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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 180 35 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 13.74% 11.51% 16.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.33% 13.01% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 44 15 66
10th Percentile £24,000 £47,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,875 £50,000 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +38.82% -20.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £62,350
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -9.09%

All Process & 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 931 269 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 71.07% 88.49% 78.33%
Number of salaries quoted 246 111 269
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £33,926 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend 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 15 August 2026.

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 15 August 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
County Antrim -1 112 £40,750 -30.93% 191
County Down -6 45 £42,500 - 2
County Armagh - 15 - - 2
Newry - 10 £42,500 - 1
County Londonderry +5 5 £70,000 +122.22% 14
County Tyrone - 2 £45,000 - 1
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) EPLAN
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.00%) Azure
2 13 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (5.56%) AWS
4 6 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.78%) SaaS
6 4 (2.22%) PaaS
7 3 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.11%) GCP
8 2 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.56%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.56%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.56%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.56%) Google Gemini
9 1 (0.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.22%) Firewall
2 2 (1.11%) J1939
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.11%) Power BI
2 1 (0.56%) Big Data
2 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 65 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 57 (31.67%) Legal
3 36 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (18.89%) Law
5 28 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (15.00%) Legal Technology
7 23 (12.78%) Finance
8 12 (6.67%) Marketing
9 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.67%) Banking
11 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.11%) Local Government
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.11%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (35.56%) Senior
2 58 (32.22%) Developer
3 57 (31.67%) Senior Developer
4 41 (22.78%) Consultant
5 23 (12.78%) Deployment Engineer
5 23 (12.78%) Mobile Engineer
5 23 (12.78%) Radio Engineer
5 23 (12.78%) Support Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) Analyst
7 12 (6.67%) Lead
7 12 (6.67%) Support Consultant
8 11 (6.11%) Architect
8 11 (6.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 9 (5.00%) Associate Consultant
9 9 (5.00%) Associate Technology Consultant
9 9 (5.00%) ITSM Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Process Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Support Analyst
9 9 (5.00%) Technology Consultant
10 8 (4.44%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (32.22%) .NET
2 3 (1.67%) Web Services
3 2 (1.11%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.11%) Middleware
3 2 (1.11%) XML
3 2 (1.11%) XSLT
4 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.56%) Dropwizard
4 1 (0.56%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.56%) Spring
4 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.56%) Vue
4 1 (0.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
1 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
1 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
1 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
2 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.11%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.11%) EPoS
3 2 (1.11%) NHS
3 2 (1.11%) SystemC
4 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.56%) Derivative
4 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Windows
2 4 (2.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 79 (43.89%) Agile
3 69 (38.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 62 (34.44%) CI/CD
5 59 (32.78%) Strategic Planning
5 59 (32.78%) Workflow
6 58 (32.22%) Data Governance
6 58 (32.22%) Microservices
6 58 (32.22%) Software Testing
6 58 (32.22%) Sprint Planning
7 57 (31.67%) API Development
7 57 (31.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 57 (31.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 57 (31.67%) Information Security
7 57 (31.67%) Software Architecture
7 57 (31.67%) Sprint Retrospective
8 38 (21.11%) Project Delivery
9 33 (18.33%) Logistics
10 30 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 28 (15.56%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.78%) C#
2 4 (2.22%) Python
2 4 (2.22%) SQL
3 2 (1.11%) Java
3 2 (1.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.11%) XPath
4 1 (0.56%) Bash
4 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.56%) PHP
4 1 (0.56%) Scala
4 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
3 3 (1.67%) GCFA
3 3 (1.67%) GCIA
3 3 (1.67%) GCIH
4 2 (1.11%) HND
5 1 (0.56%) CEH
5 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) ECIH
5 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (31.67%) QA
2 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) QRadar
2 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (27.78%) Workday
2 11 (6.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (1.67%) Splunk
4 2 (1.11%) SAP
4 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.11%) VMware
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle