Problem-Solving Jobs in the Midlands

Problem Solving
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 0
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,119 1,814 1,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.83% 15.26% 15.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.27% 18.61% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 649 1,220 589
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,700 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,479 9,747 8,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 82.00% 96.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,160 4,510
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,270 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands -4 703 £48,000 +12.94% 597
East Midlands -2 415 £40,000 +6.67% 381
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 29 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.97%) CMS
4 21 (1.88%) OpenEdge
5 14 (1.25%) WordPress
6 9 (0.80%) IIS
7 6 (0.54%) Confluence
8 4 (0.36%) SAS
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.18%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.089%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.089%) Mule
11 1 (0.089%) Sitefinity
11 1 (0.089%) Strapi
Applications
1 65 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.43%) Simulink
4 13 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 46 (4.11%) NetSuite
2 23 (2.06%) Shopify
3 18 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (1.25%) Teamcenter
5 11 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
7 6 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.45%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.18%) Magento
9 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.18%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.089%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 197 (17.61%) Azure
2 154 (13.76%) AWS
3 122 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (6.34%) Power Platform
5 33 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (1.88%) GCP
7 21 (1.88%) SaaS
8 20 (1.79%) GitHub
8 20 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 19 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (1.61%) PowerApps
10 18 (1.61%) Serverless
11 16 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.16%) IaaS
13 12 (1.07%) PaaS
13 12 (1.07%) Slack
13 12 (1.07%) Zapier
14 9 (0.80%) Boomi
14 9 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.36%) Firewall
2 44 (3.93%) WAN
3 38 (3.40%) Network Security
4 37 (3.31%) VPN
5 35 (3.13%) DNS
6 34 (3.04%) DHCP
7 33 (2.95%) TCP/IP
8 31 (2.77%) LAN
9 30 (2.68%) Internet
10 29 (2.59%) Broadband
11 28 (2.50%) WLAN
12 19 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (1.25%) SD-WAN
14 12 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (0.80%) SAN
16 8 (0.71%) VLAN
17 7 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (0.63%) VoIP
18 4 (0.36%) HTTP
18 4 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.54%) Power BI
3 33 (2.95%) MySQL
4 25 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.14%) Tableau
6 20 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.89%) Star Schema
9 8 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.63%) Big Data
10 7 (0.63%) MS Access
11 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.54%) Power Query
11 6 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
12 5 (0.45%) Redis
13 4 (0.36%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 54 (4.83%) Git
2 37 (3.31%) JIRA
3 15 (1.34%) Cucumber
3 15 (1.34%) Robot Framework
4 14 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (0.63%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.54%) JUnit
7 6 (0.54%) NUnit
7 6 (0.54%) Postman
8 5 (0.45%) Mocha
8 5 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.45%) webpack
9 4 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.36%) GitLab
9 4 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.36%) Selenium
9 4 (0.36%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.27%) JMeter
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 598 (53.44%) Social Skills
2 265 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (14.21%) Retail
4 149 (13.32%) Finance
5 148 (13.23%) Manufacturing
6 123 (10.99%) Presentation Skills
7 73 (6.52%) Law
8 61 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (5.09%) Electronics
10 49 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (3.57%) Dutch Language
12 38 (3.40%) Finnish Language
12 38 (3.40%) Norwegian Language
13 31 (2.77%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.32%) Marketing
15 22 (1.97%) Banking
16 18 (1.61%) Public Sector
17 17 (1.52%) Games
18 16 (1.43%) Aerospace
19 15 (1.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 252 (22.52%) IT Support
2 153 (13.67%) Developer
3 115 (10.28%) Analyst
4 114 (10.19%) Trainer
5 82 (7.33%) Senior
6 75 (6.70%) Support Engineer
7 66 (5.90%) Lead
8 52 (4.65%) IT Engineer
9 43 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support
10 42 (3.75%) Consultant
11 41 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
12 27 (2.41%) Architect
13 26 (2.32%) SQL Developer
14 23 (2.06%) Applications Support
15 22 (1.97%) Business Analyst
15 22 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (1.97%) IT Analyst
15 22 (1.97%) Junior
15 22 (1.97%) Senior Developer
16 21 (1.88%) OpenEdge Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.65%) .NET
2 35 (3.13%) HTML
3 34 (3.04%) CSS
4 29 (2.59%) React
5 21 (1.88%) RESTful
6 17 (1.52%) Middleware
7 16 (1.43%) Node.js
8 15 (1.34%) Laravel
9 14 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 14 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (1.16%) GraphQL
11 12 (1.07%) .NET Framework
11 12 (1.07%) Web Services
12 11 (0.98%) ASP.NET
12 11 (0.98%) Jest
12 11 (0.98%) SOAP
13 10 (0.89%) jQuery
13 10 (0.89%) REST
14 9 (0.80%) Spring
14 9 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.28%) Robotics
2 108 (9.65%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 40 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.97%) IoT
7 22 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 22 (1.97%) SCADA
8 20 (1.79%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 18 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.25%) EPoS
12 13 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
15 9 (0.80%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 295 (26.36%) Windows
2 71 (6.34%) Linux
3 52 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.43%) Android
5 16 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.34%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.07%) Windows 7
8 8 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.63%) Unix
10 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (14.39%) Artificial Intelligence
2 149 (13.32%) Mathematics
3 148 (13.23%) Customer Service
4 138 (12.33%) Machine Learning
5 118 (10.55%) LLM
5 118 (10.55%) Mentoring
6 117 (10.46%) Agile
7 115 (10.28%) Generative AI
7 115 (10.28%) Project Management
8 114 (10.19%) Red Team
9 113 (10.10%) Computer Science
10 105 (9.38%) Line Management
11 103 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (7.95%) Decision-Making
13 88 (7.86%) ITIL
14 87 (7.77%) Data Privacy
15 84 (7.51%) Collaborative Working
16 82 (7.33%) Analytics
17 78 (6.97%) CRM
18 73 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 152 (13.58%) SQL
2 92 (8.22%) Python
3 68 (6.08%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.72%) C#
5 41 (3.66%) Java
6 40 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 31 (2.77%) Bash
8 24 (2.14%) PHP
8 24 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.97%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.43%) MATLAB
11 10 (0.89%) C
11 10 (0.89%) C++
12 9 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.36%) Delphi
14 4 (0.36%) R
14 4 (0.36%) XAML
15 3 (0.27%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 325 (29.04%) Degree
2 84 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 42 (3.75%) DBS Check
5 39 (3.49%) Security Cleared
6 34 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.95%) MCP
8 32 (2.86%) CCNA
8 32 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (2.59%) CCNP
10 28 (2.50%) MCSE
11 27 (2.41%) LPIC
12 23 (2.06%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.25%) SC Cleared
14 13 (1.16%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.98%) A+ Certification
16 10 (0.89%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.89%) MCSA
17 7 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.45%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.38%) QA
2 24 (2.14%) SLA
3 22 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.70%) GDPR
5 18 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 11 (0.98%) COBIT
7 10 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.63%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.36%) PMO
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.18%) PMBOK
12 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.089%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.089%) P3O
12 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.089%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 26 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.88%) Docker
4 17 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
5 3 (0.27%) LXC
5 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.089%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.80%) Terraform
3 7 (0.63%) Grafana
3 7 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.45%) SCCM
5 5 (0.45%) SCOM
6 2 (0.18%) Ansible
6 2 (0.18%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.18%) SCSM
7 1 (0.089%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.089%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.089%) Nagios
7 1 (0.089%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.089%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.089%) WSUS
Vendors
1 250 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 137 (12.24%) Databricks
3 133 (11.89%) Google
4 120 (10.72%) Adobe
5 60 (5.36%) Cisco
6 31 (2.77%) Oracle
7 30 (2.68%) SAP
7 30 (2.68%) VMware
8 27 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.88%) Progress
10 20 (1.79%) Rockwell
10 20 (1.79%) Siemens
11 14 (1.25%) IBM
12 13 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.07%) WooCommerce
14 11 (0.98%) Dell
15 9 (0.80%) BT
16 8 (0.71%) Apple
16 8 (0.71%) Juniper
16 8 (0.71%) Sage