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

6 months to
23 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 7,409 8,281 11,743
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.33% 19.14% 14.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 21.26% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,304 4,714 6,917
10th Percentile £27,530 £26,413 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,132 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.63% -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 65,658 38,950 66,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.00% 82.04%
Number of salaries quoted 46,449 22,420 46,231
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,669 £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 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -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 23 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 23 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 -5 2,050 £67,500 +3.85% 1,413
North of England -10 1,510 £45,000 +5.88% 660
South East -3 1,417 £45,000 +5.88% 777
Midlands -8 1,069 £42,000 +5.00% 420
North West -6 795 £45,000 -1.10% 344
South West -6 719 £44,000 +17.33% 327
West Midlands -9 596 £42,500 -5.56% 240
East of England -6 561 £42,500 +21.43% 282
Yorkshire -9 519 £42,500 +21.43% 223
East Midlands -10 469 £35,440 -0.17% 180
North East -17 196 £51,500 +37.33% 100
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
1 414 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 414 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 84 (1.13%) Confluence
3 65 (0.88%) CMS
4 51 (0.69%) Apache
5 40 (0.54%) IIS
6 39 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 32 (0.43%) WordPress
9 19 (0.26%) SAS
10 14 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.13%) nginx
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
1 472 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 432 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 41 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 28 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.12%) Simulink
8 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.11%) Trello
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 85 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 48 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.26%) Shopify
6 17 (0.23%) Magento
7 14 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 13 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
9 12 (0.16%) Elite 3E
10 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
10 11 (0.15%) SAP Business One
11 10 (0.13%) iTrent
11 10 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
12 9 (0.12%) Maximo
13 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
14 7 (0.094%) Sage X3
14 7 (0.094%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,580 (21.33%) Azure
2 1,220 (16.47%) Microsoft 365
3 934 (12.61%) AWS
4 606 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 357 (4.82%) SaaS
6 351 (4.74%) Entra ID
7 334 (4.51%) GCP
8 182 (2.46%) Serverless
9 162 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
10 161 (2.17%) GitHub
11 157 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
12 148 (2.00%) Power Automate
13 134 (1.81%) PowerApps
14 105 (1.42%) OneDrive
15 96 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 92 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
17 85 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
18 82 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
19 75 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
20 71 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 488 (6.59%) Firewall
2 437 (5.90%) DNS
3 373 (5.03%) DHCP
4 292 (3.94%) VPN
5 260 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 228 (3.08%) WAN
7 219 (2.96%) LAN
8 205 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
9 170 (2.29%) Broadband
10 159 (2.15%) Wireless
11 150 (2.02%) VLAN
12 124 (1.67%) Network Security
13 102 (1.38%) VoIP
14 48 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 45 (0.61%) Internet
16 44 (0.59%) HTTP
17 42 (0.57%) BGP
18 41 (0.55%) OSPF
19 38 (0.51%) SAN
20 33 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (6.40%) Power BI
2 353 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 144 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 113 (1.53%) MySQL
6 111 (1.50%) Tableau
7 108 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 106 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 105 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
10 94 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 85 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (0.80%) MongoDB
13 57 (0.77%) Power Query
14 56 (0.76%) Big Data
15 50 (0.67%) Data Lake
16 48 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (0.51%) DynamoDB
18 35 (0.47%) Metadata
19 33 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
20 28 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 303 (4.09%) Git
2 242 (3.27%) JIRA
3 115 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 113 (1.53%) GitLab
5 32 (0.43%) Selenium
6 28 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 27 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 25 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 25 (0.34%) Subversion
9 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 23 (0.31%) JUnit
10 22 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 21 (0.28%) Postman
11 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 12 (0.16%) CircleCI
General
1 3,557 (48.01%) Social Skills
2 2,172 (29.32%) Analytical Skills
3 1,424 (19.22%) Finance
4 478 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 461 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
6 380 (5.13%) Law
7 379 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 346 (4.67%) Retail
9 312 (4.21%) Marketing
10 291 (3.93%) Legal
11 277 (3.74%) Banking
12 276 (3.73%) Public Sector
13 179 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 154 (2.08%) Electronics
15 136 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
16 134 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
17 113 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
18 109 (1.47%) Aerospace
19 97 (1.31%) Advertising
20 90 (1.21%) Games
Job Titles
1 972 (13.12%) Analyst
2 868 (11.72%) Senior
3 735 (9.92%) Developer
4 713 (9.62%) IT Support
5 584 (7.88%) Support Engineer
6 443 (5.98%) Lead
7 412 (5.56%) IT Engineer
8 345 (4.66%) Consultant
9 317 (4.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 293 (3.95%) Support Analyst
11 267 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 261 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
13 254 (3.43%) Support Technician
14 247 (3.33%) Architect
15 224 (3.02%) Technical Support
16 205 (2.77%) IT Technician
17 188 (2.54%) Technical Engineer
18 186 (2.51%) Data Engineer
19 169 (2.28%) Technical Support Engineer
20 167 (2.25%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (4.17%) .NET
2 281 (3.79%) React
3 229 (3.09%) HTML
4 227 (3.06%) REST
5 181 (2.44%) CSS
6 153 (2.07%) RESTful
7 150 (2.02%) Node.js
8 111 (1.50%) SOAP
9 94 (1.27%) Spring
10 92 (1.24%) JSON
10 92 (1.24%) Middleware
11 89 (1.20%) AngularJS
12 85 (1.15%) Vue
13 80 (1.08%) Kafka
14 72 (0.97%) XML
15 70 (0.94%) Web Services
16 66 (0.89%) OAuth
17 63 (0.85%) ASP.NET
18 60 (0.81%) Spring Boot
19 56 (0.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 453 (6.11%) Driving Licence
2 436 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 369 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 285 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 283 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 204 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 178 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 175 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 173 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 129 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 108 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 107 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 95 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 85 (1.15%) Algorithms
15 78 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 77 (1.04%) Social Media
17 76 (1.03%) IoT
18 72 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 71 (0.96%) Public Cloud
20 68 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,186 (16.01%) Windows
2 534 (7.21%) Linux
3 518 (6.99%) Windows Server
4 169 (2.28%) Windows 10
5 131 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (1.51%) Android
7 97 (1.31%) 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 28 (0.38%) VMS
14 25 (0.34%) CentOS
15 16 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.18%) Debian
19 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
20 8 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,653 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,168 (15.76%) Agile
3 1,111 (15.00%) Customer Service
4 884 (11.93%) AI
5 841 (11.35%) CI/CD
6 799 (10.78%) Decision-Making
7 795 (10.73%) Mentoring
8 712 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 693 (9.35%) DevOps
10 683 (9.22%) Analytics
11 676 (9.12%) Software Engineering
12 643 (8.68%) ITIL
13 595 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
14 575 (7.76%) Roadmaps
15 547 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
16 530 (7.15%) Computer Science
17 518 (6.99%) Project Management
18 484 (6.53%) Collaborative Working
19 483 (6.52%) Project Delivery
20 465 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (15.83%) SQL
2 1,101 (14.86%) Python
3 503 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 407 (5.49%) C#
5 379 (5.12%) Java
6 336 (4.54%) PowerShell
7 226 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 200 (2.70%) C++
9 169 (2.28%) Bash
10 92 (1.24%) Go
11 91 (1.23%) PHP
12 73 (0.99%) C
13 66 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 63 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 58 (0.78%) Scala
16 43 (0.58%) R
17 42 (0.57%) PL/SQL
17 42 (0.57%) Rust
18 36 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 36 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,188 (16.03%) Degree
2 625 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 440 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 270 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 208 (2.81%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 138 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 125 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 121 (1.63%) CISSP
11 103 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 88 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 84 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 76 (1.03%) CCNA
14 76 (1.03%) PMP
15 74 (1.00%) CCNP
16 71 (0.96%) ACCA
17 66 (0.89%) CIMA
18 65 (0.88%) HNC
19 62 (0.84%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (5.39%) QA
2 358 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 302 (4.08%) GDPR
4 222 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 216 (2.92%) SLA
6 194 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 187 (2.52%) Accessibility
8 172 (2.32%) PCI DSS
9 149 (2.01%) NIST
10 59 (0.80%) PMO
11 55 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 36 (0.49%) ISO 9001
13 35 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 33 (0.45%) GRC
15 24 (0.32%) COBIT
16 23 (0.31%) GMP
17 18 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
19 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
20 15 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 804 (10.85%) Active Directory
2 357 (4.82%) Docker
3 279 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 239 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.13%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.58%) Firmware
8 33 (0.45%) vSphere
9 32 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
12 12 (0.16%) 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
17 4 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.054%) Squid
18 3 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 338 (4.56%) Terraform
2 296 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 287 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 153 (2.07%) Ansible
5 103 (1.39%) Grafana
6 82 (1.11%) SCCM
7 65 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 33 (0.45%) 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%) Autotask
14 14 (0.19%) Argo
15 13 (0.18%) Kibana
16 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.15%) logstash
17 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
18 10 (0.13%) Functional Safety
18 10 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,158 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 361 (4.87%) VMware
3 194 (2.62%) Oracle
4 186 (2.51%) Google
4 186 (2.51%) SAP
5 166 (2.24%) Cisco
6 152 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 146 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 142 (1.92%) Veeam
9 140 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 135 (1.82%) Splunk
11 110 (1.48%) Databricks
12 92 (1.24%) Tanium
13 85 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
14 84 (1.13%) Brocade
15 81 (1.09%) Apple
16 63 (0.85%) Dell
17 61 (0.82%) Sage
18 53 (0.72%) Fortinet
19 52 (0.70%) Red Hat