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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,613 7,871 13,620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.09% 20.04% 14.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.10% 21.61% 17.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,686 4,419 8,576
10th Percentile £27,400 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,919
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.16% -9.24%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -10.91%

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 59,579 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.93% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41,667 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 1,942 £70,000 +7.69% 859
North of England -8 1,363 £42,500 -4.49% 618
South East -5 1,200 £45,000 +5.88% 753
Midlands -9 931 £40,000 -11.11% 398
North West -6 698 £45,000 -3.23% 357
South West -6 593 £43,500 +8.75% 288
West Midlands -9 530 £42,500 -10.53% 237
Yorkshire -11 502 £41,500 +18.57% 190
East of England -3 501 £45,000 +28.57% 297
East Midlands -8 398 £35,000 -6.67% 163
North East -14 163 £48,500 +7.78% 81
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
1 358 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 350 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.15%) Confluence
4 63 (0.95%) CMS
5 52 (0.79%) Apache
6 41 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 34 (0.51%) IIS
8 33 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 28 (0.42%) WordPress
10 16 (0.24%) SAS
11 14 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
12 11 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.11%) nginx
15 7 (0.11%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.091%) Drupal
16 6 (0.091%) Moodle
17 5 (0.076%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 401 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 354 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.12%) Fusion 360
10 7 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.076%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.060%) Simulink
13 3 (0.045%) Autodesk Inventor
13 3 (0.045%) Blender
13 3 (0.045%) Maya
14 2 (0.030%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.030%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 21 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 20 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.30%) Shopify
6 16 (0.24%) Magento
7 15 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 14 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 12 (0.18%) iTrent
10 11 (0.17%) Maximo
10 11 (0.17%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 8 (0.12%) Workday HCM
13 7 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
13 7 (0.11%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.11%) Endur
13 7 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,422 (21.50%) Azure
2 1,038 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
3 844 (12.76%) AWS
4 489 (7.39%) Power Platform
5 319 (4.82%) SaaS
6 289 (4.37%) Entra ID
6 289 (4.37%) GCP
7 175 (2.65%) Serverless
8 162 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (2.13%) GitHub
10 136 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 117 (1.77%) Power Automate
12 97 (1.47%) PowerApps
13 89 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 84 (1.27%) OneDrive
15 82 (1.24%) Google Workspace
16 75 (1.13%) PaaS
17 70 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
17 70 (1.06%) IaaS
18 69 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 424 (6.41%) Firewall
2 390 (5.90%) DNS
3 333 (5.04%) DHCP
4 266 (4.02%) VPN
5 224 (3.39%) WAN
6 200 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 200 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
7 198 (2.99%) LAN
8 178 (2.69%) Broadband
9 132 (2.00%) VLAN
10 127 (1.92%) Wireless
11 106 (1.60%) VoIP
12 89 (1.35%) Network Security
13 65 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 47 (0.71%) SAN
15 46 (0.70%) BGP
16 44 (0.67%) OSPF
17 42 (0.64%) Internet
18 33 (0.50%) HTTP
19 31 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (5.84%) Power BI
2 285 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 125 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (1.65%) Tableau
5 108 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 96 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 95 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
8 89 (1.35%) MySQL
9 85 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 74 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 63 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (0.85%) Big Data
13 54 (0.82%) Power Query
14 52 (0.79%) MongoDB
15 43 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
16 40 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (0.60%) Metadata
17 38 (0.57%) Data Lake
18 37 (0.56%) DynamoDB
19 23 (0.35%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 279 (4.22%) Git
2 205 (3.10%) JIRA
3 98 (1.48%) GitLab
4 94 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 30 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 25 (0.38%) Selenium
7 20 (0.30%) JUnit
8 19 (0.29%) Chocolatey
8 19 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 18 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 18 (0.27%) Maven
9 18 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 16 (0.24%) Metasploit
11 15 (0.23%) Subversion
12 14 (0.21%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.20%) Claude Code
13 13 (0.20%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 13 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 3,086 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 1,949 (29.47%) Analytical Skills
3 1,330 (20.11%) Finance
4 421 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 367 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 358 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 326 (4.93%) Law
8 317 (4.79%) Marketing
9 289 (4.37%) Retail
10 273 (4.13%) Legal
11 268 (4.05%) Public Sector
12 265 (4.01%) Banking
13 161 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 137 (2.07%) Electronics
15 134 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
16 118 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
17 107 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
18 87 (1.32%) Aerospace
19 85 (1.29%) Advertising
20 73 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 866 (13.10%) Analyst
2 824 (12.46%) Senior
3 669 (10.12%) IT Support
4 625 (9.45%) Developer
5 573 (8.66%) Support Engineer
6 410 (6.20%) IT Engineer
7 401 (6.06%) Lead
8 319 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
9 291 (4.40%) Consultant
10 240 (3.63%) Support Analyst
11 236 (3.57%) Architect
11 236 (3.57%) Support Technician
12 226 (3.42%) Software Engineer
13 223 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
14 186 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 176 (2.66%) IT Technician
16 175 (2.65%) Technical Support
17 160 (2.42%) Senior Developer
18 159 (2.40%) 2nd Line Support
19 158 (2.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (4.02%) .NET
2 255 (3.86%) React
3 211 (3.19%) HTML
4 180 (2.72%) CSS
4 180 (2.72%) REST
5 139 (2.10%) Node.js
6 125 (1.89%) RESTful
7 97 (1.47%) SOAP
8 89 (1.35%) Middleware
9 84 (1.27%) JSON
10 80 (1.21%) Spring
11 74 (1.12%) Vue
12 72 (1.09%) AngularJS
13 68 (1.03%) XML
14 64 (0.97%) Kafka
15 61 (0.92%) OAuth
16 59 (0.89%) Web Services
17 56 (0.85%) gRPC
18 50 (0.76%) Spring Boot
19 49 (0.74%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 397 (6.00%) Driving Licence
2 384 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 299 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 246 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 225 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 189 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 168 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 155 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 142 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 121 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 97 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 87 (1.32%) Social Media
13 83 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 80 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 78 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 72 (1.09%) Algorithms
17 70 (1.06%) Low-Code
18 64 (0.97%) Virtual Team
19 63 (0.95%) Public Cloud
20 61 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,027 (15.53%) Windows
2 443 (6.70%) Windows Server
3 433 (6.55%) Linux
4 164 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 122 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 102 (1.54%) Android
7 84 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 82 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 66 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.67%) Unix
11 40 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 32 (0.48%) CentOS
13 30 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 30 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 24 (0.36%) VMS
15 14 (0.21%) Mac OS X
16 13 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 11 (0.17%) Debian
18 7 (0.11%) Windows 8
18 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,294 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,045 (15.80%) Agile
3 960 (14.52%) Customer Service
4 738 (11.16%) Mentoring
5 732 (11.07%) AI
6 712 (10.77%) CI/CD
6 712 (10.77%) Decision-Making
7 634 (9.59%) Analytics
8 618 (9.35%) DevOps
9 571 (8.63%) Software Engineering
10 557 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 539 (8.15%) ITIL
12 524 (7.92%) Roadmaps
13 503 (7.61%) Computer Science
14 481 (7.27%) Project Management
15 466 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
16 453 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
17 447 (6.76%) Coaching
18 435 (6.58%) Collaborative Working
19 384 (5.81%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (15.30%) Python
2 989 (14.96%) SQL
3 442 (6.68%) JavaScript
4 335 (5.07%) Java
5 330 (4.99%) C#
6 300 (4.54%) PowerShell
7 198 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 153 (2.31%) Bash
9 130 (1.97%) C++
10 93 (1.41%) PHP
11 88 (1.33%) Go
12 62 (0.94%) Scala
13 57 (0.86%) C
13 57 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 49 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 46 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 44 (0.67%) R
17 40 (0.60%) Rust
18 37 (0.56%) Kotlin
19 35 (0.53%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,101 (16.65%) Degree
2 516 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 355 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 251 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 223 (3.37%) DBS Check
6 186 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 117 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
8 113 (1.71%) CISSP
8 113 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 110 (1.66%) Master's Degree
10 91 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 83 (1.26%) PMI Certification
12 82 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 76 (1.15%) A+ Certification
14 74 (1.12%) CCNA
15 72 (1.09%) PMP
16 68 (1.03%) ACCA
17 63 (0.95%) CIMA
18 55 (0.83%) HNC
18 55 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (5.35%) QA
2 321 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 264 (3.99%) GDPR
4 194 (2.93%) SLA
5 183 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 160 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 154 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 141 (2.13%) NIST
9 133 (2.01%) PCI DSS
10 49 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 41 (0.62%) PMO
12 34 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 28 (0.42%) GRC
14 27 (0.41%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.36%) COBIT
16 22 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
17 18 (0.27%) GMP
18 15 (0.23%) IFRS
19 13 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 12 (0.18%) TickIT
System Software
1 707 (10.69%) Active Directory
2 284 (4.29%) Docker
3 235 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 209 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.95%) Terminal Server
6 45 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (0.53%) Firmware
8 24 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 24 (0.36%) vSphere
9 15 (0.23%) KVM
9 15 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.15%) IAG
11 7 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 7 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (0.11%) XenApp
12 6 (0.091%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.060%) ClearTrust
13 4 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.045%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 298 (4.51%) Terraform
2 252 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 244 (3.69%) Kubernetes
4 141 (2.13%) Ansible
5 89 (1.35%) Grafana
6 80 (1.21%) SCCM
7 55 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 36 (0.54%) Nagios
9 33 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (0.27%) Kibana
12 16 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.21%) Autotask
13 14 (0.21%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.18%) Puppet
15 11 (0.17%) Argo
15 11 (0.17%) Kubeflow
15 11 (0.17%) Nessus
16 10 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,773 (26.81%) Microsoft
2 309 (4.67%) VMware
3 180 (2.72%) Oracle
4 169 (2.56%) Google
5 157 (2.37%) SAP
6 153 (2.31%) Cisco
7 138 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 132 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 122 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 122 (1.84%) Veeam
10 117 (1.77%) Splunk
11 106 (1.60%) Databricks
12 81 (1.22%) Apple
13 65 (0.98%) Tanium
14 64 (0.97%) Adobe
14 64 (0.97%) Nimble Storage
15 63 (0.95%) Brocade
16 56 (0.85%) Dell
17 52 (0.79%) Meraki
18 51 (0.77%) Red Hat