Problem-Solving Jobs in the North West

Problem Solving
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 977 1,299 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.93% 13.37% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.56% 16.07% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 701 896 472
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £23,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £35,673
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.53%
75th Percentile £61,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,203 8,082 7,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.33% 83.16% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 6,148 3,946
10th Percentile £27,474 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +3 430 £50,000 - 587
Lancashire -33 179 £47,683 +23.85% 307
Cheshire +1 168 £35,000 -17.65% 164
Cumbria -46 113 £41,000 +13.89% 26
Merseyside +4 79 £32,500 -18.75% 106
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 42 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.66%) CMS
3 21 (2.15%) Umbraco
4 19 (1.94%) IBM Domino
5 17 (1.74%) Apache
6 16 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (1.23%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.82%) Confluence
8 8 (0.82%) SAS
9 3 (0.31%) GemFire
9 3 (0.31%) nginx
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.10%) Mule
11 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 44 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.64%) Trello
5 9 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.82%) Simulink
7 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.10%) Revit
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (3.58%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.82%) Primavera
4 7 (0.72%) Shopify
4 7 (0.72%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 4 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
6 3 (0.31%) Maximo
6 3 (0.31%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.20%) Odoo
7 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.20%) Sage CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.10%) Magento
8 1 (0.10%) Orchard Housing
8 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 129 (13.20%) Azure
2 103 (10.54%) AWS
3 79 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (4.20%) GCP
5 39 (3.99%) Power Platform
6 19 (1.94%) SaaS
7 17 (1.74%) Entra ID
8 14 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
9 12 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 12 (1.23%) Power Automate
9 12 (1.23%) Serverless
10 11 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (0.82%) Cloud Composer
14 7 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.72%) Figma
15 6 (0.61%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (14.53%) Broadband
2 54 (5.53%) Firewall
3 35 (3.58%) DNS
4 28 (2.87%) VPN
5 21 (2.15%) Intranet
6 20 (2.05%) DHCP
7 19 (1.94%) WAN
8 16 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
9 13 (1.33%) LAN
10 11 (1.13%) SAN
10 11 (1.13%) SSH
10 11 (1.13%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.92%) VoIP
12 8 (0.82%) HTTP
12 8 (0.82%) Network Security
13 7 (0.72%) Internet
13 7 (0.72%) NAS
13 7 (0.72%) Wireless
14 6 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.28%) Power BI
3 30 (3.07%) MySQL
4 23 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 13 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.23%) Big Data
6 12 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.02%) Cloud Spanner
8 8 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 8 (0.82%) Tableau
9 7 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.51%) Redis
11 4 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.41%) Metadata
11 4 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.41%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
12 3 (0.31%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 39 (3.99%) Git
2 36 (3.68%) JIRA
3 14 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.72%) ClearCase
5 7 (0.72%) GitLab
6 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.31%) Postman
9 3 (0.31%) TestRail
10 2 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.20%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.20%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.20%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.20%) Storybook
10 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 473 (48.41%) Social Skills
2 263 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (20.16%) Finance
4 178 (18.22%) Banking
5 149 (15.25%) Games
6 66 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (6.65%) Manufacturing
8 39 (3.99%) Electronics
9 31 (3.17%) Legal
10 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.35%) Retail
12 22 (2.25%) Aviation
12 22 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.74%) Law
14 16 (1.64%) Marketing
14 16 (1.64%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.54%) Automotive
16 11 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 141 (14.43%) Customer Service Advisor
2 131 (13.41%) Analyst
3 121 (12.38%) Developer
4 86 (8.80%) Senior
5 49 (5.02%) IT Support
6 43 (4.40%) Consultant
6 43 (4.40%) Lead
7 38 (3.89%) Project Manager
8 37 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
9 34 (3.48%) Software Engineer
10 32 (3.28%) Software Developer
11 28 (2.87%) Support Analyst
12 26 (2.66%) NetSuite Consultant
13 24 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 23 (2.35%) Security Engineer
15 22 (2.25%) Architect
15 22 (2.25%) Functional Consultant
15 22 (2.25%) Radar Engineer
15 22 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (2.15%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.81%) HTML
2 42 (4.30%) CSS
3 37 (3.79%) .NET
4 31 (3.17%) RESTful
5 30 (3.07%) React
6 27 (2.76%) Node.js
7 24 (2.46%) jQuery
7 24 (2.46%) XML
8 22 (2.25%) HTML5
9 17 (1.74%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.54%) Middleware
11 14 (1.43%) SOAP
12 11 (1.13%) .NET Framework
12 11 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.02%) Kafka
13 10 (1.02%) REST
14 9 (0.92%) Vue
14 9 (0.92%) WinForms
15 8 (0.82%) JSON
16 7 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.37%) Management Information System
2 49 (5.02%) Social Media
3 42 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 23 (2.35%) NHS
7 21 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.43%) IoT
12 13 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.92%) Manufacturing Execution System
14 8 (0.82%) EPoS
14 8 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.82%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 139 (14.23%) Windows
2 62 (6.35%) Linux
3 34 (3.48%) Windows Server
3 34 (3.48%) Windows Vista
4 23 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 20 (2.05%) Android
6 15 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.72%) CentOS
8 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Unix
9 5 (0.51%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.20%) AIX
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.10%) Debian
13 1 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (23.03%) Customer Service
2 165 (16.89%) Agile
3 122 (12.49%) Project Management
4 121 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 102 (10.44%) Computer Science
6 93 (9.52%) Service Delivery
7 89 (9.11%) Mentoring
8 87 (8.90%) ITIL
8 87 (8.90%) Software Engineering
9 84 (8.60%) Decision-Making
10 76 (7.78%) ERP
11 73 (7.47%) Collaborative Working
12 70 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
13 68 (6.96%) Process Improvement
14 67 (6.86%) Systems Engineering
15 62 (6.35%) CI/CD
16 61 (6.24%) CRM
17 59 (6.04%) DevOps
18 58 (5.94%) Analytics
18 58 (5.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 118 (12.08%) SQL
2 93 (9.52%) C#
3 79 (8.09%) JavaScript
4 65 (6.65%) Python
5 62 (6.35%) Java
6 41 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 38 (3.89%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.76%) PHP
9 12 (1.23%) Bash
9 12 (1.23%) C++
10 11 (1.13%) Korn
10 11 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.92%) C-shell
12 8 (0.82%) MATLAB
13 7 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.61%) C
14 6 (0.61%) Scala
15 5 (0.51%) Go
16 4 (0.41%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 310 (31.73%) Degree
2 111 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 65 (6.65%) DBS Check
4 64 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 38 (3.89%) CEH
7 32 (3.28%) HNC
8 29 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.56%) HND
10 23 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (2.35%) CISSP
11 21 (2.15%) ACCA
11 21 (2.15%) CIMA
12 18 (1.84%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.84%) CISA
12 18 (1.84%) CISM
12 18 (1.84%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.84%) PMP
13 15 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.73%) QA
2 47 (4.81%) GDPR
3 41 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (2.25%) DO-254
7 21 (2.15%) NIST
7 21 (2.15%) WCAG
8 17 (1.74%) SLA
9 9 (0.92%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.31%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.10%) IFRS
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 14001
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.10%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 57 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.09%) Docker
3 26 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (2.56%) Firmware
4 25 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Postfix
7 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.31%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.31%) KVM
8 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.66%) Terraform
3 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.33%) SCCM
5 8 (0.82%) Grafana
6 6 (0.61%) Ansible
7 5 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.41%) Kibana
8 4 (0.41%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.31%) Autotask
9 3 (0.31%) Puppet
10 2 (0.20%) Nagios
10 2 (0.20%) Nessus
10 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.10%) Automic
11 1 (0.10%) Consul
11 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 154 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 142 (14.53%) BT
3 62 (6.35%) Oracle
4 45 (4.61%) VMware
5 41 (4.20%) SAP
6 37 (3.79%) Google
7 28 (2.87%) Cisco
8 27 (2.76%) HP
9 16 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.43%) Meraki
10 14 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.23%) IBM
11 12 (1.23%) Veeam
12 10 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.92%) SonicWALL
13 9 (0.92%) WatchGuard
14 8 (0.82%) Apple
14 8 (0.82%) Facebook
14 8 (0.82%) iManage
15 7 (0.72%) Red Hat