Problem-Solving Jobs in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,481 2,688 1,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.64% 14.75% 12.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.46% 18.44% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 1,625 1,051
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £24,150
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.17%
75th Percentile £55,875 £62,500 £61,188
90th Percentile £73,886 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,561 14,574 13,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 86.84% 79.99% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,761 10,369 7,584
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
North West -1 1,283 £45,000 -5.26% 775
Yorkshire -2 790 £33,500 -25.56% 469
North East +4 408 £25,087 -38.06% 166
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 67 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.01%) Apache
3 25 (1.01%) IBM Domino
4 22 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.89%) Confluence
5 15 (0.60%) CMS
6 10 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.20%) IIS
7 5 (0.20%) SAS
8 3 (0.12%) GemFire
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.081%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.081%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.040%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.040%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.040%) nginx
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 116 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (0.97%) Trello
5 17 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.60%) Simulink
7 8 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.081%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.040%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.040%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.040%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.64%) Unit4 Business World
4 15 (0.60%) Teamcenter
5 8 (0.32%) Primavera
6 7 (0.28%) Sage 200
6 7 (0.28%) SAP WM
7 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.20%) Sage CRM
9 3 (0.12%) Maximo
9 3 (0.12%) Sage 50
10 2 (0.081%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.040%) Magento
11 1 (0.040%) SAP CO
11 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.040%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.040%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.040%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 245 (9.88%) Azure
2 185 (7.46%) AWS
3 178 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (2.74%) GCP
5 56 (2.26%) SaaS
6 54 (2.18%) Power Platform
7 41 (1.65%) Entra ID
8 37 (1.49%) Serverless
9 35 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (0.89%) GitHub
11 20 (0.81%) OneDrive
12 16 (0.64%) Power Automate
13 13 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.52%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (0.40%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (0.40%) PowerApps
16 8 (0.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.32%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 548 (22.09%) Broadband
2 313 (12.62%) VPN
3 270 (10.88%) Cisco IOS
4 88 (3.55%) Firewall
5 48 (1.93%) DNS
6 36 (1.45%) LAN
6 36 (1.45%) WAN
7 34 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.13%) DHCP
9 24 (0.97%) Network Security
10 23 (0.93%) Wireless
11 21 (0.85%) SAN
12 20 (0.81%) VLAN
13 15 (0.60%) VoIP
14 13 (0.52%) NAS
14 13 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.48%) Intranet
16 9 (0.36%) OSPF
16 9 (0.36%) SSH
17 8 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 49 (1.98%) MySQL
3 46 (1.85%) Power BI
4 28 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.56%) Big Data
10 13 (0.52%) Tableau
11 11 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.40%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.40%) Cloud Spanner
12 10 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 70 (2.82%) JIRA
2 49 (1.98%) Git
3 22 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (0.36%) GitLab
4 9 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.28%) ClearCase
6 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.16%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.16%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.12%) NUnit
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
10 2 (0.081%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.081%) JMeter
10 2 (0.081%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.081%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.081%) Visual Studio
General
1 892 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 704 (28.38%) Analytical Skills
3 581 (23.42%) Banking
4 555 (22.37%) Games
5 424 (17.09%) Finance
6 387 (15.60%) Manufacturing
7 289 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 263 (10.60%) Retail
9 105 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
10 67 (2.70%) Marketing
11 64 (2.58%) Electronics
12 52 (2.10%) Dutch Language
12 52 (2.10%) Finnish Language
12 52 (2.10%) Legal
12 52 (2.10%) Norwegian Language
13 43 (1.73%) Law
14 33 (1.33%) Public Sector
15 29 (1.17%) Billing
16 27 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 26 (1.05%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 529 (21.32%) Customer Service Advisor
2 273 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 195 (7.86%) Analyst
3 195 (7.86%) Trainer
4 167 (6.73%) Senior
5 148 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
6 135 (5.44%) Developer
7 124 (5.00%) IT Support
8 107 (4.31%) Lead
9 97 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
10 84 (3.39%) Support Engineer
11 73 (2.94%) Support Analyst
12 49 (1.98%) IT Analyst
13 44 (1.77%) Technical Support
14 41 (1.65%) Applications Support
14 41 (1.65%) Consultant
15 40 (1.61%) IT Engineer
15 40 (1.61%) Software Engineer
16 39 (1.57%) PLC Engineer
17 37 (1.49%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (10.24%) Elastic Stack
2 71 (2.86%) .NET
3 49 (1.98%) React
4 44 (1.77%) CSS
5 39 (1.57%) HTML
6 36 (1.45%) RESTful
7 35 (1.41%) Node.js
8 22 (0.89%) AngularJS
8 22 (0.89%) jQuery
9 20 (0.81%) ASP.NET
10 18 (0.73%) .NET Core
10 18 (0.73%) Vue
11 17 (0.69%) Middleware
12 15 (0.60%) .NET Framework
12 15 (0.60%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.52%) HTML5
14 11 (0.44%) XML
15 10 (0.40%) REST
16 9 (0.36%) Amazon Corretto
16 9 (0.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 293 (11.81%) Cyberattack
2 201 (8.10%) Robotics
3 136 (5.48%) Management Information System
4 115 (4.64%) FMCG
5 100 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 79 (3.18%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 76 (3.06%) Operational Technology
8 54 (2.18%) Social Media
9 48 (1.93%) Renewable Energy
10 44 (1.77%) Onboarding
11 30 (1.21%) Product Ownership
12 29 (1.17%) Driving Licence
12 29 (1.17%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 23 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (0.89%) Algorithms
15 22 (0.89%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.77%) EPoS
17 18 (0.73%) NHS
18 14 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 506 (20.40%) Windows
2 328 (13.22%) Linux
3 309 (12.45%) Android
4 86 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 31 (1.25%) Windows Vista
7 19 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.32%) Unix
10 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.24%) CentOS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.081%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.040%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (29.14%) Customer Service
2 362 (14.59%) DevOps
3 328 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 312 (12.58%) Mathematics
5 294 (11.85%) Risk Management
6 280 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 277 (11.16%) Line Management
8 273 (11.00%) Task Automation
9 257 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
10 256 (10.32%) Storage Management
11 253 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 236 (9.51%) Machine Learning
13 235 (9.47%) Agile
14 199 (8.02%) LLM
15 198 (7.98%) Generative AI
16 195 (7.86%) Red Team
17 181 (7.30%) Data Privacy
18 172 (6.93%) Project Management
19 156 (6.29%) Mentoring
20 147 (5.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 364 (14.67%) Python
2 301 (12.13%) PowerShell
3 263 (10.60%) Bash
4 188 (7.58%) SQL
5 95 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 89 (3.59%) C#
7 78 (3.14%) Java
8 65 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 38 (1.53%) PHP
10 17 (0.69%) C++
11 15 (0.60%) MATLAB
12 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.32%) R
13 8 (0.32%) Scala
13 8 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.28%) C-shell
14 7 (0.28%) Korn
14 7 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.24%) Go
16 5 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 647 (26.08%) Degree
2 135 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 104 (4.19%) HNC
4 83 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (2.98%) DBS Check
6 64 (2.58%) HND
6 64 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.41%) PMP
9 33 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 30 (1.21%) CEH
11 27 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.05%) Security Cleared
13 20 (0.81%) ACCA
13 20 (0.81%) CIMA
14 18 (0.73%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.73%) CCNA
15 17 (0.69%) SC Cleared
16 14 (0.56%) CISSP
17 13 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (3.55%) QA
2 54 (2.18%) GDPR
3 51 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 33 (1.33%) SLA
5 28 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.89%) DO-254
8 16 (0.64%) NIST
9 13 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.40%) WCAG
11 8 (0.32%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.16%) NCSC
15 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.12%) GRC
15 3 (0.12%) PMO
16 2 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.081%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 330 (13.30%) Docker
2 309 (12.45%) Hyper-V
3 256 (10.32%) vSphere
4 254 (10.24%) VMware NSX
5 130 (5.24%) Active Directory
6 40 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (1.01%) Firmware
8 13 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.16%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.16%) Postfix
10 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.040%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.040%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.040%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.040%) pfSense
12 1 (0.040%) XenApp
12 1 (0.040%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 300 (12.09%) Terraform
2 275 (11.08%) Ansible
3 74 (2.98%) Kubernetes
4 56 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.36%) SCCM
6 8 (0.32%) Grafana
7 7 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.24%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.20%) AirWatch
9 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.16%) PaperCut
10 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.16%) Puppet
10 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.12%) Autotask
11 3 (0.12%) Kibana
12 2 (0.081%) Argo
12 2 (0.081%) Control-M
12 2 (0.081%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.040%) QRadar
Vendors
1 534 (21.52%) BT
2 345 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 323 (13.02%) Cisco
4 257 (10.36%) Splunk
5 255 (10.28%) Juniper
6 251 (10.12%) 3PAR
7 249 (10.04%) Google
8 206 (8.30%) Databricks
9 200 (8.06%) Adobe
10 78 (3.14%) SAP
11 73 (2.94%) Siemens
12 72 (2.90%) Rockwell
13 54 (2.18%) VMware
14 51 (2.06%) Oracle
15 43 (1.73%) ServiceNow
16 21 (0.85%) IBM
17 19 (0.77%) Zoho
18 17 (0.69%) Apple
18 17 (0.69%) Salesforce
18 17 (0.69%) Workday