Problem-Solving Jobs in Oxfordshire

Problem Solving
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +11
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 301 187 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.91% 11.74% 14.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.18% 12.33% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 232 90 148
10th Percentile £24,750 £22,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,938 £26,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -23.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £74,875 £96,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,357 1,517 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 80.73% 95.23% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 795 913
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,462
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,995 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,941 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,813 £66,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Oxford +4 138 £52,500 -12.50% 43
Abingdon +10 18 £43,000 +24.97% 8
Bicester 0 15 £40,000 - 6
Banbury +4 14 £37,500 - 10
Wallingford - 14 £40,750 - 2
Witney - 9 £32,000 - 4
Carterton - 5 £26,500 - 5
Thame +1 4 £22,500 -62.50% 1
Faringdon - 3 £88,750 -
Kidlington - 2 £55,000 - 3
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.32%) nginx
2 13 (4.32%) WordPress
3 12 (3.99%) Apache
3 12 (3.99%) CMS
4 11 (3.65%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.32%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.33%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.33%) InDesign
4 4 (1.33%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.33%) Sketch
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.33%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 60 (19.93%) Azure
2 58 (19.27%) AWS
3 33 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (10.63%) GCP
5 20 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (4.65%) SaaS
7 11 (3.65%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.66%) Google Workspace
8 8 (2.66%) WhatsApp
9 7 (2.33%) GitHub
10 6 (1.99%) IaaS
10 6 (1.99%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.33%) Figma
12 3 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.30%) Firewall
2 26 (8.64%) DNS
3 14 (4.65%) DHCP
4 13 (4.32%) VoIP
5 12 (3.99%) SSL
6 10 (3.32%) Wireless
7 8 (2.66%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.33%) SAN
9 6 (1.99%) NAS
9 6 (1.99%) VLAN
9 6 (1.99%) WAN
10 5 (1.66%) Internet
10 5 (1.66%) LAN
11 2 (0.66%) 5G
11 2 (0.66%) Broadband
11 2 (0.66%) VPN
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.63%) BigQuery
1 32 (10.63%) Looker
2 24 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.31%) MySQL
4 7 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.99%) MariaDB
5 6 (1.99%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.66%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.66%) Power BI
9 2 (0.66%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Git
2 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.66%) JIRA
3 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.33%) Selenium
3 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 138 (45.85%) Social Skills
2 130 (43.19%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (10.96%) Marketing
4 17 (5.65%) Billing
4 17 (5.65%) Finance
4 17 (5.65%) Manufacturing
5 16 (5.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.99%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.65%) Law
8 6 (1.99%) Electronics
9 4 (1.33%) Publishing
9 4 (1.33%) Retail
10 3 (1.00%) Games
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (13.95%) Analyst
2 30 (9.97%) IT Support
3 29 (9.63%) Senior
4 28 (9.30%) Developer
5 20 (6.64%) Data Manager
5 20 (6.64%) Support Analyst
6 16 (5.32%) Business Analyst
6 16 (5.32%) Engineering Manager
7 14 (4.65%) Junior
8 13 (4.32%) IT Engineer
8 13 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (4.32%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.32%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.99%) Architect
9 12 (3.99%) Web Manager
10 11 (3.65%) IT Analyst
10 11 (3.65%) IT Support Analyst
11 10 (3.32%) Administrator
11 10 (3.32%) Consultant
11 10 (3.32%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.98%) CSS
1 15 (4.98%) HTML
2 12 (3.99%) .NET
3 9 (2.99%) JSON
4 8 (2.66%) React
5 7 (2.33%) XML
6 5 (1.66%) EDI
7 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.00%) Vue
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.66%) Akka
9 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.66%) Django
9 2 (0.66%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.33%) HTML5
10 1 (0.33%) RESTful
10 1 (0.33%) STL
10 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.96%) Algorithms
2 25 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 23 (7.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (6.64%) Data Structures
6 16 (5.32%) Life Science
7 12 (3.99%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.65%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (2.99%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.33%) Social Media
11 6 (1.99%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.99%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.66%) Molecular Biology
12 5 (1.66%) PKI
12 5 (1.66%) Smartphone
13 4 (1.33%) Device Driver
13 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.33%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.28%) Windows
2 32 (10.63%) Linux
3 10 (3.32%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.66%) CentOS
8 2 (0.66%) Android
8 2 (0.66%) SUSE
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (17.94%) Agile
2 49 (16.28%) DevOps
3 45 (14.95%) Computer Science
4 43 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 42 (13.95%) Project Management
6 40 (13.29%) Data Modelling
7 38 (12.62%) Customer Service
8 32 (10.63%) Data Engineering
8 32 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (10.30%) Chemistry
10 30 (9.97%) Physics
11 28 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (8.64%) ETL
12 26 (8.64%) Scrum
13 25 (8.31%) Mathematics
13 25 (8.31%) Parallel Programming
14 23 (7.64%) ERP
14 23 (7.64%) OO
15 22 (7.31%) Product Backlog
15 22 (7.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 61 (20.27%) Python
2 32 (10.63%) SQL
3 30 (9.97%) Fortran
4 18 (5.98%) C
4 18 (5.98%) C++
5 14 (4.65%) PHP
6 13 (4.32%) C#
7 12 (3.99%) Java
7 12 (3.99%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.65%) Bash
9 7 (2.33%) Ruby
10 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.66%) Perl
11 5 (1.66%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.66%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.33%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (28.90%) Degree
2 29 (9.63%) PhD
3 23 (7.64%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.65%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.66%) MCSE
6 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.99%) CCNA
7 6 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.66%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.33%) CSPO
10 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.00%) PMP
11 2 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.66%) MBA
11 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.33%) ACCA
12 1 (0.33%) CIMA
12 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.62%) QA
2 18 (5.98%) GDPR
3 12 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.99%) SLA
5 5 (1.66%) GxP
5 5 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.00%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) GAAP
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (12.62%) Active Directory
2 25 (8.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 5 (1.66%) vSphere
5 4 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (2.99%) SCCM
2 5 (1.66%) Ansible
2 5 (1.66%) PaperCut
2 5 (1.66%) Puppet
2 5 (1.66%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (1.66%) Terraform
3 4 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Icinga
5 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.29%) Google
3 27 (8.97%) VMware
4 12 (3.99%) SAP
5 9 (2.99%) Cisco
6 7 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.99%) Juniper
8 4 (1.33%) Adobe
8 4 (1.33%) Veeam
9 3 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.66%) Aruba
10 2 (0.66%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.33%) Apple
11 1 (0.33%) F5
11 1 (0.33%) Freshdesk
11 1 (0.33%) Meraki
11 1 (0.33%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (0.33%) Sage
11 1 (0.33%) WatchGuard