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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 167 205 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.88% 30.06% 14.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.66% 33.88% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 131 100 251
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,884 £24,980
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £40,000 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year +21.25% -4.25% -1.71%
75th Percentile £67,515 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -10.00%

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 1,729 605 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.18% 88.71% 82.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 357 1,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,953 £75,000
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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -12 146 £48,500 +7.78% 64
Durham -30 11 £41,000 +38.40% 22
Cleveland - 7 - - 3
Northumberland -3 2 - - 3
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 9 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) CMS
3 4 (2.40%) WordPress
4 3 (1.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.96%) AWS
2 27 (16.17%) Azure
3 15 (8.98%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.59%) GCP
6 8 (4.79%) Serverless
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.80%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.80%) OCI
9 3 (1.80%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) Broadband
1 10 (5.99%) Firewall
2 6 (3.59%) DHCP
2 6 (3.59%) DNS
3 5 (2.99%) VPN
3 5 (2.99%) Wireless
4 3 (1.80%) Network Security
4 3 (1.80%) NGFW
4 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.80%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.80%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.20%) LAN
5 2 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.60%) DSLAM
6 1 (0.60%) Intranet
6 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) Power BI
2 8 (4.79%) MySQL
2 8 (4.79%) Tableau
3 6 (3.59%) Big Data
3 6 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.99%) Metadata
4 5 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.40%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.20%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.60%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.60%) Looker
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.59%) GitLab
2 4 (2.40%) Git
3 3 (1.80%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.20%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (40.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 27 (16.17%) Finance
5 18 (10.78%) Legal
6 14 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (7.78%) Law
8 12 (7.19%) Banking
8 12 (7.19%) Marketing
9 10 (5.99%) Games
10 9 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.40%) Electronics
11 4 (2.40%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Wearables
14 1 (0.60%) Billing
14 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (13.17%) Developer
2 21 (12.57%) Senior
3 20 (11.98%) IT Support
4 15 (8.98%) Analyst
5 14 (8.38%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Lead
7 12 (7.19%) Business Analyst
7 12 (7.19%) Support Technician
8 11 (6.59%) Architect
9 10 (5.99%) Customer Service Advisor
9 10 (5.99%) Support Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) IT Support Technician
10 9 (5.39%) IT Technician
11 8 (4.79%) Digital Transformation
11 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Applications Support
12 7 (4.19%) Intapp Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.59%) IT Engineer
13 6 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.19%) .NET
2 6 (3.59%) React
3 4 (2.40%) CSS
3 4 (2.40%) HTML
3 4 (2.40%) Node.js
3 4 (2.40%) REST
4 3 (1.80%) Bootstrap
4 3 (1.80%) PySpark
4 3 (1.80%) SignalR
4 3 (1.80%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.20%) LangChain
5 2 (1.20%) React Native
5 2 (1.20%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.60%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.60%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.60%) Express.js
6 1 (0.60%) Kafka
6 1 (0.60%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.60%) Nunjucks
6 1 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.40%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.40%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.40%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.80%) PKI
5 3 (1.80%) Replication
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Windows
2 5 (2.99%) Linux
3 4 (2.40%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.56%) Agile
2 29 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (15.57%) Customer Service
4 25 (14.97%) Analytics
4 25 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 20 (11.98%) Coaching
5 20 (11.98%) Mentoring
6 19 (11.38%) AI
7 15 (8.98%) Decision-Making
7 15 (8.98%) Project Management
8 14 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (8.38%) CI/CD
8 14 (8.38%) Data Modelling
8 14 (8.38%) Validation
9 13 (7.78%) DevOps
10 11 (6.59%) ITIL
10 11 (6.59%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.99%) Change Management
11 10 (5.99%) Software Engineering
11 10 (5.99%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.16%) Python
2 28 (16.77%) SQL
3 8 (4.79%) C#
3 8 (4.79%) Java
4 7 (4.19%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.80%) Bash
6 3 (1.80%) PHP
6 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.20%) C++
7 2 (1.20%) VB
8 1 (0.60%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.58%) Degree
2 12 (7.19%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.59%) HNC
3 6 (3.59%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.59%) PMP
4 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.40%) ISEB
5 3 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.80%) CCSP
5 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.80%) CISM
5 3 (1.80%) CISSP
5 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) APMP
6 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.20%) CAPM
6 2 (1.20%) PgMP
7 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.99%) QA
3 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.40%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.80%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (1.20%) WCAG
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.99%) Docker
4 3 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (5.99%) Terraform
2 4 (2.40%) Ansible
3 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.20%) SCCM
3 2 (1.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.59%) Databricks
3 10 (5.99%) BT
4 9 (5.39%) VMware
5 7 (4.19%) Intapp
6 4 (2.40%) Apple
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle
6 4 (2.40%) Sage
6 4 (2.40%) Xero
7 3 (1.80%) Arista
7 3 (1.80%) Aruba
7 3 (1.80%) NetScout
7 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.20%) Samsung
9 1 (0.60%) Adobe
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix
9 1 (0.60%) Confluent
9 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.60%) Freshdesk