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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 39 73 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 6.81% 15.60% 13.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.61% 16.90% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 35 14 60
10th Percentile £24,800 £30,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £43,438 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.28% +1.62%
75th Percentile £37,500 £61,875 £65,938
90th Percentile £56,000 £63,375 £71,803
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £48,670
% change year-on-year - -28.09% -9.87%

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 453 432 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 79.06% 92.31% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 274 202 372
10th Percentile £28,575 £24,684 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,563 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,125 £75,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -11.50%

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 15 February 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 4 (10.26%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.56%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.56%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) SaaS
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) PaaS
2 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) OCI
3 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (5.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Law
3 8 (20.51%) Retail
4 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Games
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Analyst
2 9 (23.08%) Support Analyst
3 8 (20.51%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 8 (20.51%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.82%) Junior
4 5 (12.82%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Junior Support Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle Payroll Support
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) ERP Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) ERP Support
5 4 (10.26%) Products Support Technician
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Software Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Software Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) Deno
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) Laravel
2 2 (5.13%) Node.js
2 2 (5.13%) React
2 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (5.13%) Vue
2 2 (5.13%) Yii
3 1 (2.56%) EDI
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) SAP ALE
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (28.21%) ERP
3 10 (25.64%) CRM
3 10 (25.64%) E-Commerce
4 9 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
4 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 8 (20.51%) Data Privacy
5 8 (20.51%) Logistics
5 8 (20.51%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (17.95%) Validation
7 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Data Validation
8 5 (12.82%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Process Improvement
8 5 (12.82%) System Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.26%) User Experience
10 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) SQL
2 11 (28.21%) C#
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) PHP
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow