Problem-Solving Job Trends in Nottingham

Problem Solving
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 32 79 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 5.93% 14.66% 13.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 15.83% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 20 34
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £46,250 £36,814
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £40,188 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £52,500 £64,125 £70,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £53,170
% change year-on-year - -34.17% +1.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 445 499 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 82.41% 92.58% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 280 246 206
10th Percentile £28,450 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,000 £43,578
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £77,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Nottingham over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Nottingham

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) SAP Business One
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) SaaS
2 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) PaaS
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (9.38%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Retail
4 7 (21.88%) Law
5 4 (12.50%) Finance
6 2 (6.25%) Games
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Analyst
1 16 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 13 (40.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 9 (28.13%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Architect
5 4 (12.50%) ERP Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) ERP Support
5 4 (12.50%) Junior
5 4 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Junior Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle Payroll Support
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) SaaS Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Software Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) Deno
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Laravel
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (6.25%) Vue
2 2 (6.25%) Yii
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (15.63%) iSeries
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) ERP
2 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (34.38%) Logistics
2 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
3 10 (31.25%) E-Commerce
4 9 (28.13%) Analytical Thinking
4 9 (28.13%) CRM
4 9 (28.13%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 8 (25.00%) Data Privacy
6 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) Validation
7 5 (15.63%) Batch Processing
7 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
7 5 (15.63%) ITIL
7 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
7 5 (15.63%) Tech Ops
8 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
8 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (12.50%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) PHP
3 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) SAP