Problem-Solving Job Trends in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 131 175 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.61% 29.46% 13.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.37% 31.19% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 102 79 182
10th Percentile £25,009 £25,000 £25,275
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,061
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% +8.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,254 £79,100 £73,250
England median annual salary £45,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.27% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,152 561 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 75.69% 94.44% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 773 306 1,182
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,407
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -6 106 £45,000 -1.10% 57
Durham -17 15 £50,000 +45.99% 11
Cleveland - 7 - - 1
Northumberland +1 2 - - 4
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.29%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.14%) Azure
2 14 (10.69%) AWS
3 11 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.05%) GCP
6 4 (3.05%) SaaS
7 3 (2.29%) GitHub
7 3 (2.29%) OCI
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.53%) dbt
8 2 (1.53%) PaaS
8 2 (1.53%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.53%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Firewall
2 5 (3.82%) Broadband
3 4 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.29%) DNS
4 3 (2.29%) NGFW
4 3 (2.29%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.29%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.53%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (1.53%) LAN
5 2 (1.53%) PSTN
5 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.53%) VoIP
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) DHCP
6 1 (0.76%) DSLAM
6 1 (0.76%) Network Security
6 1 (0.76%) SAN
6 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.87%) Power BI
3 6 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 2 (1.53%) Redis
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.34%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
2 4 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) GitLab
3 2 (1.53%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) JUnit
4 1 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.76%) TestRail
General
1 62 (47.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.72%) Finance
3 28 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.92%) Legal
5 13 (9.92%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (7.63%) Law
6 10 (7.63%) Marketing
7 8 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Banking
9 4 (3.05%) Games
9 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.29%) Retail
10 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.53%) Advertising
11 2 (1.53%) Billing
11 2 (1.53%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 25 (19.08%) Senior
2 24 (18.32%) Analyst
3 18 (13.74%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.45%) Trainee
5 12 (9.16%) Trainee Analyst
5 12 (9.16%) Trainee Business Analyst
6 11 (8.40%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Developer
8 9 (6.87%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.11%) Intapp Developer
10 6 (4.58%) IT Support
10 6 (4.58%) Software Support Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Support Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Applications Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Applications Support Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Portfolio Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) .NET
1 3 (2.29%) Django
2 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.53%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (1.53%) JSON
2 2 (1.53%) REST
2 2 (1.53%) XML
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.76%) Flask
3 1 (0.76%) Playwright
3 1 (0.76%) PySpark
3 1 (0.76%) pytest
3 1 (0.76%) React
3 1 (0.76%) React Native
3 1 (0.76%) RESTful
3 1 (0.76%) Spring
3 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.05%) Smartphone
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.29%) NHS
5 3 (2.29%) PKI
6 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.53%) Clustering
6 2 (1.53%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Derivative
7 1 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) SCADA
7 1 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (1.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.76%) Fedora
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.56%) Customer Service
1 23 (17.56%) Project Management
2 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (13.74%) Agile
3 18 (13.74%) Change Management
3 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
4 17 (12.98%) Business Analysis
4 17 (12.98%) ITIL
5 14 (10.69%) Coaching
5 14 (10.69%) Decision-Making
6 13 (9.92%) Data Analysis
6 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (9.92%) Time Management
7 12 (9.16%) Analytics
7 12 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (7.63%) AI
8 10 (7.63%) Computer Science
8 10 (7.63%) Process Improvement
9 7 (5.34%) CRM
9 7 (5.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.98%) Python
2 12 (9.16%) SQL
3 4 (3.05%) C#
3 4 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.05%) Java
4 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.53%) Bash
5 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.53%) VB
6 1 (0.76%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) Delphi
6 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (19.08%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) HNC
3 5 (3.82%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.82%) PMP
4 4 (3.05%) ISEB
4 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.29%) CCNP
5 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.05%) GDPR
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.05%) Ansible
4 3 (2.29%) Grafana
4 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.53%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.53%) Control-M
6 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Intapp
3 5 (3.82%) BT
4 4 (3.05%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.29%) Apple
5 3 (2.29%) Arista
5 3 (2.29%) Aruba
5 3 (2.29%) Forcepoint
5 3 (2.29%) NetScout
5 3 (2.29%) Proofpoint
5 3 (2.29%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.53%) Cisco
6 2 (1.53%) Google
6 2 (1.53%) Informatica
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle
6 2 (1.53%) RedGate
6 2 (1.53%) Samsung
6 2 (1.53%) Talend
6 2 (1.53%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Fortinet