Problem-Solving Jobs in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 430 700 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.02% 13.69% 10.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.07% 15.77% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 326 507 282
10th Percentile £31,625 £27,300 £24,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £75,938 £65,000 £63,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,500 £79,875
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.53%

All Process and 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 2,041 4,440 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.02% 86.80% 96.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 3,402 2,555
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,850 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -4.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,914 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025. 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 -5 67 £60,000 +4.35% 54
Altrincham +8 10 £65,000 +44.44% 29
Salford +21 6 £35,000 -22.22% 30
Stockport -3 5 £28,750 -42.50% 21
Oldham -6 4 £31,500 +14.55% 6
Rochdale +1 1 £52,500 +16.67% 3
Wigan 0 1 £31,500 - 5
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.86%) Confluence
3 8 (1.86%) IBM Domino
4 7 (1.63%) Apache
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
6 3 (0.70%) GemFire
6 3 (0.70%) nginx
6 3 (0.70%) SAS
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Mule
Applications
1 19 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (3.72%) Trello
3 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.23%) Revit
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (8.14%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.63%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Odoo
3 2 (0.47%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.47%) Sage CRM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (18.84%) AWS
2 79 (18.37%) Azure
3 40 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (8.14%) GCP
5 17 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 13 (3.02%) SaaS
8 12 (2.79%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.79%) Serverless
9 11 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.86%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.63%) Figma
12 7 (1.63%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.16%) AWS IoT
14 5 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.05%) Firewall
2 18 (4.19%) DNS
3 16 (3.72%) Intrusion Detection
4 12 (2.79%) Broadband
5 11 (2.56%) VPN
6 10 (2.33%) DHCP
7 9 (2.09%) SSH
8 6 (1.40%) HTTP
8 6 (1.40%) WAN
9 5 (1.16%) NAS
9 5 (1.16%) Network Security
9 5 (1.16%) SAN
9 5 (1.16%) VSAN
10 4 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.93%) Internet
10 4 (0.93%) LAN
10 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.26%) Power BI
3 12 (2.79%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.79%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.33%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (2.33%) MySQL
5 9 (2.09%) Big Data
6 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.40%) Tableau
9 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.16%) Redis
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.93%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.70%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (7.91%) JIRA
2 24 (5.58%) Git
3 9 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.93%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) Postman
6 3 (0.70%) TestRail
7 2 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.47%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.47%) JMeter
7 2 (0.47%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.47%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.47%) Storybook
7 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 231 (53.72%) Social Skills
2 160 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (34.88%) Finance
4 48 (11.16%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (10.93%) Banking
6 34 (7.91%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.42%) Games
8 17 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.95%) Retail
9 15 (3.49%) Law
10 13 (3.02%) Legal
10 13 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.33%) Marketing
11 10 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.16%) Back Office
13 5 (1.16%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.93%) Advertising
14 4 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 57 (13.26%) Senior
2 53 (12.33%) Analyst
3 39 (9.07%) Lead
4 36 (8.37%) Consultant
5 31 (7.21%) Developer
6 27 (6.28%) Software Engineer
7 26 (6.05%) NetSuite Consultant
8 21 (4.88%) Functional Consultant
9 18 (4.19%) Head of IT
10 17 (3.95%) Architect
10 17 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (3.49%) IT Support
11 15 (3.49%) Security Architect
12 14 (3.26%) Applications Support
12 14 (3.26%) Head of Delivery
12 14 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.02%) Vendor Manager
14 12 (2.79%) Customer Service Advisor
15 11 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) RESTful
2 26 (6.05%) React
3 25 (5.81%) .NET
4 19 (4.42%) HTML
4 19 (4.42%) Node.js
5 15 (3.49%) AngularJS
6 14 (3.26%) CSS
7 12 (2.79%) XML
8 11 (2.56%) Spring Boot
9 9 (2.09%) .NET Framework
9 9 (2.09%) Kafka
10 8 (1.86%) Middleware
10 8 (1.86%) SOAP
10 8 (1.86%) Vue
11 7 (1.63%) Restlet
12 6 (1.40%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.40%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.40%) NestJS
13 5 (1.16%) Entity Framework
13 5 (1.16%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.40%) Social Media
2 37 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (6.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 24 (5.58%) Management Information System
5 18 (4.19%) Algorithms
5 18 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.19%) Security Posture
6 17 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (3.02%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.79%) IoT
9 9 (2.09%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.16%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.93%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 77 (17.91%) Windows
2 45 (10.47%) Linux
3 34 (7.91%) Windows Vista
4 16 (3.72%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.49%) Android
5 15 (3.49%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.16%) CentOS
6 5 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.16%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.70%) Unix
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (23.49%) Agile
2 91 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (16.28%) Mentoring
4 66 (15.35%) Collaborative Working
4 66 (15.35%) Computer Science
5 58 (13.49%) Customer Service
6 55 (12.79%) Migration
6 55 (12.79%) Project Management
7 52 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 49 (11.40%) Service Delivery
9 48 (11.16%) Data Migration
9 48 (11.16%) Decision-Making
9 48 (11.16%) Software Engineering
10 47 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (10.70%) ERP
12 43 (10.00%) ITIL
13 41 (9.53%) CRM
13 41 (9.53%) DevOps
13 41 (9.53%) Process Improvement
14 37 (8.60%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 57 (13.26%) SQL
2 44 (10.23%) JavaScript
3 43 (10.00%) Python
4 35 (8.14%) Java
5 31 (7.21%) C#
6 30 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.19%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.79%) PHP
9 10 (2.33%) C++
10 9 (2.09%) C-shell
10 9 (2.09%) Korn
10 9 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.40%) Scala
13 5 (1.16%) Go
14 4 (0.93%) Bash
14 4 (0.93%) C
15 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.70%) Rust
16 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (28.14%) Degree
2 48 (11.16%) DBS Check
3 43 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (9.77%) Master's Degree
5 22 (5.12%) CISSP
6 19 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (4.19%) CISA
7 18 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (4.19%) CISM
7 18 (4.19%) PMI Certification
7 18 (4.19%) PMP
8 16 (3.72%) CEH
9 14 (3.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (3.26%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (2.09%) PhD
12 8 (1.86%) HNC
13 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.58%) GDPR
3 21 (4.88%) QA
4 20 (4.65%) NIST
5 11 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.09%) ISO 9001
6 9 (2.09%) SLA
7 8 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.63%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.23%) GRC
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.23%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 33 (7.67%) Docker
2 23 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.63%) vSphere
5 6 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.70%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.70%) Postfix
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.47%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.58%) Terraform
3 12 (2.79%) SCCM
4 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.40%) Grafana
6 5 (1.16%) Ansible
6 5 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.93%) Kibana
7 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.70%) Autotask
8 3 (0.70%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.23%) Automic
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.91%) Google
3 25 (5.81%) VMware
4 21 (4.88%) Oracle
5 15 (3.49%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.79%) BT
7 10 (2.33%) SAP
8 9 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.86%) Cisco
9 8 (1.86%) Facebook
10 7 (1.63%) Okta
10 7 (1.63%) Veeam
11 6 (1.40%) Apple
12 5 (1.16%) HP
13 4 (0.93%) Cognos
13 4 (0.93%) Hitachi
13 4 (0.93%) Perforce
13 4 (0.93%) TikTok
14 3 (0.70%) Liquidlogic
14 3 (0.70%) Ping Identity