Problem-Solving Job Trends in Somerset

Problem Solving
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 135 48 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 12.57% 13.56% 10.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.95% 17.08% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 83 24 49
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,650 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £35,991 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £41,428 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% -12.78% +5.56%
75th Percentile £46,250 £49,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £53,000 £53,997 £85,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £36,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -31.43% +5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 752 281 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 70.02% 79.38% 58.89%
Number of salaries quoted 470 145 287
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,500 £29,254
25th Percentile £35,313 £32,500 £35,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,404 £72,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Somerset over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

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 3 September 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
Taunton -1 41 £42,500 +13.33% 5
Bath -2 41 £32,500 -28.96% 17
Weston-super-Mare +4 35 £30,500 -32.22%
Clevedon -3 19 £53,000 - 5
Portishead -8 5 £35,000 -15.37%
Crewkerne - 3 £24,000 -
Yeovil -5 2 - - 30
Bridgwater -7 2 £42,500 - 3
Cheddar - 1 £40,000 - 1
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 36 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.74%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.74%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 51 (37.78%) Azure
2 42 (31.11%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (11.11%) AWS
4 10 (7.41%) GCP
5 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.96%) GitHub
6 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.74%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 36 (26.67%) DHCP
1 36 (26.67%) DNS
2 6 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.96%) Bluetooth
3 4 (2.96%) VPN
3 4 (2.96%) Wireless
4 3 (2.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.74%) Broadband
5 1 (0.74%) LAN
5 1 (0.74%) Network Security
5 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.74%) VLAN
5 1 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.22%) Power BI
4 2 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.48%) Metadata
5 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (21.48%) Git
2 25 (18.52%) Eclipse
2 25 (18.52%) Subversion
3 19 (14.07%) JUnit
4 4 (2.96%) GitLab
4 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
General
1 85 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 48 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.15%) Finance
4 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.44%) Retail
7 4 (2.96%) Electronics
7 4 (2.96%) Legal
8 3 (2.22%) Law
9 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.74%) Police
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (24.44%) Developer
2 30 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 27 (20.00%) Analyst
4 26 (19.26%) Junior
4 26 (19.26%) Junior Developer
5 25 (18.52%) Java Developer
6 23 (17.04%) Junior Java Developer
7 18 (13.33%) Support Engineer
8 16 (11.85%) Technical Support
9 15 (11.11%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Applications Support
11 8 (5.93%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (5.19%) Business Analyst
12 7 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
12 7 (5.19%) Technical Support Analyst
13 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.44%) IT Support
14 5 (3.70%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (24.44%) React
2 29 (21.48%) RESTful
3 25 (18.52%) Jakarta EE
3 25 (18.52%) Struts
3 25 (18.52%) Web Services
4 7 (5.19%) .NET
5 5 (3.70%) Node.js
6 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.96%) Spring
6 4 (2.96%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.96%) Terraform
6 4 (2.96%) Vue
7 3 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.22%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.22%) HTML
8 1 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.96%) IoT
5 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Digital Signage
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) PKI
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 41 (30.37%) Windows
2 37 (27.41%) Linux
3 35 (25.93%) Windows Server
4 30 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.44%) Unix
6 5 (3.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.41%) Customer Service
2 34 (25.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 32 (23.70%) Customer Experience
4 31 (22.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (22.96%) Email Filtering
4 31 (22.96%) Kalman Filter
4 31 (22.96%) Web Filtering
5 30 (22.22%) Migration
5 30 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 29 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 20 (14.81%) Agile
9 19 (14.07%) Requirements Analysis
9 19 (14.07%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (9.63%) Project Delivery
11 11 (8.15%) DevOps
11 11 (8.15%) Mentoring
11 11 (8.15%) Scrum
12 9 (6.67%) Kanban
12 9 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.22%) Python
2 29 (21.48%) Java
3 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.52%) C++
4 25 (18.52%) Perl
5 16 (11.85%) SQL
6 4 (2.96%) VB
7 3 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (30.37%) Degree
2 40 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 33 (24.44%) SC Cleared
4 26 (19.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.19%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) HNC
8 1 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (25.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 34 (25.19%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.70%) QA
4 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.96%) WCAG
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 35 (25.93%) Hyper-V
3 30 (22.22%) Terminal Server
4 14 (10.37%) Docker
5 5 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.44%) SCCM
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.93%) VMware
3 31 (22.96%) Splunk
3 31 (22.96%) Veeam
4 30 (22.22%) Brocade
4 30 (22.22%) Nimble Storage
4 30 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 30 (22.22%) Tanium
5 4 (2.96%) Adobe
5 4 (2.96%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.96%) YouTube
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) SAP
6 1 (0.74%) Tenable