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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 6,967 8,001 13,620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.25% 19.89% 14.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.21% 21.55% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,995 4,538 8,459
10th Percentile £27,330 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £84,964
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 62,143 37,121 76,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 92.27% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 43,798 20,470 55,428
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,500
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 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
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 26 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 26 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 -7 1,980 £70,000 +7.69% 836
North of England -8 1,434 £42,500 -1.16% 571
South East -4 1,316 £45,000 +5.88% 736
Midlands -8 982 £42,000 -1.18% 414
North West -7 752 £45,000 -2.17% 316
South West -6 630 £44,000 +17.33% 286
West Midlands -9 563 £42,500 -5.56% 225
East of England -3 546 £45,000 +28.57% 242
Yorkshire -12 505 £41,500 +18.57% 187
East Midlands -10 416 £35,000 -4.11% 188
North East -12 177 £49,250 +23.13% 86
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
1 382 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 379 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (1.13%) Confluence
4 65 (0.93%) CMS
5 51 (0.73%) Apache
6 40 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 36 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 36 (0.52%) IIS
8 32 (0.46%) WordPress
9 16 (0.23%) SAS
10 15 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 9 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 9 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
15 7 (0.10%) OpenEdge
16 6 (0.086%) Drupal
16 6 (0.086%) nginx
Applications
1 435 (6.24%) Microsoft Office
2 380 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 66 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 33 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.11%) Simulink
10 8 (0.11%) Trello
11 5 (0.072%) Fusion 360
11 5 (0.072%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.043%) Autodesk Inventor
12 3 (0.043%) Blender
12 3 (0.043%) Lightworks
12 3 (0.043%) Maya
12 3 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 73 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 63 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 40 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.29%) Shopify
5 16 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.23%) Magento
6 15 (0.22%) iTrent
6 15 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 14 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 11 (0.16%) Maximo
9 9 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
9 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
9 9 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 9 (0.13%) SAP Business One
9 9 (0.13%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.13%) Workday HCM
10 8 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (0.11%) Sage 50
11 6 (0.086%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,518 (21.79%) Azure
2 1,120 (16.08%) Microsoft 365
3 897 (12.87%) AWS
4 536 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 329 (4.72%) SaaS
6 314 (4.51%) Entra ID
7 309 (4.44%) GCP
8 179 (2.57%) Serverless
9 163 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 151 (2.17%) GitHub
11 140 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 132 (1.89%) Power Automate
13 112 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 96 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 92 (1.32%) OneDrive
16 75 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 75 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
16 75 (1.08%) Google Workspace
17 74 (1.06%) PaaS
18 73 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 471 (6.76%) Firewall
2 414 (5.94%) DNS
3 359 (5.15%) DHCP
4 297 (4.26%) VPN
5 237 (3.40%) WAN
6 229 (3.29%) TCP/IP
7 219 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
8 214 (3.07%) LAN
9 181 (2.60%) Broadband
10 144 (2.07%) VLAN
11 142 (2.04%) Wireless
12 107 (1.54%) VoIP
13 103 (1.48%) Network Security
14 59 (0.85%) SD-WAN
15 50 (0.72%) Internet
16 47 (0.67%) BGP
17 45 (0.65%) OSPF
18 42 (0.60%) SAN
19 38 (0.55%) HTTP
20 30 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (6.14%) Power BI
2 317 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 135 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 105 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 104 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 104 (1.49%) Tableau
6 103 (1.48%) MySQL
7 99 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 96 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 75 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 56 (0.80%) Power Query
12 55 (0.79%) MongoDB
13 52 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 48 (0.69%) Big Data
15 43 (0.62%) Data Lake
16 39 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
17 37 (0.53%) DynamoDB
18 36 (0.52%) Metadata
19 30 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 288 (4.13%) Git
2 208 (2.99%) JIRA
3 100 (1.44%) GitLab
3 100 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.36%) Selenium
6 24 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 22 (0.32%) JUnit
8 20 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 20 (0.29%) Eclipse
8 20 (0.29%) Subversion
9 19 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 17 (0.24%) Chocolatey
10 17 (0.24%) Maven
11 16 (0.23%) Burp Suite
11 16 (0.23%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.23%) Metasploit
11 16 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.20%) CircleCI
12 14 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3,277 (47.04%) Social Skills
2 2,000 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1,364 (19.58%) Finance
4 432 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
5 413 (5.93%) Manufacturing
6 371 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 338 (4.85%) Law
8 318 (4.56%) Retail
9 300 (4.31%) Marketing
10 284 (4.08%) Legal
11 275 (3.95%) Public Sector
12 270 (3.88%) Banking
13 156 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 141 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
15 132 (1.89%) Electronics
15 132 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
16 115 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
17 97 (1.39%) Aerospace
18 90 (1.29%) Advertising
19 82 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 906 (13.00%) Analyst
2 853 (12.24%) Senior
3 709 (10.18%) IT Support
4 675 (9.69%) Developer
5 602 (8.64%) Support Engineer
6 425 (6.10%) Lead
7 424 (6.09%) IT Engineer
8 331 (4.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 306 (4.39%) Consultant
10 253 (3.63%) Support Analyst
11 247 (3.55%) Software Engineer
11 247 (3.55%) Support Technician
12 232 (3.33%) Architect
13 231 (3.32%) Systems Engineer
14 202 (2.90%) Technical Support
15 192 (2.76%) IT Technician
16 178 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 167 (2.40%) Administrator
17 167 (2.40%) Data Engineer
18 163 (2.34%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (4.09%) .NET
2 276 (3.96%) React
3 216 (3.10%) HTML
4 199 (2.86%) REST
5 177 (2.54%) CSS
6 148 (2.12%) Node.js
7 140 (2.01%) RESTful
8 106 (1.52%) SOAP
9 102 (1.46%) Middleware
10 89 (1.28%) JSON
11 84 (1.21%) Spring
12 83 (1.19%) Vue
13 79 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 71 (1.02%) XML
15 67 (0.96%) Web Services
16 65 (0.93%) Kafka
17 59 (0.85%) OAuth
18 55 (0.79%) gRPC
19 53 (0.76%) Spring Boot
20 51 (0.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 428 (6.14%) Driving Licence
2 403 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 335 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 262 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 257 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 191 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 169 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 161 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 149 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 119 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 105 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 100 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 86 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 82 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 81 (1.16%) Social Media
16 77 (1.11%) Algorithms
17 73 (1.05%) Low-Code
18 70 (1.00%) Public Cloud
19 65 (0.93%) Virtual Team
20 61 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1,115 (16.00%) Windows
2 490 (7.03%) Windows Server
3 469 (6.73%) Linux
4 173 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 124 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 111 (1.59%) Android
7 92 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 91 (1.31%) Apple iOS
9 65 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.63%) Unix
11 43 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 31 (0.44%) CentOS
12 31 (0.44%) Ubuntu
13 28 (0.40%) VMS
14 26 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (0.22%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.20%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.19%) Debian
18 7 (0.10%) Windows 8
19 6 (0.086%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 1,095 (15.72%) Agile
3 1,024 (14.70%) Customer Service
4 792 (11.37%) Mentoring
5 780 (11.20%) AI
6 764 (10.97%) CI/CD
7 739 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 654 (9.39%) Analytics
9 643 (9.23%) DevOps
10 623 (8.94%) Software Engineering
11 600 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 571 (8.20%) ITIL
13 555 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
14 545 (7.82%) Roadmaps
15 530 (7.61%) Computer Science
16 493 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
17 482 (6.92%) Project Management
18 451 (6.47%) Collaborative Working
19 439 (6.30%) Coaching
20 422 (6.06%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1,089 (15.63%) SQL
2 1,061 (15.23%) Python
3 473 (6.79%) JavaScript
4 373 (5.35%) C#
5 353 (5.07%) Java
6 333 (4.78%) PowerShell
7 215 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 172 (2.47%) Bash
9 161 (2.31%) C++
10 96 (1.38%) PHP
11 88 (1.26%) Go
12 63 (0.90%) C
13 62 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 58 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 55 (0.79%) Scala
16 44 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 42 (0.60%) Rust
18 41 (0.59%) R
19 37 (0.53%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.49%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,124 (16.13%) Degree
2 563 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 379 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 269 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 225 (3.23%) DBS Check
6 194 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 127 (1.82%) CISSP
8 123 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 118 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 111 (1.59%) Master's Degree
11 106 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 83 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 79 (1.13%) PMI Certification
14 75 (1.08%) CCNA
15 72 (1.03%) A+ Certification
15 72 (1.03%) ACCA
15 72 (1.03%) PMP
16 67 (0.96%) CIMA
17 63 (0.90%) CISM
18 60 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (5.50%) QA
2 336 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 292 (4.19%) GDPR
4 203 (2.91%) SLA
5 197 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 189 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 164 (2.35%) Accessibility
8 150 (2.15%) NIST
9 145 (2.08%) PCI DSS
10 55 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 44 (0.63%) PMO
12 36 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 33 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 32 (0.46%) GRC
15 28 (0.40%) COBIT
16 20 (0.29%) GMP
17 19 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
19 15 (0.22%) IFRS
20 12 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 765 (10.98%) Active Directory
2 317 (4.55%) Docker
3 254 (3.65%) Hyper-V
4 225 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (0.90%) Terminal Server
6 49 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 35 (0.50%) Firmware
8 31 (0.44%) vSphere
9 30 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
10 16 (0.23%) KVM
11 15 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (0.14%) IAG
13 7 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 7 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.10%) XenApp
14 5 (0.072%) ClearTrust
15 4 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 316 (4.54%) Terraform
2 270 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 260 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 154 (2.21%) Ansible
5 97 (1.39%) Grafana
6 79 (1.13%) SCCM
7 59 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 34 (0.49%) Nagios
9 29 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.30%) FortiGate
11 19 (0.27%) Kibana
12 17 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 14 (0.20%) Autotask
13 14 (0.20%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 12 (0.17%) logstash
14 12 (0.17%) Puppet
15 11 (0.16%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,946 (27.93%) Microsoft
2 329 (4.72%) VMware
3 182 (2.61%) Oracle
4 175 (2.51%) Google
5 161 (2.31%) SAP
6 151 (2.17%) Cisco
7 147 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 130 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 127 (1.82%) SolarWinds
10 122 (1.75%) Veeam
11 115 (1.65%) Splunk
12 107 (1.54%) Databricks
13 80 (1.15%) Apple
14 67 (0.96%) Tanium
15 64 (0.92%) Nimble Storage
16 63 (0.90%) Adobe
16 63 (0.90%) Brocade
17 57 (0.82%) Dell
18 55 (0.79%) Red Hat
18 55 (0.79%) Sage