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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 284 33 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 18.64% 10.44% 15.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.82% 11.83% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 106 16 40
10th Percentile £35,250 £48,125 £26,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £59,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +45.68% -24.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £61,250 £54,688
90th Percentile £95,000 £68,750 £63,250
UK median annual salary £46,901 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% -12.38% -4.55%

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 1,021 279 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 66.99% 88.29% 78.56%
Number of salaries quoted 301 126 214
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £29,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,313 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +8 189 £75,000 +27.12% 273
County Down -7 54 £27,581 - 4
County Londonderry +2 23 £70,000 +122.22% 15
County Armagh - 15 - - 5
Newry - 8 £27,581 - 1
County Tyrone -3 2 £45,000 - 3
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 (9.15%) CMS
1 26 (9.15%) SharePoint
1 26 (9.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (9.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (5.28%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.27%) Power Platform
2 26 (9.15%) PowerApps
3 18 (6.34%) Azure
4 16 (5.63%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (3.52%) AWS
7 5 (1.76%) SaaS
8 4 (1.41%) PaaS
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.70%) GCP
11 1 (0.35%) Anthropic Claude
11 1 (0.35%) Azure AI
11 1 (0.35%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.35%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) Firewall
2 2 (0.70%) J1939
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.35%) RS-232
3 1 (0.35%) RS-422
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.86%) Power BI
2 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.35%) Big Data
3 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Git
2 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 91 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.77%) Legal
3 52 (18.31%) Finance
4 48 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (13.38%) Marketing
6 37 (13.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (11.97%) Law
8 27 (9.51%) Legal Technology
9 26 (9.15%) Publishing
10 17 (5.99%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.46%) Retail
12 5 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.41%) Banking
14 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.70%) Local Government
16 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.35%) Electronics
16 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (40.49%) Senior
2 65 (22.89%) Consultant
3 59 (20.77%) Developer
4 58 (20.42%) Senior Developer
5 45 (15.85%) Analyst
6 31 (10.92%) Lead
7 26 (9.15%) Marketing Assistant
8 25 (8.80%) Architect
9 20 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (6.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 18 (6.34%) Workday Consultant
12 16 (5.63%) Digital Analyst
12 16 (5.63%) Lead Consultant
13 13 (4.58%) Senior Consultant
13 13 (4.58%) Service Manager
14 12 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Architect
14 12 (4.23%) Functional Consultant
14 12 (4.23%) Power Platform Consultant
14 12 (4.23%) Support Consultant
15 11 (3.87%) ITSM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.77%) .NET
2 3 (1.06%) Web Services
3 2 (0.70%) Jakarta EE
3 2 (0.70%) Middleware
3 2 (0.70%) XML
3 2 (0.70%) XSLT
4 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.35%) Dropwizard
4 1 (0.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.35%) Spring
4 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.35%) Vue
4 1 (0.35%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.15%) Blog
1 26 (9.15%) Management Information System
1 26 (9.15%) Marketing Technology
1 26 (9.15%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
2 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
2 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.06%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.70%) EPoS
4 2 (0.70%) NHS
4 2 (0.70%) SystemC
5 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.35%) CAN bus
5 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.35%) Derivative
5 1 (0.35%) Podcast
5 1 (0.35%) Social Media
5 1 (0.35%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.82%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Linux
3 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.99%) Continuous Improvement
2 86 (30.28%) Workflow
3 80 (28.17%) Agile
4 74 (26.06%) Information Security
5 72 (25.35%) Acceptance Criteria
6 63 (22.18%) CI/CD
7 60 (21.13%) Software Testing
7 60 (21.13%) Strategic Planning
8 59 (20.77%) Data Governance
8 59 (20.77%) Enterprise Architecture
8 59 (20.77%) Microservices
8 59 (20.77%) Sprint Planning
9 58 (20.42%) API Development
9 58 (20.42%) Architectural Patterns
9 58 (20.42%) Software Architecture
9 58 (20.42%) Sprint Retrospective
10 33 (11.62%) Analytics
10 33 (11.62%) Project Management
11 30 (10.56%) Business Development
11 30 (10.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (21.13%) C#
2 4 (1.41%) Python
2 4 (1.41%) SQL
3 2 (0.70%) Java
3 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.70%) XPath
4 1 (0.35%) Bash
4 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.35%) PHP
4 1 (0.35%) Scala
4 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (7.75%) Degree
2 11 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
3 3 (1.06%) GCFA
3 3 (1.06%) GCIA
3 3 (1.06%) GCIH
3 3 (1.06%) HND
3 3 (1.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.35%) CEH
4 1 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.35%) ECIH
4 1 (0.35%) GIAC
4 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (20.42%) QA
2 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.35%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 19 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) QRadar
2 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 126 (44.37%) Workday
2 30 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.15%) Sitecore
4 4 (1.41%) VMware
5 3 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.06%) SAP
5 3 (1.06%) Splunk
5 3 (1.06%) Thales
6 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.35%) Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Google
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle