Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,951 12,842 12,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.06% 15.07% 13.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.21% 17.57% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,940 8,490 6,125
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,906 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Process and 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 43,664 73,086 88,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.70% 85.76% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,831 53,858 52,090
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £73,650 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in England.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

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 5 May 2025. 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 2,282 £65,000 -7.14% 4,466
North of England 0 1,841 £45,000 - 1,718
South East +1 1,388 £50,000 +11.11% 2,149
Midlands -2 1,036 £45,000 +6.89% 1,202
North West -2 964 £47,500 +5.56% 981
West Midlands -3 699 £49,500 +16.47% 647
South West +4 691 £40,000 -15.79% 766
East of England 0 623 £47,500 +11.76% 732
Yorkshire +2 595 £40,000 -7.61% 538
East Midlands -6 336 £40,000 +6.67% 504
North East +8 282 £35,000 -22.22% 220
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 264 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 196 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 93 (1.17%) CMS
4 81 (1.02%) Confluence
5 62 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 59 (0.74%) Apache
7 48 (0.60%) IIS
8 43 (0.54%) OpenEdge
9 32 (0.40%) WordPress
10 30 (0.38%) SAS
11 29 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 28 (0.35%) IBM Domino
13 23 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 23 (0.29%) nginx
14 22 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
15 17 (0.21%) Tomcat
16 11 (0.14%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.088%) Drupal
18 6 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2010
18 6 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 361 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 310 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 181 (2.28%) Simulink
4 84 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (0.91%) Mathcad
6 55 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 52 (0.65%) MS Visio
8 41 (0.52%) Trello
9 26 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 24 (0.30%) Maya
11 17 (0.21%) Chatbot
11 17 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
12 14 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
13 13 (0.16%) Adobe XD
13 13 (0.16%) InDesign
14 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
15 11 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
16 9 (0.11%) CapCut
16 9 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 149 (1.87%) NetSuite
2 103 (1.30%) Teamcenter
3 100 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 61 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
5 55 (0.69%) Shopify
6 34 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
7 28 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 20 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 14 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
10 9 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
10 9 (0.11%) Endur
10 9 (0.11%) Primavera
10 9 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
11 8 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 7 (0.088%) iTrent
12 7 (0.088%) SAP ERP
13 6 (0.075%) Infor CloudSuite
13 6 (0.075%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
13 6 (0.075%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,427 (17.95%) Azure
2 948 (11.92%) AWS
3 761 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 580 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 359 (4.52%) SaaS
6 281 (3.53%) GCP
7 199 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 167 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 162 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 148 (1.86%) GitHub
11 131 (1.65%) Serverless
12 113 (1.42%) Power Automate
13 111 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 92 (1.16%) OneDrive
15 86 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 83 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 61 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
17 61 (0.77%) PaaS
18 51 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 50 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 423 (5.32%) Broadband
2 410 (5.16%) Firewall
3 280 (3.52%) VPN
4 236 (2.97%) Network Security
5 216 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 212 (2.67%) DNS
7 177 (2.23%) WAN
8 148 (1.86%) LAN
9 143 (1.80%) DHCP
10 141 (1.77%) Internet
11 123 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
12 106 (1.33%) WLAN
13 102 (1.28%) VLAN
14 81 (1.02%) VoIP
15 68 (0.86%) Wireless
16 67 (0.84%) SAN
17 58 (0.73%) SD-WAN
18 56 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
19 44 (0.55%) Intranet
20 41 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (6.02%) Power BI
2 448 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 184 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
4 171 (2.15%) MySQL
5 168 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 160 (2.01%) Tableau
7 125 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 116 (1.46%) Power Query
9 113 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 102 (1.28%) Big Data
10 102 (1.28%) GIS
11 99 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
12 95 (1.19%) MongoDB
13 75 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 73 (0.92%) Data Lake
15 67 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 61 (0.77%) Metadata
17 55 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
18 47 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
18 47 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 380 (4.78%) Git
2 306 (3.85%) JIRA
3 124 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 111 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
5 78 (0.98%) Cucumber
6 68 (0.86%) Robot Framework
7 52 (0.65%) GitLab
8 50 (0.63%) Visual Studio
9 49 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
10 43 (0.54%) Selenium
11 36 (0.45%) Postman
12 30 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 28 (0.35%) JUnit
14 26 (0.33%) Cypress.io
15 25 (0.31%) MSBuild
16 20 (0.25%) Gradle
17 19 (0.24%) Maven
17 19 (0.24%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.23%) JMeter
19 17 (0.21%) IntelliJ
General
1 4,314 (54.26%) Social Skills
2 2,351 (29.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1,710 (21.51%) Finance
4 709 (8.92%) Banking
5 541 (6.80%) Games
6 457 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 445 (5.60%) Marketing
8 419 (5.27%) Law
9 417 (5.24%) Electronics
9 417 (5.24%) Manufacturing
10 415 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 379 (4.77%) Retail
12 334 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
13 237 (2.98%) Telecoms
14 236 (2.97%) Legal
15 189 (2.38%) Public Sector
16 174 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
17 141 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 80 (1.01%) Advertising
19 73 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,059 (13.32%) Senior
2 990 (12.45%) Analyst
3 875 (11.00%) Developer
4 706 (8.88%) IT Support
5 594 (7.47%) Lead
6 442 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 411 (5.17%) Customer Service Advisor
8 270 (3.40%) IT Engineer
9 256 (3.22%) Consultant
10 246 (3.09%) Architect
11 220 (2.77%) Junior
12 215 (2.70%) Support Analyst
13 213 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
14 198 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
15 191 (2.40%) Software Engineer
16 187 (2.35%) Project Manager
17 172 (2.16%) IT Manager
18 170 (2.14%) Technical Support
19 167 (2.10%) Applications Support
20 158 (1.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (5.22%) .NET
2 368 (4.63%) HTML
3 317 (3.99%) CSS
4 283 (3.56%) React
5 222 (2.79%) REST
6 180 (2.26%) RESTful
7 147 (1.85%) Node.js
8 140 (1.76%) AngularJS
9 138 (1.74%) XML
10 134 (1.69%) ASP.NET
11 120 (1.51%) .NET Framework
12 103 (1.30%) JSON
13 101 (1.27%) SOAP
14 91 (1.14%) .NET Core
15 86 (1.08%) HTML5
16 85 (1.07%) Kafka
17 84 (1.06%) Web Services
18 69 (0.87%) Vue
19 66 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
20 64 (0.80%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 331 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
2 325 (4.09%) Management Information System
3 292 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 277 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 226 (2.84%) Driving Licence
6 156 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 153 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 153 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 129 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 127 (1.60%) FMCG
10 117 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 117 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 110 (1.38%) Cloud Native
12 85 (1.07%) Social Media
13 83 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 72 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 70 (0.88%) Security Posture
16 68 (0.86%) Cyberattack
17 67 (0.84%) IoT
18 62 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,329 (16.71%) Windows
2 529 (6.65%) Linux
3 317 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 184 (2.31%) Windows 10
5 128 (1.61%) Android
6 102 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 101 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 75 (0.94%) Unix
9 40 (0.50%) Windows Vista
10 36 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 35 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 29 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 16 (0.20%) Mac OS X
14 16 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.11%) CentOS
15 9 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.088%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.063%) zOS
18 4 (0.050%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,260 (15.85%) Agile
2 1,143 (14.38%) Customer Service
3 1,129 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 1,029 (12.94%) Project Management
5 891 (11.21%) Computer Science
6 844 (10.62%) Mentoring
7 741 (9.32%) Analytics
8 724 (9.11%) DevOps
9 663 (8.34%) ITIL
10 655 (8.24%) Decision-Making
11 630 (7.92%) Mathematics
12 586 (7.37%) Software Engineering
13 576 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
14 560 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
15 528 (6.64%) CI/CD
16 511 (6.43%) Service Delivery
17 498 (6.26%) Process Improvement
18 492 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence
19 487 (6.13%) Roadmaps
20 466 (5.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1,262 (15.87%) SQL
2 975 (12.26%) Python
3 647 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 566 (7.12%) C#
5 455 (5.72%) Java
6 347 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 222 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 200 (2.52%) MATLAB
9 179 (2.25%) Bash
10 140 (1.76%) PHP
11 125 (1.57%) C++
12 96 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 77 (0.97%) C
14 46 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 43 (0.54%) R
16 42 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 41 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 39 (0.49%) Go
19 38 (0.48%) Scala
20 34 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,993 (25.07%) Degree
2 521 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 437 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 345 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 327 (4.11%) Security Cleared
6 280 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 229 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 207 (2.60%) DBS Check
9 188 (2.36%) CCNA
10 159 (2.00%) SC Cleared
11 157 (1.97%) CCNP
12 149 (1.87%) PMI Certification
12 149 (1.87%) PMP
13 136 (1.71%) DV Cleared
14 135 (1.70%) MCP
15 126 (1.58%) Azure Certification
16 120 (1.51%) MCSE
17 119 (1.50%) CISSP
18 115 (1.45%) CBAP
19 95 (1.19%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (6.26%) QA
2 222 (2.79%) GDPR
3 196 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 171 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 160 (2.01%) SLA
6 127 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 90 (1.13%) NIST
8 72 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 64 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 57 (0.72%) PMO
11 38 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 37 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 33 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 28 (0.35%) ISO 9001
15 26 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 23 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 23 (0.29%) GRC
16 23 (0.29%) WCAG
17 22 (0.28%) DO-254
System Software
1 564 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 334 (4.20%) Docker
3 201 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 122 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 58 (0.73%) Firmware
6 46 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 35 (0.44%) vSphere
10 13 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
12 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.13%) XenApp
13 5 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (0.063%) Postfix
14 4 (0.050%) HDFS
14 4 (0.050%) LXC
15 3 (0.038%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.038%) KVM
15 3 (0.038%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 352 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 246 (3.09%) Terraform
3 152 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 93 (1.17%) Ansible
5 49 (0.62%) SCCM
6 42 (0.53%) Grafana
6 42 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 27 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (0.33%) Nagios
9 20 (0.25%) Puppet
10 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.18%) QRadar
12 12 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (0.15%) PaperCut
13 11 (0.14%) Argo
14 10 (0.13%) CASB
14 10 (0.13%) Nessus
14 10 (0.13%) SCOM
15 9 (0.11%) Graylog
16 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,716 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 424 (5.33%) BT
3 332 (4.18%) Cisco
4 306 (3.85%) Google
5 283 (3.56%) VMware
6 259 (3.26%) SAP
7 234 (2.94%) Oracle
8 195 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 162 (2.04%) Databricks
10 159 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 154 (1.94%) IBM
12 112 (1.41%) Adobe
13 72 (0.91%) MathWorks
14 69 (0.87%) Apple
15 68 (0.86%) Citrix
16 67 (0.84%) Meraki
17 54 (0.68%) Dell
17 54 (0.68%) Veeam
18 48 (0.60%) HP
19 47 (0.59%) Splunk