Creative Problem-Solving Job Trends in Manchester

Creative Problem-Solving
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 147 147
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 +99
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 23 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.74% 0.23% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.24% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £76,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £59,617 £77,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £80,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -23.23% +34.33% -11.77%
75th Percentile £63,220 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £83,250 -
North West median annual salary £61,418 £54,714 £59,556
% change year-on-year +12.25% -8.13% -10.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Creative 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,432 2,467 2,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 78.12% 94.34% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,489 1,164 2,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £42,470
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Creative Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Manchester

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Creative Problem-Solving

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Adobe Analytics
2 7 (30.43%) Figma
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
3 6 (26.09%) PaaS
3 6 (26.09%) SaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Finance
4 7 (30.43%) Banking
4 7 (30.43%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (21.74%) Retail
6 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
1 8 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Strategy Manager
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Architect
4 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
4 5 (21.74%) Principal Data Scientist
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Data Scientist
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Manager
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) EDI
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (26.09%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (60.87%) Analytics
3 13 (56.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (52.17%) Business Strategy
4 12 (52.17%) Visualisation
5 10 (43.48%) Agile
6 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (39.13%) Customer Experience
6 9 (39.13%) Microservices
6 9 (39.13%) Strategic Thinking
7 7 (30.43%) Customer Journey Map
7 7 (30.43%) Customer-Centricity
7 7 (30.43%) Design Thinking
7 7 (30.43%) Digital Banking
7 7 (30.43%) Journey Map
7 7 (30.43%) Matrix Organization
7 7 (30.43%) Prototyping
7 7 (30.43%) Storytelling
7 7 (30.43%) User Experience
7 7 (30.43%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) Go
2 3 (13.04%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Rancher
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Adobe
1 7 (30.43%) Qualtrics
2 6 (26.09%) BiZZdesign
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft