Problem-Solving Jobs in Leicestershire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 8 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 168 112 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 15.61% 14.27% 20.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.63% 14.58% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 106 37 101
10th Percentile £25,188 £32,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £36,750 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £42,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +34.92% -30.00%
75th Percentile £48,438 £51,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £54,750 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -4.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 953 768 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 88.57% 97.83% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 532 251 588
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £44,553 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.89% +5.26% +5.56%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Leicestershire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Leicestershire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Leicestershire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Leicestershire 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
Leicester +8 81 £39,969 -5.96% 29
Loughborough +5 28 £36,500 - 11
Coalville -1 6 £25,750 -35.63% 2
Lutterworth - 6 £65,000 -
Market Harborough -5 3 £25,000 - 4
Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 3 £27,500 -
Hinckley - 2 - - 7
Melton Mowbray - 2 - - 1
Wigston - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 11 (6.55%) IIS
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.98%) Apache
3 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) JBoss
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 29 (17.26%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.38%) Sketch
5 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.79%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.19%) Misys Midas
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.60%) iTrent
3 1 (0.60%) Primavera
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (27.38%) Azure
2 17 (10.12%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.57%) AWS
4 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.98%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.38%) Figma
6 4 (2.38%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.38%) Heroku
6 4 (2.38%) Miro
6 4 (2.38%) SaaS
6 4 (2.38%) Serverless
7 3 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.79%) GCP
8 2 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.19%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.19%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.19%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.88%) Firewall
2 14 (8.33%) VPN
3 9 (5.36%) DNS
3 9 (5.36%) SAN
4 5 (2.98%) DHCP
4 5 (2.98%) Internet
4 5 (2.98%) IPsec
4 5 (2.98%) SNMP
4 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.38%) NetScaler
5 4 (2.38%) Wireless
6 1 (0.60%) LAN
6 1 (0.60%) MPLS
6 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.60%) SMTP
6 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.79%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.79%) Looker
3 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.79%) Power BI
3 3 (1.79%) RDBMS
3 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.79%) Tableau
4 2 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.19%) Power Query
4 2 (1.19%) QlikView
4 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (2.98%) JIRA
3 4 (2.38%) Git
4 3 (1.79%) JDeveloper
5 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 58 (34.52%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.29%) Law
4 15 (8.93%) Retail
5 12 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.95%) Finance
7 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.57%) Marketing
10 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.60%) Automotive
12 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 23 (13.69%) Applications Support
3 22 (13.10%) Applications Engineer
3 22 (13.10%) Applications Support Engineer
4 18 (10.71%) Senior
5 17 (10.12%) Lead
6 13 (7.74%) Architect
6 13 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.55%) Analyst
9 9 (5.36%) Consultant
9 9 (5.36%) Developer
9 9 (5.36%) Network Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Presales Solution Architect
11 7 (4.17%) QA Leader
11 7 (4.17%) Test Leader
12 6 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.57%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) REST
2 7 (4.17%) HTML
3 6 (3.57%) Node.js
4 5 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.98%) YAML
5 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.79%) Express.js
6 3 (1.79%) React
7 2 (1.19%) .NET
7 2 (1.19%) JSON
7 2 (1.19%) MDX
7 2 (1.19%) RESTful
7 2 (1.19%) Spring
8 1 (0.60%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.60%) Java EE
8 1 (0.60%) MAPI
8 1 (0.60%) SOAP
8 1 (0.60%) Web Services
8 1 (0.60%) XML
8 1 (0.60%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 15 (8.93%) Taxonomies
4 14 (8.33%) Driving Licence
5 12 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.36%) Clustering
7 6 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.38%) PKI
9 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.19%) CCTV
10 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) IBM Mainframe
11 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.60%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (27.38%) Windows
2 26 (15.48%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.95%) Linux
4 5 (2.98%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.60%) CentOS
7 1 (0.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.86%) Project Management
2 28 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 26 (15.48%) Agile
4 25 (14.88%) Service Management
5 23 (13.69%) Decision-Making
5 23 (13.69%) DevOps
6 22 (13.10%) User Experience
7 21 (12.50%) Migration
8 20 (11.90%) Customer Requirements
9 19 (11.31%) ITIL
9 19 (11.31%) Process Improvement
9 19 (11.31%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (10.71%) Information Management
11 17 (10.12%) Time Management
12 16 (9.52%) Business Strategy
12 16 (9.52%) Data Management
12 16 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (8.93%) Infrastructure Management
13 15 (8.93%) Product Information Management
13 15 (8.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.02%) SQL
2 12 (7.14%) Python
3 7 (4.17%) Java
4 5 (2.98%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.79%) Bash
5 3 (1.79%) C
5 3 (1.79%) Go
5 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.79%) Perl
5 3 (1.79%) Ruby
5 3 (1.79%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.19%) C#
6 2 (1.19%) C++
6 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 28 (16.67%) Degree
2 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.17%) ISEB
4 7 (4.17%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.98%) HNC
6 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.19%) HND
6 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.19%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 2 (1.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.60%) CCA
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.71%) SLA
2 16 (9.52%) GDPR
3 12 (7.14%) QA
4 4 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.38%) WCAG
5 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (16.07%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.98%) Docker
5 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (2.98%) Ansible
2 5 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
2 5 (2.98%) vCenter Server
3 4 (2.38%) SCOM
3 4 (2.38%) WSUS
4 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 67 (39.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.14%) VMware
3 7 (4.17%) Google
4 6 (3.57%) SAP
5 5 (2.98%) Citrix
5 5 (2.98%) NetApp
5 5 (2.98%) Oracle
5 5 (2.98%) Palo Alto
5 5 (2.98%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.98%) SolidFire
5 5 (2.98%) Veeam
6 4 (2.38%) Acronis
6 4 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.38%) Globalscape
7 2 (1.19%) Cisco
7 2 (1.19%) EMC
7 2 (1.19%) HP
7 2 (1.19%) Workday
8 1 (0.60%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.60%) Meraki