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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,577 8,307 10,968
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.40% 19.13% 14.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.38% 21.31% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,389 4,749 6,133
10th Percentile £27,675 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,000 £35,000
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 £85,250 £88,150 £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 66,599 38,984 61,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.76% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 47,002 22,502 42,192
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%
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% - -8.33%

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 29 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 29 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 2,094 £67,500 +3.85% 1,362
North of England -10 1,529 £45,000 +5.88% 738
South East -3 1,448 £45,000 +5.88% 883
Midlands -8 1,102 £42,000 +5.00% 479
North West -7 799 £45,625 -0.82% 350
South West -6 743 £44,000 +17.33% 339
West Midlands -9 616 £42,500 -5.56% 273
East of England -6 581 £42,500 +21.43% 300
Yorkshire -10 525 £42,500 +21.43% 270
East Midlands -10 482 £37,500 +5.63% 206
North East -15 205 £50,000 +33.33% 132
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
1 422 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 415 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 89 (1.17%) Confluence
4 62 (0.82%) CMS
5 51 (0.67%) Apache
6 41 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 39 (0.51%) IIS
8 33 (0.44%) WordPress
9 19 (0.25%) SAS
10 13 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.13%) nginx
13 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.092%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.092%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 486 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 457 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 83 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 44 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 31 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 16 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 10 (0.13%) Simulink
10 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.12%) Trello
11 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 5 (0.066%) Fusion 360
12 5 (0.066%) Lightworks
12 5 (0.066%) Photoshop
13 4 (0.053%) Revit
14 3 (0.040%) Blender
14 3 (0.040%) Maya
14 3 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 83 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 70 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 19 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.25%) Shopify
5 18 (0.24%) Magento
6 14 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 14 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 14 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 13 (0.17%) SAP Business One
8 11 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 10 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 10 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 9 (0.12%) iTrent
10 9 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 9 (0.12%) Sage 50
11 8 (0.11%) Maximo
11 8 (0.11%) Sage X3
12 7 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
12 7 (0.092%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,615 (21.31%) Azure
2 1,236 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
3 954 (12.59%) AWS
4 631 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 361 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 351 (4.63%) SaaS
7 332 (4.38%) GCP
8 184 (2.43%) Serverless
9 176 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 174 (2.30%) GitHub
11 162 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 153 (2.02%) Power Automate
13 139 (1.83%) PowerApps
14 105 (1.39%) OneDrive
15 97 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 96 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
17 87 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
18 86 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
19 78 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
20 72 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 485 (6.40%) Firewall
2 444 (5.86%) DNS
3 377 (4.98%) DHCP
4 298 (3.93%) VPN
5 266 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 225 (2.97%) WAN
7 214 (2.82%) LAN
8 201 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
9 164 (2.16%) Wireless
10 148 (1.95%) Broadband
11 146 (1.93%) VLAN
12 129 (1.70%) Network Security
13 103 (1.36%) VoIP
14 47 (0.62%) SD-WAN
15 45 (0.59%) Internet
16 44 (0.58%) HTTP
17 40 (0.53%) OSPF
18 39 (0.51%) BGP
18 39 (0.51%) SAN
19 32 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (6.48%) Power BI
2 371 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 146 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 143 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 123 (1.62%) MySQL
6 116 (1.53%) Tableau
7 112 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 111 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 106 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 98 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 87 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 61 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 57 (0.75%) Big Data
13 57 (0.75%) Power Query
14 52 (0.69%) Data Lake
15 49 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (0.53%) DynamoDB
17 37 (0.49%) Metadata
18 34 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
19 28 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 327 (4.32%) Git
2 257 (3.39%) JIRA
3 121 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.48%) GitLab
5 34 (0.45%) Selenium
6 28 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 27 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
8 25 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 25 (0.33%) Subversion
9 24 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.32%) JUnit
9 24 (0.32%) Postman
10 23 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 20 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 17 (0.22%) Bitbucket
13 16 (0.21%) Chocolatey
13 16 (0.21%) SonarQube
14 14 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.17%) Maven
15 13 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 3,660 (48.30%) Social Skills
2 2,242 (29.59%) Analytical Skills
3 1,483 (19.57%) Finance
4 498 (6.57%) Manufacturing
5 468 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
6 417 (5.50%) Law
7 416 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 360 (4.75%) Retail
9 317 (4.18%) Marketing
10 296 (3.91%) Legal
11 295 (3.89%) Banking
12 287 (3.79%) Public Sector
13 181 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 158 (2.09%) Electronics
15 144 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
16 137 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
17 121 (1.60%) Aerospace
18 114 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
19 96 (1.27%) Advertising
20 88 (1.16%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,008 (13.30%) Analyst
2 886 (11.69%) Senior
3 753 (9.94%) Developer
4 712 (9.40%) IT Support
5 577 (7.62%) Support Engineer
6 455 (6.01%) Lead
7 409 (5.40%) IT Engineer
8 360 (4.75%) Consultant
9 314 (4.14%) IT Support Engineer
10 303 (4.00%) Support Analyst
11 279 (3.68%) Software Engineer
12 264 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
13 255 (3.37%) Architect
14 253 (3.34%) Support Technician
15 230 (3.04%) Technical Support
16 205 (2.71%) IT Technician
17 193 (2.55%) Data Engineer
18 191 (2.52%) Technical Engineer
19 172 (2.27%) Technical Support Engineer
20 168 (2.22%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (4.33%) .NET
2 289 (3.81%) React
3 238 (3.14%) REST
4 234 (3.09%) HTML
5 186 (2.45%) CSS
6 160 (2.11%) RESTful
7 147 (1.94%) Node.js
8 113 (1.49%) SOAP
9 100 (1.32%) Spring
10 95 (1.25%) JSON
11 93 (1.23%) AngularJS
12 90 (1.19%) Middleware
13 88 (1.16%) Vue
14 82 (1.08%) Kafka
15 75 (0.99%) XML
16 72 (0.95%) OAuth
17 71 (0.94%) ASP.NET
17 71 (0.94%) Web Services
18 63 (0.83%) Spring Boot
19 48 (0.63%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 464 (6.12%) Driving Licence
2 451 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 380 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 296 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 292 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 206 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 182 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 174 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 169 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
10 123 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 118 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
12 108 (1.43%) Security Posture
13 99 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 91 (1.20%) Algorithms
15 81 (1.07%) Social Media
16 76 (1.00%) IoT
17 75 (0.99%) Virtual Team
18 74 (0.98%) Mobile App
19 73 (0.96%) NHS
20 72 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,213 (16.01%) Windows
2 548 (7.23%) Linux
3 527 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 167 (2.20%) Windows 10
5 128 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 113 (1.49%) Android
7 99 (1.31%) Mac OS
8 97 (1.28%) Apple iOS
9 48 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 47 (0.62%) Unix
11 38 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 33 (0.44%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.37%) VMS
14 25 (0.33%) CentOS
15 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
15 14 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
16 13 (0.17%) Debian
17 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 8 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,741 (22.98%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,220 (16.10%) Agile
3 1,125 (14.85%) Customer Service
4 940 (12.41%) AI
5 860 (11.35%) CI/CD
6 847 (11.18%) Decision-Making
7 810 (10.69%) Mentoring
8 748 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 715 (9.44%) DevOps
10 706 (9.32%) Analytics
11 689 (9.09%) Software Engineering
12 653 (8.62%) ITIL
13 609 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
14 582 (7.68%) Roadmaps
15 570 (7.52%) Business Intelligence
16 546 (7.21%) Computer Science
17 529 (6.98%) Project Management
18 512 (6.76%) Project Delivery
19 489 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
20 485 (6.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,222 (16.13%) SQL
2 1,122 (14.81%) Python
3 518 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 431 (5.69%) C#
5 388 (5.12%) Java
6 334 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 235 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 205 (2.71%) C++
9 166 (2.19%) Bash
10 92 (1.21%) PHP
11 84 (1.11%) Go
12 76 (1.00%) C
13 68 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 66 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 49 (0.65%) Scala
16 42 (0.55%) R
17 41 (0.54%) PL/SQL
18 40 (0.53%) Rust
18 40 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 38 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,236 (16.31%) Degree
2 658 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 458 (6.04%) SC Cleared
4 284 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 212 (2.80%) DBS Check
6 197 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 144 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 136 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 132 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 129 (1.70%) CISSP
11 108 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 98 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 87 (1.15%) PMI Certification
14 80 (1.06%) CCNA
15 78 (1.03%) PMP
16 76 (1.00%) CCNP
17 71 (0.94%) ACCA
18 68 (0.90%) CISM
18 68 (0.90%) HNC
19 66 (0.87%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (5.57%) QA
2 376 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 309 (4.08%) GDPR
4 224 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 222 (2.93%) SLA
6 196 (2.59%) Accessibility
7 192 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 168 (2.22%) PCI DSS
9 152 (2.01%) NIST
10 62 (0.82%) PMO
11 57 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 36 (0.48%) GRC
13 35 (0.46%) ISO 9001
14 30 (0.40%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.32%) COBIT
16 23 (0.30%) GMP
17 20 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 18 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
20 17 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 811 (10.70%) Active Directory
2 357 (4.71%) Docker
3 278 (3.67%) Hyper-V
4 246 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.11%) Terminal Server
6 47 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (0.58%) Firmware
8 34 (0.45%) vSphere
9 33 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 13 (0.17%) KVM
13 10 (0.13%) IAG
14 7 (0.092%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.092%) XenApp
15 5 (0.066%) ClearTrust
15 5 (0.066%) Squid
15 5 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 342 (4.51%) Terraform
2 310 (4.09%) Kubernetes
3 286 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (1.97%) Ansible
5 100 (1.32%) Grafana
6 84 (1.11%) SCCM
7 62 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 38 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (0.41%) Nagios
10 24 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 21 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
12 18 (0.24%) Puppet
13 16 (0.21%) Argo
14 15 (0.20%) Autotask
15 13 (0.17%) Kibana
16 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.15%) logstash
17 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
18 10 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,202 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 366 (4.83%) VMware
3 201 (2.65%) Oracle
4 195 (2.57%) Google
5 189 (2.49%) SAP
6 167 (2.20%) Cisco
7 154 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 146 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 143 (1.89%) Veeam
10 139 (1.83%) SolarWinds
11 135 (1.78%) Splunk
12 119 (1.57%) Databricks
13 92 (1.21%) Tanium
14 85 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
15 84 (1.11%) Brocade
16 83 (1.10%) Apple
17 64 (0.84%) Sage
18 63 (0.83%) Dell
19 54 (0.71%) Fortinet
20 53 (0.70%) Red Hat