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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 342 33 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 20.54% 10.12% 12.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.61% 11.26% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 105 17 20
10th Percentile £35,250 £43,450 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £41,400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +44.93% -19.22%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £52,188
90th Percentile £96,000 £79,274 £91,500
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% -15.09% -3.64%

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 1,082 293 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 64.98% 89.88% 79.07%
Number of salaries quoted 292 140 195
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -15.87% +18.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £74,572
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 October 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 October 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 +12 234 £75,000 +25.00% 157
County Down -8 65 £27,581 -
County Londonderry +1 25 £70,000 +122.22% 5
County Armagh -20 15 - - 5
Newry - 8 £27,581 -
County Tyrone -4 3 £45,000 +11.11% 2
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 26 (7.60%) CMS
1 26 (7.60%) SharePoint
1 26 (7.60%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.17%) EPLAN
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (7.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (4.39%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.99%) Entra ID
2 33 (9.65%) Power Platform
3 26 (7.60%) PowerApps
4 17 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (4.68%) Azure
6 10 (2.92%) AWS
7 5 (1.46%) SaaS
8 4 (1.17%) PaaS
9 3 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.58%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (0.58%) GCP
11 1 (0.29%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.29%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.29%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.58%) 5G
2 2 (0.58%) J1939
3 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.29%) DNS
3 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) RS-232
3 1 (0.29%) RS-422
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.19%) Power BI
2 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.29%) Big Data
3 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 117 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 74 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.25%) Legal
4 51 (14.91%) Finance
5 38 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (11.11%) Marketing
6 34 (9.94%) Law
7 27 (7.89%) Legal Technology
8 26 (7.60%) Publishing
9 22 (6.43%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.34%) Retail
11 6 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.17%) Banking
13 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Local Government
15 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.29%) Electronics
15 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (37.13%) Senior
2 78 (22.81%) Analyst
3 73 (21.35%) Consultant
4 59 (17.25%) Developer
5 58 (16.96%) Senior Developer
6 41 (11.99%) Digital Analyst
7 38 (11.11%) Lead
8 28 (8.19%) Architect
9 26 (7.60%) Marketing Assistant
10 24 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (6.43%) Workday Consultant
12 18 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 18 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
13 17 (4.97%) Business Analyst
13 17 (4.97%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (4.97%) Senior Business Analyst
14 16 (4.68%) Senior Consultant
15 14 (4.09%) Dynamics 365 Architect
16 13 (3.80%) Service Manager
17 12 (3.51%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (17.25%) .NET
2 3 (0.88%) Web Services
3 2 (0.58%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (0.58%) Middleware
3 2 (0.58%) XML
3 2 (0.58%) XSLT
4 1 (0.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.29%) Dropwizard
4 1 (0.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.29%) Spring
4 1 (0.29%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.29%) Vue
4 1 (0.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.60%) Blog
1 26 (7.60%) Management Information System
1 26 (7.60%) Marketing Technology
1 26 (7.60%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
2 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
2 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
2 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
3 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (0.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.58%) EPoS
4 2 (0.58%) NHS
4 2 (0.58%) SystemC
5 1 (0.29%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.29%) CAN bus
5 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.29%) Derivative
5 1 (0.29%) Podcast
5 1 (0.29%) SCADA
5 1 (0.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.34%) Windows
2 4 (1.17%) Linux
3 3 (0.88%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.95%) Information Security
2 90 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 86 (25.15%) Workflow
4 80 (23.39%) Agile
5 72 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
6 63 (18.42%) CI/CD
7 60 (17.54%) Software Testing
7 60 (17.54%) Strategic Planning
8 59 (17.25%) Data Governance
8 59 (17.25%) Enterprise Architecture
8 59 (17.25%) Microservices
8 59 (17.25%) Sprint Planning
9 58 (16.96%) API Development
9 58 (16.96%) Architectural Patterns
9 58 (16.96%) Software Architecture
9 58 (16.96%) Sprint Retrospective
10 45 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
11 41 (11.99%) Identity Access Management
11 41 (11.99%) Identity Management
11 41 (11.99%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.54%) C#
2 4 (1.17%) Python
2 4 (1.17%) SQL
3 2 (0.58%) Java
3 2 (0.58%) XPath
4 1 (0.29%) Bash
4 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.29%) PHP
4 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.29%) Scala
4 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (6.73%) Degree
2 13 (3.80%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
3 3 (0.88%) GCFA
3 3 (0.88%) GCIA
3 3 (0.88%) GCIH
3 3 (0.88%) HND
3 3 (0.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.29%) CCIE
4 1 (0.29%) CCNP
4 1 (0.29%) CEH
4 1 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.29%) ECIH
4 1 (0.29%) GIAC
4 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (17.25%) QA
2 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.29%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 44 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 158 (46.20%) Workday
2 54 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.60%) Sitecore
4 4 (1.17%) VMware
5 3 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (0.88%) SAP
5 3 (0.88%) Splunk
5 3 (0.88%) Thales
6 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Databricks
7 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.29%) Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) Google
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle