Problem-Solving Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 12 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 66 30 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 10.80% 9.80% 12.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.14% 10.64% 15.79%
Number of salaries quoted 48 22 59
10th Percentile £26,875 £24,150 £24,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -12.94% -22.73%
75th Percentile £63,850 £63,125 £61,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,250
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £39,750 £38,750
% change year-on-year -11.95% +2.58% -18.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 282 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 71.36% 92.16% 80.61%
Number of salaries quoted 262 177 415
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £56,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,250 £67,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Northampton +4 51 £55,000 +69.23% 28
Daventry 0 3 £37,500 - 2
Corby - 2 £29,120 - 2
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) CMS
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) CATIA
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) AWS
2 20 (30.30%) Serverless
3 19 (28.79%) Azure
4 12 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 12 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (12.12%) GCP
7 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) LAN
2 3 (4.55%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (4.55%) MQTT
2 3 (4.55%) VPN
2 3 (4.55%) WAN
3 2 (3.03%) VLAN
4 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.52%) VoIP
4 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.55%) MySQL
3 3 (4.55%) Neo4j
4 2 (3.03%) Power BI
4 2 (3.03%) Power Query
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 21 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Advertising
4 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.55%) Law
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Developer
1 18 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Lead
5 9 (13.64%) Architect
5 9 (13.64%) Support Engineer
6 8 (12.12%) AWS Architect
6 8 (12.12%) AWS Solution Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Azure Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 8 (12.12%) GCP Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
7 7 (10.61%) IT Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) IT Support
8 6 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (27.27%) CSS
1 18 (27.27%) HTML
2 15 (22.73%) Node.js
2 15 (22.73%) React
3 3 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.58%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile Computing
3 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.55%) IoT
4 3 (4.55%) Replication
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) Handset
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.55%) CentOS
3 3 (4.55%) SUSE
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.27%) API Development
1 18 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
2 16 (24.24%) Mentoring
3 11 (16.67%) Agile
3 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (15.15%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 8 (12.12%) Business Transformation
6 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 7 (10.61%) CRM
8 6 (9.09%) ITIL
8 6 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 5 (7.58%) Data Collection
9 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (7.58%) Line Management
9 5 (7.58%) People Management
9 5 (7.58%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) JavaScript
1 20 (30.30%) SQL
2 13 (19.70%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 13 (19.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (1.52%) CCNP
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.06%) vSphere
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.52%) Docker
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.55%) Galera Cluster
2 3 (4.55%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.03%) Terraform
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Cisco
2 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
3 3 (4.55%) Zoho
4 2 (3.03%) Meraki
5 1 (1.52%) Aruba
5 1 (1.52%) Draytek
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.52%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.52%) Yealink