Problem-Solving Jobs in Merseyside

Problem Solving
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -16
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 79 151 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 18.68% 11.67% 9.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.80% 14.48% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 57 86 50
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £38,987
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £43,375
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -7.78% +8.44%
75th Percentile £46,000 £49,250 £56,375
90th Percentile £61,250 £51,500 £65,030
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 399 1,043 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 94.33% 80.60% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 177 720 430
10th Percentile £28,400 £26,250 £26,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,077 £71,250
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Merseyside

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Merseyside

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Merseyside

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool +7 65 £32,500 -18.75% 167
Wirral - 1 £55,000 -
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 22 (27.85%) CMS
2 21 (26.58%) Umbraco
3 4 (5.06%) IBM Domino
4 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.53%) Apache
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.53%) WordPress
6 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.06%) AWS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.27%) GCP
6 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.58%) Intranet
2 13 (16.46%) Firewall
3 9 (11.39%) VPN
4 7 (8.86%) WAN
5 6 (7.59%) DNS
6 4 (5.06%) LAN
6 4 (5.06%) MPLS
7 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.80%) VoIP
8 2 (2.53%) DHCP
8 2 (2.53%) Network Security
8 2 (2.53%) NGFW
8 2 (2.53%) VLAN
9 1 (1.27%) Broadband
9 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.39%) Power BI
3 3 (3.80%) Big Data
4 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.53%) Tableau
5 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.27%) Metadata
5 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.27%) QlikView
5 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Git
2 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 55 (69.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (15.19%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Legal
4 8 (10.13%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
5 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 2 (2.53%) Advertising
6 2 (2.53%) Automotive
6 2 (2.53%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.27%) Billing
7 1 (1.27%) Games
7 1 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Developer
2 21 (26.58%) Umbraco Developer
3 15 (18.99%) Analyst
4 6 (7.59%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Junior
5 5 (6.33%) Support Specialist
6 4 (5.06%) IT Support
6 4 (5.06%) IT Support Specialist
6 4 (5.06%) Junior Support Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Junior Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Junior Technical Support
6 4 (5.06%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) QA Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Quality Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Technical Support
6 4 (5.06%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Help Desk Agent
7 3 (3.80%) Service Desk Support
7 3 (3.80%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.38%) CSS
1 24 (30.38%) HTML
2 22 (27.85%) HTML5
3 21 (26.58%) jQuery
4 3 (3.80%) React
5 2 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.27%) .NET
6 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.27%) CSS3
6 1 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.27%) JSON
6 1 (1.27%) Kafka
6 1 (1.27%) Laravel
6 1 (1.27%) REST
6 1 (1.27%) RESTful
6 1 (1.27%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.27%) Symfony
6 1 (1.27%) Vue
6 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) NHS
2 4 (5.06%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.27%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.58%) Windows
2 9 (11.39%) Mac OS
3 7 (8.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.06%) Android
4 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.11%) Web Development
2 22 (27.85%) Clean Code
3 21 (26.58%) Content Management
3 21 (26.58%) Customer Requirements
4 13 (16.46%) Customer Service
5 10 (12.66%) Analytics
6 9 (11.39%) ITSM
7 8 (10.13%) Application Packaging
7 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.13%) Customer Experience
7 8 (10.13%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
9 6 (7.59%) Agile
9 6 (7.59%) MVC
10 5 (6.33%) Analytical Thinking
10 5 (6.33%) CRM
10 5 (6.33%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (6.33%) Decision-Making
10 5 (6.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.71%) SQL
2 21 (26.58%) C#
3 11 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.66%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.33%) Python
6 3 (3.80%) PHP
6 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (40.51%) Degree
2 4 (5.06%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.53%) NVQ Level 3
3 2 (2.53%) NVQ Level 4
4 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (27.85%) Accessibility
2 21 (26.58%) GDPR
2 21 (26.58%) WCAG
3 5 (6.33%) QA
4 4 (5.06%) SLA
5 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (6.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.27%) cPanel
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) HP
2 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.13%) iManage
4 5 (6.33%) VMware
5 4 (5.06%) Cisco
6 2 (2.53%) Talend
7 1 (1.27%) BT
7 1 (1.27%) Databricks
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.27%) Orchard
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) Workday