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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 131 176 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.99% 30.93% 13.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.63% 33.85% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 103 84 204
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,026 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,375 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £65,945 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,225 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 1,361 520 1,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.59% 91.39% 86.85%
Number of salaries quoted 933 330 1,291
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,993 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -9 115 £48,500 +7.78% 47
Cleveland - 7 - - 6
Durham -32 6 £61,350 +85.91% 17
Northumberland -1 2 - - 5
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 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.76%) Confluence
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.08%) Azure
2 14 (10.69%) AWS
3 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.34%) GCP
6 6 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.82%) Serverless
8 4 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.29%) GitHub
9 3 (2.29%) OCI
9 3 (2.29%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.76%) dbt
11 1 (0.76%) Figma
11 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.87%) Firewall
2 4 (3.05%) Broadband
2 4 (3.05%) DNS
2 4 (3.05%) Network Security
2 4 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.29%) LAN
3 3 (2.29%) NGFW
3 3 (2.29%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.29%) WAN
3 3 (2.29%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.53%) DHCP
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) DSLAM
5 1 (0.76%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.16%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.63%) Power BI
3 4 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.29%) MySQL
4 3 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.53%) Tableau
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.76%) Looker
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) GitLab
1 5 (3.82%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 2 (1.53%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) JUnit
4 1 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.76%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.76%) TestRail
4 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 57 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.66%) Finance
3 27 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.69%) Legal
6 12 (9.16%) Law
7 10 (7.63%) Marketing
8 9 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (5.34%) Banking
10 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (3.05%) Games
11 4 (3.05%) Tech for Good
12 3 (2.29%) Billing
13 2 (1.53%) Advertising
13 2 (1.53%) Electronics
13 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Analyst
2 23 (17.56%) Senior
3 17 (12.98%) Business Analyst
4 13 (9.92%) Developer
5 10 (7.63%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) IT Support
6 9 (6.87%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.87%) Trainee
6 9 (6.87%) Trainee Analyst
6 9 (6.87%) Trainee Business Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.11%) Intapp Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Architect
8 7 (5.34%) Digital Transformation
8 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Lead
9 6 (4.58%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Support Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.82%) .NET
2 2 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.53%) Playwright
2 2 (1.53%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.76%) Django
3 1 (0.76%) Flask
3 1 (0.76%) PySpark
3 1 (0.76%) pytest
3 1 (0.76%) React
3 1 (0.76%) React Native
3 1 (0.76%) RESTful
3 1 (0.76%) Spring
3 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.05%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.29%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.29%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.29%) PKI
6 2 (1.53%) Clustering
6 2 (1.53%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Derivative
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
7 1 (0.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.34%) Windows
2 6 (4.58%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.53%) VMS
5 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
1 22 (16.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 21 (16.03%) Agile
3 20 (15.27%) Decision-Making
4 19 (14.50%) Mentoring
4 19 (14.50%) Project Management
5 18 (13.74%) Change Management
5 18 (13.74%) Coaching
5 18 (13.74%) Customer Service
6 16 (12.21%) Analytics
7 15 (11.45%) Business Analysis
8 13 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (9.92%) Data Analysis
9 12 (9.16%) AI
9 12 (9.16%) ITIL
10 11 (8.40%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.63%) DevOps
11 10 (7.63%) Process Improvement
11 10 (7.63%) Roadmaps
12 9 (6.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.21%) Python
2 14 (10.69%) SQL
3 6 (4.58%) C#
3 6 (4.58%) Java
4 4 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.53%) VB
7 1 (0.76%) C++
7 1 (0.76%) Delphi
7 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) HNC
3 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.05%) ISEB
4 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.05%) PMP
5 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) CCSP
5 3 (2.29%) CISM
5 3 (2.29%) CISSP
5 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.76%) CCNA
7 1 (0.76%) CCNP
7 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.05%) GDPR
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.29%) NIST
4 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.11%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) Ansible
3 4 (3.05%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.29%) Grafana
5 2 (1.53%) Control-M
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.53%) SCCM
5 2 (1.53%) WSUS
6 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Intapp
3 4 (3.05%) Apple
3 4 (3.05%) BT
4 3 (2.29%) Arista
4 3 (2.29%) Aruba
4 3 (2.29%) NetScout
4 3 (2.29%) VMware
5 2 (1.53%) Databricks
5 2 (1.53%) Informatica
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle
5 2 (1.53%) RedGate
5 2 (1.53%) Samsung
5 2 (1.53%) Talend
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.76%) Citrix
6 1 (0.76%) Fortinet