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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 32 80 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 6.13% 15.15% 14.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 16.36% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 29 20 35
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,400 £28,600
25th Percentile £28,750 £46,250 £38,628
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £39,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £64,125 £72,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £50,670
% change year-on-year - -30.93% -3.49%

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 427 489 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 81.80% 92.61% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 266 233 204
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,750 £43,693
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £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 2 January 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 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 5 (15.63%) 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 17 (53.13%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Retail
4 8 (25.00%) Law
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
6 2 (6.25%) Games
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Analyst
1 17 (53.13%) 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 5 (15.63%) Junior
5 5 (15.63%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Junior Support Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Oracle Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Oracle Payroll Support
5 5 (15.63%) Oracle Support Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Architect
6 4 (12.50%) ERP Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) ERP Support
6 4 (12.50%) SaaS Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Software Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
7 3 (9.38%) SAP Analyst
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%) Logistics
2 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
3 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (31.25%) E-Commerce
4 9 (28.13%) Analytical Thinking
4 9 (28.13%) CRM
5 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 8 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 8 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (21.88%) Validation
7 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) Batch Processing
8 5 (15.63%) Data Validation
8 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
8 5 (15.63%) ITIL
8 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
8 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) 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 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) SAP