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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 62 62 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 12.97% 15.12% 11.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.37% 16.85% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49 23 57
10th Percentile £25,875 £24,350 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £27,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £30,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,500 £66,750
East Midlands median annual salary £34,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% -21.95%

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 357 368 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 74.69% 89.76% 85.16%
Number of salaries quoted 242 147 389
10th Percentile £27,775 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,813 £37,500 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +9.47% +3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,250 £68,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -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 15 February 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 15 February 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 38 £55,000 +89.66% 20
Corby -2 2 - -
Wellingborough -3 1 £30,000 -53.85% 6
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 4 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) CATIA
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) AWS
3 17 (27.42%) Serverless
4 13 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (17.74%) Amazon S3
5 11 (17.74%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (16.13%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.68%) GCP
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) VLAN
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) WAN
4 2 (3.23%) LAN
5 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.61%) JUnit
3 1 (1.61%) Mockito
3 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.61%) Selenium
General
1 23 (37.10%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Marketing
5 2 (3.23%) Advertising
5 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Developer
2 17 (27.42%) Full-Stack Developer
2 17 (27.42%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Senior Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Support Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Technical Support
4 8 (12.90%) Technical Support Analyst
5 7 (11.29%) Architect
6 6 (9.68%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (9.68%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) 1st Line Technical Support
6 6 (9.68%) AWS Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.68%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.26%) CSS
2 18 (29.03%) HTML
3 15 (24.19%) Node.js
3 15 (24.19%) React
4 3 (4.84%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.61%) J2EE
5 1 (1.61%) Jest
5 1 (1.61%) JPA
5 1 (1.61%) Redux
5 1 (1.61%) REST
5 1 (1.61%) RESTful
5 1 (1.61%) SOAP
5 1 (1.61%) Spring
5 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.06%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Handset
6 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Windows
2 8 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) SUSE
4 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Customer Service
2 18 (29.03%) API Development
3 17 (27.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (24.19%) Computer Science
5 9 (14.52%) Agile
6 8 (12.90%) CRM
6 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
6 8 (12.90%) Project Management
6 8 (12.90%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 7 (11.29%) Containerisation
7 7 (11.29%) Service Delivery
7 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.68%) Business Transformation
8 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (8.06%) Project Delivery
10 4 (6.45%) DevOps
10 4 (6.45%) ITIL
11 3 (4.84%) Dashboard Development
11 3 (4.84%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.26%) JavaScript
2 19 (30.65%) SQL
3 14 (22.58%) Python
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) C
5 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Degree
2 12 (19.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CCNA
4 2 (3.23%) HND
4 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.45%) vSphere
3 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Autotask
4 1 (1.61%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Cisco
3 4 (6.45%) SonicWALL
3 4 (6.45%) Zoho
4 2 (3.23%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (3.23%) Meraki
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) Siemens
4 2 (3.23%) Toshiba
5 1 (1.61%) Apple
5 1 (1.61%) Draytek
5 1 (1.61%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.61%) Yealink