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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 328 131 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 9.76% 13.80% 14.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.73% 17.19% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 239 97 122
10th Percentile £28,988 £24,800 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £25,087 £24,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% +7.69% -22.03%
75th Percentile £65,945 £47,500 £54,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £65,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -4.55%

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 2,389 762 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.06% 80.30% 79.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 486 663
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,086 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,600 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -5 260 £50,000 +29.87% 150
Durham +22 60 £31,000 +0.81% 36
Northumberland +1 7 £55,000 +114.14% 11
Cleveland 0 1 £48,500 +93.35% 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 15 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.83%) Confluence
4 5 (1.52%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.52%) CMS
4 5 (1.52%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.52%) WordPress
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.61%) CATIA
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.61%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.30%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.30%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Sage 50
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.12%) AWS
2 53 (16.16%) Azure
3 32 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (8.54%) GCP
5 25 (7.62%) Power Platform
6 22 (6.71%) Serverless
7 20 (6.10%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.83%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.52%) GitHub
13 5 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (3.96%) LAN
2 13 (3.96%) WAN
3 12 (3.66%) VPN
3 12 (3.66%) Wireless
4 9 (2.74%) DHCP
4 9 (2.74%) DNS
5 8 (2.44%) Broadband
6 6 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.52%) Firewall
7 5 (1.52%) Network Security
8 2 (0.61%) VLAN
8 2 (0.61%) WLAN
9 1 (0.30%) 5G
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
9 1 (0.30%) Intranet
9 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.71%) Power BI
2 16 (4.88%) MySQL
2 16 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.74%) Tableau
5 8 (2.44%) Big Data
6 7 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.83%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.83%) Metadata
7 6 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.91%) Redis
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.30%) Db2
Development Applications
1 15 (4.57%) GitLab
2 12 (3.66%) Git
3 8 (2.44%) JIRA
4 6 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.61%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.61%) MLflow
6 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Gatling
7 1 (0.30%) TestComplete
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 139 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 50 (15.24%) Finance
5 34 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (9.15%) Manufacturing
7 28 (8.54%) Law
8 16 (4.88%) Banking
8 16 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (4.57%) Legal
10 12 (3.66%) Electronics
11 11 (3.35%) Retail
12 9 (2.74%) Games
13 8 (2.44%) Financial Institution
14 7 (2.13%) Marketing
15 5 (1.52%) Automotive
16 4 (1.22%) General Ledger
16 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.22%) Tech for Good
16 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (11.28%) Developer
2 34 (10.37%) Analyst
3 33 (10.06%) IT Support
4 28 (8.54%) Lead
5 23 (7.01%) Data Engineer
5 23 (7.01%) Senior
6 22 (6.71%) IT Technician
7 20 (6.10%) IT Support Technician
7 20 (6.10%) Support Technician
8 17 (5.18%) Software Developer
9 13 (3.96%) Architect
9 13 (3.96%) Customer Service Advisor
9 13 (3.96%) Engineering Manager
10 12 (3.66%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Consultant
12 10 (3.05%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 10 (3.05%) 3rd Line Support
12 10 (3.05%) 3rd Line Support Technician
12 10 (3.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.23%) Terraform
2 17 (5.18%) Node.js
3 14 (4.27%) .NET
4 13 (3.96%) CSS
4 13 (3.96%) HTML
5 10 (3.05%) LangChain
5 10 (3.05%) React
5 10 (3.05%) Web Services
6 8 (2.44%) LlamaIndex
7 5 (1.52%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.22%) REST
8 4 (1.22%) XML
9 3 (0.91%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.91%) Bootstrap
9 3 (0.91%) Kafka
9 3 (0.91%) PySpark
9 3 (0.91%) SignalR
9 3 (0.91%) WebSockets
10 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.89%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.88%) Robotics
4 9 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.74%) Replication
5 8 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.83%) FMCG
8 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.52%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.15%) Windows
2 14 (4.27%) Linux
3 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.91%) Android
6 2 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.61%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 86 (26.22%) Agile
3 54 (16.46%) CI/CD
4 48 (14.63%) DevOps
5 44 (13.41%) Customer Service
6 41 (12.50%) AI
7 38 (11.59%) Mentoring
8 37 (11.28%) Validation
9 36 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (10.67%) Coaching
11 34 (10.37%) Analytics
12 33 (10.06%) Decision-Making
13 27 (8.23%) Test Automation
14 26 (7.93%) Software Engineering
14 26 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (7.62%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (7.62%) Containerisation
15 25 (7.62%) Project Delivery
16 24 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (7.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.82%) Python
2 56 (17.07%) SQL
3 19 (5.79%) TypeScript
4 17 (5.18%) C#
4 17 (5.18%) JavaScript
5 15 (4.57%) Bash
6 14 (4.27%) Java
7 11 (3.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.52%) C++
9 4 (1.22%) PHP
9 4 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.91%) Go
11 2 (0.61%) C
11 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) RPG
12 1 (0.30%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 45 (13.72%) Degree
2 34 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (4.57%) HND
5 14 (4.27%) Chartered Engineer
5 14 (4.27%) HNC
6 11 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.13%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.83%) PMP
10 5 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.22%) ISEB
12 3 (0.91%) CCSP
12 3 (0.91%) CISM
12 3 (0.91%) CISSP
12 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.54%) QA
2 23 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.44%) NCSC
5 5 (1.52%) GDPR
6 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.91%) NIST
7 3 (0.91%) SLA
7 3 (0.91%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) GMP
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (11.28%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.40%) Docker
3 13 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) Firmware
5 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.52%) Ansible
3 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
3 3 (0.91%) Puppet
4 2 (0.61%) Grafana
4 2 (0.61%) SCCM
4 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.61%) WSUS
5 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.10%) Databricks
3 15 (4.57%) VMware
4 8 (2.44%) BT
5 7 (2.13%) Oracle
5 7 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.83%) Sage
7 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.22%) Google
8 4 (1.22%) Xero
9 3 (0.91%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.91%) Foundry
9 3 (0.91%) Infor
9 3 (0.91%) SAP
9 3 (0.91%) Siemens
10 2 (0.61%) Apple
10 2 (0.61%) Aruba
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) MuleSoft