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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 4 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 100 77 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 7.41% 17.00% 13.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.58% 19.95% 17.80%
Number of salaries quoted 76 44 59
10th Percentile £24,250 £28,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £27,575 £33,000 £33,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £42,500 £54,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £58,438 £65,000 £76,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £31,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.06% -5.56% -18.18%

All Process & 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 945 386 663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 70.05% 85.21% 77.18%
Number of salaries quoted 636 246 423
10th Percentile £27,625 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £71,250
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -17.39%

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 31 July 2026.

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 5 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.00%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.00%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (2.00%) Infor LN
2 2 (2.00%) Infor M3
2 2 (2.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (14.00%) Azure
3 12 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.00%) AWS
4 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (1.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.00%) OCI
6 1 (1.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DHCP
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
1 6 (6.00%) Firewall
1 6 (6.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.00%) VPN
3 4 (4.00%) VLAN
4 2 (2.00%) LAN
4 2 (2.00%) SMTP
4 2 (2.00%) SSH
4 2 (2.00%) SSL
4 2 (2.00%) WAN
5 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
General
1 48 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 41 (41.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Manufacturing
4 17 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (14.00%) Retail
6 12 (12.00%) Finance
7 8 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.00%) Dutch Language
9 4 (4.00%) Portuguese Language
9 4 (4.00%) Spanish Language
10 3 (3.00%) Law
10 3 (3.00%) Marketing
11 2 (2.00%) Automotive
11 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.00%) French Language
12 1 (1.00%) Banking
12 1 (1.00%) Military
12 1 (1.00%) Police
12 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Analyst
2 11 (11.00%) IT Support
3 10 (10.00%) Support Technician
4 9 (9.00%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.00%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (9.00%) IT Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Senior
5 8 (8.00%) Consultant
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (8.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 8 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 5 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
7 5 (5.00%) IT Technician
7 5 (5.00%) Products Support Technician
8 4 (4.00%) Presales Consultant
8 4 (4.00%) Service Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) EDI
2 2 (2.00%) JSON
2 2 (2.00%) Laravel
3 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.00%) CSS
3 1 (1.00%) CSS3
3 1 (1.00%) Django
3 1 (1.00%) HTML
3 1 (1.00%) HTML5
3 1 (1.00%) jQuery
3 1 (1.00%) Kafka
3 1 (1.00%) Middleware
3 1 (1.00%) NumPy
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.00%) Pandas
3 1 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.00%) NHS
3 4 (4.00%) SystemC
4 3 (3.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.00%) CSOC
5 2 (2.00%) FMCG
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.00%) Replication
6 1 (1.00%) Robotics
6 1 (1.00%) SCADA
6 1 (1.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.00%) Windows
2 15 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.00%) Linux
5 1 (1.00%) Debian
5 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.00%) Customer Service
2 20 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (16.00%) Analytics
4 15 (15.00%) Agile
4 15 (15.00%) Decision-Making
4 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 13 (13.00%) Collaborative Working
5 13 (13.00%) CRM
6 12 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (11.00%) ITSM
7 11 (11.00%) Service Delivery
8 10 (10.00%) ERP
8 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (9.00%) Analytical Thinking
10 8 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (8.00%) Business Strategy
10 8 (8.00%) Case Management
10 8 (8.00%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) SQL
2 13 (13.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.00%) C#
4 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.00%) VBA
5 2 (2.00%) Bash
5 2 (2.00%) PHP
6 1 (1.00%) C++
6 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.00%) R
6 1 (1.00%) Ruby
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) CCNA
4 1 (1.00%) CCNP
4 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.00%) CISSP
4 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) SLA
2 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.00%) Docker
4 2 (2.00%) Samba
4 2 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) Ansible
1 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Grafana
2 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Databricks
3 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) VMware
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.00%) Epicor
6 2 (2.00%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.00%) IFS
6 2 (2.00%) Infor
6 2 (2.00%) QAD
6 2 (2.00%) Sage
6 2 (2.00%) SYSPRO
7 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.00%) Botify
7 1 (1.00%) Screaming Frog