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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 388 128 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 10.90% 13.01% 15.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.29% 15.80% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 273 99 105
10th Percentile £28,939 £24,900 -
25th Percentile £37,000 £25,087 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £33,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +49.25% +4.69% -20.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £65,000 £82,750
England median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -4.55%

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 2,537 810 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.28% 82.32% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,879 492 556
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,087 £25,004
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,235 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -6.08% -9.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,976 £64,063
90th Percentile £93,634 £75,000 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 0 291 £50,500 +50.75% 186
Durham +23 82 £35,750 +16.26% 35
Northumberland +2 11 £55,000 +114.14% 17
Cleveland -2 4 £50,000 +99.33% 2
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 16 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.80%) Apache
3 7 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.80%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.55%) Confluence
5 5 (1.29%) CMS
5 5 (1.29%) WordPress
6 3 (0.77%) nginx
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.58%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.52%) CATIA
5 2 (0.52%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.26%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.26%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.26%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Sage 50
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.52%) iTrent
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.26%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (18.56%) AWS
2 58 (14.95%) Azure
3 30 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.96%) GCP
4 27 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 25 (6.44%) Amazon S3
6 21 (5.41%) Serverless
7 18 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.06%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.80%) AWS KMS
13 7 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.80%) GitHub
13 7 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
1 14 (3.61%) Wireless
2 12 (3.09%) LAN
2 12 (3.09%) WAN
3 11 (2.84%) VPN
4 8 (2.06%) Broadband
4 8 (2.06%) DHCP
4 8 (2.06%) DNS
5 6 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.03%) Firewall
6 4 (1.03%) Network Security
7 3 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.77%) WLAN
8 2 (0.52%) SAN
8 2 (0.52%) VLAN
9 1 (0.26%) 5G
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) Intranet
9 1 (0.26%) NAS
9 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.67%) Power BI
2 16 (4.12%) MySQL
2 16 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.32%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.06%) Big Data
5 8 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.06%) Tableau
6 7 (1.80%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.55%) Metadata
7 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.77%) Redis
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 26 (6.70%) GitLab
2 14 (3.61%) Git
3 8 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.06%) JIRA
4 3 (0.77%) Appcelerator Titanium
4 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.77%) Gatling
4 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.52%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.26%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 166 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 95 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 54 (13.92%) Manufacturing
5 52 (13.40%) Finance
6 37 (9.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.96%) Law
8 21 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (4.90%) Electronics
10 18 (4.64%) Legal
11 15 (3.87%) Banking
12 11 (2.84%) Retail
13 9 (2.32%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.32%) Games
14 8 (2.06%) Automotive
15 7 (1.80%) Marketing
16 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (1.29%) General Ledger
17 5 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 48 (12.37%) Developer
2 39 (10.05%) Analyst
3 31 (7.99%) IT Support
4 30 (7.73%) Senior
5 28 (7.22%) Lead
6 24 (6.19%) Data Engineer
7 23 (5.93%) IT Technician
8 22 (5.67%) Software Developer
9 21 (5.41%) IT Support Technician
9 21 (5.41%) Support Technician
10 20 (5.15%) Consultant
11 16 (4.12%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.87%) Engineering Manager
13 13 (3.35%) Customer Service Advisor
13 13 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.09%) Architect
14 12 (3.09%) Software Engineer
15 11 (2.84%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
15 11 (2.84%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Technician
15 11 (2.84%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.54%) Terraform
2 19 (4.90%) Node.js
3 15 (3.87%) .NET
3 15 (3.87%) CSS
3 15 (3.87%) HTML
4 11 (2.84%) LangChain
4 11 (2.84%) Web Services
5 10 (2.58%) React
6 9 (2.32%) LlamaIndex
7 8 (2.06%) Kafka
8 5 (1.29%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.29%) PySpark
9 4 (1.03%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.03%) REST
9 4 (1.03%) XML
10 3 (0.77%) Bootstrap
10 3 (0.77%) Gherkin
10 3 (0.77%) SignalR
10 3 (0.77%) Spring
10 3 (0.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.08%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.90%) Robotics
4 12 (3.09%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.58%) Replication
6 9 (2.32%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.06%) FMCG
7 8 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.55%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) IoT
10 4 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.96%) Windows
2 12 (3.09%) Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.77%) Android
4 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (33.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 100 (25.77%) Agile
3 66 (17.01%) CI/CD
4 58 (14.95%) DevOps
5 47 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (11.60%) Customer Service
7 42 (10.82%) AI
8 40 (10.31%) Mentoring
9 39 (10.05%) Decision-Making
9 39 (10.05%) Validation
10 38 (9.79%) Test Automation
11 36 (9.28%) Analytics
12 35 (9.02%) Coaching
13 30 (7.73%) Containerisation
13 30 (7.73%) Software Engineering
14 29 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (7.47%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 27 (6.96%) Project Delivery
16 26 (6.70%) SFIA
17 25 (6.44%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.04%) Python
2 56 (14.43%) SQL
3 21 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.90%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.38%) Bash
5 17 (4.38%) C#
6 15 (3.87%) Java
7 11 (2.84%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.55%) C++
9 4 (1.03%) PHP
9 4 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.77%) C
10 3 (0.77%) Go
11 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) RPG
12 1 (0.26%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 61 (15.72%) Degree
2 46 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.60%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.41%) HNC
5 20 (5.15%) HND
6 19 (4.90%) Chartered Engineer
7 16 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (3.35%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.84%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.80%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.55%) PMP
13 5 (1.29%) NVQ Level 3
14 4 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (1.03%) ISEB
14 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.77%) IIBA
16 2 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.02%) QA
2 26 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.32%) GDPR
3 9 (2.32%) NCSC
4 4 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.03%) SLA
5 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.77%) WCAG
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) COSHH
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) GMP
7 1 (0.26%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.26%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.44%) Docker
3 13 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.80%) Ansible
3 4 (1.03%) Grafana
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.77%) Puppet
5 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 83 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.67%) Databricks
3 15 (3.87%) VMware
4 8 (2.06%) BT
5 7 (1.80%) Oracle
5 7 (1.80%) Sage
5 7 (1.80%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.55%) Google
6 6 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.29%) Siemens
8 4 (1.03%) SAP
8 4 (1.03%) Xero
9 3 (0.77%) Aderant
9 3 (0.77%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.77%) Foundry
9 3 (0.77%) Infor
10 2 (0.52%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.52%) Aruba
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco
10 2 (0.52%) EMC