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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 183 179 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.06% 23.46% 14.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.76% 27.67% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 142 100 237
10th Percentile £27,869 £25,000 £24,776
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,300 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.25% -1.71%
75th Percentile £69,230 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,625 £68,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,875 647 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.37% 84.80% 82.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 408 1,341
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £74,481 £75,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -11 160 £51,815 +21.92% 75
Durham -31 13 £40,000 +17.22% 18
Cleveland +3 7 - - 1
Northumberland -2 2 - - 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 11 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.19%) CMS
3 4 (2.19%) WordPress
4 3 (1.64%) Apache
4 3 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.64%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.55%) IIS
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.55%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.55%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.77%) AWS
2 35 (19.13%) Azure
3 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (7.65%) GCP
5 13 (7.10%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.56%) Serverless
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.64%) OCI
9 3 (1.64%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.46%) Broadband
2 9 (4.92%) Firewall
3 6 (3.28%) DHCP
3 6 (3.28%) DNS
4 5 (2.73%) VPN
4 5 (2.73%) Wireless
5 3 (1.64%) Network Security
5 3 (1.64%) NGFW
5 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.64%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.64%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.09%) LAN
6 2 (1.09%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) DSLAM
7 1 (0.55%) Intranet
7 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.56%) Power BI
1 12 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.01%) MySQL
3 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.37%) Tableau
4 7 (3.83%) Big Data
4 7 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.73%) Metadata
6 5 (2.73%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
8 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Db2
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Git
1 7 (3.83%) GitLab
2 4 (2.19%) JIRA
3 2 (1.09%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.09%) MLflow
3 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.55%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (17.49%) Public Sector
4 27 (14.75%) Finance
5 15 (8.20%) Legal
6 14 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (7.10%) Banking
7 13 (7.10%) Law
8 12 (6.56%) Marketing
9 10 (5.46%) Games
10 9 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.73%) Electronics
12 4 (2.19%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.64%) Retail
14 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.09%) Wearables
15 1 (0.55%) Billing
15 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (15.30%) Developer
2 19 (10.38%) IT Support
2 19 (10.38%) Senior
3 17 (9.29%) Data Engineer
4 15 (8.20%) Analyst
4 15 (8.20%) Lead
5 12 (6.56%) Architect
6 11 (6.01%) Software Developer
6 11 (6.01%) Support Technician
7 10 (5.46%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.46%) Customer Service Advisor
8 9 (4.92%) IT Support Technician
8 9 (4.92%) IT Technician
8 9 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Digital Transformation
9 8 (4.37%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.83%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.92%) .NET
2 8 (4.37%) Node.js
2 8 (4.37%) React
3 6 (3.28%) CSS
3 6 (3.28%) HTML
3 6 (3.28%) REST
4 3 (1.64%) Bootstrap
4 3 (1.64%) PySpark
4 3 (1.64%) SignalR
4 3 (1.64%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.09%) LangChain
5 2 (1.09%) React Native
5 2 (1.09%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.09%) Vue
6 1 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) Playwright
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.28%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.73%) Replication
5 4 (2.19%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.19%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.19%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) PKI
6 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.64%) Robotics
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.46%) Windows
2 7 (3.83%) Linux
3 4 (2.19%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.09%) Android
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.23%) Agile
2 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (14.21%) Analytics
4 25 (13.66%) Customer Service
4 25 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (12.57%) AI
6 22 (12.02%) Coaching
6 22 (12.02%) Mentoring
7 19 (10.38%) CI/CD
8 18 (9.84%) Data Modelling
8 18 (9.84%) DevOps
9 16 (8.74%) Decision-Making
9 16 (8.74%) Software Engineering
9 16 (8.74%) Validation
10 15 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (7.10%) Project Management
12 13 (7.10%) Roadmaps
12 13 (7.10%) Test Automation
13 12 (6.56%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.31%) SQL
2 38 (20.77%) Python
3 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
4 12 (6.56%) C#
5 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.37%) Java
7 5 (2.73%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.19%) Bash
9 3 (1.64%) C++
9 3 (1.64%) Go
9 3 (1.64%) PHP
10 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) RPG
11 1 (0.55%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.84%) Degree
2 17 (9.29%) SC Cleared
2 17 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.28%) HNC
4 5 (2.73%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.73%) PMP
5 3 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.64%) CCSP
5 3 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.64%) CISM
5 3 (1.64%) CISSP
5 3 (1.64%) ISEB
5 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.09%) APMP
6 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) CAPM
6 2 (1.09%) PgMP
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.56%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.64%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) NIST
6 2 (1.09%) PMO
6 2 (1.09%) WCAG
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.83%) Docker
4 3 (1.64%) Firmware
4 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.56%) Terraform
2 5 (2.73%) Ansible
3 4 (2.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) SCCM
4 2 (1.09%) WSUS
5 1 (0.55%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) Databricks
3 10 (5.46%) BT
3 10 (5.46%) VMware
4 5 (2.73%) Intapp
4 5 (2.73%) Oracle
5 4 (2.19%) Apple
5 4 (2.19%) Sage
5 4 (2.19%) Xero
6 3 (1.64%) Arista
6 3 (1.64%) Aruba
6 3 (1.64%) NetScout
6 3 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.09%) IBM
7 2 (1.09%) Infor
7 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.09%) Samsung
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) Citrix