retail
9 307 (4.22%) Marketing
10 290 (3.98%) Public Sector
11 282 (3.87%) Legal
12 269 (3.70%) Banking
13 166 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 150 (2.06%) Electronics
15 135 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 133 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
17 114 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
18 103 (1.42%) Aerospace
19 99 (1.36%) Advertising
20 86 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 949 (13.04%) Analyst
2 866 (11.90%) Senior
3 731 (10.04%) IT Support
4 707 (9.71%) Developer
5 608 (8.35%) Support Engineer
6 439 (6.03%) Lead
7 432 (5.94%) IT Engineer
8 334 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 323 (4.44%) Consultant
10 289 (3.97%) Support Analyst
11 262 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 257 (3.53%) Support Technician
13 250 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
14 240 (3.30%) Architect
15 219 (3.01%) Technical Support
16 200 (2.75%) IT Technician
17 180 (2.47%) Technical Engineer
18 179 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 177 (2.43%) Data Engineer
20 168 (2.31%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (4.07%) .NET
2 277 (3.81%) React
3 225 (3.09%) HTML
4 213 (2.93%) REST
5 183 (2.51%) CSS
6 149 (2.05%) Node.js
6 149 (2.05%) RESTful
7 109 (1.50%) SOAP
8 101 (1.39%) Middleware
9 91 (1.25%) JSON
9 91 (1.25%) Spring
10 87 (1.20%) Vue
11 84 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 73 (1.00%) Kafka
13 70 (0.96%) XML
14 69 (0.95%) Web Services
15 64 (0.88%) OAuth
16 59 (0.81%) Spring Boot
17 56 (0.77%) gRPC
18 55 (0.76%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 450 (6.18%) Driving Licence
2 428 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 355 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 278 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 276 (3.79%) Management Information System
6 201 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 182 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 174 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 153 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 125 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 108 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 99 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 91 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 86 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 81 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 80 (1.10%) Social Media
17 73 (1.00%) IoT
18 71 (0.98%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.89%) Virtual Team
20 64 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,178 (16.19%) Windows
2 518 (7.12%) Linux
3 512 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 177 (2.43%) Windows 10
5 127 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (1.54%) Android
7 96 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 94 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 57 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.62%) Unix
11 41 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.40%) CentOS
13 29 (0.40%) VMS
14 18 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
15 16 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 15 (0.21%) Debian
17 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 7 (0.096%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,136 (15.61%) Agile
3 1,084 (14.89%) Customer Service
4 829 (11.39%) AI
5 816 (11.21%) CI/CD
6 812 (11.16%) Mentoring
7 770 (10.58%) Decision-Making
8 685 (9.41%) Analytics
8 685 (9.41%) DevOps
9 664 (9.12%) Software Engineering
10 645 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 623 (8.56%) ITIL
12 586 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
13 559 (7.68%) Roadmaps
14 532 (7.31%) Computer Science
15 520 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
16 498 (6.84%) Project Management
17 487 (6.69%) Collaborative Working
18 448 (6.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 445 (6.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (15.58%) SQL
2 1,099 (15.10%) Python
3 494 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 393 (5.40%) C#
5 371 (5.10%) Java
6 351 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 225 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 187 (2.57%) C++
9 177 (2.43%) Bash
10 93 (1.28%) PHP
11 92 (1.26%) Go
12 68 (0.93%) C
13 65 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 61 (0.84%) T-SQL
15 56 (0.77%) Scala
16 46 (0.63%) Rust
17 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 38 (0.52%) R
19 37 (0.51%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,146 (15.75%) Degree
2 603 (8.29%) Security Cleared
3 410 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 270 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 230 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 193 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 131 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 126 (1.73%) CISSP
8 126 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 115 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 103 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 85 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 80 (1.10%) PMI Certification
13 75 (1.03%) PMP
14 74 (1.02%) CCNA
15 70 (0.96%) ACCA
16 68 (0.93%) CCNP
17 65 (0.89%) CIMA
18 64 (0.88%) CISM
19 63 (0.87%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (5.41%) QA
2 354 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 297 (4.08%) GDPR
4 213 (2.93%) SLA
5 209 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 198 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 178 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 159 (2.18%) PCI DSS
9 152 (2.09%) NIST
10 56 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 54 (0.74%) PMO
12 37 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 35 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 34 (0.47%) GRC
15 27 (0.37%) COBIT
16 22 (0.30%) GMP
17 16 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
17 16 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 796 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 340 (4.67%) Docker
3 271 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 235 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (0.96%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.56%) Firmware
8 34 (0.47%) vSphere
9 30 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.22%) KVM
11 13 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.096%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.096%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.096%) XenApp
14 5 (0.069%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 345 (4.74%) Terraform
2 298 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 278 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 169 (2.32%) Ansible
5 106 (1.46%) Grafana
6 80 (1.10%) SCCM
7 63 (0.87%) 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 16 (0.22%) Puppet
14 15 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.21%) Argo
14 15 (0.21%) Autotask
15 13 (0.18%) logstash
16 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.15%) Kubeflow
17 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,085 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 342 (4.70%) VMware
3 188 (2.58%) Google
4 179 (2.46%) Oracle
5 169 (2.32%) SAP
6 161 (2.21%) Cisco
7 148 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 145 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 130 (1.79%) SolarWinds
10 127 (1.74%) Veeam
11 121 (1.66%) Splunk
12 106 (1.46%) Databricks
13 78 (1.07%) Apple
14 77 (1.06%) Tanium
15 71 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (0.96%) Brocade
17 62 (0.85%) Dell
18 57 (0.78%) Adobe
18 57 (0.78%) Sage
19 56 (0.77%) Red Hat