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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,986 12,813 12,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.34% 15.04% 13.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.52% 17.52% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,958 8,499 6,173
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £29,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% -

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 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 2,295 £65,000 -7.14% 4,323
North of England 0 1,853 £45,000 - 1,679
South East +1 1,385 £50,000 +11.11% 2,031
Midlands -2 1,033 £45,000 +7.14% 1,204
North West -2 976 £47,500 +5.56% 935
South West +4 700 £40,101 -15.58% 732
West Midlands -3 696 £50,000 +17.65% 658
East of England 0 625 £47,500 +11.11% 685
Yorkshire +2 595 £40,101 -8.86% 557
East Midlands -6 336 £40,000 +6.67% 488
North East +7 282 £35,000 -22.22% 208
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
1 268 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 198 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 95 (1.19%) CMS
4 83 (1.04%) Confluence
5 62 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 60 (0.75%) Apache
7 46 (0.58%) IIS
8 45 (0.56%) OpenEdge
9 33 (0.41%) WordPress
10 30 (0.38%) SAS
11 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 28 (0.35%) IBM Domino
13 24 (0.30%) nginx
14 23 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
14 23 (0.29%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.20%) Tomcat
16 13 (0.16%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.088%) Drupal
17 7 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2010
17 7 (0.088%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 358 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 308 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 181 (2.27%) Simulink
4 85 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (0.90%) Mathcad
6 55 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 53 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 41 (0.51%) Trello
9 27 (0.34%) Photoshop
10 24 (0.30%) Maya
11 17 (0.21%) Chatbot
11 17 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
12 14 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 14 (0.18%) InDesign
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe XD
14 12 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
15 9 (0.11%) CapCut
15 9 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 156 (1.95%) NetSuite
2 103 (1.29%) Teamcenter
3 100 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 62 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 60 (0.75%) Shopify
6 34 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
7 28 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 14 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
10 10 (0.13%) Endur
11 9 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
11 9 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
12 8 (0.10%) Primavera
12 8 (0.10%) SAP Business One
13 7 (0.088%) iTrent
13 7 (0.088%) SAP ERP
14 6 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
14 6 (0.075%) Magento
14 6 (0.075%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,434 (17.96%) Azure
2 958 (12.00%) AWS
3 772 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
4 585 (7.33%) Power Platform
5 359 (4.50%) SaaS
6 284 (3.56%) GCP
7 200 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 172 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 165 (2.07%) Entra ID
10 151 (1.89%) GitHub
11 133 (1.67%) Serverless
12 113 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 112 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 93 (1.16%) OneDrive
15 87 (1.09%) PowerApps
16 84 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
17 62 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
18 61 (0.76%) PaaS
19 54 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
20 52 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 422 (5.28%) Broadband
2 410 (5.13%) Firewall
3 281 (3.52%) VPN
4 237 (2.97%) Network Security
5 218 (2.73%) DNS
5 218 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 178 (2.23%) WAN
7 150 (1.88%) LAN
8 146 (1.83%) DHCP
9 142 (1.78%) Internet
10 126 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
11 106 (1.33%) WLAN
12 103 (1.29%) VLAN
13 81 (1.01%) VoIP
14 70 (0.88%) Wireless
15 67 (0.84%) SAN
16 58 (0.73%) SD-WAN
17 57 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
18 46 (0.58%) Intranet
19 41 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (6.00%) Power BI
2 446 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 184 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 172 (2.15%) MySQL
5 167 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 161 (2.02%) Tableau
7 130 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 117 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 116 (1.45%) Power Query
10 104 (1.30%) Big Data
10 104 (1.30%) GIS
11 99 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
12 94 (1.18%) MongoDB
13 76 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 66 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 54 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 54 (0.68%) Metadata
17 47 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 47 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 382 (4.78%) Git
2 308 (3.86%) JIRA
3 127 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 111 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
5 81 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 68 (0.85%) Robot Framework
7 52 (0.65%) GitLab
8 51 (0.64%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 43 (0.54%) Selenium
11 36 (0.45%) Postman
12 30 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 28 (0.35%) JUnit
14 26 (0.33%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.31%) MSBuild
16 23 (0.29%) Gradle
17 19 (0.24%) Maven
17 19 (0.24%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.23%) JMeter
19 17 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 4,318 (54.07%) Social Skills
2 2,366 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1,724 (21.59%) Finance
4 710 (8.89%) Banking
5 537 (6.72%) Games
6 458 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
7 448 (5.61%) Marketing
8 418 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 417 (5.22%) Electronics
10 414 (5.18%) Manufacturing
11 406 (5.08%) Law
12 380 (4.76%) Retail
13 333 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
14 238 (2.98%) Telecoms
15 235 (2.94%) Legal
16 186 (2.33%) Public Sector
17 167 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
18 140 (1.75%) Aerospace
19 79 (0.99%) Advertising
20 73 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,068 (13.37%) Senior
2 993 (12.43%) Analyst
3 879 (11.01%) Developer
4 704 (8.82%) IT Support
5 594 (7.44%) Lead
6 444 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 409 (5.12%) Customer Service Advisor
8 277 (3.47%) IT Engineer
9 255 (3.19%) Consultant
10 250 (3.13%) Architect
11 222 (2.78%) Junior
12 216 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
13 212 (2.65%) Support Analyst
14 199 (2.49%) Software Engineer
15 198 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
16 187 (2.34%) Project Manager
17 174 (2.18%) IT Manager
18 168 (2.10%) Technical Support
19 165 (2.07%) Applications Support
20 160 (2.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (5.21%) .NET
2 372 (4.66%) HTML
3 318 (3.98%) CSS
4 286 (3.58%) React
5 224 (2.80%) REST
6 182 (2.28%) RESTful
7 146 (1.83%) Node.js
8 141 (1.77%) XML
9 140 (1.75%) AngularJS
10 134 (1.68%) ASP.NET
11 120 (1.50%) .NET Framework
12 107 (1.34%) SOAP
13 103 (1.29%) JSON
14 90 (1.13%) .NET Core
14 90 (1.13%) Kafka
15 87 (1.09%) Web Services
16 86 (1.08%) HTML5
17 71 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
18 68 (0.85%) Vue
19 65 (0.81%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 331 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
2 318 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 298 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 276 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
5 225 (2.82%) Driving Licence
6 161 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 156 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 145 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 130 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 127 (1.59%) FMCG
11 119 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 118 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 108 (1.35%) Cloud Native
14 86 (1.08%) Social Media
15 83 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
16 79 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 69 (0.86%) IoT
18 68 (0.85%) Cyberattack
19 67 (0.84%) Virtual Team
20 66 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,338 (16.75%) Windows
2 526 (6.59%) Linux
3 324 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 189 (2.37%) Windows 10
5 131 (1.64%) Android
6 105 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 105 (1.31%) Mac OS
7 73 (0.91%) Unix
8 41 (0.51%) Windows Vista
9 37 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 36 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 29 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 16 (0.20%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.11%) CentOS
17 6 (0.075%) Ubuntu
18 4 (0.050%) Windows 8
18 4 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (15.72%) Agile
2 1,146 (14.35%) Customer Service
3 1,114 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,036 (12.97%) Project Management
5 899 (11.26%) Computer Science
6 853 (10.68%) Mentoring
7 741 (9.28%) Analytics
8 729 (9.13%) DevOps
9 668 (8.36%) ITIL
10 662 (8.29%) Decision-Making
11 629 (7.88%) Mathematics
12 597 (7.48%) Software Engineering
13 577 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
14 561 (7.02%) Collaborative Working
15 540 (6.76%) CI/CD
16 513 (6.42%) Service Delivery
17 499 (6.25%) Process Improvement
18 485 (6.07%) Artificial Intelligence
19 483 (6.05%) Roadmaps
20 470 (5.89%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (15.90%) SQL
2 983 (12.31%) Python
3 654 (8.19%) JavaScript
4 573 (7.18%) C#
5 462 (5.79%) Java
6 346 (4.33%) PowerShell
7 226 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 201 (2.52%) MATLAB
9 179 (2.24%) Bash
10 144 (1.80%) PHP
11 126 (1.58%) C++
12 99 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 79 (0.99%) C
14 46 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 44 (0.55%) Go
16 42 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 41 (0.51%) R
17 41 (0.51%) Shell Script
18 39 (0.49%) Scala
19 34 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2,015 (25.23%) Degree
2 524 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 437 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 348 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 330 (4.13%) Security Cleared
6 282 (3.53%) Master's Degree
7 228 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 210 (2.63%) DBS Check
9 187 (2.34%) CCNA
10 161 (2.02%) SC Cleared
11 157 (1.97%) CCNP
12 151 (1.89%) PMI Certification
12 151 (1.89%) PMP
13 137 (1.72%) DV Cleared
13 137 (1.72%) MCP
14 127 (1.59%) Azure Certification
15 121 (1.52%) CISSP
15 121 (1.52%) MCSE
16 115 (1.44%) CBAP
17 95 (1.19%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (6.29%) QA
2 226 (2.83%) GDPR
3 190 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 168 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 159 (1.99%) SLA
6 134 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 90 (1.13%) NIST
8 72 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 64 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 59 (0.74%) PMO
11 39 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 36 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 31 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 28 (0.35%) ISO 9001
15 26 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 24 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
17 23 (0.29%) WCAG
18 22 (0.28%) DO-254
19 21 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 574 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 333 (4.17%) Docker
3 203 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 122 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 59 (0.74%) Firmware
6 46 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 36 (0.45%) vSphere
10 13 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 12 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.13%) XenApp
13 5 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.063%) Postfix
14 4 (0.050%) HDFS
14 4 (0.050%) LXC
15 3 (0.038%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.038%) KVM
Systems Management
1 362 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 252 (3.16%) Terraform
3 154 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 99 (1.24%) Ansible
5 51 (0.64%) SCCM
6 42 (0.53%) Grafana
6 42 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 26 (0.33%) Nagios
7 26 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.25%) Puppet
9 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.16%) PaperCut
10 13 (0.16%) QRadar
11 12 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 11 (0.14%) Argo
13 10 (0.13%) CASB
13 10 (0.13%) SCOM
14 9 (0.11%) Graylog
14 9 (0.11%) Nessus
15 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,727 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 424 (5.31%) BT
3 334 (4.18%) Cisco
4 311 (3.89%) Google
5 284 (3.56%) VMware
6 259 (3.24%) SAP
7 233 (2.92%) Oracle
8 200 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 164 (2.05%) Databricks
10 160 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 153 (1.92%) IBM
12 113 (1.41%) Adobe
13 72 (0.90%) MathWorks
14 70 (0.88%) Apple
15 69 (0.86%) Citrix
16 67 (0.84%) Meraki
17 55 (0.69%) Dell
17 55 (0.69%) Veeam
18 48 (0.60%) HP
19 47 (0.59%) Progress