Problem-Solving Jobs in the Midlands

Problem Solving
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,803 1,443 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.20% 15.57% 13.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.54% 16.13% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 601 869
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,725 8,947 10,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.01% 96.53% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 4,518 6,934
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.87%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +5 1,150 £42,500 -15.00% 484
East Midlands +5 631 £37,500 -16.67% 310
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
1 101 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 70 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.72%) IIS
4 30 (1.66%) WordPress
5 11 (0.61%) Confluence
6 9 (0.50%) Apache
7 8 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.11%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.11%) Captiva
10 2 (0.11%) Documentum
10 2 (0.11%) JBoss
10 2 (0.11%) MTS
10 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.055%) Drupal
11 1 (0.055%) TYPO3
Applications
1 304 (16.86%) Microsoft Office
2 175 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (4.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.55%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.33%) CANalyzer
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.28%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.22%) InDesign
9 4 (0.22%) Trello
10 3 (0.17%) Revit
10 3 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.11%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
11 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.78%) Shopify
4 10 (0.55%) Misys Midas
5 9 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 7 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.28%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.17%) iTrent
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
12 1 (0.055%) CA PPM
12 1 (0.055%) MIS ActiveH
12 1 (0.055%) NEC Housing
12 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
12 1 (0.055%) Primavera
12 1 (0.055%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 304 (16.86%) Azure
2 231 (12.81%) Microsoft 365
3 154 (8.54%) AWS
4 123 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.38%) GCP
7 60 (3.33%) SaaS
8 33 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 26 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 23 (1.28%) GitHub
12 22 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.16%) WhatsApp
14 17 (0.94%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.83%) Amazon S3
15 15 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (0.78%) Matillion
16 14 (0.78%) Snowflake
17 13 (0.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 121 (6.71%) Firewall
2 106 (5.88%) WAN
3 65 (3.61%) LAN
4 64 (3.55%) DNS
5 53 (2.94%) DHCP
6 51 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 40 (2.22%) VPN
8 34 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (1.83%) Wireless
10 25 (1.39%) Network Security
11 22 (1.22%) SAN
12 20 (1.11%) Broadband
13 17 (0.94%) Internet
13 17 (0.94%) Intranet
14 14 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
14 14 (0.78%) VLAN
14 14 (0.78%) VoIP
15 13 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.67%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 113 (6.27%) Power BI
3 59 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.83%) Looker
5 46 (2.55%) BigQuery
6 41 (2.27%) Tableau
7 39 (2.16%) MySQL
8 30 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (1.66%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (0.83%) MongoDB
13 14 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (0.72%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.61%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.55%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 69 (3.83%) Git
2 52 (2.88%) JIRA
3 15 (0.83%) GitLab
4 13 (0.72%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.39%) CANoe
6 7 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.33%) IntelliJ
7 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.28%) ESLint
8 5 (0.28%) gulp
8 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.28%) Postman
9 4 (0.22%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) JUnit
10 3 (0.17%) JDeveloper
10 3 (0.17%) JMeter
10 3 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 981 (54.41%) Social Skills
2 659 (36.55%) Analytical Skills
3 262 (14.53%) Finance
4 185 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 178 (9.87%) Retail
6 140 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
7 125 (6.93%) Manufacturing
8 104 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 83 (4.60%) Marketing
10 68 (3.77%) Public Sector
11 60 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (2.88%) Automotive
13 47 (2.61%) Law
14 34 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.77%) Legal
16 30 (1.66%) Local Government
17 27 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.05%) Electronics
19 15 (0.83%) Billing
19 15 (0.83%) French Language
Job Titles
1 354 (19.63%) Analyst
2 163 (9.04%) Developer
2 163 (9.04%) Senior
3 125 (6.93%) Product Analyst
4 121 (6.71%) Lead
5 116 (6.43%) Sales Analyst
6 104 (5.77%) Support Engineer
7 97 (5.38%) IT Support
8 81 (4.49%) Consultant
9 75 (4.16%) IT Manager
10 66 (3.66%) IT Engineer
10 66 (3.66%) Project Manager
11 61 (3.38%) Architect
12 53 (2.94%) Software Engineer
13 52 (2.88%) IT Technician
14 49 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 44 (2.44%) Administrator
15 44 (2.44%) Systems Engineer
16 43 (2.38%) Data Engineer
16 43 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (5.44%) .NET
2 81 (4.49%) HTML
3 60 (3.33%) CSS
4 43 (2.38%) REST
5 41 (2.27%) React
6 36 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 27 (1.50%) ASP.NET
7 27 (1.50%) Node.js
8 22 (1.22%) Laravel
9 21 (1.16%) .NET Core
10 18 (1.00%) WebRTC
11 17 (0.94%) HTML5
11 17 (0.94%) XML
12 16 (0.89%) jQuery
12 16 (0.89%) Vue
13 15 (0.83%) Yocto
14 14 (0.78%) Web Services
15 13 (0.72%) RESTful
16 11 (0.61%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 170 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
2 111 (6.16%) Driving Licence
3 78 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 48 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 43 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.33%) Clustering
7 37 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 34 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 26 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.33%) Replication
11 23 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.00%) IoT
14 17 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (0.94%) NHS
14 17 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 16 (0.89%) Taxonomies
16 14 (0.78%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 272 (15.09%) Windows
2 131 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 92 (5.10%) Linux
4 75 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (1.44%) Windows 7
7 16 (0.89%) Android
8 14 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
8 14 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.72%) Unix
9 13 (0.72%) Windows 8
10 10 (0.55%) VMS
11 9 (0.50%) CentOS
11 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.39%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 4 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (17.64%) Customer Service
2 290 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 279 (15.47%) Agile
4 230 (12.76%) Project Management
5 228 (12.65%) Mathematics
6 181 (10.04%) Mentoring
7 174 (9.65%) Computer Science
8 153 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
9 151 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
10 133 (7.38%) Decision-Making
11 132 (7.32%) Analytics
12 130 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
13 129 (7.15%) ITIL
14 128 (7.10%) Data Analysis
15 122 (6.77%) DevOps
16 117 (6.49%) User Experience
17 110 (6.10%) Software Engineering
18 109 (6.05%) ERP
19 93 (5.16%) CRM
20 89 (4.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 320 (17.75%) SQL
2 127 (7.04%) Python
3 110 (6.10%) C#
3 110 (6.10%) JavaScript
4 68 (3.77%) Java
5 47 (2.61%) PHP
6 43 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 39 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.05%) C
9 30 (1.66%) C++
10 15 (0.83%) Bash
10 15 (0.83%) Perl
11 13 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.61%) RPG
12 11 (0.61%) RPG IV
12 11 (0.61%) RPG/400
13 10 (0.55%) MATLAB
13 10 (0.55%) Ruby
14 9 (0.50%) VB
15 8 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 525 (29.12%) Degree
2 114 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 91 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 50 (2.77%) DBS Check
6 44 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.05%) A+ Certification
8 19 (1.05%) HNC
9 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 16 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (0.72%) CCNA
11 12 (0.67%) CISSP
11 12 (0.67%) ISEB
11 12 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.67%) MCSE
11 12 (0.67%) PhD
11 12 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.61%) CISM
12 11 (0.61%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.99%) QA
2 87 (4.83%) GDPR
3 68 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (3.38%) SLA
5 49 (2.72%) Data Quality
6 47 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (2.27%) ISO 9001
8 38 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 31 (1.72%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.94%) PMO
11 9 (0.50%) ISO 26262
12 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) NIST
13 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.22%) GAAP
14 4 (0.22%) IFRS
14 4 (0.22%) MISRA
14 4 (0.22%) WCAG
15 3 (0.17%) GRC
15 3 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (9.71%) Active Directory
2 88 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (3.49%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 22 (1.22%) Docker
6 21 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.61%) vSphere
8 10 (0.55%) Firmware
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) NFS
10 6 (0.33%) pfSense
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 47 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (2.05%) EnCase
3 24 (1.33%) SCCM
4 23 (1.28%) Kubernetes
5 14 (0.78%) Terraform
6 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
8 7 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.33%) Ansible
9 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.33%) WSUS
10 5 (0.28%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (0.28%) SCOM
11 4 (0.22%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.22%) Autotask
11 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 481 (26.68%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.82%) VMware
3 85 (4.71%) Google
4 46 (2.55%) Cisco
4 46 (2.55%) SAP
5 45 (2.50%) Veeam
6 29 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 25 (1.39%) Oracle
8 23 (1.28%) Databricks
9 20 (1.11%) HP
9 20 (1.11%) Meraki
10 19 (1.05%) IBM
10 19 (1.05%) Sage
10 19 (1.05%) Sophos
11 17 (0.94%) CheckPoint
12 16 (0.89%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.83%) Dell
14 13 (0.72%) Juniper
15 12 (0.67%) Adobe
15 12 (0.67%) ServiceNow