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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 74 73 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 17.05% 16.82% 14.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.29% 19.47% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 60 28 53
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,225 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £33,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.30% -30.00% +2.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £67,875 £68,250
East Midlands median annual salary £33,000 £37,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.58% -11.18% -19.05%

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 332 375 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 76.50% 86.41% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 231 149 341
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,050 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.16% +3.16% -9.52%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -3 41 £47,500 +58.33% 52
Wellingborough +1 3 £43,000 -33.85% 4
Corby -1 3 - - 1
Daventry +3 1 £47,500 -
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 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) CATIA
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (13.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.00%) Azure
2 26 (35.14%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (25.68%) AWS
3 19 (25.68%) Entra ID
4 13 (17.57%) Serverless
5 8 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.76%) GCP
7 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.70%) GitHub
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) VLAN
2 4 (5.41%) Firewall
3 3 (4.05%) WAN
4 2 (2.70%) DHCP
4 2 (2.70%) DNS
4 2 (2.70%) LAN
4 2 (2.70%) VPN
5 1 (1.35%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.05%) Power BI
3 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.70%) MySQL
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.35%) JUnit
3 1 (1.35%) Mockito
3 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 38 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.08%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) Marketing
5 2 (2.70%) Electronics
5 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Developer
2 16 (21.62%) Senior
3 15 (20.27%) Analyst
3 15 (20.27%) Support Analyst
4 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (14.86%) Support Engineer
6 10 (13.51%) IT Support
6 10 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (13.51%) Technical Support
6 10 (13.51%) Technical Support Analyst
7 8 (10.81%) 1st Line Support
7 8 (10.81%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 8 (10.81%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 8 (10.81%) IT Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.46%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Architect
10 5 (6.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 5 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) CSS
2 17 (22.97%) HTML
3 12 (16.22%) Node.js
3 12 (16.22%) React
4 4 (5.41%) Middleware
5 3 (4.05%) EDI
5 3 (4.05%) REST
6 2 (2.70%) .NET
6 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (2.70%) CSS3
6 2 (2.70%) HTML5
7 1 (1.35%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.35%) J2EE
7 1 (1.35%) Jest
7 1 (1.35%) SOAP
7 1 (1.35%) Spring
7 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Onboarding
2 9 (12.16%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.05%) FMCG
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Handset
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Windows
2 10 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.70%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) Customer Service
2 17 (22.97%) CRM
3 15 (20.27%) API Development
3 15 (20.27%) Computer Science
4 14 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (13.51%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 9 (12.16%) Agile
7 8 (10.81%) Project Management
8 6 (8.11%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.11%) ERP
8 6 (8.11%) ITIL
8 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (6.76%) Business Transformation
9 5 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (6.76%) Service Delivery
10 4 (5.41%) CI/CD
10 4 (5.41%) Process Improvement
10 4 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.68%) JavaScript
1 19 (25.68%) SQL
2 12 (16.22%) Python
3 4 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (2.70%) C
4 2 (2.70%) C#
4 2 (2.70%) Perl
4 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Degree
2 11 (14.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.70%) CCNA
4 2 (2.70%) HND
4 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.70%) MCP
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.41%) vSphere
3 2 (2.70%) Docker
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.70%) Terraform
4 1 (1.35%) Ansible
4 1 (1.35%) Autotask
4 1 (1.35%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 37 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.51%) Zoho
3 8 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 7 (9.46%) HubSpot
5 6 (8.11%) Cisco
6 4 (5.41%) SonicWALL
7 3 (4.05%) QAD
7 3 (4.05%) SAP
8 2 (2.70%) Allen-Bradley
8 2 (2.70%) Meraki
8 2 (2.70%) Oracle
8 2 (2.70%) Siemens
8 2 (2.70%) Toshiba
9 1 (1.35%) Apple
9 1 (1.35%) Draytek
9 1 (1.35%) VMware
9 1 (1.35%) WatchGuard
9 1 (1.35%) Yealink