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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +18
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 154 190 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.91% 31.20% 14.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.63% 34.17% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 124 88 245
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,938 £32,375 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,222 £45,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% +8.43% -2.35%
75th Percentile £64,625 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,375 £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 1,600 556 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.81% 91.30% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 316 1,377
10th Percentile £29,225 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,813 £32,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -0.44%
75th Percentile £69,390 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 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 30 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 -11 136 £48,445 +7.65% 50
Durham -33 8 £42,000 +27.27% 20
Cleveland - 7 - - 4
Northumberland -3 2 - - 4
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 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.60%) CMS
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.95%) WordPress
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.29%) Azure
2 21 (13.64%) AWS
3 14 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.44%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.90%) GCP
6 5 (3.25%) Serverless
7 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.95%) OCI
8 3 (1.95%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.65%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) Firewall
2 8 (5.19%) Broadband
3 7 (4.55%) DNS
4 6 (3.90%) DHCP
5 5 (3.25%) VPN
6 3 (1.95%) Network Security
6 3 (1.95%) NGFW
6 3 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.95%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.95%) Wireless
6 3 (1.95%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.30%) LAN
7 2 (1.30%) WAN
8 1 (0.65%) DSLAM
8 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) Power BI
2 7 (4.55%) Tableau
3 6 (3.90%) Big Data
3 6 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.90%) MySQL
3 6 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.60%) Metadata
4 4 (2.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.95%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.95%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.65%) Looker
7 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.65%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.90%) GitLab
2 4 (2.60%) Git
2 4 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (1.30%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.30%) MLflow
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.65%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.65%) TestRail
4 1 (0.65%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (19.48%) Finance
4 27 (17.53%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.69%) Legal
6 13 (8.44%) Law
7 12 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (7.14%) Banking
8 11 (7.14%) Marketing
9 9 (5.84%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (5.19%) Games
11 4 (2.60%) Electronics
11 4 (2.60%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Wearables
13 1 (0.65%) Billing
13 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (14.94%) Senior
2 20 (12.99%) Developer
3 18 (11.69%) Analyst
4 16 (10.39%) IT Support
5 15 (9.74%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.49%) Architect
6 10 (6.49%) Support Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Support Technician
7 9 (5.84%) Lead
7 9 (5.84%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.19%) Customer Service Advisor
8 8 (5.19%) Digital Transformation
8 8 (5.19%) Intapp Developer
9 7 (4.55%) Applications Support
9 7 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) IT Support Technician
9 7 (4.55%) IT Technician
9 7 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.90%) Consultant
10 6 (3.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.55%) .NET
2 5 (3.25%) React
3 4 (2.60%) CSS
3 4 (2.60%) HTML
4 3 (1.95%) Bootstrap
4 3 (1.95%) PySpark
5 2 (1.30%) LangChain
5 2 (1.30%) Node.js
5 2 (1.30%) Playwright
5 2 (1.30%) React Native
5 2 (1.30%) REST
5 2 (1.30%) SignalR
5 2 (1.30%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.30%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.65%) CSS3
6 1 (0.65%) HTML5
6 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.90%) Management Information System
1 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.25%) Client/Server
2 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.60%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.60%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.60%) Hedge funds
3 4 (2.60%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.95%) PKI
4 3 (1.95%) Replication
5 2 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.30%) PMI
5 2 (1.30%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.19%) Windows
2 5 (3.25%) Linux
3 4 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.30%) Android
5 2 (1.30%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (22.73%) Agile
2 25 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 25 (16.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 23 (14.94%) Customer Service
4 22 (14.29%) Analytics
5 21 (13.64%) Coaching
5 21 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 18 (11.69%) AI
6 18 (11.69%) Project Management
7 15 (9.74%) Decision-Making
7 15 (9.74%) Validation
8 13 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (8.44%) Change Management
8 13 (8.44%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.79%) Business Analysis
9 12 (7.79%) Data Modelling
9 12 (7.79%) DevOps
10 11 (7.14%) ITIL
10 11 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 10 (6.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.58%) Python
2 19 (12.34%) SQL
3 8 (5.19%) Java
4 7 (4.55%) C#
5 6 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.95%) Bash
7 3 (1.95%) PHP
7 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.30%) C++
8 2 (1.30%) VB
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (11.69%) Degree
2 12 (7.79%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.90%) HNC
3 6 (3.90%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.90%) PMP
4 4 (2.60%) ISEB
5 3 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.95%) CCSP
5 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.95%) CISM
5 3 (1.95%) CISSP
5 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.30%) APMP
6 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.30%) CAPM
6 2 (1.30%) PgMP
7 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.14%) QA
3 7 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.60%) GDPR
4 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.95%) NIST
6 2 (1.30%) PMO
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (9.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.95%) Docker
3 3 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (5.84%) Terraform
2 4 (2.60%) Ansible
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.30%) SCCM
3 2 (1.30%) WSUS
4 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.19%) BT
2 8 (5.19%) Intapp
3 6 (3.90%) VMware
4 4 (2.60%) Apple
4 4 (2.60%) Databricks
4 4 (2.60%) Sage
4 4 (2.60%) Xero
5 3 (1.95%) Arista
5 3 (1.95%) Aruba
5 3 (1.95%) NetScout
5 3 (1.95%) Oracle
5 3 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.30%) Samsung
7 1 (0.65%) Citrix
7 1 (0.65%) Freshdesk