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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 3
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +14
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 68 25 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 8.56% 9.77% 14.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.43% 10.55% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 44 20 66
10th Percentile - £25,000 £24,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £32,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,780 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.71% -6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £35,250 £50,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £50,000 £55,018 £72,500
South West median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% -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 595 237 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 74.94% 92.58% 74.09%
Number of salaries quoted 266 139 425
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £54,282 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +20.63% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,000 £63,750
South West median annual salary £52,750 £52,600 £50,500
% change year-on-year +0.29% +4.16% -3.81%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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
Bath -2 31 £34,000 -22.73% 13
Bridgwater - 8 £45,000 - 6
Clevedon -5 7 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 7 - - 1
Taunton -8 6 £32,500 -35.00% 3
Crewkerne - 4 £24,000 -
Street - 3 £30,780 - 15
Portishead -4 1 £54,498 +109.61%
Wells - 1 £90,000 -
Bruton - 1 £27,500 -
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 29 (42.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.47%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.47%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (39.71%) Azure
3 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
3 5 (7.35%) npm
4 1 (1.47%) AWS
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.47%) Figma
4 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (36.76%) DHCP
1 25 (36.76%) DNS
2 10 (14.71%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (10.29%) Firewall
4 5 (7.35%) VLAN
5 4 (5.88%) Bluetooth
5 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.88%) Wireless
6 2 (2.94%) LAN
7 1 (1.47%) Broadband
7 1 (1.47%) Modbus
7 1 (1.47%) Network Security
7 1 (1.47%) RS-485
7 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.47%) VoIP
7 1 (1.47%) VPN
7 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.47%) GIS
2 1 (1.47%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Git
General
1 34 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.29%) Advertising
5 5 (7.35%) Electronics
5 5 (7.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Finance
7 1 (1.47%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.47%) Games
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) IT Support
2 9 (13.24%) Support Technician
3 8 (11.76%) Consultant
3 8 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
4 6 (8.82%) Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Developer
4 6 (8.82%) IT Technician
5 5 (7.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (7.35%) IT Support Technician
5 5 (7.35%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Facilities Technician
6 4 (5.88%) IT Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Technical Support
6 4 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Account Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Commissioning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) Node.js
1 5 (7.35%) React
1 5 (7.35%) REST
2 1 (1.47%) CSS
2 1 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.88%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.88%) Digital Signage
3 4 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.88%) Educational Technology
3 4 (5.88%) IoT
3 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.41%) EPoS
5 1 (1.47%) CCTV
5 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.47%) Derivative
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.71%) Windows
2 25 (36.76%) Windows Server
3 22 (32.35%) Linux
4 21 (30.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (7.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.47%) Debian
7 1 (1.47%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Customer Service
2 25 (36.76%) Email Filtering
2 25 (36.76%) Kalman Filter
2 25 (36.76%) Web Filtering
3 21 (30.88%) Customer Experience
3 21 (30.88%) Migration
3 21 (30.88%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 21 (30.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 6 (8.82%) CRM
5 5 (7.35%) Cloud Security
5 5 (7.35%) Front End Development
5 5 (7.35%) Identity Management
5 5 (7.35%) Mathematics
5 5 (7.35%) Time Management
5 5 (7.35%) User Experience
6 4 (5.88%) Case Management
6 4 (5.88%) Server Management
6 4 (5.88%) Workflow
7 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (2.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
1 5 (7.35%) TypeScript
2 3 (4.41%) SQL
3 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) SC Cleared
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) CEH
3 1 (1.47%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (33.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (32.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) COBIT
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) PMO
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (45.59%) Active Directory
2 21 (30.88%) Hyper-V
2 21 (30.88%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.47%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) CASB
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (54.41%) Microsoft
2 25 (36.76%) Veeam
3 21 (30.88%) Brocade
3 21 (30.88%) Nimble Storage
3 21 (30.88%) SolarWinds
3 21 (30.88%) Splunk
3 21 (30.88%) Tanium
3 21 (30.88%) VMware
4 4 (5.88%) Adobe
4 4 (5.88%) Apple
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.47%) Freshdesk
5 1 (1.47%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.47%) MikroTik
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Sage
5 1 (1.47%) Tenable