Problem-Solving Jobs in Reading

Problem Solving
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 79 273 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.61% 15.95% 13.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.12% 18.06% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 52 164 115
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £31,700
25th Percentile £38,625 £30,000 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £59,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,875 £112,500
Berkshire median annual salary £62,000 £40,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +55.00% -22.10% -6.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 1,512 1,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 86.17% 88.32% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 232 921 824
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £39,380 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +0.86%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (3.80%) CMS
1 3 (3.80%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) Apache
2 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.53%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Sitefinity
3 1 (1.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Shopify
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.65%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 10 (12.66%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (12.66%) SonarCloud
5 8 (10.13%) AWS
6 5 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.06%) GitHub
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.53%) GCP
9 2 (2.53%) IaaS
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.27%) Dropbox
10 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DNS
1 2 (2.53%) SAN
2 1 (1.27%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.27%) DHCP
2 1 (1.27%) DWDM
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.27%) LAN
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.27%) VLAN
2 1 (1.27%) VSAN
2 1 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.33%) MySQL
4 4 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
6 2 (2.53%) Redis
6 2 (2.53%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.27%) Big Data
7 1 (1.27%) Power BI
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Git
2 10 (12.66%) MSBuild
2 10 (12.66%) Octopus Deploy
2 10 (12.66%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (12.66%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.33%) JIRA
4 3 (3.80%) GitLab
5 2 (2.53%) MLflow
5 2 (2.53%) Mocha
5 2 (2.53%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) JUnit
General
1 42 (53.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Manufacturing
3 15 (18.99%) Finance
4 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.66%) Retail
6 6 (7.59%) Marketing
7 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.80%) Electronics
9 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Advertising
10 2 (2.53%) German Language
10 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Legal
11 1 (1.27%) Automotive
11 1 (1.27%) Games
11 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.27%) Law
11 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) Technical Manager
2 10 (12.66%) Architect
2 10 (12.66%) Technical Architect
3 8 (10.13%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Lead
5 5 (6.33%) Product Manager
5 5 (6.33%) Senior Manager
5 5 (6.33%) Senior Product Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Field Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Junior
7 3 (3.80%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Junior Field Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Service Desk Team Leader
7 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.53%) Accounts Assistant
8 2 (2.53%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.99%) .NET
1 15 (18.99%) CSS
1 15 (18.99%) HTML
2 13 (16.46%) REST
3 12 (15.19%) ASP.NET
4 10 (12.66%) Bootstrap
4 10 (12.66%) gRPC
4 10 (12.66%) JSON
4 10 (12.66%) XML
5 5 (6.33%) React
6 4 (5.06%) HTML5
6 4 (5.06%) Node.js
7 3 (3.80%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.80%) Kafka
8 2 (2.53%) Express.js
8 2 (2.53%) Pandas
8 2 (2.53%) SAML
8 2 (2.53%) Spring
8 2 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
1 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
1 2 (2.53%) EPoS
1 2 (2.53%) PKI
2 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.27%) Credit Risk
2 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (1.27%) Robotics
2 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Linux
3 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.27%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (21.52%) DevOps
3 14 (17.72%) Agile
3 14 (17.72%) Coaching
3 14 (17.72%) Process Improvement
3 14 (17.72%) Service Delivery
3 14 (17.72%) Service Management
4 13 (16.46%) Microservices
5 12 (15.19%) Performance Optimisation
6 11 (13.92%) MVC
7 10 (12.66%) API Integration
7 10 (12.66%) Code Quality
7 10 (12.66%) Data Encryption
7 10 (12.66%) Design Patterns
7 10 (12.66%) Event-Driven
7 10 (12.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (12.66%) Performance Testing
7 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (10.13%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (8.86%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.25%) JavaScript
2 15 (18.99%) SQL
3 14 (17.72%) C#
4 7 (8.86%) Python
5 6 (7.59%) Java
6 4 (5.06%) C++
7 2 (2.53%) Go
7 2 (2.53%) PHP
7 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.53%) R
8 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) NVQ Level 3
1 13 (16.46%) NVQ Level 4
2 12 (15.19%) Degree
3 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) CCNA
5 2 (2.53%) CCNP
5 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) ACCA
6 1 (1.27%) CIMA
6 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) MCSA
6 1 (1.27%) MCSE
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) GDPR
2 6 (7.59%) SLA
3 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) GxP
5 1 (1.27%) PMO
5 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (25.32%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.53%) HDFS
3 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) NFS
4 1 (1.27%) vCloud
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.80%) Terraform
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Grafana
3 2 (2.53%) Kubeflow
3 2 (2.53%) PowerCLI
3 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.53%) vRealize
4 1 (1.27%) Argo
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.27%) VxRail
4 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) VMware
3 4 (5.06%) SAP
4 3 (3.80%) Cisco
5 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.53%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Dell
6 1 (1.27%) Juniper
6 1 (1.27%) Nokia
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle