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

6 months to
21 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 7,365 8,267 11,844
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.30% 19.07% 14.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 21.17% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,301 4,704 7,017
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,413 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £33,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,850 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -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 65,435 39,048 67,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 90.09% 82.07%
Number of salaries quoted 46,356 22,384 46,918
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £74,408
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 21 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 2,017 £70,000 +7.69% 1,335
North of England -9 1,503 £45,000 +5.88% 647
South East -3 1,415 £45,000 +5.88% 747
Midlands -8 1,062 £42,000 +5.00% 392
North West -7 799 £45,500 - 357
South West -6 714 £44,000 +17.33% 312
West Midlands -9 593 £42,500 -5.56% 224
East of England -6 569 £42,500 +21.43% 266
Yorkshire -10 511 £42,500 +21.43% 206
East Midlands -10 465 £35,220 -0.79% 168
North East -15 193 £52,315 +34.83% 92
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
1 417 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 414 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.09%) Confluence
4 66 (0.90%) CMS
5 53 (0.72%) Apache
6 39 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.53%) IIS
7 38 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 32 (0.43%) WordPress
9 19 (0.26%) SAS
10 13 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.14%) nginx
12 10 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.095%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.095%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 471 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 432 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 39 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 28 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.12%) Simulink
9 9 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.068%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.068%) Lightworks
11 5 (0.068%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.041%) Civil 3D
12 3 (0.041%) LaTeX
12 3 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 84 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 45 (0.61%) 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 (0.14%) iTrent
11 10 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 10 (0.14%) Maximo
12 9 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
13 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 1,582 (21.48%) Azure
2 1,223 (16.61%) Microsoft 365
3 929 (12.61%) AWS
4 595 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 352 (4.78%) Entra ID
6 344 (4.67%) SaaS
7 333 (4.52%) GCP
8 181 (2.46%) Serverless
9 158 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (2.15%) GitHub
10 154 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
11 145 (1.97%) Power Automate
12 133 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 103 (1.40%) OneDrive
14 97 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 88 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
16 84 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 79 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
18 75 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
19 71 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 500 (6.79%) Firewall
2 440 (5.97%) DNS
3 378 (5.13%) DHCP
4 297 (4.03%) VPN
5 260 (3.53%) TCP/IP
6 231 (3.14%) WAN
7 221 (3.00%) LAN
8 210 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
9 168 (2.28%) Broadband
10 162 (2.20%) Wireless
11 153 (2.08%) VLAN
12 122 (1.66%) Network Security
13 103 (1.40%) VoIP
14 49 (0.67%) SD-WAN
15 44 (0.60%) BGP
15 44 (0.60%) Internet
16 42 (0.57%) OSPF
17 41 (0.56%) HTTP
18 38 (0.52%) SAN
19 33 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (6.29%) Power BI
2 349 (4.74%) SQL Server
3 142 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 111 (1.51%) MySQL
6 110 (1.49%) Tableau
7 105 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 103 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
9 101 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 92 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 84 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (0.77%) MongoDB
13 55 (0.75%) Power Query
14 53 (0.72%) Big Data
15 50 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 49 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (0.52%) DynamoDB
18 36 (0.49%) Metadata
19 34 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
20 27 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 297 (4.03%) Git
2 230 (3.12%) JIRA
3 111 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 110 (1.49%) GitLab
5 31 (0.42%) Selenium
6 27 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 27 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.33%) Eclipse
8 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.31%) Subversion
9 22 (0.30%) JUnit
10 21 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.26%) Postman
12 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
13 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.18%) CircleCI
14 13 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.16%) Bitbucket
General
1 3,532 (47.96%) Social Skills
2 2,144 (29.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1,396 (18.95%) Finance
4 472 (6.41%) Manufacturing
5 464 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
6 368 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 364 (4.94%) Law
8 339 (4.60%) Retail
9 305 (4.14%) Marketing
10 291 (3.95%) Legal
11 275 (3.73%) Public Sector
12 270 (3.67%) Banking
13 176 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 154 (2.09%) Electronics
15 135 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 132 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
17 110 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
18 104 (1.41%) Aerospace
19 98 (1.33%) Advertising
20 87 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 965 (13.10%) Analyst
2 864 (11.73%) Senior
3 733 (9.95%) Developer
4 720 (9.78%) IT Support
5 597 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 434 (5.89%) Lead
7 421 (5.72%) IT Engineer
8 337 (4.58%) Consultant
9 324 (4.40%) IT Support Engineer
10 293 (3.98%) Support Analyst
11 262 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
12 261 (3.54%) Software Engineer
13 257 (3.49%) Support Technician
14 244 (3.31%) Architect
15 224 (3.04%) Technical Support
16 203 (2.76%) IT Technician
17 189 (2.57%) Technical Engineer
18 184 (2.50%) Data Engineer
19 175 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 172 (2.34%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (4.21%) .NET
2 280 (3.80%) React
3 229 (3.11%) HTML
4 221 (3.00%) REST
5 182 (2.47%) CSS
6 153 (2.08%) RESTful
7 152 (2.06%) Node.js
8 110 (1.49%) SOAP
9 93 (1.26%) Middleware
10 91 (1.24%) JSON
10 91 (1.24%) Spring
11 88 (1.19%) AngularJS
12 87 (1.18%) Vue
13 78 (1.06%) Kafka
14 71 (0.96%) XML
15 70 (0.95%) Web Services
16 64 (0.87%) OAuth
17 61 (0.83%) ASP.NET
18 58 (0.79%) Spring Boot
19 56 (0.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 456 (6.19%) Driving Licence
2 432 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 363 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
4 278 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 278 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 200 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 180 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 176 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 171 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 127 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 109 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 102 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 92 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 82 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 75 (1.02%) IoT
14 75 (1.02%) Mobile App
15 74 (1.00%) Social Media
16 71 (0.96%) Virtual Team
17 70 (0.95%) Public Cloud
18 67 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,189 (16.14%) Windows
2 530 (7.20%) Linux
3 521 (7.07%) Windows Server
4 171 (2.32%) Windows 10
5 134 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (1.52%) Android
7 97 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 95 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 51 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.60%) Unix
11 37 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 33 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 29 (0.39%) VMS
14 25 (0.34%) CentOS
15 17 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
16 15 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 14 (0.19%) Debian
17 14 (0.19%) Mac OS X
18 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 8 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,606 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,151 (15.63%) Agile
3 1,107 (15.03%) Customer Service
4 862 (11.70%) AI
5 827 (11.23%) CI/CD
6 790 (10.73%) Mentoring
7 777 (10.55%) Decision-Making
8 688 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 681 (9.25%) Analytics
9 681 (9.25%) DevOps
10 665 (9.03%) Software Engineering
11 643 (8.73%) ITIL
12 596 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
13 565 (7.67%) Roadmaps
14 534 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
15 528 (7.17%) Computer Science
16 514 (6.98%) Project Management
17 488 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
18 477 (6.48%) Project Delivery
19 453 (6.15%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,159 (15.74%) SQL
2 1,091 (14.81%) Python
3 501 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 408 (5.54%) C#
5 376 (5.11%) Java
6 340 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 224 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 197 (2.67%) C++
9 167 (2.27%) Bash
10 93 (1.26%) PHP
11 92 (1.25%) Go
12 71 (0.96%) C
13 65 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 63 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 58 (0.79%) Scala
16 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 41 (0.56%) R
16 41 (0.56%) Rust
17 36 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,172 (15.91%) Degree
2 622 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 435 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 265 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 218 (2.96%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 140 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 128 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 124 (1.68%) CISSP
10 121 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 103 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 83 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.10%) PMI Certification
14 77 (1.05%) CCNA
15 75 (1.02%) CCNP
15 75 (1.02%) PMP
16 69 (0.94%) ACCA
17 65 (0.88%) HNC
18 64 (0.87%) CIMA
19 63 (0.86%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 397 (5.39%) QA
2 358 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 302 (4.10%) GDPR
4 226 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 216 (2.93%) SLA
6 197 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 181 (2.46%) Accessibility
8 173 (2.35%) PCI DSS
9 153 (2.08%) NIST
10 58 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 57 (0.77%) PMO
12 36 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 36 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 34 (0.46%) GRC
14 25 (0.34%) COBIT
15 23 (0.31%) GMP
16 17 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
16 17 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 16 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
18 15 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 805 (10.93%) Active Directory
2 349 (4.74%) Docker
3 281 (3.82%) Hyper-V
4 238 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.57%) Firmware
8 33 (0.45%) vSphere
9 31 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 14 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
12 12 (0.16%) KVM
13 10 (0.14%) IAG
14 7 (0.095%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.095%) XenApp
15 6 (0.081%) VMware Workstation
16 5 (0.068%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.054%) Squid
18 3 (0.041%) Terminal Services
18 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 337 (4.58%) Terraform
2 294 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 286 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 156 (2.12%) Ansible
5 104 (1.41%) Grafana
6 82 (1.11%) SCCM
7 65 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 32 (0.43%) Nagios
9 29 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 20 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.22%) Puppet
13 15 (0.20%) Argo
13 15 (0.20%) Autotask
14 14 (0.19%) Kibana
15 12 (0.16%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.15%) logstash
16 11 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,144 (29.11%) Microsoft
2 358 (4.86%) VMware
3 188 (2.55%) Oracle
4 186 (2.53%) Google
5 180 (2.44%) SAP
6 166 (2.25%) Cisco
7 149 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 146 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 144 (1.96%) Veeam
10 142 (1.93%) SolarWinds
11 136 (1.85%) Splunk
12 110 (1.49%) Databricks
13 92 (1.25%) Tanium
14 85 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
15 84 (1.14%) Brocade
16 80 (1.09%) Apple
17 64 (0.87%) Dell
18 59 (0.80%) Sage
19 53 (0.72%) Fortinet
20 52 (0.71%) Red Hat