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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 454 422 630
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.70% 16.89% 13.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 18.47% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 348 284 329
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +0.52%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -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 5,026 2,285 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.18% 91.47% 81.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,957 1,326 2,437
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +3 26 £50,000 - 11
Ashton-under-Lyne +6 15 £51,000 - 1
Salford -11 11 £48,350 +38.14% 6
Stockport +3 9 £40,000 +3.23% 12
Oldham +9 8 £67,500 +19.46% 3
Altrincham -7 6 £40,000 -38.46% 5
Sale +7 4 £16,600 -
Rochdale +3 4 £45,000 - 2
Wigan +1 4 £31,020 - 4
Bury +3 1 £40,000 - 5
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 33 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 28 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.42%) IIS
4 5 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.88%) Confluence
6 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.44%) Moodle
6 2 (0.44%) nginx
6 2 (0.44%) Totara
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.44%) Windchill
4 1 (0.22%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.86%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.66%) Shopify
5 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.44%) Magento
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 104 (22.91%) Azure
2 74 (16.30%) AWS
3 73 (16.08%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 27 (5.95%) GCP
6 21 (4.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 20 (4.41%) Power Automate
7 20 (4.41%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.30%) Entra ID
9 15 (3.30%) GitHub
10 14 (3.08%) SaaS
11 12 (2.64%) OneDrive
12 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.42%) Serverless
13 8 (1.76%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
14 7 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.05%) Firewall
2 28 (6.17%) DNS
3 24 (5.29%) DHCP
3 24 (5.29%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.19%) VLAN
5 15 (3.30%) VPN
6 14 (3.08%) VoIP
7 11 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (2.20%) Network Security
8 10 (2.20%) Structured Cabling
9 8 (1.76%) Broadband
9 8 (1.76%) WAN
9 8 (1.76%) Wireless
10 7 (1.54%) LAN
11 6 (1.32%) BGP
11 6 (1.32%) OSPF
11 6 (1.32%) SAN
12 3 (0.66%) FTP
12 3 (0.66%) Internet
12 3 (0.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.08%) Power BI
3 12 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.54%) Big Data
6 7 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.32%) MySQL
8 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.88%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.66%) Tableau
11 2 (0.44%) MS Access
11 2 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (6.39%) Git
2 12 (2.64%) JIRA
3 10 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.88%) GitLab
5 4 (0.88%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.22%) gulp
7 1 (0.22%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 177 (38.99%) Social Skills
2 118 (25.99%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (15.86%) Finance
4 35 (7.71%) Law
5 32 (7.05%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (6.83%) Manufacturing
7 22 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.63%) Legal
9 17 (3.74%) Marketing
9 17 (3.74%) Retail
10 13 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.76%) Games
14 7 (1.54%) Military
15 5 (1.10%) Advertising
15 5 (1.10%) Billing
15 5 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Social Housing
16 4 (0.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 78 (17.18%) Senior
2 63 (13.88%) Developer
3 52 (11.45%) Analyst
4 33 (7.27%) Software Engineer
5 28 (6.17%) Senior Developer
6 23 (5.07%) IT Support
6 23 (5.07%) Lead
7 21 (4.63%) Support Engineer
8 19 (4.19%) Administrator
8 19 (4.19%) Support Technician
9 17 (3.74%) Consultant
10 16 (3.52%) IT Manager
10 16 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.30%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 14 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.08%) IT Support Technician
12 14 (3.08%) IT Technician
13 13 (2.86%) Planning Manager
14 11 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.93%) HTML
2 31 (6.83%) React
3 27 (5.95%) .NET
4 21 (4.63%) CSS
5 16 (3.52%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.52%) Vue
6 12 (2.64%) Middleware
6 12 (2.64%) REST
6 12 (2.64%) Spring
7 11 (2.42%) Next.js
7 11 (2.42%) Web Services
8 10 (2.20%) Node.js
8 10 (2.20%) React Native
8 10 (2.20%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (1.98%) RESTful
10 8 (1.76%) HTML5 Canvas
10 8 (1.76%) Kafka
10 8 (1.76%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (1.76%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.27%) Driving Licence
2 32 (7.05%) Cloud Native
3 30 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 28 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (3.08%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.42%) CCTV
9 9 (1.98%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.76%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.54%) IoT
11 7 (1.54%) Social Media
12 6 (1.32%) Clustering
13 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.88%) FMCG
13 4 (0.88%) NHS
13 4 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.86%) Windows
2 32 (7.05%) Windows Server
3 25 (5.51%) Windows 10
4 19 (4.19%) Linux
5 6 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.88%) Unix
6 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.66%) Android
7 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Solaris
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (24.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 84 (18.50%) Agile
3 74 (16.30%) CI/CD
4 70 (15.42%) Customer Service
4 70 (15.42%) Mentoring
5 63 (13.88%) AI
5 63 (13.88%) Decision-Making
6 61 (13.44%) DevOps
7 56 (12.33%) Software Engineering
8 53 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 43 (9.47%) Analytics
11 38 (8.37%) CRM
11 38 (8.37%) ERP
12 36 (7.93%) Business Continuity
13 34 (7.49%) Test Automation
14 33 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (6.61%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (6.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.04%) SQL
2 87 (19.16%) Python
3 47 (10.35%) JavaScript
4 36 (7.93%) C#
5 29 (6.39%) Java
6 24 (5.29%) PowerShell
7 18 (3.96%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.30%) Bash
9 14 (3.08%) PHP
10 8 (1.76%) Ruby
10 8 (1.76%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.32%) Go
12 5 (1.10%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.10%) Bicep
12 5 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.66%) R
13 3 (0.66%) SOQL
13 3 (0.66%) SOSL
13 3 (0.66%) Swift
14 2 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (13.22%) Degree
2 40 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (3.96%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.42%) HNC
7 10 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.20%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.54%) MCSA
11 5 (1.10%) ACCA
11 5 (1.10%) CCNA
11 5 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.88%) CIMA
12 4 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.88%) MBA
12 4 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.52%) QA
4 10 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.98%) SLA
6 8 (1.76%) NIST
7 6 (1.32%) GDPR
8 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (10.13%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.49%) Docker
3 28 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.74%) Terraform
3 12 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.42%) Grafana
5 10 (2.20%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.76%) Ansible
7 4 (0.88%) Argo
7 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Nagios
9 2 (0.44%) Nessus
9 2 (0.44%) Podman
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Autotask
10 1 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.22%) linkerd
10 1 (0.22%) SCCM
10 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (29.74%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.27%) VMware
3 19 (4.19%) SAP
4 10 (2.20%) Oracle
4 10 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.98%) SonicWALL
5 9 (1.98%) Sophos
6 8 (1.76%) HubSpot
6 8 (1.76%) Tanium
7 6 (1.32%) Adobe
7 6 (1.32%) Cisco
7 6 (1.32%) iManage
8 5 (1.10%) Databricks
8 5 (1.10%) Google
8 5 (1.10%) Meraki
9 4 (0.88%) Apple
9 4 (0.88%) Facebook
9 4 (0.88%) NEC
9 4 (0.88%) Splunk