Problem-Solving Jobs in Hertfordshire

Problem Solving
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 216 236 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.87% 11.93% 14.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.24% 14.83% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 134 185 94
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,198 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £46,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -16.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £76,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,925 £71,000 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% +10.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 793 1,591 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 94.97% 80.39% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 458 1,259 764
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,809 £30,075
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,050 £82,125
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Hertfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Hertfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Hertfordshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Stevenage +10 31 £42,000 -16.00% 26
Watford -7 23 £45,171 +0.38% 45
Hemel Hempstead +6 18 £52,984 -11.69% 24
Hatfield +13 11 £47,500 +35.71% 14
Borehamwood +11 9 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Letchworth +2 8 £63,484 +144.17%
Broxbourne - 8 £35,000 -
Rickmansworth 0 7 £63,484 +144.17% 2
Harpenden - 7 £85,000 -
Bishop's Stortford +6 6 £63,484 -31.37% 4
Hitchin +13 5 £50,967 -21.59% 4
St Albans +10 5 £55,000 -13.73% 7
Royston -2 5 £63,484 +33.65%
Buntingford - 5 £50,967 - 1
Potters Bar +5 4 £63,484 +135.12% 3
Hoddesdon +4 4 £63,484 +65.97%
Hertford +4 4 £63,484 +118.91% 6
Welwyn Garden City +4 4 £63,484 +71.58% 7
Abbots Langley 0 4 £63,484 -5.95% 1
Berkhamsted - 4 £63,484 -
Tring - 4 £63,484 -
Ware - 3 £63,484 -
Baldock - 3 £63,484 -
Sawbridgeworth - 3 £63,484 -
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 13 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.24%) IIS
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.46%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Documentum
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.46%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 67 (31.02%) Power Platform
2 17 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.48%) Azure
4 8 (3.70%) AWS
5 7 (3.24%) SaaS
6 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.39%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.39%) Serverless
8 2 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.93%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.46%) Figma
9 1 (0.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.19%) Broadband
2 7 (3.24%) FTP
3 6 (2.78%) Firewall
4 5 (2.31%) VLAN
4 5 (2.31%) WAN
5 4 (1.85%) BGP
5 4 (1.85%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.85%) OSPF
5 4 (1.85%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.85%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.85%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.85%) VoIP
5 4 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.85%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.39%) DNS
6 3 (1.39%) Network Security
6 3 (1.39%) VPN
7 2 (0.93%) DHCP
7 2 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (30.09%) Power BI
2 50 (23.15%) Geospatial Data
2 50 (23.15%) GIS
2 50 (23.15%) Power Query
3 10 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.93%) Big Data
5 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.46%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (1.39%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.39%) Git
2 3 (1.39%) GitLab
3 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
3 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.46%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.46%) JIRA
4 1 (0.46%) Log4j
4 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 131 (60.65%) Social Skills
2 80 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (21.76%) Influencing Skills
4 15 (6.94%) Local Government
5 10 (4.63%) Finance
6 7 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.78%) Aviation
8 5 (2.31%) Retail
9 4 (1.85%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.39%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Games
12 1 (0.46%) Law
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (27.31%) Analyst
2 47 (21.76%) Business Change Analyst
2 47 (21.76%) Change Analyst
3 20 (9.26%) Senior
4 13 (6.02%) Applications Support
5 12 (5.56%) Lead
5 12 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 9 (4.17%) Coordinator
7 8 (3.70%) ERP Support
8 7 (3.24%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (3.24%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (3.24%) IT Support
8 7 (3.24%) Senior Applications Engineer
8 7 (3.24%) Senior Applications Support
8 7 (3.24%) Senior Support Engineer
8 7 (3.24%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (3.24%) Technical Support
9 6 (2.78%) Support Analyst
9 6 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.31%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.85%) RESTful
2 3 (1.39%) React
3 2 (0.93%) .NET
3 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.93%) CSS
3 2 (0.93%) HTML
3 2 (0.93%) Restlet
3 2 (0.93%) SOAP
3 2 (0.93%) Spring
4 1 (0.46%) Akka
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Camel
4 1 (0.46%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.46%) CSS3
4 1 (0.46%) HTML5
4 1 (0.46%) Node.js
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.46%) SAML
4 1 (0.46%) Sass
4 1 (0.46%) ServiceStack
4 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.15%) Algorithms
2 10 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.85%) EPoS
4 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (0.93%) FPGA
5 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.93%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (0.93%) Verilog
5 2 (0.93%) VHDL
6 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.46%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.46%) Online Games
6 1 (0.46%) Robotics
6 1 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.46%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.26%) Windows
2 10 (4.63%) Linux
3 8 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.46%) Rocky
6 1 (0.46%) SUSE
6 1 (0.46%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (29.63%) Collaborative Working
3 59 (27.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (27.31%) Service Delivery
4 58 (26.85%) Data Management
5 52 (24.07%) Actionable Insight
5 52 (24.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 50 (23.15%) Asset Management
6 50 (23.15%) Strategic Planning
7 49 (22.69%) Change Management
7 49 (22.69%) Workshop Facilitation
8 47 (21.76%) Business Analysis
8 47 (21.76%) Business Case
8 47 (21.76%) MoSCoW
8 47 (21.76%) Strategic Thinking
8 47 (21.76%) Use Case
9 29 (13.43%) High Availability
10 28 (12.96%) Computer Science
10 28 (12.96%) Mentoring
11 27 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.24%) JavaScript
3 7 (3.24%) Python
3 7 (3.24%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.31%) Bash
5 3 (1.39%) C#
5 3 (1.39%) Java
6 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.46%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (24.07%) Degree
2 47 (21.76%) CBAP
3 27 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.24%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) HNC
7 3 (1.39%) HND
7 3 (1.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) QA
2 8 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (0.46%) COBIT
3 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.93%) Ansible
2 2 (0.93%) Rancher
3 1 (0.46%) Autotask
3 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.31%) BroadSoft
2 5 (2.31%) Polycom
2 5 (2.31%) Yealink
3 4 (1.85%) Cisco
3 4 (1.85%) Fortinet
3 4 (1.85%) HP
3 4 (1.85%) SolarWinds
3 4 (1.85%) VMware
4 3 (1.39%) Dell
4 3 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.93%) Mitel
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle
5 2 (0.93%) Pure Storage
5 2 (0.93%) Red Box
5 2 (0.93%) SAP
5 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.46%) WatchGuard