Problem-Solving Jobs in Northern Ireland

Problem Solving
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 39 128 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.62% 17.02% 18.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.78% 19.72% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17 79 42
10th Percentile £48,500 £27,500 £32,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -28.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -10.00% -

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 283 649 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 91.59% 86.30% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 112 324 383
10th Percentile £26,888 £30,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £32,851 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 July 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 9 July 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 +4 37 £55,000 +15.79% 143
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 (12.82%) nginx
1 5 (12.82%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (2.56%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (10.26%) Azure
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) LAN
2 1 (2.56%) MPLS
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.13%) DB2
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.56%) Looker
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
2 5 (12.82%) JUnit
2 5 (12.82%) Maven
2 5 (12.82%) Mockito
2 5 (12.82%) Postman
2 5 (12.82%) Selenium
2 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
2 5 (12.82%) TestNG
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 25 (64.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (41.03%) Finance
3 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Advertising
5 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
5 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.69%) Billing
6 3 (7.69%) Games
7 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Java Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) PLC Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Programmer
4 3 (7.69%) Accounts Receivable Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Analytics Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Customer Service Advisor
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) IT Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Spring
1 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
2 6 (15.38%) Kafka
3 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
3 5 (12.82%) Guice
3 5 (12.82%) JAX-RS
3 5 (12.82%) Mustache
3 5 (12.82%) OpenAPI
3 5 (12.82%) REST
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
3 5 (12.82%) Swagger
3 5 (12.82%) WireMock
4 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (5.13%) JSON
5 2 (5.13%) Middleware
5 2 (5.13%) React
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Life Science
1 5 (12.82%) SCADA
2 4 (10.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Project Management
2 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
3 6 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
3 6 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 5 (12.82%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (12.82%) BDD
4 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
4 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
4 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (12.82%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (12.82%) Motion Control
4 5 (12.82%) Multithreading
4 5 (12.82%) MVC
4 5 (12.82%) OO
4 5 (12.82%) OOP
4 5 (12.82%) Unit Testing
5 4 (10.26%) Analytics
5 4 (10.26%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (10.26%) Fintech
5 4 (10.26%) Trade Surveillance
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Java
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.56%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) CCNA
2 1 (2.56%) CCNP
2 1 (2.56%) CISA
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Kustomize
2 5 (12.82%) Packer
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Control-M
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle
4 3 (7.69%) BT
5 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.13%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) BMC
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco
6 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Infor
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow