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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 422 438 733
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.54% 17.53% 13.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.92% 18.93% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 324 292 456
10th Percentile £26,950 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -

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 4,732 2,314 4,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.36% 92.60% 82.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,743 1,334 3,108
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,853 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 13 £51,000 - 3
Salford -10 7 £48,350 +38.14% 1
Stockport +1 6 £40,000 +23.08% 6
Oldham +10 4 £67,500 +19.46% 3
Sale +8 4 £16,600 - 1
Rochdale +3 4 £45,000 - 2
Altrincham -12 4 £33,114 -49.06% 4
Bury +3 1 £40,000 - 2
Wigan -2 1 £55,000 - 4
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 31 (7.35%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.61%) IIS
4 5 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.95%) Confluence
5 4 (0.95%) Moodle
5 4 (0.95%) Totara
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.47%) Windchill
5 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (3.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.08%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.47%) Magento
5 2 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (22.75%) Azure
2 69 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (15.88%) AWS
4 35 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.74%) GCP
6 18 (4.27%) Microsoft Copilot
6 18 (4.27%) Power Automate
6 18 (4.27%) PowerApps
7 14 (3.32%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.32%) SaaS
8 13 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.08%) GitHub
9 11 (2.61%) Serverless
10 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.13%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.82%) Firewall
2 30 (7.11%) DNS
3 26 (6.16%) DHCP
4 22 (5.21%) VLAN
5 21 (4.98%) TCP/IP
6 16 (3.79%) VPN
7 13 (3.08%) VoIP
7 13 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.84%) Structured Cabling
9 10 (2.37%) Network Security
10 8 (1.90%) Broadband
11 6 (1.42%) SAN
11 6 (1.42%) WAN
12 5 (1.18%) LAN
12 5 (1.18%) Wireless
13 4 (0.95%) BGP
13 4 (0.95%) OSPF
14 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.71%) SNMP
15 2 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.87%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.32%) Power BI
3 12 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.66%) Big Data
7 6 (1.42%) MySQL
8 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.47%) KNIME
11 2 (0.47%) MS Access
11 2 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.47%) Redis
11 2 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (5.45%) Git
2 11 (2.61%) JIRA
3 8 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
5 4 (0.95%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.24%) gulp
6 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 166 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 104 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.88%) Finance
4 34 (8.06%) Law
5 31 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (6.87%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.27%) Legal
8 17 (4.03%) Retail
9 16 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.55%) Marketing
11 14 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.42%) Games
14 6 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.18%) Advertising
15 5 (1.18%) Military
15 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.95%) Banking
16 4 (0.95%) Billing
Job Titles
1 72 (17.06%) Senior
2 57 (13.51%) Developer
3 49 (11.61%) Analyst
4 30 (7.11%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.16%) IT Support
6 25 (5.92%) Senior Developer
7 20 (4.74%) Lead
8 19 (4.50%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.27%) Consultant
9 18 (4.27%) Support Technician
10 17 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.79%) Administrator
12 13 (3.08%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 13 (3.08%) Planning Manager
13 12 (2.84%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (2.84%) IT Manager
14 11 (2.61%) Architect
14 11 (2.61%) IT Support Technician
14 11 (2.61%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.29%) HTML
2 30 (7.11%) React
3 26 (6.16%) .NET
4 22 (5.21%) CSS
5 17 (4.03%) Vue
6 16 (3.79%) AngularJS
7 13 (3.08%) Spring
8 11 (2.61%) Middleware
8 11 (2.61%) Next.js
8 11 (2.61%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.61%) Web Services
9 10 (2.37%) Node.js
9 10 (2.37%) React Native
9 10 (2.37%) REST
10 9 (2.13%) RESTful
11 8 (1.90%) Ruby on Rails
12 7 (1.66%) Kafka
12 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (1.42%) HTML5 Canvas
13 6 (1.42%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.06%) Cloud Native
1 34 (8.06%) Driving Licence
2 33 (7.82%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.55%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.61%) CCTV
7 11 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.90%) Social Media
9 5 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.18%) IoT
10 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (0.95%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.59%) Windows
2 35 (8.29%) Windows Server
3 29 (6.87%) Windows 10
4 14 (3.32%) Linux
5 6 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.18%) Android
6 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.47%) Solaris
10 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (26.07%) Continuous Improvement
2 74 (17.54%) Agile
3 70 (16.59%) CI/CD
3 70 (16.59%) Mentoring
4 68 (16.11%) Customer Service
5 62 (14.69%) Decision-Making
6 60 (14.22%) AI
7 52 (12.32%) Software Engineering
7 52 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (12.09%) DevOps
9 45 (10.66%) Analytics
9 45 (10.66%) Roadmaps
10 36 (8.53%) Business Continuity
10 36 (8.53%) Test Automation
11 34 (8.06%) ERP
12 33 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (7.35%) CRM
13 31 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (6.64%) Disaster Recovery
15 27 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 84 (19.91%) SQL
2 80 (18.96%) Python
3 45 (10.66%) JavaScript
4 33 (7.82%) C#
5 27 (6.40%) Java
6 23 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 16 (3.79%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.55%) Bash
9 13 (3.08%) PHP
10 8 (1.90%) Ruby
10 8 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.42%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.18%) Bicep
13 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.71%) Go
14 3 (0.71%) R
14 3 (0.71%) SOQL
14 3 (0.71%) SOSL
14 3 (0.71%) Swift
15 2 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (12.80%) Degree
2 37 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.61%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.90%) HNC
10 7 (1.66%) MCSA
11 6 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.18%) CCNA
12 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.95%) ACCA
13 4 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.95%) MBA
13 4 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.71%) CIMA
14 3 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.08%) QA
4 10 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.13%) SLA
6 8 (1.90%) NIST
7 7 (1.66%) GDPR
8 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (11.14%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.35%) Docker
3 28 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.03%) Terraform
3 15 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.61%) Grafana
5 10 (2.37%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.90%) Ansible
7 4 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.71%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) Nagios
9 2 (0.47%) Podman
9 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) Autotask
10 1 (0.24%) Istio
10 1 (0.24%) linkerd
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.58%) VMware
3 17 (4.03%) SAP
4 9 (2.13%) HubSpot
4 9 (2.13%) SonicWALL
4 9 (2.13%) Sophos
5 8 (1.90%) Oracle
5 8 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.90%) Tanium
6 7 (1.66%) Adobe
7 6 (1.42%) iManage
7 6 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.18%) Databricks
8 5 (1.18%) Meraki
9 4 (0.95%) Apple
9 4 (0.95%) Cisco
9 4 (0.95%) Facebook
9 4 (0.95%) Sage
10 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.71%) Veeam