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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 200 155 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.35% 18.02% 14.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.10% 21.74% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 155 100 190
10th Percentile £29,250 £24,950 £24,914
25th Percentile £40,000 £25,300 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1,981 713 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.80% 82.91% 81.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 460 1,079
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 £61,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £75,000
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 24 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 24 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 -14 170 £52,500 +31.25% 94
Durham -13 21 £36,750 +7.69% 14
Cleveland +3 6 - - 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 13 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.50%) CMS
3 5 (2.50%) WordPress
4 4 (2.00%) Confluence
5 3 (1.50%) Apache
5 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.50%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.50%) AWS
2 35 (17.50%) Azure
3 15 (7.50%) GCP
3 15 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.00%) Serverless
5 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.50%) GitHub
9 3 (1.50%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.50%) Broadband
2 7 (3.50%) Wireless
3 6 (3.00%) DHCP
3 6 (3.00%) DNS
3 6 (3.00%) LAN
3 6 (3.00%) VPN
3 6 (3.00%) WAN
4 5 (2.50%) Firewall
4 5 (2.50%) Network Security
5 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.00%) VLAN
6 2 (1.00%) WLAN
7 1 (0.50%) DSLAM
7 1 (0.50%) Intranet
7 1 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.00%) Power BI
2 13 (6.50%) SQL Server
3 11 (5.50%) MySQL
4 8 (4.00%) Tableau
5 7 (3.50%) Big Data
5 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.50%) Metadata
7 5 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.00%) Redis
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.50%) Looker
11 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) GitLab
3 6 (3.00%) JIRA
4 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.00%) MLflow
4 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.50%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (17.50%) Finance
4 32 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.00%) Banking
7 13 (6.50%) Law
8 12 (6.00%) Legal
9 11 (5.50%) Games
9 11 (5.50%) Marketing
9 11 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.00%) Electronics
11 4 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.00%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.50%) Retail
13 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Wearables
14 1 (0.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (15.00%) Developer
2 22 (11.00%) Data Engineer
3 21 (10.50%) Analyst
4 20 (10.00%) Senior
5 18 (9.00%) IT Support
6 16 (8.00%) Lead
7 14 (7.00%) Software Developer
8 13 (6.50%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.00%) Architect
10 11 (5.50%) Customer Service Advisor
11 10 (5.00%) IT Technician
11 10 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) IT Support Technician
12 9 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Python Data Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Support Technician
13 8 (4.00%) Digital Transformation
14 7 (3.50%) Applications Support
15 6 (3.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.50%) .NET
2 11 (5.50%) Node.js
3 10 (5.00%) React
4 9 (4.50%) CSS
4 9 (4.50%) HTML
5 4 (2.00%) REST
6 3 (1.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.50%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.50%) SignalR
6 3 (1.50%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.00%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.00%) CSS3
7 2 (1.00%) HTML5
7 2 (1.00%) LangChain
7 2 (1.00%) PySpark
7 2 (1.00%) React Native
7 2 (1.00%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.00%) Vue
7 2 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.50%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.50%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.50%) Replication
7 4 (2.00%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.50%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.00%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Linux
3 6 (3.00%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.00%) Android
6 2 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (29.00%) Agile
2 48 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (14.00%) Customer Service
3 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (13.50%) CI/CD
5 25 (12.50%) AI
5 25 (12.50%) Analytics
5 25 (12.50%) Validation
6 23 (11.50%) Coaching
7 21 (10.50%) DevOps
7 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
8 20 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 19 (9.50%) Data Modelling
10 18 (9.00%) Decision-Making
11 16 (8.00%) Computer Science
12 15 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (7.50%) SDLC
12 15 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 13 (6.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.50%) SQL
2 42 (21.00%) Python
3 15 (7.50%) C#
3 15 (7.50%) TypeScript
4 11 (5.50%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.50%) Java
6 6 (3.00%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.50%) Bash
7 5 (2.50%) C++
8 4 (2.00%) PHP
9 3 (1.50%) Go
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.00%) VB
11 1 (0.50%) RPG
11 1 (0.50%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (13.50%) Degree
2 22 (11.00%) SC Cleared
2 22 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.50%) PMI Certification
4 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.00%) HNC
4 6 (3.00%) PMP
5 5 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.00%) ISEB
7 3 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.50%) CCSP
7 3 (1.50%) CISM
7 3 (1.50%) CISSP
7 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.00%) APMP
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) CAPM
8 2 (1.00%) CCNP
8 2 (1.00%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.00%) QA
3 10 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.00%) GDPR
4 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.50%) NIST
5 3 (1.50%) WCAG
6 2 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.50%) Docker
3 8 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.00%) Firmware
5 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.00%) Terraform
2 5 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.00%) SCCM
3 2 (1.00%) WSUS
4 1 (0.50%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.50%) Puppet
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.00%) Databricks
3 11 (5.50%) BT
4 10 (5.00%) VMware
5 5 (2.50%) Oracle
6 4 (2.00%) Apple
6 4 (2.00%) Sage
6 4 (2.00%) Xero
7 3 (1.50%) Foundry
7 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) ANSYS
8 2 (1.00%) Aruba
8 2 (1.00%) Cisco
8 2 (1.00%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Infor
8 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.00%) Samsung
9 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) Spotify