Problem-Solving Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Problem Solving
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 36 79 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.21% 15.46% 14.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.77% 19.70% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16 44 40
10th Percentile £48,125 - £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £41,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +42.17% -22.79% +16.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £54,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 401 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.85% 78.47% 92.12%
Number of salaries quoted 125 221 287
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £31,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +17.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
County Antrim -2 29 £59,000 +45.68% 74
County Tyrone -1 3 - - 2
County Londonderry -3 2 £31,500 - 4
County Down - 1 - - 2
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (13.89%) nginx
1 5 (13.89%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
4 1 (2.78%) InVision
4 1 (2.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (2.78%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (2.78%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.78%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.78%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Figma
3 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) LAN
1 3 (8.33%) MPLS
1 3 (8.33%) Wireless
1 3 (8.33%) WLAN
2 1 (2.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) GIS
3 1 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
1 5 (13.89%) Cucumber
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
1 5 (13.89%) JUnit
1 5 (13.89%) Maven
1 5 (13.89%) Mockito
1 5 (13.89%) Postman
1 5 (13.89%) Selenium
1 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
1 5 (13.89%) TestNG
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Advertising
6 3 (8.33%) Billing
7 2 (5.56%) Local Government
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Games
8 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Java Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) PLC Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Accounts Receivable Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Analytics Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Business Support Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Business Systems Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Systems Support
4 3 (8.33%) Systems Support Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (13.89%) Gherkin
1 5 (13.89%) Guice
1 5 (13.89%) JAX-RS
1 5 (13.89%) Kafka
1 5 (13.89%) Mustache
1 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
1 5 (13.89%) REST
1 5 (13.89%) RESTful
1 5 (13.89%) Spring
1 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
1 5 (13.89%) Swagger
1 5 (13.89%) WireMock
2 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) EDI
3 2 (5.56%) CSS
3 2 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.78%) Laravel
4 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Life Science
1 5 (13.89%) SCADA
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (19.44%) Customer Service
2 7 (19.44%) Innovative Thinking
2 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
3 6 (16.67%) ERP
4 5 (13.89%) Analytics
4 5 (13.89%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (13.89%) BDD
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
4 5 (13.89%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (13.89%) Motion Control
4 5 (13.89%) Multithreading
4 5 (13.89%) MVC
4 5 (13.89%) OO
4 5 (13.89%) OOP
4 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
5 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Java
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) C#
3 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) PHP
4 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) CCNP
2 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.33%) HNC
2 3 (8.33%) HND
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CCNA
4 1 (2.78%) CISA
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
1 5 (13.89%) Kustomize
1 5 (13.89%) Packer
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.33%) Adobe
3 3 (8.33%) Aruba
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.56%) ESRI
5 1 (2.78%) BT
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Infor
5 1 (2.78%) SAP