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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 11 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 116 60 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 7.84% 12.77% 14.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.82% 14.81% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 85 36 28
10th Percentile £24,999 £28,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £46,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -19.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £76,150 £63,125 £83,750
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £33,500 £38,500 £46,188
% change year-on-year -12.99% -16.65% -7.62%

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 1,072 405 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 72.48% 86.17% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 764 254 321
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £38,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.87% -23.00% -9.09%

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 27 September 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 3 (2.59%) CMS
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.72%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.72%) Navisworks
3 2 (1.72%) Revit
4 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.45%) SAP Business One
2 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.59%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (2.59%) Infor LN
2 3 (2.59%) Infor M3
2 3 (2.59%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (12.07%) Azure
3 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.31%) OCI
5 4 (3.45%) AWS
6 3 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.59%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub
7 2 (1.72%) SaaS
7 2 (1.72%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.86%) GCP
8 1 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.86%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) DHCP
1 7 (6.03%) DNS
2 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.31%) Firewall
4 4 (3.45%) VLAN
4 4 (3.45%) VPN
5 2 (1.72%) SMTP
5 2 (1.72%) SSH
5 2 (1.72%) SSL
6 1 (0.86%) Internet
6 1 (0.86%) LAN
6 1 (0.86%) WAN
6 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.76%) Power BI
2 8 (6.90%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Git
General
1 64 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 50 (43.10%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (21.55%) Manufacturing
4 16 (13.79%) Finance
5 13 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (11.21%) Retail
6 6 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.45%) Dutch Language
8 4 (3.45%) Marketing
9 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Law
9 3 (2.59%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.59%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.72%) French Language
11 1 (0.86%) Advertising
11 1 (0.86%) Banking
11 1 (0.86%) German Language
11 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Consultant
2 15 (12.93%) Analyst
3 12 (10.34%) IT Support
3 12 (10.34%) Support Technician
4 8 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 8 (6.90%) IT Engineer
4 8 (6.90%) Presales Consultant
4 8 (6.90%) Senior
5 7 (6.03%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (6.03%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (6.03%) Senior Data Analyst
5 7 (6.03%) Service Desk Engineer
6 6 (5.17%) Functional Consultant
6 6 (5.17%) IT Technician
6 6 (5.17%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (5.17%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 5 (4.31%) Architect
7 5 (4.31%) Customer Service Representative
7 5 (4.31%) IT Support Technician
8 4 (3.45%) SAP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.45%) .NET
3 3 (2.59%) Django
3 3 (2.59%) EDI
4 2 (1.72%) Blazor
4 2 (1.72%) Middleware
5 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.86%) Flask
5 1 (0.86%) JSON
5 1 (0.86%) Kafka
5 1 (0.86%) Laravel
5 1 (0.86%) LightGBM
5 1 (0.86%) NumPy
5 1 (0.86%) Pandas
5 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.86%) REST
5 1 (0.86%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.86%) SciPy
5 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.62%) Driving Licence
3 9 (7.76%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.90%) NHS
4 8 (6.90%) SystemC
5 4 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.59%) FMCG
6 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.72%) Robotics
8 1 (0.86%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.86%) CSOC
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.86%) Life Science
8 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.69%) Windows
2 15 (12.93%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 7 (6.03%) Linux
5 1 (0.86%) Debian
5 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.45%) Customer Service
2 27 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (17.24%) Decision-Making
4 17 (14.66%) Roadmaps
5 16 (13.79%) Analytics
5 16 (13.79%) ERP
6 14 (12.07%) Agile
7 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (9.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 11 (9.48%) Mentoring
8 10 (8.62%) Analytical Thinking
8 10 (8.62%) Service Delivery
8 10 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.76%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (7.76%) Commercial Awareness
9 9 (7.76%) Data Analysis
9 9 (7.76%) ITSM
9 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (6.90%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.97%) SQL
2 14 (12.07%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.45%) C#
4 4 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.59%) VBA
6 2 (1.72%) Bash
6 2 (1.72%) C++
7 1 (0.86%) PHP
7 1 (0.86%) R
7 1 (0.86%) Ruby
7 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) Degree
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.86%) CISSP
4 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.86%) GCED
4 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) SLA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.86%) COSHH
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.45%) Docker
4 2 (1.72%) Samba
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.72%) Ansible
2 2 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.86%) Grafana
3 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle
2 10 (8.62%) SAP
3 6 (5.17%) VMware
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) Databricks
5 4 (3.45%) Yealink
6 3 (2.59%) Epicor
6 3 (2.59%) IFS
6 3 (2.59%) Infor
6 3 (2.59%) QAD
6 3 (2.59%) Sage
6 3 (2.59%) SYSPRO
7 2 (1.72%) Apple
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) EMC
8 1 (0.86%) Google
8 1 (0.86%) Meraki
8 1 (0.86%) Veeam