Problem-Solving Jobs in Kent

Problem Solving
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 251 242 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 16.77% 21.53% 12.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.52% 22.47% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 172 69 54
10th Percentile £23,800 £26,250 £23,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +13.92% +21.54%
75th Percentile £50,924 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,500 £63,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,223 1,077 1,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 81.70% 95.82% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 891 523 704
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,550 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £33,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Kent over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Kent region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Maidstone +17 35 £33,000 -28.26% 8
Tonbridge +1 17 £35,000 - 1
Gravesend -4 12 £50,723 -8.92% 3
Chatham +20 11 £38,500 - 8
Tunbridge Wells -14 11 £25,500 -16.39% 5
Sevenoaks 0 10 £40,000 -15.79% 5
West Malling -4 9 £45,000 - 1
Canterbury -2 7 £31,250 - 1
Dartford -14 6 £45,000 - 8
Rochester -5 5 £61,000 - 5
Stansted - 3 £44,500 - 2
Sittingbourne +15 1 £27,500 +17.02% 3
Aylesford - 1 £23,500 - 1
Broadstairs - 1 - - 1
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 20 (7.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.99%) CMS
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (15.14%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.38%) Simulink
3 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.79%) Stateflow
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.72%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (16.73%) Azure
3 16 (6.37%) AWS
4 10 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (3.98%) IaaS
4 10 (3.98%) PaaS
4 10 (3.98%) Serverless
5 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (2.79%) Azure Functions
6 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.79%) GCP
7 6 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.39%) SaaS
8 5 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.59%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.20%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (1.20%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.20%) GitHub
11 2 (0.80%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.15%) Firewall
2 21 (8.37%) DHCP
2 21 (8.37%) DNS
3 16 (6.37%) WAN
4 11 (4.38%) 5G
5 9 (3.59%) 4G
5 9 (3.59%) MPLS
5 9 (3.59%) VPN
6 8 (3.19%) LAN
7 7 (2.79%) FTP
7 7 (2.79%) HTTP
7 7 (2.79%) J1939
8 6 (2.39%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.99%) VLAN
9 5 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.80%) Broadband
11 1 (0.40%) SSL
11 1 (0.40%) VoIP
11 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.14%) Power Query
2 21 (8.37%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.98%) MySQL
3 15 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.58%) MongoDB
4 14 (5.58%) Redis
4 14 (5.58%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.79%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.79%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.79%) Looker
7 5 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.99%) GIS
7 5 (1.99%) Power BI
8 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.58%) Jenkins
1 14 (5.58%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (3.98%) JIRA
3 5 (1.99%) Git
4 3 (1.20%) Babel
4 3 (1.20%) GitLab
4 3 (1.20%) webpack
5 1 (0.40%) eggPlant
General
1 116 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 95 (37.85%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (22.71%) Finance
4 16 (6.37%) Retail
5 11 (4.38%) Automotive
5 11 (4.38%) Marketing
6 10 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Electronics
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.51%) Analyst
2 40 (15.94%) Developer
3 28 (11.16%) Systems Engineer
4 24 (9.56%) 3rd Line Support
5 23 (9.16%) Support Analyst
6 21 (8.37%) Senior
7 20 (7.97%) Data Analyst
8 19 (7.57%) Coordinator
8 19 (7.57%) Data Coordinator
9 16 (6.37%) Lead
10 15 (5.98%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 14 (5.58%) 1st Line Support
11 14 (5.58%) C# .NET Developer
11 14 (5.58%) C# Developer
12 13 (5.18%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 13 (5.18%) Help Desk Analyst
13 12 (4.78%) 1st Line Support Analyst
13 12 (4.78%) Help Desk Support
13 12 (4.78%) Help Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.75%) .NET
2 14 (5.58%) MSMQ
2 14 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
2 14 (5.58%) REST
3 13 (5.18%) RESTful
4 11 (4.38%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.59%) CSS
5 9 (3.59%) HTML
6 8 (3.19%) Web Services
7 7 (2.79%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.79%) gRPC
8 6 (2.39%) CSS3
8 6 (2.39%) HTML5
9 4 (1.59%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.59%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.59%) Vue
10 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.20%) Blazor
10 3 (1.20%) NgRx
10 3 (1.20%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (31.87%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.58%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.18%) IoT
5 12 (4.78%) Client/Server
6 11 (4.38%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.98%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.59%) ARM Cortex
8 9 (3.59%) Security Posture
9 8 (3.19%) Cyber Security Posture
9 8 (3.19%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.20%) Replication
13 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.80%) Clustering
13 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.32%) Windows
2 15 (5.98%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.19%) Android
4 8 (3.19%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.20%) Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (27.49%) Customer Service
2 59 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (21.12%) Data Management
4 44 (17.53%) CRM
5 35 (13.94%) Project Management
6 29 (11.55%) Agile
6 29 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (10.76%) Microservices
8 26 (10.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 25 (9.96%) ITIL
10 24 (9.56%) CI/CD
10 24 (9.56%) Mentoring
11 23 (9.16%) Process Improvement
12 21 (8.37%) Computer Science
12 21 (8.37%) Design Patterns
12 21 (8.37%) DevOps
13 18 (7.17%) MVC
13 18 (7.17%) Strategic Planning
13 18 (7.17%) Validation
14 15 (5.98%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.75%) C#
2 13 (5.18%) SQL
3 12 (4.78%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.78%) MATLAB
4 8 (3.19%) C
5 6 (2.39%) Python
6 3 (1.20%) C++
6 3 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (21.12%) Degree
2 24 (9.56%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.57%) Master's Degree
4 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.58%) DBS Check
5 14 (5.58%) MCSE
6 13 (5.18%) CCNP
6 13 (5.18%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.78%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (1.59%) EMC Certification
9 2 (0.80%) HNC
9 2 (0.80%) MBA
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.40%) MCSA
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.95%) GDPR
2 15 (5.98%) QA
2 15 (5.98%) SLA
3 11 (4.38%) Automotive SPICE
3 11 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.38%) ISO 26262
4 10 (3.98%) COSHH
4 10 (3.98%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.57%) Hyper-V
3 18 (7.17%) Docker
4 7 (2.79%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.38%) Functional Safety
3 10 (3.98%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 77 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.14%) Salesforce
3 30 (11.95%) Cisco
4 13 (5.18%) Darktrace
5 12 (4.78%) WatchGuard
6 11 (4.38%) VMware
7 10 (3.98%) Meraki
8 9 (3.59%) Google
8 9 (3.59%) HP
8 9 (3.59%) Mitel
8 9 (3.59%) NEC
8 9 (3.59%) Ribbon
9 5 (1.99%) Oracle
10 4 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.59%) EMC
10 4 (1.59%) F5
10 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.20%) Facebook
11 3 (1.20%) Instagram
12 2 (0.80%) Virgin Media