Problem-Solving Jobs in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 8 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 307 252 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 40.39% 13.55% 10.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 45.08% 15.60% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 135 209 73
10th Percentile £23,504 £24,500 £24,700
25th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £48,163
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Process and 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 681 1,615 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 89.61% 86.83% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 377 1,315 594
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,924 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,188 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £48,375
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.81% +13.82%
75th Percentile £66,389 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 2025. 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 +9 173 £35,000 -31.71% 147
Durham +6 119 £23,504 -44.42% 24
Northumberland +3 12 £37,500 +53.06% 6
Cleveland - 3 - - 1
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.65%) Apache
1 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.33%) CMS
2 1 (0.33%) IIS
2 1 (0.33%) Kentico
2 1 (0.33%) SAS
2 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) iTrent
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (7.82%) Azure
2 11 (3.58%) AWS
3 9 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.95%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.63%) GitHub
6 4 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.65%) GCP
7 2 (0.65%) SaaS
7 2 (0.65%) Serverless
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.33%) Bitrise
8 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.33%) Firebase
8 1 (0.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 135 (43.97%) Broadband
2 4 (1.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.65%) SAN
3 2 (0.65%) VLAN
3 2 (0.65%) VoIP
4 1 (0.33%) LAN
4 1 (0.33%) NAS
4 1 (0.33%) PSTN
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
4 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.95%) MySQL
2 6 (1.95%) Power BI
3 5 (1.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Postman
2 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 137 (44.63%) Games
2 131 (42.67%) Banking
3 121 (39.41%) Social Skills
4 101 (32.90%) Finance
5 78 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (21.17%) Marketing
7 13 (4.23%) Retail
8 12 (3.91%) Advertising
8 12 (3.91%) Billing
8 12 (3.91%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.98%) Law
13 2 (0.65%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.65%) Finnish Language
13 2 (0.65%) Legal
13 2 (0.65%) Norwegian Language
14 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.33%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 132 (43.00%) Customer Service Advisor
2 62 (20.20%) Development Manager
2 62 (20.20%) Product Development Manager
2 62 (20.20%) Product Manager
3 23 (7.49%) Developer
4 17 (5.54%) Analyst
5 12 (3.91%) Lead
5 12 (3.91%) Senior
6 10 (3.26%) Software Engineer
7 8 (2.61%) Technical Support
8 7 (2.28%) Support Analyst
9 6 (1.95%) C# Developer
9 6 (1.95%) Graduate
9 6 (1.95%) Technical Product Support
9 6 (1.95%) Trainer
10 5 (1.63%) .NET Developer
10 5 (1.63%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (1.63%) IT Analyst
10 5 (1.63%) IT Support
11 4 (1.30%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.82%) .NET
2 6 (1.95%) .NET Core
2 6 (1.95%) React
3 5 (1.63%) ASP.NET
3 5 (1.63%) CSS
4 4 (1.30%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.30%) jQuery
4 4 (1.30%) Node.js
4 4 (1.30%) WebSockets
5 3 (0.98%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.98%) Kafka
6 2 (0.65%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.65%) HTML
6 2 (0.65%) PySpark
6 2 (0.65%) SignalR
7 1 (0.33%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.33%) Kendo UI
7 1 (0.33%) Laravel
7 1 (0.33%) SwiftUI
7 1 (0.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (20.20%) FMCG
2 8 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.28%) Hedge funds
4 6 (1.95%) Algorithms
4 6 (1.95%) Client/Server
4 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.95%) Robotics
5 4 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.65%) ASTM
7 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.65%) NHS
7 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.33%) Derivative
8 1 (0.33%) Equities
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.61%) Windows
2 5 (1.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.30%) Linux
4 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Debian
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Solaris
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (47.56%) Customer Service
2 75 (24.43%) Project Management
3 62 (20.20%) Commercialisation
3 62 (20.20%) Competitor Analysis
3 62 (20.20%) Product Strategy
4 27 (8.79%) Computer Science
5 20 (6.51%) Mentoring
6 19 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (6.19%) Software Engineering
7 14 (4.56%) Agile
8 13 (4.23%) OOP
9 12 (3.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (3.58%) SDLC
11 10 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (3.26%) DevOps
12 9 (2.93%) CI/CD
12 9 (2.93%) CRM
12 9 (2.93%) Design Patterns
12 9 (2.93%) High Availability
12 9 (2.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (9.12%) SQL
2 27 (8.79%) C#
3 19 (6.19%) Java
4 17 (5.54%) Python
5 10 (3.26%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.95%) C++
6 6 (1.95%) PHP
7 4 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.30%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.33%) Bash
9 1 (0.33%) Bicep
9 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.33%) Swift
9 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 110 (35.83%) Degree
2 15 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.98%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.65%) CISSP
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.33%) CCNA
6 1 (0.33%) CEH
6 1 (0.33%) CISA
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.33%) CISM
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) HNC
6 1 (0.33%) MCSA
6 1 (0.33%) MCSE
6 1 (0.33%) PhD
6 1 (0.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) SSCP
6 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (21.50%) QA
2 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.30%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.33%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.30%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.63%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 133 (43.32%) BT
2 32 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.93%) Databricks
4 8 (2.61%) Adobe
5 7 (2.28%) Google
6 4 (1.30%) Oracle
6 4 (1.30%) VMware
7 3 (0.98%) SAP
8 2 (0.65%) Cisco
8 2 (0.65%) Concur
8 2 (0.65%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.33%) Capita
9 1 (0.33%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.33%) Juniper
9 1 (0.33%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.33%) Telerik
9 1 (0.33%) Veeam