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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 420 433 676
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.41% 17.28% 14.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.70% 18.77% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 322 290 390
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +1.25%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,750 £76,250
North West median annual salary £45,250 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.63% -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 4,828 2,307 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.71% 92.06% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,804 1,336 2,724
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,406 £41,438
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £99,550 £87,625 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -7.27%

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 28 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 28 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 - 6
Ashton-under-Lyne +6 14 £51,000 - 2
Salford -14 7 £48,350 +38.14% 3
Stockport +1 6 £40,000 +23.08% 9
Oldham +9 5 £67,500 +19.46% 4
Sale +7 4 £16,600 -
Rochdale +2 4 £45,000 - 2
Altrincham -12 4 £33,114 -49.06% 4
Wigan -1 2 £43,010 - 4
Bury +3 1 £40,000 - 3
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 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.62%) IIS
4 5 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.95%) Confluence
6 3 (0.71%) Moodle
6 3 (0.71%) Totara
7 2 (0.48%) Apache
7 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.48%) Windchill
5 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 15 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.10%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.71%) Shopify
5 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.48%) Magento
5 2 (0.48%) 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
Cloud Services
1 96 (22.86%) Azure
2 70 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (16.43%) AWS
4 38 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.48%) GCP
6 19 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 19 (4.52%) Power Automate
6 19 (4.52%) PowerApps
7 14 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.33%) GitHub
8 13 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.10%) SaaS
9 11 (2.62%) Serverless
10 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (2.38%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.62%) Firewall
2 28 (6.67%) DNS
3 24 (5.71%) DHCP
4 22 (5.24%) TCP/IP
5 20 (4.76%) VLAN
6 15 (3.57%) VPN
7 13 (3.10%) VoIP
8 12 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (2.62%) Structured Cabling
10 10 (2.38%) Network Security
11 8 (1.90%) Broadband
12 7 (1.67%) WAN
13 6 (1.43%) LAN
13 6 (1.43%) SAN
13 6 (1.43%) Wireless
14 5 (1.19%) BGP
14 5 (1.19%) OSPF
15 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.71%) SNMP
16 2 (0.48%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.57%) Power BI
3 12 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.67%) Big Data
7 6 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.43%) MySQL
8 5 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.95%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.71%) Tableau
11 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.48%) MS Access
11 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (5.71%) Git
2 11 (2.62%) JIRA
3 9 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 4 (0.95%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
5 4 (0.95%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.24%) gulp
7 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.24%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 165 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 103 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.95%) Finance
4 34 (8.10%) Law
5 29 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 29 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (4.05%) Legal
7 16 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.81%) Retail
8 15 (3.57%) Marketing
9 11 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.67%) Games
12 5 (1.19%) Advertising
12 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Military
12 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Billing
14 3 (0.71%) Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (17.14%) Senior
2 57 (13.57%) Developer
3 49 (11.67%) Analyst
4 32 (7.62%) Software Engineer
5 25 (5.95%) Senior Developer
6 24 (5.71%) IT Support
7 20 (4.76%) Lead
8 18 (4.29%) Consultant
8 18 (4.29%) Support Engineer
8 18 (4.29%) Support Technician
9 16 (3.81%) Administrator
9 16 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 13 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.10%) Planning Manager
12 12 (2.86%) IT Support Technician
12 12 (2.86%) IT Technician
13 11 (2.62%) Architect
13 11 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.86%) HTML
2 30 (7.14%) React
3 24 (5.71%) .NET
4 20 (4.76%) CSS
5 16 (3.81%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.81%) Vue
6 13 (3.10%) Spring
7 11 (2.62%) Middleware
7 11 (2.62%) Next.js
7 11 (2.62%) Spring Boot
7 11 (2.62%) Web Services
8 10 (2.38%) Node.js
8 10 (2.38%) React Native
8 10 (2.38%) REST
9 9 (2.14%) RESTful
10 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.90%) Ruby on Rails
11 7 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
11 7 (1.67%) Kafka
11 7 (1.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.38%) Driving Licence
3 30 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.57%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.62%) CCTV
9 9 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.67%) Social Media
12 5 (1.19%) IoT
13 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.95%) Clustering
13 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.19%) Windows
2 33 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 27 (6.43%) Windows 10
4 16 (3.81%) Linux
5 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.95%) Unix
7 3 (0.71%) Android
7 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Solaris
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 75 (17.86%) Agile
3 70 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 67 (15.95%) Mentoring
5 66 (15.71%) Customer Service
6 61 (14.52%) Decision-Making
7 59 (14.05%) AI
8 53 (12.62%) DevOps
8 53 (12.62%) Software Engineering
9 51 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (10.24%) Roadmaps
11 42 (10.00%) Analytics
12 36 (8.57%) Business Continuity
13 35 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 34 (8.10%) ERP
15 32 (7.62%) CRM
15 32 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
17 28 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 85 (20.24%) SQL
2 81 (19.29%) Python
3 44 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.10%) C#
5 27 (6.43%) Java
6 23 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.05%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.57%) Bash
9 12 (2.86%) PHP
10 8 (1.90%) Ruby
10 8 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.19%) Bicep
13 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.95%) Go
14 3 (0.71%) R
14 3 (0.71%) SOQL
14 3 (0.71%) SOSL
14 3 (0.71%) Swift
15 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (12.86%) Degree
2 38 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.90%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.90%) HNC
9 7 (1.67%) MCSA
10 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.19%) CCNA
11 5 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.95%) ACCA
12 4 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.95%) MBA
12 4 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.71%) CCA
13 3 (0.71%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.33%) QA
4 10 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.14%) SLA
6 8 (1.90%) NIST
7 6 (1.43%) 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 46 (10.95%) Active Directory
2 32 (7.62%) Docker
3 28 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.05%) Terraform
3 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.62%) Grafana
5 10 (2.38%) FortiGate
5 10 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.90%) Ansible
7 4 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.48%) Nagios
9 2 (0.48%) Podman
9 2 (0.48%) SCCM
9 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) Autotask
10 1 (0.24%) Istio
10 1 (0.24%) linkerd
10 1 (0.24%) Nessus
10 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 127 (30.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.62%) VMware
3 16 (3.81%) SAP
4 9 (2.14%) SonicWALL
4 9 (2.14%) Sophos
5 8 (1.90%) HubSpot
5 8 (1.90%) Oracle
5 8 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.90%) Tanium
6 6 (1.43%) Adobe
6 6 (1.43%) iManage
6 6 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.19%) Cisco
7 5 (1.19%) Databricks
7 5 (1.19%) Meraki
8 4 (0.95%) Apple
8 4 (0.95%) Facebook
8 4 (0.95%) Sage
9 3 (0.71%) Splunk
9 3 (0.71%) Veeam