Problem-Solving Jobs in Sheffield

Problem Solving
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 4 2 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 56 234 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.51% 22.08% 16.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.21% 26.17% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 37 185 92
10th Percentile £25,450 £25,650 £22,000
25th Percentile £30,625 £29,750 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +36.65% -8.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £46,563
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £57,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £32,200
% change year-on-year -27.78% +39.75% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 264 894 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 91.99% 84.34% 98.38%
Number of salaries quoted 176 728 401
10th Percentile £29,375 £27,500 £24,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £72,500
South Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) SAS
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (10.71%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.57%) Trello
5 1 (1.79%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.79%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) Azure
2 13 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.29%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 7 (12.50%) SaaS
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.36%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.36%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) Firewall
2 10 (17.86%) Network Security
3 9 (16.07%) VPN
4 8 (14.29%) LAN
4 8 (14.29%) WAN
5 6 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (10.71%) DNS
5 6 (10.71%) DWDM
5 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (8.93%) Multicast
6 5 (8.93%) SAN
7 2 (3.57%) VLAN
8 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) DB2
3 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.36%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (5.36%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.57%) Law
7 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.79%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (1.79%) Electronics
8 1 (1.79%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Support Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Lead
3 6 (10.71%) Team Leader
4 5 (8.93%) Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Applications Support
4 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) IT Support
5 4 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Software Support Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Project Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) HTML
2 3 (5.36%) JSON
3 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.93%) Replication
3 4 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.79%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.79%) IoT
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.71%) Windows
2 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (7.14%) Android
6 2 (3.57%) Linux
7 1 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) Customer Service
2 11 (19.64%) Migration
3 10 (17.86%) DevOps
4 9 (16.07%) Mentoring
5 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (12.50%) Project Management
7 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 6 (10.71%) CRM
7 6 (10.71%) Network Architecture
7 6 (10.71%) Process Improvement
7 6 (10.71%) Product Management
7 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.71%) Runbook
7 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
7 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.36%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) C#
4 2 (3.57%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.79%) C
5 1 (1.79%) Scala
5 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) CCNA
2 7 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (10.71%) CCNP
3 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.71%) JNCIA
3 6 (10.71%) JNCIS
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (3.57%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) Hyper-V
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.79%) XenApp
5 1 (1.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Ansible
1 7 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.43%) Cisco
3 6 (10.71%) Arista
3 6 (10.71%) IBM
4 5 (8.93%) VMware
5 4 (7.14%) Zoho
6 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.79%) Citrix
7 1 (1.79%) Commvault
7 1 (1.79%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) Planview
7 1 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Xamarin