Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 12 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 11,294 8,892 22,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.41% 12.51% 15.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.58% 13.13% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,354 5,792 9,293
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,775 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £38,750 £38,037
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 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and 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 64,248 67,718 141,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.99% 95.27% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43,335 45,004 76,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 2,911 £65,000 -7.14% 680
North of England +6 2,448 £45,000 - 705
South East +6 2,275 £45,096 -12.18% 647
Midlands +4 1,598 £42,500 -11.46% 531
North West +6 1,269 £47,500 - 357
South West +10 1,201 £50,000 -0.93% 421
West Midlands +3 1,035 £45,000 -10.00% 320
Yorkshire +9 935 £45,000 +5.88% 247
East of England +6 747 £45,000 -10.00% 284
East Midlands +7 547 £40,000 -9.67% 210
North East +14 243 £40,000 -1.68% 118
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
1 375 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 340 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 118 (1.04%) Apache
4 111 (0.98%) CMS
5 87 (0.77%) Confluence
6 79 (0.70%) WordPress
7 65 (0.58%) IIS
8 49 (0.43%) SAS
9 41 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 34 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 28 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 24 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
13 22 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 16 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 14 (0.12%) OpenEdge
15 14 (0.12%) Tomcat
16 11 (0.097%) Drupal
17 10 (0.089%) Jupyter
17 10 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
18 9 (0.080%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1,069 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
2 796 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 232 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (0.51%) Simulink
5 48 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.34%) Sketch
7 33 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 33 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 31 (0.27%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 16 (0.14%) Trello
11 15 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.11%) Revit
13 10 (0.089%) Chatbot
13 10 (0.089%) SPSS
14 9 (0.080%) SOLIDWORKS
15 8 (0.071%) GNU Octave
15 8 (0.071%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 105 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (0.38%) Magento
3 39 (0.35%) Shopify
4 38 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 36 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 36 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
6 29 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 29 (0.26%) Ripple
7 20 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
7 20 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 18 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
8 18 (0.16%) SDL Web 8
9 17 (0.15%) iTrent
9 17 (0.15%) Teamcenter
10 15 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 15 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 14 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
11 14 (0.12%) SAP ERP
12 13 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
12 13 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,852 (16.40%) Azure
2 1,393 (12.33%) AWS
3 1,045 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
4 602 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 597 (5.29%) GCP
6 383 (3.39%) SaaS
7 322 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
8 223 (1.97%) Serverless
9 220 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 207 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 191 (1.69%) GitHub
12 165 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 160 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
14 146 (1.29%) Power Automate
15 127 (1.12%) Amazon S3
16 123 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
17 85 (0.75%) IaaS
18 76 (0.67%) Google Workspace
19 75 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
20 64 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 568 (5.03%) Firewall
2 336 (2.98%) DNS
3 272 (2.41%) WAN
4 270 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 264 (2.34%) Network Security
6 257 (2.28%) LAN
7 229 (2.03%) Internet
8 215 (1.90%) DHCP
9 207 (1.83%) VPN
10 195 (1.73%) Wireless
11 112 (0.99%) VLAN
12 111 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 90 (0.80%) SAN
14 89 (0.79%) WLAN
15 75 (0.66%) VoIP
16 73 (0.65%) 5G
17 62 (0.55%) SD-WAN
18 54 (0.48%) Broadband
19 53 (0.47%) IPsec
20 52 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 625 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 469 (4.15%) Power BI
3 369 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 365 (3.23%) Tableau
5 298 (2.64%) BigQuery
6 288 (2.55%) Looker
7 281 (2.49%) MySQL
8 217 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 174 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 161 (1.43%) NoSQL
11 146 (1.29%) MongoDB
12 128 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
13 108 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 102 (0.90%) Big Data
15 92 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 87 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
17 84 (0.74%) DynamoDB
18 69 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
19 64 (0.57%) Redis
20 60 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 704 (6.23%) Git
2 350 (3.10%) JIRA
3 215 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 128 (1.13%) GitLab
5 119 (1.05%) Visual Studio
6 61 (0.54%) Selenium
7 53 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 52 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 42 (0.37%) Postman
10 41 (0.36%) LabVIEW
11 35 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 29 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 29 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 28 (0.25%) JMeter
14 27 (0.24%) Cucumber
15 26 (0.23%) Maven
16 25 (0.22%) JUnit
17 22 (0.19%) Cypress.io
17 22 (0.19%) NUnit
18 21 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6,054 (53.60%) Social Skills
2 3,690 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2,132 (18.88%) Finance
4 1,166 (10.32%) Retail
5 1,004 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 852 (7.54%) Presentation Skills
7 705 (6.24%) Marketing
8 670 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
9 480 (4.25%) Law
10 478 (4.23%) Legal
11 412 (3.65%) Manufacturing
12 359 (3.18%) Public Sector
13 309 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 306 (2.71%) Banking
15 243 (2.15%) Billing
16 240 (2.13%) Telecoms
17 180 (1.59%) Electronics
18 147 (1.30%) Investment Banking
19 145 (1.28%) Aerospace
20 140 (1.24%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,667 (14.76%) Analyst
2 1,440 (12.75%) Senior
3 1,406 (12.45%) Developer
4 861 (7.62%) Lead
5 610 (5.40%) Architect
6 603 (5.34%) Consultant
7 502 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 478 (4.23%) IT Support
9 423 (3.75%) Support Engineer
10 328 (2.90%) Project Manager
11 304 (2.69%) IT Engineer
12 297 (2.63%) Data Analyst
13 290 (2.57%) Business Analyst
14 272 (2.41%) Senior Developer
15 270 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 265 (2.35%) Data Engineer
17 263 (2.33%) Coordinator
18 236 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
19 235 (2.08%) Technical Consultant
20 226 (2.00%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 721 (6.38%) HTML
2 708 (6.27%) .NET
3 598 (5.29%) CSS
4 400 (3.54%) React
5 266 (2.36%) RESTful
6 229 (2.03%) Web Services
7 228 (2.02%) AngularJS
8 211 (1.87%) REST
9 204 (1.81%) XML
10 184 (1.63%) .NET Framework
11 180 (1.59%) ASP.NET
12 176 (1.56%) Node.js
13 160 (1.42%) .NET Core
14 156 (1.38%) JSON
14 156 (1.38%) Vue
15 135 (1.20%) HTML5
16 130 (1.15%) SOAP
17 119 (1.05%) Spring
18 117 (1.04%) jQuery
19 112 (0.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,067 (9.45%) Self-Motivation
2 586 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 571 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 334 (2.96%) Driving Licence
5 331 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 305 (2.70%) Cyberattack
7 230 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 203 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 160 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 144 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 141 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 123 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 122 (1.08%) IoT
14 108 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 105 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 100 (0.89%) NHS
17 96 (0.85%) Client/Server
18 95 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
18 95 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
19 90 (0.80%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1,605 (14.21%) Windows
2 748 (6.62%) Linux
3 479 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 359 (3.18%) Windows 10
5 164 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 162 (1.43%) Android
7 116 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 114 (1.01%) Unix
9 108 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 104 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
11 88 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 57 (0.50%) Windows 7
13 46 (0.41%) Ubuntu
14 45 (0.40%) VMS
15 43 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 38 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
17 35 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
18 30 (0.27%) AIX
18 30 (0.27%) CentOS
19 28 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,435 (21.56%) Agile
2 1,790 (15.85%) Mentoring
3 1,492 (13.21%) Customer Service
4 1,389 (12.30%) Computer Science
5 1,375 (12.17%) Project Management
6 1,234 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,147 (10.16%) DevOps
8 1,129 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 1,013 (8.97%) Decision-Making
10 895 (7.92%) Analytics
11 879 (7.78%) Mathematics
12 842 (7.46%) Data Analysis
13 826 (7.31%) User Experience
14 818 (7.24%) ITIL
15 817 (7.23%) Coaching
16 689 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
17 685 (6.07%) Data Engineering
18 652 (5.77%) CI/CD
19 646 (5.72%) Change Management
20 617 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,729 (15.31%) SQL
2 1,358 (12.02%) Python
3 952 (8.43%) JavaScript
4 855 (7.57%) C#
5 644 (5.70%) Java
6 378 (3.35%) C++
7 364 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 285 (2.52%) C
9 252 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 239 (2.12%) PHP
11 219 (1.94%) Bash
12 131 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 122 (1.08%) MATLAB
14 112 (0.99%) R
15 88 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 71 (0.63%) Perl
17 69 (0.61%) VB
18 67 (0.59%) Kotlin
19 55 (0.49%) Ruby
19 55 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3,583 (31.72%) Degree
2 926 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 780 (6.91%) Security Cleared
4 432 (3.83%) DBS Check
5 427 (3.78%) SC Cleared
6 375 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 361 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 310 (2.74%) HNC
9 208 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
10 191 (1.69%) CISSP
11 174 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 169 (1.50%) ACCA
13 154 (1.36%) CCNA
14 148 (1.31%) CCNP
15 142 (1.26%) Azure Certification
15 142 (1.26%) MCP
16 123 (1.09%) A+ Certification
17 122 (1.08%) MCSE
18 105 (0.93%) PMI Certification
19 104 (0.92%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 583 (5.16%) QA
2 467 (4.13%) GDPR
3 388 (3.44%) SLA
4 331 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 200 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 144 (1.28%) IFRS
8 137 (1.21%) GAAP
9 127 (1.12%) PMO
10 94 (0.83%) NIST
11 92 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 74 (0.66%) ISO 9001
13 53 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 36 (0.32%) HIPAA
15 36 (0.32%) WCAG
16 32 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 28 (0.25%) NCSC
18 24 (0.21%) Good Clinical Practice
19 23 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 842 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 420 (3.72%) Docker
3 344 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 218 (1.93%) Hyper-V
5 102 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 99 (0.88%) Firmware
7 64 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 43 (0.38%) vSphere
9 42 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
12 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 12 (0.11%) KVM
13 12 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 9 (0.080%) XenDesktop
15 8 (0.071%) Lustre
15 8 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 8 (0.071%) NFS
15 8 (0.071%) XenApp
16 7 (0.062%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 382 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 276 (2.44%) Terraform
3 182 (1.61%) Ansible
4 169 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 127 (1.12%) SCCM
6 79 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 59 (0.52%) Grafana
8 56 (0.50%) Puppet
9 55 (0.49%) vCenter Server
10 39 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 27 (0.24%) WSUS
12 26 (0.23%) SCOM
13 23 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 20 (0.18%) Progress Chef
15 18 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
15 18 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
15 18 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
16 16 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 16 (0.14%) CASB
17 15 (0.13%) Autotask
Vendors
1 2,720 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 603 (5.34%) Google
3 477 (4.22%) VMware
4 408 (3.61%) Oracle
5 304 (2.69%) Cisco
6 303 (2.68%) SAP
7 231 (2.05%) Databricks
8 201 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 149 (1.32%) CA
10 139 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 114 (1.01%) Adobe
12 113 (1.00%) IBM
13 105 (0.93%) Veeam
14 102 (0.90%) Red Hat
15 98 (0.87%) Apple
16 82 (0.73%) Citrix
17 75 (0.66%) Juniper
18 71 (0.63%) Dell
19 69 (0.61%) HP
20 66 (0.58%) Meraki