Problem-Solving Jobs in Northumberland

Problem Solving
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northumberland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 13 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northumberland 34.21% 15.38% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 41.94% 23.53% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 2
10th Percentile - - £26,375
25th Percentile £26,929 - £26,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £24,500 £28,750
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -14.78% -30.30%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £31,563
90th Percentile - - £32,125
North East median annual salary £25,087 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -39.55% -2.35% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 51 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northumberland 81.58% 65.38% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11 49 15
10th Percentile £26,929 - £26,750
25th Percentile - £24,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,851 £40,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +21.21% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £36,611
90th Percentile £64,000 £66,459 £42,000
North East median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -15.79% -1.55% +13.53%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northumberland.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Northumberland

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Northumberland

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Northumberland

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Northumberland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northumberland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Northumberland

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Northumberland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Northumberland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cramlington - 1 - - 1
Problem-Solving
North East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Broadband
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Games
3 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (7.69%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Animation
1 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Mentoring
2 4 (30.77%) Broadcast Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Product Management
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) DataOps
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (15.38%) MLOps
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) HLSL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) MCSA
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PhD
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) PMBOK
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) BT
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Veeam
3 1 (7.69%) VMware