Problem-Solving Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem Solving
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 12 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +12
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 77 119 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.68% 11.70% 11.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.46% 13.22% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 61 96 52
10th Percentile £25,087 £23,625 £24,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% +0.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £60,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £39,550 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.90% +17.65% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 900 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 93.27% 88.50% 97.18%
Number of salaries quoted 219 747 405
10th Percentile £29,200 £31,250 £31,650
25th Percentile £41,119 £37,500 £40,865
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £77,500 £78,450
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (2.60%) Apache
1 2 (2.60%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) Kentico
2 1 (1.30%) nginx
2 1 (1.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.60%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) iTrent
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) AWS
3 5 (6.49%) GitHub
4 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.60%) GCP
6 2 (2.60%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.30%) Bitrise
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.30%) Firebase
7 1 (1.30%) Slack
7 1 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Broadband
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.49%) MySQL
3 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Postman
2 1 (1.30%) Git
General
1 37 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 34 (44.16%) Finance
3 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Advertising
5 7 (9.09%) Games
6 6 (7.79%) Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.90%) Marketing
8 3 (3.90%) Retail
9 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Billing
10 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Front Office
10 1 (1.30%) Law
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Lead
4 7 (9.09%) Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) C# Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Customer Service Advisor
6 5 (6.49%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.49%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Graduate
7 4 (5.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (5.19%) Graduate Developer
7 4 (5.19%) IT Graduate
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.19%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (3.90%) C# Software Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (3.90%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) .NET
2 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
2 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET
2 5 (6.49%) React
3 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.19%) CSS
3 4 (5.19%) jQuery
3 4 (5.19%) Node.js
3 4 (5.19%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.60%) SignalR
5 1 (1.30%) Android SDK
5 1 (1.30%) Flash
5 1 (1.30%) HTML
5 1 (1.30%) iOS SDK
5 1 (1.30%) Kafka
5 1 (1.30%) Kendo UI
5 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.79%) Client/Server
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.60%) ASTM
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.30%) Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Equities
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) SCADA
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.60%) Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Android
4 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.30%) Debian
4 1 (1.30%) Solaris
4 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 18 (23.38%) Software Engineering
3 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (15.58%) OOP
5 11 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 11 (14.29%) SDLC
6 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.39%) Agile
7 8 (10.39%) Design Patterns
7 8 (10.39%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.09%) Analytics
8 7 (9.09%) Coaching
8 7 (9.09%) DevOps
9 6 (7.79%) Fintech
9 6 (7.79%) OO
9 6 (7.79%) Project Management
10 5 (6.49%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.49%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (6.49%) Critical Thinking
10 5 (6.49%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) C#
2 21 (27.27%) SQL
3 17 (22.08%) Java
4 15 (19.48%) Python
5 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.79%) C++
7 5 (6.49%) PHP
8 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.30%) Bash
10 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.30%) Swift
10 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (44.16%) Degree
2 11 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.90%) DBS Check
3 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.60%) NVQ Level 3
4 2 (2.60%) NVQ Level 4
5 1 (1.30%) CEH
5 1 (1.30%) CISA
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PhD
5 1 (1.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
3 2 (2.60%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) BT
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) VMware
5 1 (1.30%) Capita
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco
5 1 (1.30%) Concur
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Google
5 1 (1.30%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.30%) Juniper
5 1 (1.30%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) Telerik