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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 314 413 662
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.05% 19.79% 13.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 20.75% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 226 318 506
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £63,040 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,750 £78,500
North West median annual salary £42,500 £49,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.14% +10.00% -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 3,791 1,990 4,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.04% 95.35% 86.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,595 1,266 3,394
10th Percentile £30,850 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -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 28 April 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 April 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 0 17 £50,000 -16.67% 16
Stockport -1 6 £40,000 +39.13% 10
Bury - 6 £37,500 - 2
Salford -16 3 £55,000 +57.14% 8
Sale - 3 £16,600 - 1
Altrincham -13 2 £47,500 -19.15% 2
Wigan -5 1 £55,000 +74.60% 2
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 30 (9.55%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.59%) Confluence
4 4 (1.27%) Moodle
4 4 (1.27%) Totara
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.82%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.96%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.96%) Shopify
4 2 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (26.43%) Azure
2 55 (17.52%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (12.10%) AWS
4 28 (8.92%) Entra ID
4 28 (8.92%) Power Platform
5 22 (7.01%) SaaS
6 19 (6.05%) GCP
7 16 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (4.14%) GitHub
9 11 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (2.87%) OneDrive
11 8 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.23%) Serverless
13 6 (1.91%) Azure AKS
13 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.96%) Firewall
2 21 (6.69%) DHCP
2 21 (6.69%) DNS
3 20 (6.37%) VLAN
4 16 (5.10%) VoIP
5 13 (4.14%) Structured Cabling
5 13 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.82%) VPN
7 8 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.55%) Telepresence
7 8 (2.55%) Unified Communications
7 8 (2.55%) WebEx
8 7 (2.23%) WAN
9 6 (1.91%) LAN
10 5 (1.59%) Network Security
11 4 (1.27%) Broadband
12 2 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.64%) SAN
12 2 (0.64%) SSH
12 2 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
1 12 (3.82%) Power BI
1 12 (3.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.87%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.91%) MySQL
5 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.64%) Big Data
8 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.64%) Power Query
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.32%) DB2
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (7.64%) Git
2 9 (2.87%) JIRA
3 7 (2.23%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.59%) GitLab
5 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.32%) gulp
6 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 150 (47.77%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (22.29%) Finance
4 31 (9.87%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (6.69%) Law
5 21 (6.69%) Manufacturing
6 18 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.41%) Retail
8 12 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.50%) Legal
9 11 (3.50%) Marketing
10 10 (3.18%) Advertising
11 8 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
12 5 (1.59%) Military
13 4 (1.27%) Banking
13 4 (1.27%) Games
14 3 (0.96%) Electronics
14 3 (0.96%) French Language
Job Titles
1 42 (13.38%) Analyst
1 42 (13.38%) Senior
2 31 (9.87%) Developer
3 25 (7.96%) Support Engineer
4 21 (6.69%) IT Support
5 20 (6.37%) Consultant
6 14 (4.46%) Software Engineer
7 13 (4.14%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.14%) Support Specialist
8 12 (3.82%) Planning Manager
8 12 (3.82%) SAP Manager
8 12 (3.82%) Technology Consultant
9 11 (3.50%) Architect
9 11 (3.50%) Business Analyst
9 11 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.50%) IT Engineer
9 11 (3.50%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (3.18%) Support Technician
11 9 (2.87%) Administrator
11 9 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.01%) React
2 16 (5.10%) HTML
3 15 (4.78%) Spring
3 15 (4.78%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.46%) CSS
5 11 (3.50%) .NET
5 11 (3.50%) RESTful
6 10 (3.18%) Vue
7 9 (2.87%) EDI
8 8 (2.55%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.23%) Node.js
9 7 (2.23%) OAuth
9 7 (2.23%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.23%) Web Services
10 6 (1.91%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.59%) REST
12 4 (1.27%) Celery
12 4 (1.27%) Django
12 4 (1.27%) Flask
12 4 (1.27%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.74%) Driving Licence
2 22 (7.01%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.82%) CCTV
6 11 (3.50%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.18%) Social Media
8 9 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.87%) EPoS
9 8 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.59%) FMCG
10 5 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.27%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.27%) Learning Management System
11 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.96%) Home Automation
12 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.47%) Windows
2 27 (8.60%) Windows Server
3 21 (6.69%) Windows 10
4 11 (3.50%) Linux
5 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.91%) Android
6 6 (1.91%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.96%) Unix
9 2 (0.64%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) CentOS
10 1 (0.32%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (19.43%) Customer Service
3 59 (18.79%) Decision-Making
4 49 (15.61%) AI
5 48 (15.29%) Mentoring
5 48 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (13.38%) CI/CD
7 39 (12.42%) Agile
8 33 (10.51%) DevOps
9 30 (9.55%) Roadmaps
10 28 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (8.60%) Process Improvement
12 26 (8.28%) Analytics
12 26 (8.28%) Software Engineering
13 25 (7.96%) Service Delivery
13 25 (7.96%) User Experience
14 24 (7.64%) Business Continuity
14 24 (7.64%) ERP
14 24 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (15.29%) SQL
2 38 (12.10%) Python
3 23 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 22 (7.01%) Java
5 15 (4.78%) C#
6 10 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.87%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.55%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.91%) Bash
10 5 (1.59%) Bicep
10 5 (1.59%) PHP
11 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.96%) Go
12 3 (0.96%) Swift
13 2 (0.64%) C
13 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.64%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.64%) Scala
13 2 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (13.38%) Degree
2 13 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.50%) DBS Check
3 11 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (2.55%) HNC
4 8 (2.55%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.59%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.27%) CCNA
8 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.27%) MCSA
9 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.64%) NVQ Level 4
11 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.23%) GDPR
4 5 (1.59%) SLA
5 4 (1.27%) QA
6 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 46 (14.65%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.37%) Docker
3 10 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.37%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.05%) Terraform
4 10 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.55%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (1.59%) Ansible
6 5 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.27%) SCCM
8 3 (0.96%) Grafana
8 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.96%) Rancher
9 2 (0.64%) cPanel
9 2 (0.64%) Plesk
9 2 (0.64%) Podman
10 1 (0.32%) Autotask
10 1 (0.32%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.32%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.73%) SAP
3 15 (4.78%) Oracle
4 12 (3.82%) Cisco
5 11 (3.50%) VMware
6 8 (2.55%) New Relic
6 8 (2.55%) Splunk
7 6 (1.91%) Meraki
7 6 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.59%) Apple
8 5 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (1.27%) iManage
9 4 (1.27%) SonicWALL
9 4 (1.27%) Sophos
9 4 (1.27%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (0.96%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.64%) Google
11 2 (0.64%) IFS
11 2 (0.64%) Siemens