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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 268 133 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.39% 14.18% 14.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.71% 17.66% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 204 93 135
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,600 £24,684
25th Percentile £36,813 £25,087 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £38,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +10.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £56,375
90th Percentile £89,625 £65,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 2,289 753 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.69% 80.28% 79.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,704 478 774
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £25,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £47,324
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -6.50% -5.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,634 £74,481 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -10 223 £50,000 +25.00% 134
Durham +10 43 £35,750 +4.76% 37
Northumberland -2 2 £46,500 +44.34% 17
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 14 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) Confluence
4 5 (1.87%) CMS
4 5 (1.87%) WordPress
5 4 (1.49%) Apache
5 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.49%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.37%) CATIA
5 1 (0.37%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.37%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Sage 50
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 59 (22.01%) AWS
2 48 (17.91%) Azure
3 29 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (9.70%) GCP
5 22 (8.21%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.21%) Serverless
6 17 (6.34%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.49%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.49%) GitHub
13 4 (1.49%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.48%) VPN
1 12 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (4.10%) LAN
2 11 (4.10%) WAN
3 8 (2.99%) Broadband
3 8 (2.99%) DHCP
3 8 (2.99%) DNS
3 8 (2.99%) Wireless
4 5 (1.87%) Firewall
4 5 (1.87%) Network Security
4 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) WLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Intranet
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.46%) Power BI
2 16 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 15 (5.60%) MySQL
4 11 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.36%) Tableau
6 8 (2.99%) Big Data
7 7 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.24%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.24%) Metadata
8 6 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.87%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.37%) Db2
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.10%) Git
2 10 (3.73%) GitLab
3 8 (2.99%) JIRA
4 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.75%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.75%) MLflow
6 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.37%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (39.55%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 44 (16.42%) Finance
5 27 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (9.33%) Law
7 17 (6.34%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.97%) Banking
9 14 (5.22%) Legal
10 13 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (3.36%) Games
12 7 (2.61%) Electronics
12 7 (2.61%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.24%) Retail
14 4 (1.49%) Marketing
14 4 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.12%) Automotive
16 2 (0.75%) Advertising
16 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (11.94%) Developer
2 29 (10.82%) Analyst
3 27 (10.07%) IT Support
4 26 (9.70%) Lead
5 22 (8.21%) Data Engineer
6 20 (7.46%) Senior
7 17 (6.34%) IT Technician
8 15 (5.60%) IT Support Technician
8 15 (5.60%) Support Technician
9 14 (5.22%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.85%) Architect
10 13 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.36%) Customer Service Advisor
12 9 (3.36%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Databricks Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Python Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Digital Transformation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.58%) Terraform
2 16 (5.97%) Node.js
3 15 (5.60%) .NET
4 12 (4.48%) CSS
4 12 (4.48%) HTML
5 10 (3.73%) React
6 8 (2.99%) LangChain
7 7 (2.61%) Web Services
8 6 (2.24%) LlamaIndex
9 5 (1.87%) AWS CDK
10 4 (1.49%) REST
11 3 (1.12%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.12%) Bootstrap
11 3 (1.12%) PySpark
11 3 (1.12%) SignalR
11 3 (1.12%) WebSockets
11 3 (1.12%) XML
12 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.75%) React Native
12 2 (0.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.82%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.73%) Robotics
4 9 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (3.36%) Replication
5 8 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.24%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.49%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.49%) FMCG
8 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.70%) Windows
2 14 (5.22%) Linux
3 6 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.12%) Android
7 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.75%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.72%) Continuous Improvement
2 75 (27.99%) Agile
3 46 (17.16%) CI/CD
4 38 (14.18%) DevOps
5 35 (13.06%) AI
5 35 (13.06%) Customer Service
6 32 (11.94%) Coaching
6 32 (11.94%) Mentoring
6 32 (11.94%) Validation
7 30 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (10.82%) Analytics
9 27 (10.07%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.96%) Software Engineering
10 24 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (7.84%) Data Modelling
12 21 (7.84%) Project Delivery
12 21 (7.84%) SDLC
13 20 (7.46%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (22.39%) Python
2 52 (19.40%) SQL
3 19 (7.09%) TypeScript
4 18 (6.72%) C#
5 16 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.22%) Bash
6 14 (5.22%) Java
7 11 (4.10%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.24%) C++
9 4 (1.49%) PHP
9 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.12%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Perl
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) RPG
12 1 (0.37%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 34 (12.69%) Degree
2 26 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.99%) HND
7 7 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.61%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.61%) HNC
7 7 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.24%) PMP
9 5 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.49%) ISEB
11 3 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.12%) CCSP
11 3 (1.12%) CISM
11 3 (1.12%) CISSP
12 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.58%) QA
2 21 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.24%) NCSC
5 4 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.12%) NIST
6 3 (1.12%) WCAG
7 2 (0.75%) PMO
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) GMP
8 1 (0.37%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (10.82%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.09%) Docker
3 9 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.49%) Firmware
5 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.49%) Ansible
3 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.12%) Puppet
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.75%) SCCM
4 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.75%) WSUS
5 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 63 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.09%) Databricks
3 11 (4.10%) VMware
4 8 (2.99%) BT
5 6 (2.24%) Oracle
6 5 (1.87%) Sage
6 5 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.49%) Google
7 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.49%) Xero
8 3 (1.12%) ANSYS
8 3 (1.12%) Foundry
9 2 (0.75%) Apple
9 2 (0.75%) Aruba
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) Infor
9 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.75%) Spotify
10 1 (0.37%) Adobe