Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,742 12,390 18,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.00% 13.27% 13.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.47% 13.88% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,500 6,239 8,565
10th Percentile £26,110 £29,500 £29,198
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £37,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,956 89,282 125,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.89% 95.65% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 52,696 73,771
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 +2 3,225 £70,000 - 1,567
South East +4 2,793 £45,000 -14.29% 939
North of England +9 2,474 £45,000 -2.17% 1,042
Midlands +4 1,788 £42,000 -16.00% 768
South West +7 1,329 £47,500 -5.00% 566
North West +10 1,292 £45,000 -5.26% 580
West Midlands +5 1,146 £42,500 -15.00% 459
East of England +5 1,025 £42,500 -11.46% 499
Yorkshire +6 934 £43,586 -3.14% 337
East Midlands +6 623 £37,500 -21.05% 308
North East +13 247 £45,000 +5.88% 140
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
1 459 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 406 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 136 (1.07%) CMS
3 136 (1.07%) Confluence
4 135 (1.06%) Apache
5 109 (0.86%) IIS
6 103 (0.81%) WordPress
7 47 (0.37%) SAS
8 45 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 27 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 26 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 26 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 24 (0.19%) nginx
13 23 (0.18%) JBoss
14 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
15 18 (0.14%) Drupal
16 17 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
17 15 (0.12%) Tomcat
18 14 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1,203 (9.44%) Microsoft Office
2 861 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 271 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 55 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.38%) Sketch
8 47 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
10 34 (0.27%) Simulink
11 29 (0.23%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 24 (0.19%) InDesign
14 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
15 20 (0.16%) Adobe XD
16 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
17 13 (0.10%) SPSS
18 12 (0.094%) Chatbot
19 9 (0.071%) Revit
20 8 (0.063%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 126 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 40 (0.31%) Magento
5 39 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 38 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
7 20 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
11 16 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
13 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
13 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
13 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
14 12 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
15 11 (0.086%) Sage 50
15 11 (0.086%) Teamcenter
16 10 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,211 (17.35%) Azure
2 1,554 (12.20%) AWS
3 1,317 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 677 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 642 (5.04%) GCP
6 471 (3.70%) SaaS
7 338 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 301 (2.36%) Serverless
9 265 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 199 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 197 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
12 194 (1.52%) GitHub
13 184 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 172 (1.35%) Amazon S3
15 145 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 143 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 117 (0.92%) IaaS
18 111 (0.87%) Snowflake
19 100 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
20 93 (0.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 781 (6.13%) Firewall
2 415 (3.26%) DNS
3 363 (2.85%) WAN
4 320 (2.51%) LAN
5 285 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 284 (2.23%) DHCP
7 249 (1.95%) Wireless
8 239 (1.88%) VPN
9 229 (1.80%) Network Security
10 196 (1.54%) Internet
11 185 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
12 154 (1.21%) VoIP
13 123 (0.97%) SAN
14 116 (0.91%) VLAN
15 76 (0.60%) SD-WAN
16 75 (0.59%) 5G
17 74 (0.58%) Broadband
18 72 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
19 58 (0.46%) NAS
20 57 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 821 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 560 (4.39%) Power BI
3 407 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 406 (3.19%) MySQL
5 344 (2.70%) Looker
6 343 (2.69%) BigQuery
7 308 (2.42%) Tableau
8 267 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 227 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 202 (1.59%) MongoDB
11 160 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 152 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
13 145 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 125 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 119 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 96 (0.75%) Redis
17 92 (0.72%) RDBMS
18 89 (0.70%) Data Lake
19 85 (0.67%) Big Data
20 84 (0.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 757 (5.94%) Git
2 453 (3.56%) JIRA
3 278 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 157 (1.23%) GitLab
5 93 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 71 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 54 (0.42%) Selenium
7 54 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 47 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 46 (0.36%) LabVIEW
10 37 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
10 37 (0.29%) Subversion
11 36 (0.28%) Postman
12 35 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.27%) IntelliJ
13 34 (0.27%) Metasploit
14 31 (0.24%) Burp Suite
15 29 (0.23%) Ant
15 29 (0.23%) JUnit
16 28 (0.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 6,704 (52.61%) Social Skills
2 4,362 (34.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2,400 (18.84%) Finance
4 961 (7.54%) Retail
5 868 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 734 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
7 689 (5.41%) Marketing
8 590 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 550 (4.32%) Legal
10 516 (4.05%) Manufacturing
11 478 (3.75%) Law
12 446 (3.50%) Public Sector
13 371 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
14 340 (2.67%) Banking
15 300 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 225 (1.77%) Billing
17 196 (1.54%) Electronics
18 189 (1.48%) Aerospace
19 174 (1.37%) Games
20 172 (1.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,890 (14.83%) Analyst
2 1,659 (13.02%) Developer
3 1,611 (12.64%) Senior
4 872 (6.84%) Lead
5 649 (5.09%) Architect
6 590 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 569 (4.47%) IT Support
8 502 (3.94%) Consultant
9 501 (3.93%) Support Engineer
10 436 (3.42%) Project Manager
11 377 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 374 (2.94%) Business Analyst
13 353 (2.77%) Senior Developer
14 317 (2.49%) IT Engineer
15 300 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 293 (2.30%) Support Analyst
17 270 (2.12%) IT Technician
18 262 (2.06%) Software Developer
19 261 (2.05%) IT Manager
20 259 (2.03%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (6.29%) .NET
2 705 (5.53%) HTML
3 621 (4.87%) CSS
4 547 (4.29%) React
5 343 (2.69%) AngularJS
6 324 (2.54%) Node.js
7 294 (2.31%) RESTful
8 237 (1.86%) REST
9 213 (1.67%) Vue
10 206 (1.62%) ASP.NET
11 196 (1.54%) .NET Framework
12 194 (1.52%) Web Services
13 188 (1.48%) .NET Core
14 179 (1.40%) JSON
15 178 (1.40%) Spring
16 154 (1.21%) XML
17 138 (1.08%) HTML5
18 134 (1.05%) SOAP
19 118 (0.93%) Laravel
20 111 (0.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1,198 (9.40%) Self-Motivation
2 707 (5.55%) Management Information System
3 426 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 420 (3.30%) Driving Licence
5 416 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 307 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 242 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 226 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 193 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 179 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 174 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 155 (1.22%) IoT
13 133 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 132 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 120 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 111 (0.87%) NHS
17 110 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
18 109 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
19 93 (0.73%) Clustering
20 85 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,941 (15.23%) Windows
2 869 (6.82%) Linux
3 658 (5.16%) Windows Server
4 485 (3.81%) Windows 10
5 226 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 196 (1.54%) Android
7 151 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 145 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 132 (1.04%) Unix
10 130 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 128 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
12 105 (0.82%) Windows 7
13 39 (0.31%) VMS
14 37 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
15 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
15 35 (0.27%) Kali Linux
15 35 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.27%) Ubuntu
17 29 (0.23%) Windows 8
18 28 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,469 (19.38%) Agile
2 1,660 (13.03%) Customer Service
3 1,628 (12.78%) Computer Science
4 1,598 (12.54%) Project Management
5 1,529 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 1,318 (10.34%) DevOps
7 1,311 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,260 (9.89%) Decision-Making
9 1,199 (9.41%) Software Engineering
10 996 (7.82%) Analytics
11 993 (7.79%) ITIL
12 983 (7.71%) Coaching
13 972 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
14 790 (6.20%) Mathematics
15 769 (6.04%) Data Analysis
16 766 (6.01%) Collaborative Working
17 735 (5.77%) Roadmaps
18 723 (5.67%) CI/CD
19 720 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
20 715 (5.61%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,937 (15.20%) SQL
2 1,504 (11.80%) Python
3 1,066 (8.37%) JavaScript
4 964 (7.57%) C#
5 794 (6.23%) Java
6 439 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 376 (2.95%) C++
8 333 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 323 (2.53%) C
10 295 (2.32%) PHP
11 269 (2.11%) Bash
12 163 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 121 (0.95%) R
14 110 (0.86%) Ruby
15 105 (0.82%) MATLAB
16 98 (0.77%) Perl
17 81 (0.64%) Go
18 71 (0.56%) Scala
18 71 (0.56%) VB
19 60 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,612 (28.35%) Degree
2 1,095 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 957 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 641 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 486 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 394 (3.09%) DBS Check
7 360 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 204 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 192 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 179 (1.40%) CISSP
11 154 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 137 (1.08%) CCNA
13 135 (1.06%) AWS Certification
14 127 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 122 (0.96%) HNC
16 118 (0.93%) A+ Certification
17 115 (0.90%) ACCA
18 112 (0.88%) PhD
19 94 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
20 93 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 696 (5.46%) QA
2 546 (4.29%) GDPR
3 481 (3.77%) SLA
4 431 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 253 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 154 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 149 (1.17%) PMO
9 109 (0.86%) ISO 9001
10 103 (0.81%) NIST
11 94 (0.74%) IFRS
12 83 (0.65%) GAAP
13 61 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 52 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 49 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 42 (0.33%) WCAG
17 37 (0.29%) NCSC
18 36 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.23%) HIPAA
20 25 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1,104 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 553 (4.34%) Docker
3 462 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 306 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 105 (0.82%) Firmware
6 100 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 93 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (0.32%) vSphere
10 33 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 30 (0.24%) KVM
12 23 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 22 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
15 13 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 13 (0.10%) XenApp
16 11 (0.086%) NFS
17 8 (0.063%) XenDesktop
18 7 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 7 (0.055%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 482 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 302 (2.37%) Terraform
3 224 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 180 (1.41%) SCCM
5 174 (1.37%) Ansible
6 76 (0.60%) Puppet
7 72 (0.57%) vCenter Server
8 66 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 62 (0.49%) Grafana
10 48 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 42 (0.33%) SCOM
12 40 (0.31%) WSUS
13 38 (0.30%) EnCase
14 34 (0.27%) Functional Safety
15 32 (0.25%) FortiGate
16 27 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
16 27 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
17 26 (0.20%) Progress Chef
18 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
19 21 (0.16%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3,138 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 730 (5.73%) Google
3 658 (5.16%) VMware
4 432 (3.39%) Oracle
5 364 (2.86%) SAP
6 320 (2.51%) Cisco
7 257 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 145 (1.14%) Databricks
9 139 (1.09%) Apple
10 136 (1.07%) Adobe
11 132 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 129 (1.01%) IBM
13 121 (0.95%) Veeam
14 106 (0.83%) CA
14 106 (0.83%) Citrix
15 105 (0.82%) HP
16 102 (0.80%) Juniper
17 98 (0.77%) Meraki
17 98 (0.77%) Palo Alto
18 85 (0.67%) Dell