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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +17
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 163 198 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.95% 29.86% 15.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.73% 33.50% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 131 93 250
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £34,375 £27,000 £24,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £41,637
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +8.08% -2.03%
75th Percentile £67,515 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,919
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.16% -9.24%

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 1,675 591 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.40% 89.14% 83.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 345 1,409
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,500 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -11 144 £48,500 +7.78% 45
Durham -32 9 £42,000 +47.37% 18
Cleveland - 7 - - 3
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 8 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.45%) CMS
3 4 (2.45%) WordPress
4 3 (1.84%) Apache
4 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.84%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.79%) AWS
2 27 (16.56%) Azure
3 14 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.59%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.13%) GCP
5 8 (4.91%) Serverless
6 6 (3.68%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.84%) OCI
8 3 (1.84%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.23%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.13%) Firewall
2 8 (4.91%) Broadband
3 7 (4.29%) DNS
4 6 (3.68%) DHCP
5 5 (3.07%) VPN
6 4 (2.45%) Wireless
7 3 (1.84%) Network Security
7 3 (1.84%) NGFW
7 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.84%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.84%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.23%) LAN
8 2 (1.23%) WAN
9 1 (0.61%) DSLAM
9 1 (0.61%) Intranet
9 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.98%) Power BI
2 8 (4.91%) MySQL
2 8 (4.91%) Tableau
3 6 (3.68%) Big Data
3 6 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.68%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.07%) Metadata
4 5 (3.07%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.61%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.61%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.29%) GitLab
2 5 (3.07%) Git
3 3 (1.84%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.23%) MLflow
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.79%) Public Sector
4 28 (17.18%) Finance
5 19 (11.66%) Legal
6 14 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (7.98%) Law
8 12 (7.36%) Marketing
9 11 (6.75%) Banking
10 9 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (4.91%) Games
12 4 (2.45%) Electronics
12 4 (2.45%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.23%) Wearables
14 1 (0.61%) Billing
14 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (14.11%) Senior
2 22 (13.50%) Developer
3 18 (11.04%) IT Support
4 16 (9.82%) Analyst
5 13 (7.98%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.98%) Lead
6 12 (7.36%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Architect
7 11 (6.75%) Support Technician
8 10 (6.13%) Support Engineer
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.91%) Customer Service Advisor
10 8 (4.91%) Digital Transformation
10 8 (4.91%) Intapp Developer
10 8 (4.91%) IT Support Technician
10 8 (4.91%) IT Technician
11 7 (4.29%) Applications Support
11 7 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.91%) .NET
2 6 (3.68%) React
3 4 (2.45%) CSS
3 4 (2.45%) HTML
3 4 (2.45%) Node.js
3 4 (2.45%) REST
4 3 (1.84%) Bootstrap
4 3 (1.84%) PySpark
5 2 (1.23%) LangChain
5 2 (1.23%) React Native
5 2 (1.23%) SignalR
5 2 (1.23%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.23%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.61%) Express.js
6 1 (0.61%) Jest
6 1 (0.61%) Kafka
6 1 (0.61%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (0.61%) Nunjucks
6 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.68%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.07%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.07%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.45%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.45%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.84%) PKI
5 3 (1.84%) Replication
6 2 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.91%) Windows
2 5 (3.07%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.23%) Android
5 2 (1.23%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.70%) Agile
2 28 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 24 (14.72%) Analytics
5 23 (14.11%) Customer Service
6 22 (13.50%) Mentoring
7 21 (12.88%) Coaching
8 19 (11.66%) AI
9 16 (9.82%) Project Management
10 15 (9.20%) CI/CD
10 15 (9.20%) Decision-Making
11 14 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (8.59%) Data Modelling
11 14 (8.59%) Validation
12 13 (7.98%) DevOps
13 12 (7.36%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.75%) Change Management
14 11 (6.75%) ITIL
14 11 (6.75%) Software Engineering
15 10 (6.13%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.40%) Python
2 26 (15.95%) SQL
3 9 (5.52%) C#
4 8 (4.91%) Java
5 7 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.84%) Bash
6 3 (1.84%) PHP
6 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) VB
8 1 (0.61%) Go
8 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.82%) Degree
2 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
2 12 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.68%) HNC
3 6 (3.68%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.68%) PMP
4 4 (2.45%) ISEB
5 3 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.84%) CCSP
5 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.84%) CISM
5 3 (1.84%) CISSP
5 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.23%) APMP
6 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.23%) CAPM
6 2 (1.23%) PgMP
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.75%) QA
3 9 (5.52%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 4 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.84%) NIST
6 2 (1.23%) PMO
6 2 (1.23%) WCAG
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (9.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.07%) Docker
4 3 (1.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (6.75%) Terraform
2 4 (2.45%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.23%) SCCM
3 2 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.52%) Databricks
3 8 (4.91%) BT
3 8 (4.91%) Intapp
4 7 (4.29%) VMware
5 4 (2.45%) Apple
5 4 (2.45%) Oracle
5 4 (2.45%) Sage
5 4 (2.45%) Xero
6 3 (1.84%) Arista
6 3 (1.84%) Aruba
6 3 (1.84%) NetScout
6 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.23%) Samsung
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Confluent
8 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.61%) Freshdesk