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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 196 154 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.21% 18.12% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.91% 21.88% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 151 99 192
10th Percentile £29,250 £24,900 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,300 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,000 £55,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £74,825
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £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 1,977 704 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.76% 82.82% 81.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,484 458 1,107
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -10 167 £52,500 +31.25% 78
Durham -13 20 £37,000 +8.42% 14
Cleveland +3 6 - - 1
Northumberland -3 2 - - 10
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 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.55%) CMS
3 5 (2.55%) WordPress
4 3 (1.53%) Apache
4 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.53%) Confluence
4 3 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.51%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.92%) AWS
2 34 (17.35%) Azure
3 16 (8.16%) GCP
4 15 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.14%) Serverless
6 9 (4.59%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.55%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.04%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.53%) GitHub
10 3 (1.53%) Vertex AI
11 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Broadband
2 7 (3.57%) Wireless
3 6 (3.06%) DHCP
3 6 (3.06%) DNS
3 6 (3.06%) LAN
3 6 (3.06%) VPN
3 6 (3.06%) WAN
4 5 (2.55%) Firewall
4 5 (2.55%) Network Security
5 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.02%) VLAN
6 2 (1.02%) WLAN
7 1 (0.51%) DSLAM
7 1 (0.51%) Intranet
7 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.14%) Power BI
2 13 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.61%) MySQL
4 8 (4.08%) Tableau
5 7 (3.57%) Big Data
5 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.55%) Metadata
7 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.02%) Redis
10 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.51%) Db2
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.08%) Git
2 7 (3.57%) GitLab
3 5 (2.55%) JIRA
4 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.02%) MLflow
4 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.51%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (17.35%) Finance
4 29 (14.80%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.16%) Banking
5 16 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.63%) Law
7 12 (6.12%) Legal
8 11 (5.61%) Games
8 11 (5.61%) Marketing
9 10 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.06%) Electronics
11 4 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.04%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.53%) Retail
13 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.02%) Wearables
14 1 (0.51%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (14.80%) Developer
2 22 (11.22%) Data Engineer
3 19 (9.69%) Analyst
3 19 (9.69%) Senior
4 18 (9.18%) IT Support
5 17 (8.67%) Lead
6 14 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 12 (6.12%) Architect
7 12 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.61%) Customer Service Advisor
9 10 (5.10%) IT Technician
9 10 (5.10%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) IT Support Technician
10 9 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.59%) Support Technician
11 8 (4.08%) Digital Transformation
12 7 (3.57%) Applications Support
13 6 (3.06%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.12%) .NET
2 10 (5.10%) Node.js
2 10 (5.10%) React
3 8 (4.08%) CSS
3 8 (4.08%) HTML
4 4 (2.04%) REST
5 3 (1.53%) Bootstrap
5 3 (1.53%) SignalR
5 3 (1.53%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.02%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.02%) CSS3
6 2 (1.02%) HTML5
6 2 (1.02%) LangChain
6 2 (1.02%) PySpark
6 2 (1.02%) React Native
6 2 (1.02%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.02%) Vue
6 2 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.59%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.55%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.55%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.55%) Replication
6 4 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.53%) PMI
7 3 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.14%) Windows
2 9 (4.59%) Linux
3 5 (2.55%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.02%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.02%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.55%) Agile
2 47 (23.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (13.78%) Customer Service
5 26 (13.27%) CI/CD
6 24 (12.24%) AI
6 24 (12.24%) Analytics
6 24 (12.24%) Validation
7 22 (11.22%) Mentoring
8 21 (10.71%) Coaching
9 20 (10.20%) DevOps
9 20 (10.20%) Software Engineering
10 19 (9.69%) Data Modelling
11 18 (9.18%) Decision-Making
12 16 (8.16%) Computer Science
13 15 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (7.65%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (7.14%) Test Automation
15 13 (6.63%) Project Management
15 13 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.43%) Python
1 42 (21.43%) SQL
2 15 (7.65%) C#
2 15 (7.65%) TypeScript
3 10 (5.10%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.59%) Java
5 6 (3.06%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.55%) Bash
6 5 (2.55%) C++
7 4 (2.04%) PHP
8 3 (1.53%) Go
9 2 (1.02%) C
9 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.02%) VB
10 1 (0.51%) RPG
10 1 (0.51%) RPG IV
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (13.27%) Degree
2 20 (10.20%) SC Cleared
2 20 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.06%) HNC
4 6 (3.06%) PMP
5 5 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.04%) ISEB
7 3 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.53%) CCSP
7 3 (1.53%) CISM
7 3 (1.53%) CISSP
7 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.02%) APMP
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.02%) CAPM
8 2 (1.02%) CCNP
8 2 (1.02%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.67%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.14%) QA
3 10 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.04%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.53%) NIST
5 3 (1.53%) WCAG
6 2 (1.02%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (8.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.59%) Docker
3 8 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.04%) Firmware
5 3 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.12%) Terraform
2 5 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.02%) SCCM
3 2 (1.02%) WSUS
4 1 (0.51%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.51%) Puppet
4 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.18%) Databricks
3 11 (5.61%) BT
4 10 (5.10%) VMware
5 5 (2.55%) Oracle
6 4 (2.04%) Apple
6 4 (2.04%) Sage
6 4 (2.04%) Xero
7 3 (1.53%) Foundry
7 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) ANSYS
8 2 (1.02%) Aruba
8 2 (1.02%) Cisco
8 2 (1.02%) IBM
8 2 (1.02%) Infor
8 2 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.02%) Samsung
9 1 (0.51%) Adobe
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix