Problem-Solving Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 60 153 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 9.58% 18.06% 15.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.10% 19.13% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 54 54 58
10th Percentile £25,563 - £24,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,951 £61,750 £71,250
East Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £36,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% -18.89% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 496 800 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 79.23% 94.45% 85.02%
Number of salaries quoted 325 304 327
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +7.84% -11.30%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,875 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £44,250 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.84% -5.00% -4.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Nottinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham -12 32 £35,000 -37.50% 51
Worksop +3 5 £25,750 - 1
Mansfield +2 5 £39,449 -1.38% 5
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) SaaS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 12 (20.00%) AWS
4 8 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 8 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) PaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) OCI
7 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Burp Suite
1 7 (11.67%) Metasploit
2 2 (3.33%) Git
General
1 34 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (33.33%) Retail
4 13 (21.67%) Law
5 3 (5.00%) Automotive
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Games
6 2 (3.33%) Local Government
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Analyst
2 15 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 12 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (18.33%) IT Support
4 11 (18.33%) Support Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 8 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 8 (13.33%) IT Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Security Specialist
6 7 (11.67%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Technical Support
6 7 (11.67%) Technical Support Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
7 5 (8.33%) Junior
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Payroll Support
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) .NET
1 3 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) Deno
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) Laravel
2 2 (3.33%) Node.js
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.33%) React
2 2 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (3.33%) Vue
2 2 (3.33%) Yii
3 1 (1.67%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 10 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (11.67%) Insider Threat
4 4 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 4 (6.67%) iSeries
5 3 (5.00%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.67%) Life Science
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Robotics
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
1 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.67%) Mentoring
2 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (21.67%) Decision-Making
2 13 (21.67%) ERP
3 12 (20.00%) ITIL
4 11 (18.33%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 10 (16.67%) Information Security
5 10 (16.67%) Logistics
5 10 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 9 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 9 (15.00%) CRM
7 8 (13.33%) Data Privacy
7 8 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 7 (11.67%) Anomaly Detection
8 7 (11.67%) Ethical Hacking
8 7 (11.67%) Open Source
8 7 (11.67%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (11.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (48.33%) SQL
2 11 (18.33%) C#
3 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) PHP
4 2 (3.33%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) Degree
3 10 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (16.67%) CISSP
3 10 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (11.67%) CCNA
4 7 (11.67%) CEH
4 7 (11.67%) CISMP
4 7 (11.67%) CREST Certified
4 7 (11.67%) GIAC
4 7 (11.67%) GPEN
4 7 (11.67%) MCP
4 7 (11.67%) MCSE
4 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (11.67%) OSCP
5 5 (8.33%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (5.00%) CISM
7 2 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) QA
2 8 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (11.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (6.67%) GDPR
5 3 (5.00%) NIST
6 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Firmware
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Nmap
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Cisco
3 9 (15.00%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) Freshdesk
4 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.00%) VMware