Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,739 12,388 18,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.02% 13.29% 13.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.50% 13.89% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,478 6,244 8,554
10th Percentile £26,131 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in England.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +3 3,225 £70,000 - 1,528
South East +4 2,791 £45,000 -14.29% 927
North of England +9 2,471 £45,000 -2.17% 1,028
Midlands +3 1,784 £42,000 -16.00% 756
South West +8 1,334 £47,500 -5.00% 560
North West +10 1,293 £45,000 -5.26% 568
West Midlands +5 1,143 £42,500 -15.00% 455
East of England +5 1,026 £42,500 -10.99% 493
Yorkshire +5 931 £43,793 -2.68% 336
East Midlands +6 622 £37,500 -21.05% 300
North East +12 246 £45,000 +5.88% 140
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 458 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 404 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 137 (1.08%) Confluence
4 136 (1.07%) CMS
5 135 (1.06%) Apache
6 108 (0.85%) IIS
7 102 (0.80%) WordPress
8 47 (0.37%) SAS
9 45 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 27 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 26 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 26 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 24 (0.19%) nginx
14 23 (0.18%) JBoss
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 17 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
18 15 (0.12%) Tomcat
19 14 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1,209 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 870 (6.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 275 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 56 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.38%) Sketch
8 47 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
10 34 (0.27%) Simulink
11 29 (0.23%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 24 (0.19%) InDesign
14 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
15 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
17 13 (0.10%) SPSS
18 12 (0.094%) Chatbot
19 9 (0.071%) Revit
20 8 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 126 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 40 (0.31%) Magento
5 39 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 38 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
7 20 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
11 16 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
13 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
13 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
14 12 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
15 11 (0.086%) Sage 50
15 11 (0.086%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,206 (17.32%) Azure
2 1,555 (12.21%) AWS
3 1,310 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
4 676 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 642 (5.04%) GCP
6 470 (3.69%) SaaS
7 337 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 300 (2.35%) Serverless
9 264 (2.07%) Entra ID
10 198 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 196 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
12 193 (1.52%) GitHub
13 183 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 171 (1.34%) Amazon S3
15 146 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 143 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 116 (0.91%) IaaS
18 111 (0.87%) Snowflake
19 99 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
20 93 (0.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 777 (6.10%) Firewall
2 414 (3.25%) DNS
3 361 (2.83%) WAN
4 317 (2.49%) LAN
5 285 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 284 (2.23%) DHCP
7 248 (1.95%) Wireless
8 239 (1.88%) VPN
9 230 (1.81%) Network Security
10 195 (1.53%) Internet
11 185 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
12 153 (1.20%) VoIP
13 123 (0.97%) SAN
14 115 (0.90%) VLAN
15 76 (0.60%) SD-WAN
16 75 (0.59%) 5G
17 73 (0.57%) Broadband
18 72 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
19 58 (0.46%) NAS
20 57 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 818 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 558 (4.38%) Power BI
3 407 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 406 (3.19%) MySQL
5 344 (2.70%) Looker
6 343 (2.69%) BigQuery
7 311 (2.44%) Tableau
8 267 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 227 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 202 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 160 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 152 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 145 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 125 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 119 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 96 (0.75%) Redis
17 92 (0.72%) RDBMS
18 89 (0.70%) Data Lake
19 85 (0.67%) Big Data
20 84 (0.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 759 (5.96%) Git
2 451 (3.54%) JIRA
3 278 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 157 (1.23%) GitLab
5 93 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 70 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 54 (0.42%) Selenium
7 54 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 47 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 46 (0.36%) LabVIEW
10 37 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 37 (0.29%) Subversion
11 36 (0.28%) Postman
12 35 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.27%) IntelliJ
13 33 (0.26%) Metasploit
14 30 (0.24%) Burp Suite
15 29 (0.23%) Ant
15 29 (0.23%) JUnit
16 28 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 6,709 (52.67%) Social Skills
2 4,366 (34.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2,406 (18.89%) Finance
4 965 (7.58%) Retail
5 874 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 740 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
7 693 (5.44%) Marketing
8 593 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
9 551 (4.33%) Legal
10 515 (4.04%) Manufacturing
11 484 (3.80%) Law
12 445 (3.49%) Public Sector
13 372 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
14 344 (2.70%) Banking
15 296 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 225 (1.77%) Billing
17 196 (1.54%) Electronics
18 189 (1.48%) Aerospace
19 174 (1.37%) Games
20 172 (1.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,890 (14.84%) Analyst
2 1,656 (13.00%) Developer
3 1,612 (12.65%) Senior
4 871 (6.84%) Lead
5 651 (5.11%) Architect
6 590 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 569 (4.47%) IT Support
8 501 (3.93%) Consultant
9 498 (3.91%) Support Engineer
10 437 (3.43%) Project Manager
11 377 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 373 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 353 (2.77%) Senior Developer
14 316 (2.48%) IT Engineer
15 296 (2.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 292 (2.29%) Support Analyst
17 270 (2.12%) IT Technician
18 262 (2.06%) Software Developer
19 261 (2.05%) IT Manager
20 259 (2.03%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 801 (6.29%) .NET
2 704 (5.53%) HTML
3 620 (4.87%) CSS
4 544 (4.27%) React
5 343 (2.69%) AngularJS
6 323 (2.54%) Node.js
7 294 (2.31%) RESTful
8 237 (1.86%) REST
9 213 (1.67%) Vue
10 206 (1.62%) ASP.NET
11 195 (1.53%) .NET Framework
12 194 (1.52%) Web Services
13 188 (1.48%) .NET Core
14 178 (1.40%) JSON
14 178 (1.40%) Spring
15 154 (1.21%) XML
16 138 (1.08%) HTML5
17 134 (1.05%) SOAP
18 118 (0.93%) Laravel
19 111 (0.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1,209 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
2 706 (5.54%) Management Information System
3 426 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 418 (3.28%) Driving Licence
5 416 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 306 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 241 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 224 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 193 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 179 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 174 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 154 (1.21%) IoT
13 133 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 132 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 120 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 110 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
16 110 (0.86%) NHS
17 109 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
18 93 (0.73%) Clustering
19 85 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,934 (15.18%) Windows
2 868 (6.81%) Linux
3 655 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 481 (3.78%) Windows 10
5 226 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 195 (1.53%) Android
7 150 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 144 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 131 (1.03%) Unix
10 129 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 127 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
12 104 (0.82%) Windows 7
13 39 (0.31%) VMS
14 37 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
15 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
15 35 (0.27%) Kali Linux
15 35 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.27%) Ubuntu
17 29 (0.23%) Windows 8
18 28 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,468 (19.37%) Agile
2 1,654 (12.98%) Customer Service
3 1,628 (12.78%) Computer Science
4 1,596 (12.53%) Project Management
5 1,527 (11.99%) Mentoring
6 1,316 (10.33%) DevOps
7 1,310 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,260 (9.89%) Decision-Making
9 1,198 (9.40%) Software Engineering
10 1,001 (7.86%) Analytics
11 988 (7.76%) ITIL
12 983 (7.72%) Coaching
13 969 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
14 793 (6.22%) Mathematics
15 773 (6.07%) Data Analysis
16 767 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
17 734 (5.76%) Roadmaps
18 723 (5.68%) CI/CD
19 720 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
20 718 (5.64%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,940 (15.23%) SQL
2 1,505 (11.81%) Python
3 1,065 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 964 (7.57%) C#
5 795 (6.24%) Java
6 439 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 376 (2.95%) C++
8 331 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 324 (2.54%) C
10 294 (2.31%) PHP
11 266 (2.09%) Bash
12 162 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 123 (0.97%) R
14 109 (0.86%) Ruby
15 105 (0.82%) MATLAB
16 97 (0.76%) Perl
17 80 (0.63%) Go
18 72 (0.57%) Scala
19 71 (0.56%) VB
20 60 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,614 (28.37%) Degree
2 1,093 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 957 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 640 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 486 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 397 (3.12%) DBS Check
7 359 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 204 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 190 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 180 (1.41%) CISSP
11 154 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 137 (1.08%) CCNA
13 135 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 127 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 122 (0.96%) HNC
16 118 (0.93%) A+ Certification
17 115 (0.90%) ACCA
18 112 (0.88%) PhD
19 93 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
19 93 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 696 (5.46%) QA
2 546 (4.29%) GDPR
3 480 (3.77%) SLA
4 431 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 252 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 151 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 149 (1.17%) PMO
9 108 (0.85%) ISO 9001
10 103 (0.81%) NIST
11 94 (0.74%) IFRS
12 83 (0.65%) GAAP
13 61 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 51 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 49 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 42 (0.33%) WCAG
17 37 (0.29%) NCSC
18 35 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.23%) HIPAA
20 25 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1,096 (8.60%) Active Directory
2 553 (4.34%) Docker
3 459 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 305 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 104 (0.82%) Firmware
6 100 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 40 (0.31%) vSphere
10 32 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 30 (0.24%) KVM
12 23 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 22 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
15 13 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 13 (0.10%) XenApp
16 11 (0.086%) NFS
17 8 (0.063%) XenDesktop
18 7 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 7 (0.055%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 482 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 301 (2.36%) Terraform
3 224 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 179 (1.41%) SCCM
5 174 (1.37%) Ansible
6 76 (0.60%) Puppet
7 72 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 66 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 62 (0.49%) Grafana
10 48 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 42 (0.33%) SCOM
12 40 (0.31%) WSUS
13 37 (0.29%) EnCase
14 34 (0.27%) Functional Safety
15 32 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 27 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
16 27 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
17 26 (0.20%) Progress Chef
18 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
19 21 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3,137 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 730 (5.73%) Google
3 655 (5.14%) VMware
4 431 (3.38%) Oracle
5 365 (2.87%) SAP
6 320 (2.51%) Cisco
7 257 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 147 (1.15%) Databricks
9 138 (1.08%) Apple
10 136 (1.07%) Adobe
11 131 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 129 (1.01%) IBM
13 121 (0.95%) Veeam
14 106 (0.83%) CA
14 106 (0.83%) Citrix
15 104 (0.82%) HP
16 102 (0.80%) Juniper
17 98 (0.77%) Meraki
17 98 (0.77%) Palo Alto
18 85 (0.67%) Dell