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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 107 66 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 14.74% 11.17% 16.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.11% 12.27% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 69 26 71
10th Percentile £24,700 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,829 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.07% +22.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £59,031 -
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 532 538 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 73.28% 91.03% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 427 324 354
10th Percentile £26,400 £27,825 £27,650
25th Percentile £32,250 £34,188 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,600 £70,000
South West median annual salary £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.81% +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 26 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 26 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 +8 47 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Taunton +6 25 £33,000 -6.27% 8
Portishead - 6 £50,000 -
Weston-super-Mare +3 5 £35,000 - 2
Street +5 3 £35,750 - 66
Shepton Mallet - 3 £34,000 -
Templecombe - 3 - - 1
Yeovil -11 2 £42,500 +3.66% 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 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) JOnAS
2 1 (0.93%) Moodle
2 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.67%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.93%) iTrent
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Azure
2 19 (17.76%) GCP
3 16 (14.95%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.15%) AWS
5 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.80%) SaaS
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.87%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.87%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (1.87%) dbt
8 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.87%) Firebase
8 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.93%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Serverless
9 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) Network Security
2 7 (6.54%) LAN
3 6 (5.61%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (4.67%) OFDM
4 5 (4.67%) Wireless
5 3 (2.80%) BGP
5 3 (2.80%) Firewall
5 3 (2.80%) Internet
5 3 (2.80%) OSPF
6 2 (1.87%) DHCP
6 2 (1.87%) DNS
6 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.87%) WAN
7 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.93%) MPLS
7 1 (0.93%) Skype
7 1 (0.93%) VLAN
7 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.02%) BigQuery
1 15 (14.02%) Looker
2 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.74%) Power BI
3 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) Metabase
4 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.87%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) gulp
2 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 52 (48.60%) Social Skills
2 40 (37.38%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.41%) Finance
4 8 (7.48%) Billing
5 7 (6.54%) Electronics
5 7 (6.54%) Law
6 5 (4.67%) Games
7 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.80%) Legal
7 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.80%) Marketing
7 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Military
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (13.08%) Developer
2 10 (9.35%) Analyst
2 10 (9.35%) Graduate
3 9 (8.41%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (7.48%) Data Manager
5 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.54%) IT Support
5 7 (6.54%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (5.61%) Consultant
6 6 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Service Desk Manager
6 6 (5.61%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.67%) Field Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Vue
2 7 (6.54%) CSS
2 7 (6.54%) HTML
2 7 (6.54%) Node.js
3 3 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (2.80%) React
4 2 (1.87%) D3.js
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) EDI
5 1 (0.93%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) SOAP
5 1 (0.93%) Web Services
5 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (11.21%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.54%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.67%) FPGA
5 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.67%) VHDL
6 4 (3.74%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.87%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) BBC
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.02%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.74%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.80%) Linux
5 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.10%) Customer Service
2 18 (16.82%) DevOps
3 16 (14.95%) Agile
3 16 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (14.02%) Data Engineering
5 14 (13.08%) Line Management
5 14 (13.08%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.15%) Change Management
7 12 (11.21%) Business Strategy
7 12 (11.21%) SDLC
8 11 (10.28%) CI/CD
8 11 (10.28%) Data Science
9 10 (9.35%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.35%) Data Modelling
9 10 (9.35%) Process Improvement
9 10 (9.35%) Project Management
10 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.41%) ETL
10 9 (8.41%) Scrum
11 8 (7.48%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
2 10 (9.35%) SQL
3 8 (7.48%) C++
3 8 (7.48%) Python
4 7 (6.54%) C
5 5 (4.67%) Java
5 5 (4.67%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.74%) C#
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.87%) Embedded C
7 2 (1.87%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.87%) Lisp
8 1 (0.93%) Bash
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (28.04%) Degree
2 10 (9.35%) A+ Certification
3 9 (8.41%) Master's Degree
3 9 (8.41%) MCP
3 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (8.41%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.48%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) CCNP
5 1 (0.93%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) HND
5 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) GDPR
2 11 (10.28%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) Firmware
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
2 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (25.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.89%) Google
3 3 (2.80%) SAP
3 3 (2.80%) Thales
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) Concur
5 1 (0.93%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.93%) HP
5 1 (0.93%) Juniper
5 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.93%) Workday