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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 190 173 299
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.20% 20.79% 14.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.94% 25.00% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 144 100 227
10th Percentile £29,032 £25,000 £24,960
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,300 £24,980
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £39,550 £41,774
Median % change year-on-year +27.69% -5.32% -1.71%
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £91,375 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -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 1,912 692 1,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.48% 83.17% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 438 1,298
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,775 £75,772
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 10 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 10 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 -13 164 £52,500 +31.25% 106
Durham -23 16 £38,250 +12.09% 17
Cleveland +3 7 - - 1
Northumberland -3 2 - - 13
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 11 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.11%) CMS
3 4 (2.11%) WordPress
4 3 (1.58%) Apache
4 3 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.58%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.05%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.53%) AWS
2 35 (18.42%) Azure
3 14 (7.37%) GCP
3 14 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.32%) Serverless
6 7 (3.68%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.58%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.58%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.58%) OCI
8 3 (1.58%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.05%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.79%) Broadband
2 8 (4.21%) Firewall
3 6 (3.16%) DHCP
3 6 (3.16%) DNS
3 6 (3.16%) Wireless
4 5 (2.63%) VPN
5 4 (2.11%) Network Security
5 4 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.58%) LAN
6 3 (1.58%) NGFW
6 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.58%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.58%) WAN
6 3 (1.58%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.53%) DSLAM
7 1 (0.53%) Intranet
7 1 (0.53%) SAN
7 1 (0.53%) VLAN
7 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.84%) Power BI
2 12 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.79%) MySQL
4 8 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.21%) Tableau
5 7 (3.68%) Big Data
5 7 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.63%) Metadata
7 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.05%) Redis
9 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.53%) Looker
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.68%) Git
1 7 (3.68%) GitLab
2 4 (2.11%) JIRA
3 2 (1.05%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.05%) MLflow
3 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.53%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 30 (15.79%) Finance
5 15 (7.89%) Banking
5 15 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.84%) Legal
7 12 (6.32%) Law
7 12 (6.32%) Marketing
8 11 (5.79%) Games
9 9 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.16%) Electronics
11 4 (2.11%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.11%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.58%) Retail
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Wearables
14 1 (0.53%) Billing
14 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (14.21%) Developer
2 20 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 18 (9.47%) IT Support
3 18 (9.47%) Senior
4 16 (8.42%) Lead
5 15 (7.89%) Analyst
6 12 (6.32%) Architect
6 12 (6.32%) Software Developer
7 11 (5.79%) Customer Service Advisor
7 11 (5.79%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.26%) Support Technician
9 9 (4.74%) IT Support Technician
9 9 (4.74%) IT Technician
10 8 (4.21%) Digital Transformation
11 7 (3.68%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.68%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (3.68%) Python Data Engineer
11 7 (3.68%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.16%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.26%) .NET
2 9 (4.74%) React
3 8 (4.21%) Node.js
4 6 (3.16%) CSS
4 6 (3.16%) HTML
5 5 (2.63%) REST
6 3 (1.58%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.58%) PySpark
6 3 (1.58%) SignalR
6 3 (1.58%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.05%) LangChain
7 2 (1.05%) React Native
7 2 (1.05%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.05%) Vue
7 2 (1.05%) XML
8 1 (0.53%) HTML5
8 1 (0.53%) JSON
8 1 (0.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.68%) Algorithms
2 7 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.63%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.63%) Replication
5 4 (2.11%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) PKI
6 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.58%) Robotics
7 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.26%) Windows
2 8 (4.21%) Linux
3 4 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.05%) Android
5 2 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.05%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.26%) Agile
2 37 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (14.21%) Analytics
4 25 (13.16%) AI
4 25 (13.16%) Customer Service
4 25 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (12.63%) Mentoring
6 23 (12.11%) Coaching
7 21 (11.05%) CI/CD
8 20 (10.53%) Validation
9 19 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.47%) Data Modelling
10 18 (9.47%) DevOps
11 17 (8.95%) Decision-Making
12 16 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (7.89%) Computer Science
14 13 (6.84%) Project Management
14 13 (6.84%) Roadmaps
14 13 (6.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (22.11%) Python
2 41 (21.58%) SQL
3 14 (7.37%) TypeScript
4 13 (6.84%) C#
5 10 (5.26%) Java
6 8 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.63%) C++
7 5 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.11%) Bash
9 3 (1.58%) Go
9 3 (1.58%) PHP
10 2 (1.05%) C
10 2 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.53%) RPG
11 1 (0.53%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.63%) Degree
2 17 (8.95%) SC Cleared
2 17 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.16%) HNC
4 5 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.63%) PMP
5 4 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.58%) CCSP
6 3 (1.58%) CISM
6 3 (1.58%) CISSP
6 3 (1.58%) ISEB
6 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.05%) APMP
7 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) CAPM
7 2 (1.05%) PgMP
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.79%) QA
3 9 (4.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.58%) GDPR
5 3 (1.58%) NIST
6 2 (1.05%) PMO
6 2 (1.05%) WCAG
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.68%) Docker
4 4 (2.11%) Firmware
5 3 (1.58%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (6.84%) Terraform
2 5 (2.63%) Ansible
3 4 (2.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.05%) SCCM
4 2 (1.05%) WSUS
5 1 (0.53%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.42%) Databricks
3 11 (5.79%) BT
4 10 (5.26%) VMware
5 5 (2.63%) Oracle
6 4 (2.11%) Apple
6 4 (2.11%) Aruba
6 4 (2.11%) Sage
6 4 (2.11%) Xero
7 3 (1.58%) Arista
7 3 (1.58%) Intapp
7 3 (1.58%) NetScout
7 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.05%) ANSYS
8 2 (1.05%) Foundry
8 2 (1.05%) IBM
8 2 (1.05%) Infor
8 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.05%) Samsung