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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,598 1,064 1,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.75% 14.01% 15.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.47% 14.64% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 827 588 992
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,875 £33,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £57,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £69,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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 9,145 7,269 11,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.71% 95.72% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,707 4,187 7,370
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,725
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,772 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +3 1,035 £45,000 -10.00% 320
East Midlands +7 547 £40,000 -9.67% 210
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 77 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.07%) WordPress
4 28 (1.75%) IIS
5 16 (1.00%) CMS
6 9 (0.56%) Apache
6 9 (0.56%) Confluence
7 8 (0.50%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) MTS
10 1 (0.063%) Drupal
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.063%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.063%) SAS
Applications
1 214 (13.39%) Microsoft Office
2 89 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.56%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.50%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.38%) Sketch
7 5 (0.31%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.25%) Revit
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
10 2 (0.13%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.13%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
10 2 (0.13%) Simulink
10 2 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 25 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.13%) Shopify
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
4 11 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
4 11 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 11 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.50%) Magento
6 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.31%) SAP WM
8 4 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.19%) NEC Housing
9 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) iTrent
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
11 1 (0.063%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 251 (15.71%) Azure
2 197 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (8.51%) AWS
4 96 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.32%) SaaS
6 60 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 46 (2.88%) GCP
8 43 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.88%) PowerApps
11 29 (1.81%) GitHub
12 28 (1.75%) Google Sheets
13 23 (1.44%) Serverless
14 21 (1.31%) Google Docs
15 19 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.13%) Figma
16 18 (1.13%) OneDrive
17 17 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (0.88%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.69%) Firewall
2 88 (5.51%) Network Security
3 76 (4.76%) Internet
4 66 (4.13%) WLAN
5 57 (3.57%) DNS
6 54 (3.38%) WAN
7 46 (2.88%) DHCP
8 45 (2.82%) TCP/IP
9 41 (2.57%) LAN
10 39 (2.44%) VPN
11 29 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (1.50%) SAN
13 20 (1.25%) Wireless
14 12 (0.75%) VLAN
14 12 (0.75%) VoIP
15 11 (0.69%) Broadband
16 10 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (0.63%) SNMP
17 9 (0.56%) Ethernet
17 9 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 81 (5.07%) Power BI
3 47 (2.94%) MySQL
4 44 (2.75%) Tableau
5 40 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (2.32%) BigQuery
6 37 (2.32%) Looker
7 29 (1.81%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.63%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.56%) Big Data
14 9 (0.56%) Power Query
15 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (5.01%) Git
2 39 (2.44%) JIRA
3 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (0.38%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.31%) GitLab
6 5 (0.31%) Postman
7 4 (0.25%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.25%) gulp
8 3 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.19%) Toad
9 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.13%) CANoe
9 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Snyk
9 2 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.063%) ESLint
General
1 900 (56.32%) Social Skills
2 592 (37.05%) Analytical Skills
3 280 (17.52%) Retail
4 219 (13.70%) Finance
5 183 (11.45%) Presentation Skills
6 157 (9.82%) Organisational Skills
7 133 (8.32%) Influencing Skills
8 100 (6.26%) Manufacturing
9 59 (3.69%) Marketing
10 55 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (3.19%) Law
12 37 (2.32%) Automotive
13 35 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (1.88%) Legal
16 27 (1.69%) Public Sector
17 25 (1.56%) Electronics
18 19 (1.19%) Local Government
19 13 (0.81%) Aerospace
20 12 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 320 (20.03%) Analyst
2 182 (11.39%) Developer
3 155 (9.70%) Support Engineer
4 137 (8.57%) IT Support
5 128 (8.01%) IT Engineer
6 125 (7.82%) Product Analyst
7 116 (7.26%) Sales Analyst
8 100 (6.26%) Lead
9 99 (6.20%) Senior
10 91 (5.69%) IT Support Engineer
11 72 (4.51%) Consultant
12 54 (3.38%) Data Analyst
13 49 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 48 (3.00%) Applications Support
15 43 (2.69%) Project Manager
16 42 (2.63%) IT Manager
17 40 (2.50%) Architect
18 37 (2.32%) Full Stack Developer
19 36 (2.25%) Software Engineer
20 34 (2.13%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (6.51%) HTML
2 91 (5.69%) .NET
3 85 (5.32%) CSS
4 40 (2.50%) React
5 32 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 30 (1.88%) HTML5
6 30 (1.88%) Laravel
7 24 (1.50%) .NET Core
7 24 (1.50%) jQuery
8 23 (1.44%) Vue
9 21 (1.31%) ASP.NET
10 19 (1.19%) Node.js
10 19 (1.19%) XML
11 18 (1.13%) RESTful
12 15 (0.94%) JSON
12 15 (0.94%) Web Services
13 14 (0.88%) REST
14 13 (0.81%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.75%) CSS3
15 12 (0.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 118 (7.38%) Driving Licence
3 99 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 26 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 22 (1.38%) FMCG
9 21 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.31%) Replication
10 17 (1.06%) Clustering
11 13 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.81%) NHS
12 12 (0.75%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.69%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.69%) AS400
13 11 (0.69%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.69%) iSeries
14 10 (0.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 318 (19.90%) Windows
2 134 (8.39%) Linux
3 119 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 56 (3.50%) Windows 10
5 27 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 20 (1.25%) Windows 7
7 18 (1.13%) VMS
8 17 (1.06%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.81%) Android
10 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 8
12 9 (0.56%) CentOS
12 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.44%) Unix
14 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
15 5 (0.31%) SUSE
16 4 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (25.22%) Customer Service
2 322 (20.15%) Mentoring
3 309 (19.34%) Mathematics
4 282 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 231 (14.46%) Agile
6 225 (14.08%) Data Analysis
7 223 (13.95%) Computer Science
8 207 (12.95%) Project Management
9 183 (11.45%) ITIL
10 149 (9.32%) Customer Requirements
11 126 (7.88%) Mechatronics
12 123 (7.70%) User Experience
13 109 (6.82%) Analytics
13 109 (6.82%) DevOps
14 96 (6.01%) Business Intelligence
15 93 (5.82%) ERP
16 92 (5.76%) Asset Management
17 81 (5.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 80 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
19 75 (4.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 283 (17.71%) SQL
2 123 (7.70%) JavaScript
3 119 (7.45%) Python
4 107 (6.70%) C#
5 54 (3.38%) PHP
6 43 (2.69%) Java
7 39 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 36 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.56%) C++
10 23 (1.44%) C
11 12 (0.75%) Bash
11 12 (0.75%) RPG
12 11 (0.69%) RPG IV
12 11 (0.69%) RPG/400
12 11 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 10 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.63%) Perl
14 9 (0.56%) VB
15 8 (0.50%) Bicep
16 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 627 (39.24%) Degree
2 166 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 130 (8.14%) HNC
4 111 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 76 (4.76%) CCNA
5 76 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 76 (4.76%) MCSE
6 75 (4.69%) MCP
7 68 (4.26%) CCNP
8 65 (4.07%) LPIC
9 55 (3.44%) Security Cleared
10 51 (3.19%) DBS Check
11 36 (2.25%) SC Cleared
12 28 (1.75%) Azure Certification
13 26 (1.63%) CISSP
14 23 (1.44%) A+ Certification
15 20 (1.25%) CISM
16 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.88%) DV Cleared
18 13 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.07%) QA
2 64 (4.01%) GDPR
3 43 (2.69%) SLA
4 34 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.75%) PMO
9 9 (0.56%) NIST
10 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.31%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) ISO 26262
12 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.25%) IFRS
12 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.25%) WCAG
13 3 (0.19%) GAAP
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) COSHH
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 155 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 64 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 24 (1.50%) Docker
5 19 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.13%) vSphere
7 13 (0.81%) Firmware
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.38%) pfSense
11 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.25%) NFS
12 4 (0.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.50%) SCCM
4 22 (1.38%) Terraform
5 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 9 (0.56%) Ansible
6 9 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.38%) WSUS
8 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (0.25%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.25%) SCOM
10 3 (0.19%) Autotask
10 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.13%) Grafana
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
12 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 459 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.45%) Cisco
3 89 (5.57%) VMware
4 86 (5.38%) Google
5 42 (2.63%) SAP
5 42 (2.63%) Veeam
6 31 (1.94%) Oracle
7 26 (1.63%) Databricks
8 23 (1.44%) Dell
9 20 (1.25%) IBM
10 18 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.00%) Meraki
12 15 (0.94%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.88%) HP
13 14 (0.88%) Sage
13 14 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 13 (0.81%) WooCommerce
15 12 (0.75%) EMC
15 12 (0.75%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.63%) Adobe