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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 131 189 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.24% 30.78% 13.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.71% 33.04% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 108 90 212
10th Percentile £26,350 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,125 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,472 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £66,578 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,675 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +1.93% -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 1,504 572 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.58% 93.16% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 337 1,324
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,400 £27,911
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -0.36%
75th Percentile £69,695 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -14 115 £48,500 +7.78% 53
Cleveland - 7 - - 2
Durham -35 6 £54,750 +65.91% 15
Northumberland -2 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 3 (2.29%) CMS
1 3 (2.29%) WordPress
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.50%) Azure
2 15 (11.45%) AWS
3 12 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.87%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.58%) GCP
6 5 (3.82%) Serverless
7 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.29%) OCI
7 3 (2.29%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.76%) Dagster
9 1 (0.76%) dbt
9 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) Firewall
2 6 (4.58%) Broadband
2 6 (4.58%) DNS
3 4 (3.05%) DHCP
3 4 (3.05%) VPN
4 3 (2.29%) Network Security
4 3 (2.29%) NGFW
4 3 (2.29%) VXLAN
4 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.29%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.53%) LAN
5 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.11%) Power BI
2 5 (3.82%) MySQL
2 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.05%) Tableau
4 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) Metadata
5 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) GitLab
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 3 (2.29%) JIRA
4 2 (1.53%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.76%) MLflow
5 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.76%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.76%) TestRail
5 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.37%) Finance
3 23 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.56%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.98%) Legal
5 13 (9.92%) Law
6 11 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.63%) Marketing
8 9 (6.87%) Banking
8 9 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.58%) Games
10 4 (3.05%) Tech for Good
11 3 (2.29%) Electronics
12 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.76%) Billing
13 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 21 (16.03%) Senior
2 18 (13.74%) Analyst
3 16 (12.21%) Developer
4 15 (11.45%) Business Analyst
5 11 (8.40%) IT Support
6 10 (7.63%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Intapp Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.34%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.34%) Digital Transformation
9 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Customer Service Advisor
10 6 (4.58%) IT Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Support Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Applications Support Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Sales Representative
11 5 (3.82%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.58%) .NET
2 4 (3.05%) React
3 2 (1.53%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.53%) CSS
3 2 (1.53%) HTML
3 2 (1.53%) Playwright
3 2 (1.53%) React Native
3 2 (1.53%) REST
3 2 (1.53%) SignalR
3 2 (1.53%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.76%) LangChain
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) RESTful
4 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.82%) Client/Server
2 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.05%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.29%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.29%) PKI
4 3 (2.29%) Replication
5 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.53%) PMI
5 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.58%) Windows
2 5 (3.82%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.53%) Android
4 2 (1.53%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.90%) Agile
2 23 (17.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (15.27%) Coaching
3 20 (15.27%) Customer Service
3 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
4 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (12.98%) Project Management
6 16 (12.21%) Analytics
7 13 (9.92%) Change Management
8 12 (9.16%) AI
8 12 (9.16%) Roadmaps
8 12 (9.16%) Validation
9 11 (8.40%) Business Analysis
10 10 (7.63%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.63%) ITIL
10 10 (7.63%) User Stories
11 9 (6.87%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (6.87%) Decision-Making
11 9 (6.87%) DevOps
11 9 (6.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.45%) Python
2 9 (6.87%) SQL
3 6 (4.58%) C#
3 6 (4.58%) Java
4 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.53%) C++
6 2 (1.53%) PHP
6 2 (1.53%) VB
7 1 (0.76%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) HNC
3 6 (4.58%) PMI Certification
3 6 (4.58%) PMP
4 4 (3.05%) ISEB
5 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.29%) CISM
5 3 (2.29%) CISSP
5 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) APMP
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) CAPM
6 2 (1.53%) PgMP
7 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.34%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Terraform
2 4 (3.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.53%) SCCM
3 2 (1.53%) WSUS
4 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Intapp
3 6 (4.58%) BT
4 4 (3.05%) Apple
5 3 (2.29%) Arista
5 3 (2.29%) Aruba
5 3 (2.29%) NetScout
5 3 (2.29%) Sage
5 3 (2.29%) Xero
6 2 (1.53%) Databricks
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle
6 2 (1.53%) Samsung
6 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.53%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Adobe
7 1 (0.76%) Citrix