Problem-Solving Jobs in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,474 2,352 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.32% 13.42% 14.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.08% 13.86% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 1,007 1,273
10th Percentile £25,250 £24,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,316 £73,675
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,481 16,974 16,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.84% 96.88% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,126 8,060 10,814
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +10 1,292 £45,000 -5.26% 582
Yorkshire +6 934 £43,586 -3.14% 338
North East +13 247 £45,000 +5.88% 140
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
1 100 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.54%) Apache
4 32 (1.29%) CMS
5 26 (1.05%) IIS
6 20 (0.81%) WordPress
7 15 (0.61%) Umbraco
8 14 (0.57%) Confluence
9 11 (0.44%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.32%) JBoss
10 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
11 7 (0.28%) OpenEdge
12 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.12%) Moodle
14 3 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 221 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
2 113 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.81%) Sketch
5 12 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.16%) InDesign
10 4 (0.16%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.16%) Trello
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) SPSS
12 2 (0.081%) Stata
13 1 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (1.21%) Shopify
2 29 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.01%) Magento
4 13 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.53%) iTrent
5 10 (0.40%) SAP Business One
5 10 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.36%) SAP CX
7 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.24%) Sage 200
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.20%) Sage 50
8 5 (0.20%) Sage CRM
8 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.16%) SAP APO
9 4 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.16%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.16%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 461 (18.63%) Azure
2 289 (11.68%) AWS
3 282 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (5.78%) GCP
5 141 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 83 (3.35%) SaaS
7 61 (2.47%) Serverless
8 54 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 54 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 48 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (1.78%) Amazon S3
11 44 (1.78%) GitHub
12 37 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (1.17%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 23 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (0.93%) Google Workspace
15 23 (0.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 153 (6.18%) Firewall
2 87 (3.52%) LAN
3 72 (2.91%) WAN
4 64 (2.59%) VPN
5 62 (2.51%) DNS
5 62 (2.51%) Network Security
6 57 (2.30%) Wireless
7 50 (2.02%) DHCP
8 49 (1.98%) TCP/IP
8 49 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (1.74%) VoIP
10 39 (1.58%) Internet
11 37 (1.50%) SAN
12 31 (1.25%) VLAN
13 22 (0.89%) IPsec
13 22 (0.89%) PPP
14 15 (0.61%) NAS
14 15 (0.61%) SNMP
15 13 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (0.44%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 132 (5.34%) MySQL
3 121 (4.89%) Power BI
4 103 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
5 98 (3.96%) BigQuery
6 96 (3.88%) Looker
7 57 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 54 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 53 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 49 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 46 (1.86%) Tableau
12 36 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.21%) Redis
14 30 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 29 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 28 (1.13%) RDBMS
17 23 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
18 21 (0.85%) MS Access
19 19 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 182 (7.36%) Git
2 85 (3.44%) JIRA
3 29 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.17%) TeamCity
4 22 (0.89%) GitLab
5 18 (0.73%) Postman
6 15 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 9 (0.36%) JDeveloper
9 8 (0.32%) Selenium
10 7 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.28%) Subversion
11 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.24%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.24%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.20%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.20%) Sourcetree
12 5 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 1,287 (52.02%) Social Skills
2 790 (31.93%) Analytical Skills
3 478 (19.32%) Finance
4 158 (6.39%) Retail
5 139 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 134 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
7 109 (4.41%) Marketing
8 107 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 95 (3.84%) Law
10 93 (3.76%) Legal
11 84 (3.40%) Manufacturing
12 79 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 72 (2.91%) Banking
14 46 (1.86%) Games
15 37 (1.50%) Billing
16 33 (1.33%) Local Government
17 32 (1.29%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Tech for Good
20 18 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 358 (14.47%) Developer
2 321 (12.97%) Senior
3 309 (12.49%) Analyst
4 181 (7.32%) Lead
5 155 (6.27%) Software Engineer
6 141 (5.70%) Architect
7 111 (4.49%) IT Support
8 104 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 95 (3.84%) Support Engineer
10 93 (3.76%) Consultant
10 93 (3.76%) Project Manager
11 84 (3.40%) IT Engineer
12 77 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
13 76 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 71 (2.87%) Administrator
15 65 (2.63%) Graduate
15 65 (2.63%) Senior Developer
16 61 (2.47%) Data Architect
17 59 (2.38%) IT Manager
17 59 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (9.46%) .NET
2 191 (7.72%) HTML
3 182 (7.36%) CSS
4 112 (4.53%) React
5 102 (4.12%) AngularJS
6 99 (4.00%) Node.js
7 81 (3.27%) Vue
8 80 (3.23%) RESTful
9 74 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 67 (2.71%) .NET Framework
10 67 (2.71%) ASP.NET
11 52 (2.10%) JSON
12 49 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
13 45 (1.82%) HTML5
13 45 (1.82%) Web Services
14 42 (1.70%) REST
15 39 (1.58%) jQuery
15 39 (1.58%) Spring
16 35 (1.41%) XML
17 33 (1.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 197 (7.96%) Self-Motivation
2 107 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 103 (4.16%) Driving Licence
4 64 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 46 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 41 (1.66%) NHS
7 38 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.46%) Onboarding
9 33 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 31 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 30 (1.21%) Housing Association
12 29 (1.17%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
13 28 (1.13%) IoT
14 26 (1.05%) Cyberattack
14 26 (1.05%) Life Science
15 25 (1.01%) EPoS
16 23 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 23 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
17 22 (0.89%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 413 (16.69%) Windows
2 144 (5.82%) Windows Server
3 134 (5.42%) Linux
4 99 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 45 (1.82%) Android
7 38 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 37 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 26 (1.05%) Mac OS
11 23 (0.93%) Windows 7
12 18 (0.73%) Windows Vista
13 16 (0.65%) Windows 8
14 15 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
14 15 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (0.57%) Unix
16 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.40%) VMS
17 6 (0.24%) AIX
18 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (19.81%) Agile
2 346 (13.99%) Customer Service
3 317 (12.81%) Project Management
4 302 (12.21%) Mentoring
5 299 (12.09%) Computer Science
6 297 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (10.39%) DevOps
8 244 (9.86%) ITIL
9 230 (9.30%) Software Engineering
10 214 (8.65%) Decision-Making
11 199 (8.04%) Analytics
12 178 (7.19%) Collaborative Working
13 176 (7.11%) Coaching
14 175 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
15 171 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 168 (6.79%) User Experience
17 166 (6.71%) Cybersecurity
18 147 (5.94%) Time Management
19 141 (5.70%) Data Engineering
19 141 (5.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 420 (16.98%) SQL
2 276 (11.16%) C#
3 271 (10.95%) JavaScript
4 200 (8.08%) Python
5 125 (5.05%) Java
6 94 (3.80%) PowerShell
7 90 (3.64%) PHP
8 66 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 46 (1.86%) Bash
10 43 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.17%) Ruby
12 28 (1.13%) VB
13 26 (1.05%) C++
14 25 (1.01%) Swift
15 24 (0.97%) C
16 21 (0.85%) VB.NET
17 15 (0.61%) Go
18 14 (0.57%) VBScript
19 12 (0.49%) Embedded C
20 11 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 608 (24.58%) Degree
2 197 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 118 (4.77%) Security Cleared
4 90 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 83 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 72 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 54 (2.18%) DBS Check
8 44 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (1.58%) ACCA
10 37 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 36 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (1.29%) CCNA
12 32 (1.29%) PMI Certification
13 29 (1.17%) HND
14 28 (1.13%) PMP
15 27 (1.09%) HNC
16 20 (0.81%) CISSP
17 19 (0.77%) CCNP
17 19 (0.77%) CISA
18 18 (0.73%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (5.46%) GDPR
2 123 (4.97%) SLA
3 84 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.40%) QA
4 54 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.70%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.21%) GAAP
7 28 (1.13%) IFRS
7 28 (1.13%) NIST
8 19 (0.77%) PMO
9 17 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.65%) WCAG
11 13 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 13 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.36%) NCSC
13 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.20%) COBIT
System Software
1 232 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 108 (4.37%) Docker
3 90 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.40%) Firmware
7 9 (0.36%) Terminal Services
8 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.32%) vSphere
9 7 (0.28%) XenApp
9 7 (0.28%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.040%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.040%) Postfix
13 1 (0.040%) Shibboleth
13 1 (0.040%) Snort
13 1 (0.040%) Varnish
13 1 (0.040%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 74 (2.99%) Terraform
4 39 (1.58%) SCCM
5 30 (1.21%) Ansible
6 23 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
9 11 (0.44%) Grafana
9 11 (0.44%) Nessus
9 11 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.44%) SCOM
10 10 (0.40%) Puppet
11 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.20%) Autotask
12 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 4 (0.16%) Cacti
13 4 (0.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 644 (26.03%) Microsoft
2 168 (6.79%) Google
3 132 (5.34%) VMware
4 97 (3.92%) SAP
5 81 (3.27%) Oracle
6 75 (3.03%) Cisco
7 45 (1.82%) Citrix
8 41 (1.66%) Apple
9 38 (1.54%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.50%) CA
11 31 (1.25%) Adobe
12 29 (1.17%) Veeam
13 27 (1.09%) F5
14 24 (0.97%) IBM
15 22 (0.89%) Splunk
16 21 (0.85%) NetApp
16 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
17 19 (0.77%) Epicor
17 19 (0.77%) HP
17 19 (0.77%) Palo Alto