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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 240 141 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.05% 15.61% 13.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.07% 19.03% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 189 100 145
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,500 £24,684
25th Percentile £37,750 £25,247 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £38,800 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.47% -6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £65,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -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 2,169 741 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.76% 82.06% 80.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 476 858
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,324
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.91% -5.35%
75th Percentile £72,660 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,293 £79,125 £74,326
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -10 203 £50,000 +25.00% 91
Durham +5 33 £37,000 +8.42% 24
Cleveland +3 2 - - 3
Northumberland -4 1 £38,000 +41.11% 11
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 14 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.50%) Confluence
4 5 (2.08%) CMS
4 5 (2.08%) WordPress
5 4 (1.67%) Apache
5 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.67%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.08%) AWS
2 41 (17.08%) Azure
3 22 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.75%) GCP
5 19 (7.92%) Serverless
6 17 (7.08%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 13 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (1.67%) GitHub
16 3 (1.25%) Entra ID
16 3 (1.25%) Figma
16 3 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.58%) VPN
2 9 (3.75%) Broadband
2 9 (3.75%) LAN
2 9 (3.75%) WAN
2 9 (3.75%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.92%) Wireless
4 6 (2.50%) DHCP
4 6 (2.50%) DNS
5 5 (2.08%) Firewall
5 5 (2.08%) Network Security
6 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) VLAN
7 2 (0.83%) WLAN
8 1 (0.42%) Intranet
8 1 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.25%) MySQL
2 15 (6.25%) Power BI
3 10 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.75%) Tableau
5 8 (3.33%) Big Data
6 7 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.50%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.50%) Metadata
7 6 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.83%) Redis
10 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.42%) Db2
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Git
2 8 (3.33%) GitLab
2 8 (3.33%) JIRA
3 3 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.83%) MLflow
4 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.42%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 39 (16.25%) Finance
5 22 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (8.75%) Law
7 16 (6.67%) Banking
8 12 (5.00%) Legal
8 12 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.17%) Games
9 10 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.92%) Electronics
11 6 (2.50%) Marketing
12 5 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.67%) Retail
13 4 (1.67%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.25%) Automotive
14 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.83%) Advertising
15 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (12.50%) Developer
2 26 (10.83%) Analyst
3 23 (9.58%) IT Support
4 22 (9.17%) Data Engineer
5 21 (8.75%) Lead
6 19 (7.92%) Senior
7 15 (6.25%) IT Technician
8 14 (5.83%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.42%) Architect
9 13 (5.42%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.42%) IT Support Technician
9 13 (5.42%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.42%) Support Technician
10 10 (4.17%) Customer Service Advisor
11 9 (3.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Digital Transformation
13 7 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.25%) .NET
2 13 (5.42%) Node.js
3 11 (4.58%) CSS
3 11 (4.58%) HTML
4 10 (4.17%) React
5 5 (2.08%) LangChain
6 4 (1.67%) REST
7 3 (1.25%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.25%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.25%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.25%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.25%) PySpark
7 3 (1.25%) SignalR
7 3 (1.25%) Web Services
7 3 (1.25%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.83%) React Native
8 2 (0.83%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.83%) Vue
8 2 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (3.75%) Replication
4 8 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.08%) Robotics
8 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.75%) Windows
2 14 (5.83%) Linux
3 6 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.25%) Android
6 2 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.83%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 68 (28.33%) Agile
3 39 (16.25%) CI/CD
4 32 (13.33%) DevOps
5 31 (12.92%) AI
5 31 (12.92%) Customer Service
5 31 (12.92%) Validation
6 29 (12.08%) Coaching
7 28 (11.67%) Analytics
7 28 (11.67%) Mentoring
8 24 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (9.58%) Decision-Making
9 23 (9.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (9.17%) Software Engineering
11 20 (8.33%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.33%) SDLC
12 19 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.08%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (7.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.50%) Python
2 50 (20.83%) SQL
3 17 (7.08%) C#
3 17 (7.08%) TypeScript
4 15 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.42%) Java
6 11 (4.58%) Bash
6 11 (4.58%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.50%) C++
8 4 (1.67%) PHP
9 3 (1.25%) Go
10 2 (0.83%) C
10 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.42%) RPG
11 1 (0.42%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 25 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.92%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.50%) PMP
6 5 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.67%) HNC
7 4 (1.67%) ISEB
8 3 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.25%) CCSP
8 3 (1.25%) CISM
8 3 (1.25%) CISSP
8 3 (1.25%) HND
9 2 (0.83%) CAPM
9 2 (0.83%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.17%) QA
2 20 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.67%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.25%) NCSC
5 3 (1.25%) NIST
5 3 (1.25%) WCAG
6 2 (0.83%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.42%) GMP
7 1 (0.42%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (9.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.67%) Docker
3 8 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.67%) Firmware
5 3 (1.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.83%) Ansible
3 2 (0.83%) SCCM
3 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.83%) WSUS
4 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.92%) Databricks
3 10 (4.17%) VMware
4 9 (3.75%) BT
5 5 (2.08%) Oracle
5 5 (2.08%) Sage
6 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.67%) Xero
7 3 (1.25%) ANSYS
7 3 (1.25%) Foundry
7 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.83%) Apple
8 2 (0.83%) Aruba
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco
8 2 (0.83%) Google
8 2 (0.83%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) Infor
8 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.83%) Spotify
9 1 (0.42%) Confluent