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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 3 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 36 144 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.50% 20.81% 13.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.01% 23.04% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10 70 41
10th Percentile £49,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% +35.14%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £87,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% -

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 257 625 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.24% 90.32% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 70 297 445
10th Percentile £23,504 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,112 £33,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £69,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -1 34 £55,000 +8.37% 96
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 6 (16.67%) nginx
2 5 (13.89%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.56%) Adobe XD
2 2 (5.56%) Sketch
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.56%) Figma
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) IPv6
2 2 (5.56%) Multicast
2 2 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.78%) IPsec
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) VoIP
3 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) DB2
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.78%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.78%) Looker
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 7 (19.44%) Bitbucket
3 6 (16.67%) Selenium
4 5 (13.89%) Cucumber
4 5 (13.89%) JUnit
4 5 (13.89%) Maven
4 5 (13.89%) Mockito
4 5 (13.89%) Postman
4 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
4 5 (13.89%) TestNG
5 2 (5.56%) Apache Archiva
5 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.56%) Git
5 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.56%) Vagrant
6 1 (2.78%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.78%) HP UFT
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) Xcode
General
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (30.56%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) PLC Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Programmer
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Auditor
6 2 (5.56%) IT Auditor
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Product Design Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Product Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Auditor
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Spring
1 8 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 7 (19.44%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (16.67%) Kafka
4 5 (13.89%) Gherkin
4 5 (13.89%) Guice
4 5 (13.89%) JAX-RS
4 5 (13.89%) Mustache
4 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
4 5 (13.89%) REST
4 5 (13.89%) RESTful
4 5 (13.89%) Swagger
4 5 (13.89%) WireMock
5 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) JSON
6 2 (5.56%) Middleware
6 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (5.56%) React
7 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Life Science
1 5 (13.89%) SCADA
2 4 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) CCTV
4 2 (5.56%) PKI
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) VMS
3 1 (2.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 6 (16.67%) DevOps
2 6 (16.67%) OO
2 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (13.89%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (13.89%) BDD
3 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
3 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (13.89%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (13.89%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (13.89%) Motion Control
3 5 (13.89%) Multithreading
3 5 (13.89%) MVC
3 5 (13.89%) OOP
3 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
3 5 (13.89%) Project Management
3 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
4 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.33%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.78%) C#
8 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Ansible
2 8 (22.22%) Terraform
3 7 (19.44%) Kustomize
4 5 (13.89%) Packer
4 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.33%) Control-M
6 2 (5.56%) Argo
6 2 (5.56%) Grafana
6 2 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.78%) BMC
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow