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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 233 147 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.94% 16.44% 14.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.90% 19.95% 17.44%
Number of salaries quoted 182 100 151
10th Percentile £29,250 £24,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £38,756 £25,247 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.61% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £69,230 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £65,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -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 2,138 737 1,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.82% 82.44% 81.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,599 474 882
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £46,984
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.22% -6.03%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £91,600 £78,175 £71,991
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -12 197 £50,000 +25.00% 127
Durham +2 32 £37,000 +8.42% 28
Cleveland +3 2 - - 3
Northumberland -4 1 £38,000 +41.11% 13
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 13 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.58%) Confluence
4 5 (2.15%) CMS
4 5 (2.15%) WordPress
5 3 (1.29%) Apache
5 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.15%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.46%) AWS
2 42 (18.03%) Azure
3 22 (9.44%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.58%) GCP
5 19 (8.15%) Power Platform
6 18 (7.73%) Serverless
7 13 (5.58%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.15%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.72%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (1.72%) GitHub
13 4 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (1.29%) SaaS
14 3 (1.29%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.29%) Broadband
1 10 (4.29%) VPN
2 9 (3.86%) LAN
2 9 (3.86%) WAN
3 8 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (3.00%) Wireless
5 6 (2.58%) DHCP
5 6 (2.58%) DNS
6 5 (2.15%) Firewall
6 5 (2.15%) Network Security
7 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.86%) VLAN
8 2 (0.86%) WLAN
9 1 (0.43%) DSLAM
9 1 (0.43%) Intranet
9 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) Power BI
2 16 (6.87%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.01%) MySQL
4 9 (3.86%) Tableau
5 8 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.00%) Big Data
6 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.58%) Metadata
7 6 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.86%) Redis
11 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) Git
2 8 (3.43%) JIRA
3 7 (3.00%) GitLab
4 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.86%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.86%) MLflow
5 2 (0.86%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.43%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (39.48%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.18%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (16.74%) Finance
3 39 (16.74%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (8.15%) Law
6 16 (6.87%) Banking
7 13 (5.58%) Legal
8 10 (4.29%) Games
8 10 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.58%) Electronics
9 6 (2.58%) Marketing
10 5 (2.15%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.72%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.29%) Retail
13 2 (0.86%) Advertising
13 2 (0.86%) Automotive
13 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (12.88%) Developer
2 26 (11.16%) Analyst
3 23 (9.87%) Data Engineer
4 22 (9.44%) IT Support
5 20 (8.58%) Senior
6 19 (8.15%) Lead
7 14 (6.01%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.01%) IT Technician
7 14 (6.01%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.58%) Architect
9 12 (5.15%) IT Support Technician
9 12 (5.15%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.15%) Support Technician
10 10 (4.29%) Customer Service Advisor
11 9 (3.86%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (3.86%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (3.86%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Digital Transformation
13 7 (3.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 5 (2.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.01%) .NET
2 12 (5.15%) Node.js
3 10 (4.29%) CSS
3 10 (4.29%) HTML
3 10 (4.29%) React
4 5 (2.15%) LangChain
5 4 (1.72%) REST
6 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.29%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.29%) LlamaIndex
6 3 (1.29%) SignalR
6 3 (1.29%) Web Services
6 3 (1.29%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.86%) HTML5
7 2 (0.86%) PySpark
7 2 (0.86%) React Native
7 2 (0.86%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.86%) Vue
7 2 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.15%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.86%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.43%) Replication
5 7 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.00%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.58%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.15%) Robotics
8 4 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.58%) Windows
2 13 (5.58%) Linux
3 6 (2.58%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.72%) Android
5 2 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.86%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.61%) Continuous Improvement
2 66 (28.33%) Agile
3 35 (15.02%) CI/CD
4 32 (13.73%) Customer Service
5 31 (13.30%) AI
6 30 (12.88%) Coaching
6 30 (12.88%) DevOps
7 29 (12.45%) Mentoring
7 29 (12.45%) Validation
8 28 (12.02%) Analytics
9 24 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (9.44%) Decision-Making
11 21 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (9.01%) Software Engineering
12 19 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.15%) Data Modelling
12 19 (8.15%) SDLC
13 18 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (6.87%) Computer Science
14 16 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.46%) Python
2 48 (20.60%) SQL
3 16 (6.87%) C#
3 16 (6.87%) TypeScript
4 13 (5.58%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.72%) Java
6 10 (4.29%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.43%) Bash
8 6 (2.58%) C++
9 4 (1.72%) PHP
10 3 (1.29%) Go
11 2 (0.86%) C
11 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.43%) RPG
12 1 (0.43%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (13.30%) Degree
2 24 (10.30%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) PMI Certification
5 7 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.00%) PMP
6 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.15%) ISEB
8 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.72%) HNC
9 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.29%) CCSP
9 3 (1.29%) CISM
9 3 (1.29%) CISSP
9 3 (1.29%) HND
10 2 (0.86%) APMP
10 2 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.15%) QA
3 10 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.15%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.29%) NCSC
6 3 (1.29%) NIST
6 3 (1.29%) WCAG
7 2 (0.86%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.43%) GMP
8 1 (0.43%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (9.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.58%) Docker
3 8 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.72%) Firmware
5 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (7.30%) Terraform
2 5 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Ansible
3 2 (0.86%) SCCM
3 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.86%) WSUS
4 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.15%) Databricks
3 10 (4.29%) BT
3 10 (4.29%) VMware
4 5 (2.15%) Oracle
4 5 (2.15%) Sage
5 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.72%) Xero
6 3 (1.29%) ANSYS
6 3 (1.29%) Apple
6 3 (1.29%) Foundry
6 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.86%) Aruba
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco
7 2 (0.86%) IBM
7 2 (0.86%) Infor
7 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.86%) Spotify
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix