Problem-Solving Job Trends in Lichfield

Problem Solving
Staffordshire > Lichfield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lichfield requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Lichfield 27.78% 7.14% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 45.45% 7.14% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,694 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.61% -16.67% +29.73%
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £38,500 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -23.00% +42.86% -26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lichfield

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 Lichfield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lichfield 61.11% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 14
10th Percentile - £47,375 £33,250
25th Percentile - £49,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,694 £51,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.96% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33,750 £56,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £61,625 £60,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -15.79%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Lichfield

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lichfield.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Lichfield

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Lichfield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lichfield citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lichfield citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lichfield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Digital Health
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Instructor
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Social Media
2 4 (40.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (40.00%) Logistics
1 4 (40.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (10.00%) Data Science
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality