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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 146 37 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 11.45% 12.17% 17.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.85% 13.60% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35 17 71
10th Percentile - £48,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £24,000 £50,000 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £62,200
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -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 921 272 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 72.24% 89.47% 78.65%
Number of salaries quoted 255 108 273
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,128 £34,463 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 3 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 3 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 -9 85 £38,500 -30.00% 173
County Down -8 45 £42,500 - 11
County Armagh - 13 - - 9
Newry - 10 £42,500 - 4
County Tyrone - 2 £45,000 - 10
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 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) EPLAN
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Workday HCM
2 3 (2.05%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.96%) Azure
2 12 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (4.79%) AWS
4 5 (3.42%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.37%) PaaS
6 2 (1.37%) SaaS
7 1 (0.68%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.37%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) Big Data
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.74%) JIRA
General
1 56 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 55 (37.67%) Legal
3 34 (23.29%) Law
4 27 (18.49%) Legal Technology
5 26 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (13.70%) Finance
7 18 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.79%) Marketing
9 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.37%) Banking
10 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.37%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (39.04%) Senior
2 56 (38.36%) Developer
3 55 (37.67%) Senior Developer
4 28 (19.18%) Consultant
5 23 (15.75%) Deployment Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Mobile Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Radio Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.59%) Analyst
7 10 (6.85%) Associate Consultant
7 10 (6.85%) Associate Technology Consultant
7 10 (6.85%) Support Consultant
7 10 (6.85%) Technology Consultant
8 7 (4.79%) Applications Consultant
8 7 (4.79%) Applications Support
8 7 (4.79%) Applications Support Consultant
8 7 (4.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 7 (4.79%) ITSM Analyst
8 7 (4.79%) Process Analyst
8 7 (4.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (38.36%) .NET
2 3 (2.05%) Web Services
3 2 (1.37%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (1.37%) Middleware
3 2 (1.37%) XML
3 2 (1.37%) XSLT
4 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.68%) Dropwizard
4 1 (0.68%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.68%) Spring
4 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
2 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.37%) EPoS
3 2 (1.37%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.68%) Derivative
4 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.68%) NHS
4 1 (0.68%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.05%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 67 (45.89%) Agile
3 65 (44.52%) Acceptance Criteria
4 58 (39.73%) CI/CD
5 57 (39.04%) Strategic Planning
6 56 (38.36%) Microservices
6 56 (38.36%) Sprint Planning
6 56 (38.36%) Workflow
7 55 (37.67%) API Development
7 55 (37.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 55 (37.67%) Data Governance
7 55 (37.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 55 (37.67%) Information Security
7 55 (37.67%) Software Architecture
7 55 (37.67%) Software Testing
7 55 (37.67%) Sprint Retrospective
8 34 (23.29%) Project Delivery
9 31 (21.23%) Logistics
10 29 (19.86%) Software Engineering
11 27 (18.49%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.04%) C#
2 4 (2.74%) SQL
3 2 (1.37%) XPath
4 1 (0.68%) Java
4 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.68%) PHP
4 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.68%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Degree
2 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
2 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.05%) CompTIA CySA+
2 3 (2.05%) GCFA
2 3 (2.05%) GCIA
2 3 (2.05%) GCIH
2 3 (2.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.37%) HND
4 1 (0.68%) CEH
4 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.68%) ECIH
4 1 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (37.67%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.05%) QRadar
2 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Workday
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (2.05%) SAP
3 3 (2.05%) Splunk
4 1 (0.68%) Foundry
4 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.68%) VMware