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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 427 435 746
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.67% 17.53% 14.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 18.92% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 331 290 469
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £68,083 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,750 £74,250
North West median annual salary £45,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.09% -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 4,698 2,299 4,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.39% 92.66% 82.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 1,325 3,173
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,957 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £87,650 £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 18 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 18 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 25 £50,000 - 13
Ashton-under-Lyne +6 13 £51,000 - 4
Salford -13 7 £48,350 +38.14% 1
Stockport +1 6 £40,000 +23.08% 7
Oldham +10 4 £67,500 +19.46% 4
Sale +8 4 £16,600 - 1
Rochdale +3 4 £45,000 - 2
Altrincham -11 4 £33,114 -49.06% 4
Bury +3 1 £40,000 - 1
Wigan -1 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 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.58%) IIS
4 5 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) Confluence
5 4 (0.94%) Moodle
5 4 (0.94%) Totara
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.47%) Windchill
5 1 (0.23%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 16 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.04%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.70%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.47%) Magento
5 2 (0.47%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (23.65%) Azure
2 69 (16.16%) AWS
2 69 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 21 (4.92%) GCP
5 19 (4.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 18 (4.22%) Power Automate
6 18 (4.22%) PowerApps
7 14 (3.28%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.28%) SaaS
8 13 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.04%) GitHub
9 11 (2.58%) Serverless
10 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (2.11%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.73%) Firewall
2 31 (7.26%) DNS
3 27 (6.32%) DHCP
4 22 (5.15%) TCP/IP
4 22 (5.15%) VLAN
5 16 (3.75%) VPN
6 14 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (3.04%) Structured Cabling
7 13 (3.04%) VoIP
8 10 (2.34%) Network Security
9 7 (1.64%) WAN
10 6 (1.41%) Broadband
10 6 (1.41%) LAN
10 6 (1.41%) SAN
11 5 (1.17%) Wireless
12 4 (0.94%) BGP
12 4 (0.94%) OSPF
13 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.70%) SNMP
14 2 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.28%) Power BI
3 12 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.64%) Big Data
7 6 (1.41%) MySQL
8 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.94%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.70%) 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 24 (5.62%) Git
2 12 (2.81%) JIRA
3 7 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.94%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.94%) Cucumber
4 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.94%) GitLab
4 4 (0.94%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.23%) gulp
5 1 (0.23%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 168 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (15.46%) Finance
4 34 (7.96%) Law
5 33 (7.73%) Organisational Skills
6 29 (6.79%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.22%) Legal
7 18 (4.22%) Retail
8 16 (3.75%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.51%) Marketing
10 11 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.41%) Games
13 5 (1.17%) Advertising
13 5 (1.17%) Military
13 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Banking
14 4 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 73 (17.10%) Senior
2 58 (13.58%) Developer
3 48 (11.24%) Analyst
4 31 (7.26%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.09%) IT Support
5 26 (6.09%) Senior Developer
6 20 (4.68%) Lead
7 19 (4.45%) Support Engineer
8 18 (4.22%) Consultant
8 18 (4.22%) Support Technician
9 16 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.51%) Administrator
11 13 (3.04%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 13 (3.04%) Planning Manager
12 12 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.81%) IT Manager
13 11 (2.58%) Architect
13 11 (2.58%) IT Support Technician
13 11 (2.58%) IT Technician
13 11 (2.58%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.43%) HTML
2 31 (7.26%) React
3 27 (6.32%) .NET
4 23 (5.39%) CSS
5 18 (4.22%) Vue
6 16 (3.75%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.28%) Spring
8 12 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.58%) Middleware
9 11 (2.58%) Next.js
9 11 (2.58%) Web Services
10 10 (2.34%) Node.js
10 10 (2.34%) React Native
10 10 (2.34%) REST
10 10 (2.34%) RESTful
11 8 (1.87%) Ruby on Rails
12 7 (1.64%) EDI
12 7 (1.64%) Kafka
12 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (1.41%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.20%) Cloud Native
1 35 (8.20%) Driving Licence
2 34 (7.96%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.51%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.58%) CCTV
10 9 (2.11%) Social Media
11 8 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.64%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.17%) IoT
14 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.94%) Clustering
14 4 (0.94%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.86%) Windows
2 36 (8.43%) Windows Server
3 29 (6.79%) Windows 10
4 15 (3.51%) Linux
5 7 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.41%) Android
6 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.94%) Unix
9 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.47%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) CentOS
11 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 75 (17.56%) Agile
3 73 (17.10%) Mentoring
4 72 (16.86%) CI/CD
5 68 (15.93%) Customer Service
6 64 (14.99%) Decision-Making
7 63 (14.75%) AI
8 54 (12.65%) Software Engineering
9 53 (12.41%) DevOps
9 53 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 48 (11.24%) Roadmaps
11 47 (11.01%) Analytics
12 36 (8.43%) Business Continuity
12 36 (8.43%) Test Automation
13 35 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 34 (7.96%) ERP
15 31 (7.26%) CRM
15 31 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
16 29 (6.79%) Containerisation
17 28 (6.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 85 (19.91%) SQL
2 83 (19.44%) Python
3 46 (10.77%) JavaScript
4 33 (7.73%) C#
5 28 (6.56%) Java
6 24 (5.62%) PowerShell
7 16 (3.75%) Bash
7 16 (3.75%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.04%) PHP
9 8 (1.87%) Ruby
9 8 (1.87%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.17%) Bicep
12 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.70%) Go
13 3 (0.70%) R
13 3 (0.70%) SOQL
13 3 (0.70%) SOSL
13 3 (0.70%) Swift
14 2 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (13.11%) Degree
2 38 (8.90%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.04%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.87%) HNC
10 7 (1.64%) MCSA
11 6 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.17%) CCNA
12 5 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.94%) ACCA
13 4 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.94%) MBA
13 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.70%) CIMA
14 3 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.04%) QA
4 9 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.11%) SLA
5 8 (1.87%) GDPR
6 7 (1.64%) NIST
7 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS
8 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (11.24%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.49%) Docker
3 28 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.98%) Terraform
3 15 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.58%) Grafana
5 10 (2.34%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.87%) Ansible
7 4 (0.94%) Argo
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.70%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) Nagios
9 2 (0.47%) Podman
9 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) Autotask
10 1 (0.23%) Istio
10 1 (0.23%) linkerd
10 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (30.44%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.49%) VMware
3 17 (3.98%) SAP
4 9 (2.11%) HubSpot
4 9 (2.11%) SonicWALL
4 9 (2.11%) Sophos
5 8 (1.87%) Oracle
5 8 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.64%) Adobe
6 7 (1.64%) Tanium
7 6 (1.41%) iManage
7 6 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.17%) Databricks
8 5 (1.17%) Meraki
9 4 (0.94%) Apple
9 4 (0.94%) Cisco
9 4 (0.94%) Facebook
9 4 (0.94%) Sage
10 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.70%) Veeam