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

6 months to
22 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 7,385 8,271 11,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.31% 19.09% 14.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 21.20% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,314 4,706 7,008
10th Percentile £27,628 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £33,912
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,000 £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 65,539 39,008 67,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 90.04% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 46,429 22,397 46,860
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 £74,280
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% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 2,031 £69,950 +7.62% 1,363
North of England -9 1,505 £45,000 +5.88% 653
South East -3 1,416 £45,000 +5.88% 751
Midlands -8 1,065 £42,000 +5.00% 400
North West -7 794 £45,500 +1.11% 353
South West -6 719 £44,000 +17.33% 315
West Midlands -9 596 £42,500 -5.56% 228
East of England -6 564 £42,500 +21.43% 268
Yorkshire -10 514 £42,500 +21.43% 214
East Midlands -10 465 £35,440 -0.17% 172
North East -16 197 £51,250 +34.87% 94
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
1 415 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 414 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.12%) Confluence
4 65 (0.88%) CMS
5 53 (0.72%) Apache
6 39 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.53%) IIS
7 38 (0.51%) 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
1 469 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 427 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 40 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 28 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.22%) 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 (0.068%) Fusion 360
10 5 (0.068%) Lightworks
10 5 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
11 3 (0.041%) Civil 3D
11 3 (0.041%) Maya
11 3 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 84 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 66 (0.89%) 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 8 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
12 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
12 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
13 7 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 1,585 (21.46%) Azure
2 1,223 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
3 932 (12.62%) AWS
4 604 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 354 (4.79%) Entra ID
6 353 (4.78%) SaaS
7 334 (4.52%) GCP
8 183 (2.48%) Serverless
9 159 (2.15%) GitHub
10 158 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
10 158 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 147 (1.99%) Power Automate
12 134 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 104 (1.41%) OneDrive
14 98 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 90 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
16 85 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
17 81 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
18 76 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 71 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 498 (6.74%) Firewall
2 440 (5.96%) DNS
3 376 (5.09%) DHCP
4 297 (4.02%) VPN
5 258 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 230 (3.11%) WAN
7 222 (3.01%) LAN
8 209 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
9 170 (2.30%) Broadband
10 159 (2.15%) Wireless
11 151 (2.04%) VLAN
12 123 (1.67%) Network Security
13 103 (1.39%) VoIP
14 48 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 44 (0.60%) BGP
15 44 (0.60%) Internet
16 42 (0.57%) OSPF
17 41 (0.56%) HTTP
18 38 (0.51%) SAN
19 33 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 471 (6.38%) Power BI
2 349 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 143 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 111 (1.50%) Tableau
6 110 (1.49%) MySQL
7 104 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 103 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 93 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 85 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 57 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 56 (0.76%) Power Query
13 53 (0.72%) Big Data
14 50 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 48 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (0.51%) DynamoDB
17 36 (0.49%) Metadata
18 34 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
19 27 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 300 (4.06%) Git
2 235 (3.18%) JIRA
3 113 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 112 (1.52%) GitLab
5 31 (0.42%) Selenium
6 27 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 27 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 25 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 25 (0.34%) Subversion
8 23 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 23 (0.31%) JUnit
9 21 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 19 (0.26%) Postman
11 16 (0.22%) Chocolatey
12 15 (0.20%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
13 13 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 12 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.16%) CircleCI
General
1 3,538 (47.91%) Social Skills
2 2,157 (29.21%) Analytical Skills
3 1,408 (19.07%) Finance
4 476 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 458 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
6 372 (5.04%) Law
7 365 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 339 (4.59%) Retail
9 308 (4.17%) Marketing
10 291 (3.94%) Legal
11 277 (3.75%) Public Sector
12 274 (3.71%) Banking
13 178 (2.41%) Telecoms
14 155 (2.10%) Electronics
15 135 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 133 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
17 111 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
18 107 (1.45%) Aerospace
19 98 (1.33%) Advertising
20 88 (1.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 962 (13.03%) Analyst
2 867 (11.74%) Senior
3 734 (9.94%) Developer
4 717 (9.71%) IT Support
5 591 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 438 (5.93%) Lead
7 420 (5.69%) IT Engineer
8 345 (4.67%) Consultant
9 322 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
10 291 (3.94%) Support Analyst
11 262 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 262 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
12 253 (3.43%) Support Technician
13 246 (3.33%) Architect
14 223 (3.02%) Technical Support
15 202 (2.74%) IT Technician
16 188 (2.55%) Technical Engineer
17 184 (2.49%) Data Engineer
18 175 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 170 (2.30%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (4.17%) .NET
2 281 (3.81%) React
3 228 (3.09%) HTML
4 224 (3.03%) REST
5 180 (2.44%) CSS
6 154 (2.09%) RESTful
7 153 (2.07%) Node.js
8 111 (1.50%) SOAP
9 93 (1.26%) Middleware
10 92 (1.25%) Spring
11 91 (1.23%) JSON
12 88 (1.19%) AngularJS
13 85 (1.15%) Vue
14 79 (1.07%) Kafka
15 71 (0.96%) Web Services
15 71 (0.96%) XML
16 66 (0.89%) OAuth
17 61 (0.83%) ASP.NET
18 59 (0.80%) Spring Boot
19 56 (0.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 453 (6.13%) Driving Licence
2 436 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 368 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 283 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 281 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 201 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 179 (2.42%) Data Centre
8 177 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
9 172 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 127 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 109 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 106 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 94 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 82 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 77 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 76 (1.03%) Social Media
17 74 (1.00%) IoT
18 72 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 70 (0.95%) Public Cloud
20 68 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,190 (16.11%) Windows
2 533 (7.22%) Linux
3 520 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 171 (2.32%) Windows 10
5 133 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 112 (1.52%) Android
7 99 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 95 (1.29%) Apple iOS
9 51 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (0.61%) 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%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.18%) Debian
19 9 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
20 8 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,636 (22.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,157 (15.67%) Agile
3 1,103 (14.94%) Customer Service
4 870 (11.78%) AI
5 833 (11.28%) CI/CD
6 794 (10.75%) Mentoring
7 779 (10.55%) Decision-Making
8 703 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 687 (9.30%) DevOps
10 683 (9.25%) Analytics
11 669 (9.06%) Software Engineering
12 642 (8.69%) ITIL
13 597 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
14 567 (7.68%) Roadmaps
15 542 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
16 530 (7.18%) Computer Science
17 515 (6.97%) Project Management
18 487 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
19 481 (6.51%) Project Delivery
20 458 (6.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,164 (15.76%) SQL
2 1,099 (14.88%) Python
3 504 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 407 (5.51%) C#
5 378 (5.12%) Java
6 337 (4.56%) PowerShell
7 224 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 201 (2.72%) C++
9 167 (2.26%) Bash
10 92 (1.25%) 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 (0.79%) Scala
16 42 (0.57%) Rust
17 41 (0.56%) PL/SQL
17 41 (0.56%) R
18 36 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 36 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,176 (15.92%) Degree
2 622 (8.42%) Security Cleared
3 435 (5.89%) SC Cleared
4 269 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 208 (2.82%) DBS Check
6 196 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 139 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 129 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 123 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 122 (1.65%) CISSP
11 103 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 85 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 83 (1.12%) PMI Certification
14 76 (1.03%) CCNA
14 76 (1.03%) PMP
15 75 (1.02%) CCNP
16 68 (0.92%) ACCA
17 65 (0.88%) HNC
18 63 (0.85%) CIMA
19 62 (0.84%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (5.39%) QA
2 359 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 303 (4.10%) GDPR
4 225 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 215 (2.91%) SLA
6 196 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 181 (2.45%) Accessibility
8 173 (2.34%) PCI DSS
9 151 (2.04%) NIST
10 58 (0.79%) PMO
11 57 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 36 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 36 (0.49%) SOC 2
13 33 (0.45%) GRC
14 24 (0.32%) 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
1 808 (10.94%) Active Directory
2 353 (4.78%) Docker
3 279 (3.78%) Hyper-V
4 238 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 84 (1.14%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.66%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.054%) Squid
18 3 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 338 (4.58%) Terraform
2 294 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 287 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 155 (2.10%) Ansible
5 103 (1.39%) Grafana
6 82 (1.11%) SCCM
7 66 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 32 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (0.42%) Nagios
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 13 (0.18%) 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 2,155 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 359 (4.86%) VMware
3 190 (2.57%) Oracle
4 186 (2.52%) Google
5 180 (2.44%) SAP
6 167 (2.26%) Cisco
7 150 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 145 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 141 (1.91%) Veeam
10 140 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 136 (1.84%) Splunk
12 110 (1.49%) Databricks
13 92 (1.25%) Tanium
14 85 (1.15%) Nimble Storage
15 84 (1.14%) Brocade
16 80 (1.08%) Apple
17 64 (0.87%) Dell
18 60 (0.81%) Sage
19 53 (0.72%) Fortinet
20 52 (0.70%) Red Hat