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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +13
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 127 178 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.59% 31.45% 13.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 34.17% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 101 86 206
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,044 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -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 1,385 521 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.91% 92.05% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 954 327 1,311
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,857 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -9 111 £48,500 +4.30% 58
Cleveland - 7 - - 3
Durham -35 6 £61,350 +85.91% 15
Northumberland -1 2 - - 5
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 2 (1.57%) CMS
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.57%) WordPress
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) IIS
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.96%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) AWS
3 11 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (5.51%) GCP
4 7 (5.51%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.94%) Serverless
6 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.36%) OCI
6 3 (2.36%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.57%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.79%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.79%) GitHub
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) Firewall
2 6 (4.72%) Broadband
3 5 (3.94%) DNS
4 3 (2.36%) DHCP
4 3 (2.36%) Network Security
4 3 (2.36%) NGFW
4 3 (2.36%) VPN
4 3 (2.36%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.36%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.57%) LAN
5 2 (1.57%) WAN
6 1 (0.79%) DSLAM
6 1 (0.79%) SAN
6 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.72%) Power BI
3 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.57%) MySQL
3 2 (1.57%) Tableau
4 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.79%) Big Data
4 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.79%) Looker
4 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Git
1 5 (3.94%) GitLab
1 5 (3.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.57%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) JUnit
3 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.79%) Selenium
3 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.79%) TestComplete
3 1 (0.79%) TestRail
3 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 52 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.83%) Finance
3 24 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (17.32%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.02%) Legal
6 13 (10.24%) Law
7 10 (7.87%) Marketing
8 9 (7.09%) Banking
8 9 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (4.72%) Games
11 4 (3.15%) Tech for Good
12 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.57%) Electronics
13 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.79%) Advertising
14 1 (0.79%) Billing
14 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (18.11%) Senior
2 22 (17.32%) Analyst
3 17 (13.39%) Business Analyst
4 14 (11.02%) Developer
5 10 (7.87%) IT Support
5 10 (7.87%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Architect
6 9 (7.09%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.30%) Intapp Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Trainee
7 8 (6.30%) Trainee Analyst
7 8 (6.30%) Trainee Business Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Digital Transformation
8 7 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Lead
9 6 (4.72%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.72%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.94%) .NET
2 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.57%) Playwright
2 2 (1.57%) REST
3 1 (0.79%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.79%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.79%) CSS
3 1 (0.79%) Django
3 1 (0.79%) Flask
3 1 (0.79%) HTML
3 1 (0.79%) PySpark
3 1 (0.79%) pytest
3 1 (0.79%) React
3 1 (0.79%) React Native
3 1 (0.79%) RESTful
3 1 (0.79%) Spring
3 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (4.72%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.15%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.36%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.36%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.36%) PKI
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.57%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.57%) Replication
6 1 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.30%) Windows
2 7 (5.51%) Linux
3 4 (3.15%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.57%) Android
5 2 (1.57%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.90%) Agile
2 23 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (15.75%) Customer Service
3 20 (15.75%) Project Management
4 19 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
5 18 (14.17%) Coaching
6 17 (13.39%) Change Management
7 14 (11.02%) Analytics
7 14 (11.02%) Business Analysis
8 12 (9.45%) AI
8 12 (9.45%) Decision-Making
8 12 (9.45%) ITIL
9 11 (8.66%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.87%) DevOps
10 10 (7.87%) Roadmaps
10 10 (7.87%) Validation
11 9 (7.09%) User Stories
12 8 (6.30%) Data Analysis
12 8 (6.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.81%) Python
2 8 (6.30%) SQL
3 6 (4.72%) C#
3 6 (4.72%) Java
4 3 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.57%) VB
6 1 (0.79%) C++
6 1 (0.79%) Delphi
6 1 (0.79%) PHP
6 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Degree
2 6 (4.72%) HNC
2 6 (4.72%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.15%) ISEB
3 4 (3.15%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.15%) PMP
4 3 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.36%) CCSP
4 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.36%) CISM
4 3 (2.36%) CISSP
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.94%) QA
4 4 (3.15%) GDPR
5 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.30%) Terraform
2 5 (3.94%) Ansible
3 4 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.36%) Grafana
5 2 (1.57%) Control-M
5 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.57%) SCCM
5 2 (1.57%) WSUS
6 1 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.30%) Intapp
3 6 (4.72%) BT
4 4 (3.15%) Apple
5 3 (2.36%) Arista
5 3 (2.36%) Aruba
5 3 (2.36%) NetScout
5 3 (2.36%) VMware
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle
6 2 (1.57%) Samsung
7 1 (0.79%) Adobe
7 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.79%) Citrix
7 1 (0.79%) Sage
7 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) Xero