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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,842 7,954 13,757
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.17% 19.99% 14.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.16% 21.60% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,881 4,480 8,593
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,500 £25,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £88,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,504
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -11.81%

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 61,307 36,819 78,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 92.52% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,146 20,189 56,768
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,497
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -6 1,961 £70,000 +7.69% 701
North of England -8 1,413 £42,500 -4.49% 568
South East -5 1,268 £45,000 +5.88% 733
Midlands -8 972 £42,000 -1.18% 404
North West -7 726 £45,000 -3.23% 322
South West -6 620 £43,500 +16.00% 266
West Midlands -9 553 £42,500 -5.56% 223
East of England -3 529 £45,000 +28.57% 226
Yorkshire -12 510 £40,500 +15.71% 171
East Midlands -7 416 £35,000 -6.67% 181
North East -13 177 £48,500 +21.25% 90
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
1 379 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 369 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 79 (1.15%) Confluence
4 64 (0.94%) CMS
5 53 (0.77%) Apache
6 40 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 35 (0.51%) Apache Spark
8 34 (0.50%) IIS
9 31 (0.45%) WordPress
10 16 (0.23%) SAS
11 15 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (0.12%) WebLogic
14 8 (0.12%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.088%) Moodle
16 6 (0.088%) nginx
Applications
1 423 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 371 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.12%) Trello
10 6 (0.088%) Simulink
11 5 (0.073%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.073%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.044%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.044%) Blender
12 3 (0.044%) Maya
12 3 (0.044%) Windchill
13 2 (0.029%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 70 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 39 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 18 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 16 (0.23%) Magento
7 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 13 (0.19%) iTrent
9 11 (0.16%) Maximo
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
11 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
12 8 (0.12%) Sage 50
12 8 (0.12%) SAP Business One
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
14 6 (0.088%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,492 (21.81%) Azure
2 1,101 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
3 884 (12.92%) AWS
4 522 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 322 (4.71%) SaaS
6 306 (4.47%) Entra ID
7 302 (4.41%) GCP
8 178 (2.60%) Serverless
9 160 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 147 (2.15%) GitHub
11 138 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 125 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 105 (1.53%) PowerApps
14 90 (1.32%) OneDrive
15 89 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 77 (1.13%) Google Workspace
17 73 (1.07%) PaaS
18 72 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
19 71 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
20 68 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 453 (6.62%) Firewall
2 406 (5.93%) DNS
3 351 (5.13%) DHCP
4 286 (4.18%) VPN
5 235 (3.43%) WAN
6 217 (3.17%) TCP/IP
7 210 (3.07%) LAN
7 210 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
8 183 (2.67%) Broadband
9 137 (2.00%) VLAN
10 134 (1.96%) Wireless
11 105 (1.53%) VoIP
12 98 (1.43%) Network Security
13 62 (0.91%) SD-WAN
14 49 (0.72%) Internet
15 46 (0.67%) BGP
16 45 (0.66%) OSPF
17 43 (0.63%) SAN
18 37 (0.54%) HTTP
19 29 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (6.09%) Power BI
2 296 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 130 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 108 (1.58%) NoSQL
5 107 (1.56%) Tableau
6 106 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 96 (1.40%) MySQL
8 94 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 76 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 67 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (0.82%) MongoDB
13 55 (0.80%) Power Query
14 51 (0.75%) Big Data
15 49 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 43 (0.63%) Data Lake
17 39 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
18 38 (0.56%) DynamoDB
18 38 (0.56%) Metadata
19 26 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 284 (4.15%) Git
2 208 (3.04%) JIRA
3 99 (1.45%) GitLab
4 97 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 24 (0.35%) Selenium
7 22 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 22 (0.32%) JUnit
8 19 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 19 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 18 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 18 (0.26%) Maven
9 18 (0.26%) Subversion
10 17 (0.25%) Burp Suite
10 17 (0.25%) Eclipse
10 17 (0.25%) Metasploit
11 15 (0.22%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.22%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,209 (46.90%) Social Skills
2 1,986 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1,347 (19.69%) Finance
4 430 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
5 397 (5.80%) Manufacturing
6 364 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 331 (4.84%) Law
8 309 (4.52%) Retail
9 304 (4.44%) Marketing
10 280 (4.09%) Legal
11 273 (3.99%) Public Sector
12 268 (3.92%) Banking
13 156 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 140 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
15 131 (1.91%) Electronics
16 129 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
17 111 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
18 93 (1.36%) Aerospace
19 87 (1.27%) Advertising
20 80 (1.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 892 (13.04%) Analyst
2 839 (12.26%) Senior
3 693 (10.13%) IT Support
4 667 (9.75%) Developer
5 590 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 418 (6.11%) IT Engineer
7 415 (6.07%) Lead
8 328 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
9 302 (4.41%) Consultant
10 246 (3.60%) Support Analyst
11 243 (3.55%) Support Technician
12 237 (3.46%) Architect
13 235 (3.43%) Software Engineer
14 234 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
15 192 (2.81%) Technical Support
16 186 (2.72%) IT Technician
17 179 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 162 (2.37%) Administrator
18 162 (2.37%) Senior Developer
19 161 (2.35%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (4.03%) .NET
2 269 (3.93%) React
3 217 (3.17%) HTML
4 193 (2.82%) REST
5 183 (2.67%) CSS
6 147 (2.15%) Node.js
7 135 (1.97%) RESTful
8 103 (1.51%) SOAP
9 98 (1.43%) Middleware
10 87 (1.27%) JSON
11 84 (1.23%) Spring
12 77 (1.13%) Vue
13 73 (1.07%) AngularJS
14 69 (1.01%) XML
15 64 (0.94%) Kafka
15 64 (0.94%) Web Services
16 63 (0.92%) OAuth
17 55 (0.80%) gRPC
18 53 (0.77%) Spring Boot
19 51 (0.75%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 416 (6.08%) Driving Licence
2 386 (5.64%) Onboarding
3 319 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
4 256 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 250 (3.65%) Cloud Native
6 192 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 168 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 160 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 154 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 118 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 98 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 98 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 86 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 84 (1.23%) Social Media
14 80 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
15 76 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 72 (1.05%) Low-Code
17 67 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 65 (0.95%) Virtual Team
19 61 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,098 (16.05%) Windows
2 480 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 462 (6.75%) Linux
4 169 (2.47%) Windows 10
5 130 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 110 (1.61%) Android
7 90 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 89 (1.30%) Mac OS
9 65 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 43 (0.63%) Unix
11 41 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.45%) CentOS
12 31 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (0.38%) VMS
15 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
15 14 (0.20%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.18%) Debian
17 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
18 6 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,397 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,079 (15.77%) Agile
3 1,002 (14.64%) Customer Service
4 764 (11.17%) Mentoring
5 759 (11.09%) AI
6 742 (10.84%) CI/CD
7 729 (10.65%) Decision-Making
8 647 (9.46%) Analytics
9 630 (9.21%) DevOps
10 603 (8.81%) Software Engineering
11 586 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 556 (8.13%) ITIL
13 539 (7.88%) Roadmaps
14 531 (7.76%) Computer Science
14 531 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
15 486 (7.10%) Project Management
16 484 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
17 445 (6.50%) Collaborative Working
18 440 (6.43%) Coaching
19 411 (6.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (15.35%) Python
2 1,046 (15.29%) SQL
3 468 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 356 (5.20%) C#
5 351 (5.13%) Java
6 318 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 212 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 165 (2.41%) Bash
9 149 (2.18%) C++
10 94 (1.37%) PHP
11 87 (1.27%) Go
12 61 (0.89%) C
13 60 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 57 (0.83%) Scala
15 54 (0.79%) T-SQL
16 46 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 43 (0.63%) R
18 40 (0.58%) Rust
19 38 (0.56%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,119 (16.35%) Degree
2 556 (8.13%) Security Cleared
3 382 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 270 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 225 (3.29%) DBS Check
6 190 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (1.80%) CISSP
8 120 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 115 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 112 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 100 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 82 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 81 (1.18%) PMI Certification
14 74 (1.08%) CCNA
15 73 (1.07%) PMP
16 72 (1.05%) A+ Certification
17 71 (1.04%) ACCA
18 66 (0.96%) CIMA
19 60 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
20 58 (0.85%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (5.47%) QA
2 328 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 279 (4.08%) GDPR
4 201 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 199 (2.91%) SLA
6 178 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 161 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 150 (2.19%) PCI DSS
9 146 (2.13%) NIST
10 54 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.64%) PMO
12 36 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 31 (0.45%) GRC
14 30 (0.44%) SOC 2
15 24 (0.35%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 19 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
18 16 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 15 (0.22%) IFRS
20 12 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 753 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 306 (4.47%) Docker
3 251 (3.67%) Hyper-V
4 218 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (1.02%) Terminal Server
6 48 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 33 (0.48%) Firmware
8 27 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (0.38%) vSphere
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.15%) IAG
13 8 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
14 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.10%) XenApp
15 6 (0.088%) VMware NSX
16 5 (0.073%) ClearTrust
17 4 (0.058%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
18 3 (0.044%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 303 (4.43%) Terraform
2 262 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 258 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 149 (2.18%) Ansible
5 94 (1.37%) Grafana
6 79 (1.15%) SCCM
7 57 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.50%) Nagios
9 29 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 19 (0.28%) Kibana
11 18 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 14 (0.20%) Autotask
13 14 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 12 (0.18%) Puppet
15 11 (0.16%) logstash
15 11 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,893 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 328 (4.79%) VMware
3 186 (2.72%) Oracle
4 174 (2.54%) Google
5 162 (2.37%) SAP
6 150 (2.19%) Cisco
7 144 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 136 (1.99%) SolarWinds
9 129 (1.89%) Veeam
10 126 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 124 (1.81%) Splunk
12 107 (1.56%) Databricks
13 81 (1.18%) Apple
14 73 (1.07%) Tanium
15 71 (1.04%) Nimble Storage
16 70 (1.02%) Brocade
17 63 (0.92%) Adobe
18 57 (0.83%) Dell
19 52 (0.76%) Red Hat
19 52 (0.76%) Sage