Problem-Solving Jobs in Somerset

Problem Solving
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 102 76 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 14.43% 11.29% 17.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.43% 12.26% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 66 25 72
10th Percentile £24,250 £27,600 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £33,314 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.66% +17.99%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,225 -
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 525 620 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 74.26% 92.12% 86.02%
Number of salaries quoted 422 334 352
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,825 £27,550
25th Percentile £31,875 £33,813 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,875 £70,600 £72,500
South West median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Somerset over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bath +5 44 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Taunton +7 23 £31,000 -11.95% 8
Portishead - 6 £50,000 - 1
Weston-super-Mare +3 4 - - 2
Templecombe - 3 - - 1
Shepton Mallet - 3 £34,000 - 1
Street +9 2 £35,750 - 67
Yeovil -8 2 £42,500 -29.17% 4
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (0.98%) IIS
1 1 (0.98%) JOnAS
1 1 (0.98%) Moodle
1 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.92%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.98%) iTrent
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.61%) Azure
2 19 (18.63%) GCP
3 14 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.76%) AWS
5 8 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.96%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.96%) dbt
7 2 (1.96%) Firebase
7 2 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Network Security
2 7 (6.86%) LAN
3 6 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (4.90%) Wireless
5 4 (3.92%) Firewall
5 4 (3.92%) OFDM
6 3 (2.94%) BGP
6 3 (2.94%) DHCP
6 3 (2.94%) DNS
6 3 (2.94%) Internet
6 3 (2.94%) OSPF
7 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.96%) VLAN
7 2 (1.96%) VPN
7 2 (1.96%) WAN
8 1 (0.98%) ADSL
8 1 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.98%) MPLS
8 1 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) BigQuery
1 15 (14.71%) Looker
2 8 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
3 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.96%) Metabase
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Redis
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Git
General
1 48 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 39 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.84%) Billing
4 7 (6.86%) Finance
5 6 (5.88%) Electronics
5 6 (5.88%) Law
6 5 (4.90%) Games
7 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.94%) Legal
7 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.94%) Marketing
7 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.98%) Back Office
9 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (11.76%) Developer
2 10 (9.80%) Graduate
3 9 (8.82%) Analyst
4 8 (7.84%) Data Manager
4 8 (7.84%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (7.84%) IT Support
5 7 (6.86%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (6.86%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.86%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.88%) Consultant
6 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Service Desk Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
7 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) Node.js
1 7 (6.86%) Vue
2 6 (5.88%) CSS
2 6 (5.88%) HTML
3 3 (2.94%) .NET
3 3 (2.94%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.96%) D3.js
4 2 (1.96%) React
5 1 (0.98%) EDI
5 1 (0.98%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) SOAP
5 1 (0.98%) Web Services
5 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.92%) FPGA
6 4 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (3.92%) VHDL
7 2 (1.96%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.98%) BBC
8 1 (0.98%) Clustering
8 1 (0.98%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.98%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.69%) Windows
2 6 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 5 (4.90%) Linux
4 4 (3.92%) Mac OS X
5 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.43%) Customer Service
2 17 (16.67%) DevOps
3 16 (15.69%) Agile
4 15 (14.71%) Data Engineering
4 15 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (12.75%) Change Management
5 13 (12.75%) Line Management
5 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
6 12 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 12 (11.76%) SDLC
7 11 (10.78%) Data Science
8 10 (9.80%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.80%) Computer Science
8 10 (9.80%) Data Modelling
8 10 (9.80%) Process Improvement
8 10 (9.80%) Project Management
9 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
9 9 (8.82%) ETL
9 9 (8.82%) Scrum
10 8 (7.84%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 11 (10.78%) SQL
3 8 (7.84%) Python
4 7 (6.86%) C++
5 6 (5.88%) C
6 5 (4.90%) Java
7 4 (3.92%) C#
7 4 (3.92%) MATLAB
7 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
8 2 (1.96%) Embedded C
8 2 (1.96%) Embedded C++
8 2 (1.96%) Lisp
9 1 (0.98%) PHP
9 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (28.43%) Degree
2 11 (10.78%) A+ Certification
3 9 (8.82%) Master's Degree
3 9 (8.82%) MCP
3 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.84%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.98%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) CCNP
5 1 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) HND
5 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) GDPR
2 10 (9.80%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.94%) Docker
3 2 (1.96%) Firmware
4 1 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.98%) SCCM
2 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (2.94%) SAP
3 3 (2.94%) Thales
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco
5 1 (0.98%) Concur
5 1 (0.98%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.98%) Juniper
5 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.98%) Workday