Problem-Solving Job Trends in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 383 427 802
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.28% 18.84% 13.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.76% 19.76% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 295 281 515
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,999 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 4,371 2,161 4,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.73% 95.37% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 1,219 3,650
10th Percentile £32,875 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,375 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £80,492
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Bolton +1 20 £50,000 - 15
Salford -11 7 £48,350 +38.14% 20
Stockport +6 6 £40,000 +33.33% 12
Ashton-under-Lyne +6 6 £47,500 - 6
Sale +8 4 £16,600 - 1
Altrincham -9 3 £26,228 -59.65% 4
Rochdale -1 2 £45,000 - 5
Oldham +7 1 £69,973 +23.84% 10
Wigan -1 1 £55,000 - 7
Problem-Solving
North West

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 29 (7.57%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.57%) IIS
4 5 (1.31%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.04%) Moodle
5 4 (1.04%) Totara
6 2 (0.52%) Apache
6 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Simulink
5 1 (0.26%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.39%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Shopify
5 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.52%) Magento
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (23.50%) Azure
2 61 (15.93%) AWS
2 61 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (7.83%) Power Platform
4 17 (4.44%) Entra ID
4 17 (4.44%) GCP
5 14 (3.66%) SaaS
6 13 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (3.39%) GitHub
7 12 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.87%) Power Automate
8 11 (2.87%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.61%) Serverless
10 7 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.83%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.57%) Firewall
2 27 (7.05%) DNS
3 24 (6.27%) DHCP
4 23 (6.01%) VLAN
5 16 (4.18%) VPN
6 15 (3.92%) TCP/IP
7 14 (3.66%) VoIP
8 13 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.13%) Structured Cabling
10 8 (2.09%) Network Security
11 6 (1.57%) LAN
11 6 (1.57%) SAN
11 6 (1.57%) WAN
12 5 (1.31%) Broadband
12 5 (1.31%) Wireless
13 4 (1.04%) BGP
13 4 (1.04%) OSPF
14 3 (0.78%) Telepresence
14 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.78%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.66%) Power BI
3 12 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.83%) Big Data
5 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.57%) MySQL
7 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.52%) KNIME
10 2 (0.52%) MS Access
10 2 (0.52%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.52%) Power Query
10 2 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (7.05%) Git
2 12 (3.13%) JIRA
3 7 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.31%) GitLab
5 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.26%) gulp
6 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 154 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 99 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (17.75%) Finance
4 31 (8.09%) Law
5 30 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (7.05%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.18%) Retail
9 15 (3.92%) Legal
9 15 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.66%) Marketing
11 10 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.31%) Advertising
13 5 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.31%) Military
13 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.04%) Banking
14 4 (1.04%) Billing
14 4 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (14.88%) Senior
2 47 (12.27%) Developer
3 46 (12.01%) Analyst
4 28 (7.31%) IT Support
5 26 (6.79%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.48%) Consultant
7 20 (5.22%) Support Engineer
8 19 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 17 (4.44%) Lead
10 15 (3.92%) Administrator
10 15 (3.92%) Support Technician
11 13 (3.39%) Planning Manager
11 13 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.13%) SAP Manager
13 11 (2.87%) IT Engineer
13 11 (2.87%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (2.87%) Technology Consultant
14 10 (2.61%) IT Manager
14 10 (2.61%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.53%) HTML
2 24 (6.27%) React
3 22 (5.74%) .NET
4 19 (4.96%) CSS
5 14 (3.66%) Spring
5 14 (3.66%) Spring Boot
5 14 (3.66%) Vue
6 13 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.87%) REST
8 10 (2.61%) EDI
8 10 (2.61%) RESTful
9 9 (2.35%) Node.js
9 9 (2.35%) Web Services
10 8 (2.09%) Next.js
10 8 (2.09%) React Native
10 8 (2.09%) Ruby on Rails
11 7 (1.83%) Middleware
11 7 (1.83%) OAuth
11 7 (1.83%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.31%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.40%) Driving Licence
2 31 (8.09%) Onboarding
3 30 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.53%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.92%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.35%) Social Media
9 8 (2.09%) CCTV
10 7 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.31%) EPoS
13 4 (1.04%) Clustering
13 4 (1.04%) e-Learning
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.04%) IoT
13 4 (1.04%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.49%) Windows
2 33 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 29 (7.57%) Windows 10
4 11 (2.87%) Linux
5 7 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.57%) Android
6 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.78%) Unix
9 2 (0.52%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 68 (17.75%) Customer Service
3 66 (17.23%) Mentoring
4 62 (16.19%) Agile
5 61 (15.93%) CI/CD
6 60 (15.67%) Decision-Making
7 56 (14.62%) AI
8 50 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (11.49%) DevOps
9 44 (11.49%) Software Engineering
10 42 (10.97%) Roadmaps
11 38 (9.92%) Analytics
12 34 (8.88%) Test Automation
13 31 (8.09%) Business Continuity
13 31 (8.09%) ERP
14 30 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (7.57%) CRM
16 28 (7.31%) Process Improvement
17 26 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
18 25 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.80%) Python
2 70 (18.28%) SQL
3 34 (8.88%) JavaScript
4 27 (7.05%) C#
5 26 (6.79%) Java
6 18 (4.70%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.39%) Bash
8 9 (2.35%) PHP
8 9 (2.35%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.09%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.09%) Ruby
10 7 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.31%) Bicep
12 4 (1.04%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.04%) Scala
13 3 (0.78%) R
13 3 (0.78%) SOQL
13 3 (0.78%) SOSL
13 3 (0.78%) Swift
14 2 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 48 (12.53%) Degree
2 29 (7.57%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.61%) DBS Check
4 10 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.09%) HNC
6 7 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.83%) MCSA
7 6 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.31%) CCNA
8 5 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.04%) ACCA
9 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.78%) CCA
10 3 (0.78%) CIMA
10 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.35%) QA
3 9 (2.35%) SLA
4 7 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.83%) GDPR
5 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.78%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (12.27%) Active Directory
2 27 (7.05%) Docker
3 21 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (4.44%) Terraform
4 9 (2.35%) Grafana
4 9 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.83%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.57%) Ansible
7 4 (1.04%) Argo
7 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (1.04%) SCCM
8 3 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.52%) Nagios
9 2 (0.52%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Autotask
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
10 1 (0.26%) linkerd
10 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (29.77%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.27%) VMware
3 17 (4.44%) SAP
4 12 (3.13%) Oracle
5 10 (2.61%) HubSpot
6 7 (1.83%) Cisco
6 7 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.83%) SonicWALL
6 7 (1.83%) Sophos
7 6 (1.57%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.31%) iManage
8 5 (1.31%) Meraki
9 4 (1.04%) Adobe
9 4 (1.04%) Apple
10 3 (0.78%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.78%) Tanium
10 3 (0.78%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.52%) Adyen
11 2 (0.52%) OpenAI