Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 6 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,876 2,577 1,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 18.38% 15.35% 12.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.43% 18.74% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 864 1,621 895
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,773 £45,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -12.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,181 13,748 11,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.96% 81.87% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,819 9,366 7,230
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,283 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
Thames Valley +3 786 £43,773 -2.73% 466
Berkshire +1 386 £47,500 +10.67% 217
Buckinghamshire 0 308 £37,500 -16.67% 128
Hampshire +3 287 £49,000 -2.00% 274
Surrey 0 263 £40,000 -17.95% 161
East Sussex +12 147 £50,000 -4.76% 65
Kent +1 124 £32,500 -18.75% 113
Isle of Wight - 119 £55,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -6 92 £50,750 +23.78% 130
West Sussex -1 72 £50,250 -16.25% 87
Middlesex +27 64 £48,750 +8.94% 32
Sussex +5 12 £42,500 -15.00% 71
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 70 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 58 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.64%) CMS
4 8 (0.43%) Apache
5 6 (0.32%) Confluence
5 6 (0.32%) IIS
6 5 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.21%) IBM Domino
7 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.16%) WordPress
9 1 (0.053%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.053%) Appian
9 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.053%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.053%) Mule
9 1 (0.053%) nginx
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.053%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 126 (6.72%) Simulink
2 101 (5.38%) Mathcad
3 94 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
4 85 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.16%) InDesign
7 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.053%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.053%) Pipeline Pilot
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (1.33%) Teamcenter
2 21 (1.12%) NetSuite
3 18 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.64%) Sage 200
5 11 (0.59%) Sage CRM
6 8 (0.43%) Shopify
7 7 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.21%) Sage 1000
9 4 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
11 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.053%) Maximo
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.053%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 320 (17.06%) Azure
2 133 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
3 131 (6.98%) AWS
4 86 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 83 (4.42%) GCP
6 59 (3.14%) SaaS
7 44 (2.35%) Serverless
8 42 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (1.60%) Vertex AI
10 29 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 29 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 29 (1.55%) Entra ID
11 20 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (1.07%) SonarCloud
12 19 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (0.80%) IaaS
13 15 (0.80%) PaaS
14 14 (0.75%) Salsify
15 12 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 140 (7.46%) Broadband
2 101 (5.38%) Firewall
3 92 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 87 (4.64%) VPN
5 65 (3.46%) DNS
6 45 (2.40%) DHCP
7 43 (2.29%) VLAN
8 25 (1.33%) LAN
8 25 (1.33%) WAN
9 20 (1.07%) Network Security
10 19 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.96%) VoIP
12 14 (0.75%) IP Telephony
12 14 (0.75%) SAN
12 14 (0.75%) SNMP
13 12 (0.64%) Wireless
14 7 (0.37%) Internet
15 6 (0.32%) NAS
15 6 (0.32%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 70 (3.73%) Power BI
3 42 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 40 (2.13%) Data Mining
5 27 (1.44%) MySQL
6 24 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 24 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (1.01%) Metadata
9 17 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.85%) Relational Database
11 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (0.69%) Tableau
14 11 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (0.53%) Redis
16 9 (0.48%) OLTP
17 4 (0.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 76 (4.05%) Git
2 47 (2.51%) JIRA
3 34 (1.81%) Cucumber
3 34 (1.81%) Robot Framework
4 28 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 26 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
6 22 (1.17%) Visual Studio
7 20 (1.07%) Jenkins
7 20 (1.07%) MSBuild
7 20 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.32%) GitLab
9 4 (0.21%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) git-flow
10 3 (0.16%) JUnit
10 3 (0.16%) Mockito
10 3 (0.16%) Selenium
11 2 (0.11%) JMeter
11 2 (0.11%) MLflow
11 2 (0.11%) Spock
11 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 914 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 438 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
3 368 (19.62%) Retail
4 306 (16.31%) Manufacturing
5 241 (12.85%) Finance
6 195 (10.39%) Law
7 94 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 91 (4.85%) Electronics
9 82 (4.37%) Marketing
9 82 (4.37%) Telecoms
10 64 (3.41%) Dutch Language
10 64 (3.41%) Finnish Language
10 64 (3.41%) Norwegian Language
11 49 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 33 (1.76%) Legal
15 29 (1.55%) Games
16 27 (1.44%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 407 (21.70%) Senior
2 250 (13.33%) Lead
3 240 (12.79%) Trainer
4 209 (11.14%) Analyst
5 104 (5.54%) Developer
6 99 (5.28%) IT Support
7 94 (5.01%) Support Analyst
8 82 (4.37%) Mathematical Modeller
9 75 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 65 (3.46%) Technical Support
11 57 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
12 52 (2.77%) Junior
13 51 (2.72%) Team Leader
14 47 (2.51%) Architect
15 46 (2.45%) IT Engineer
16 38 (2.03%) Senior Manager
17 37 (1.97%) IT Support Engineer
18 36 (1.92%) Applications Support
18 36 (1.92%) Support Technician
19 34 (1.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (4.37%) HTML
2 72 (3.84%) CSS
3 67 (3.57%) .NET
4 48 (2.56%) React
5 45 (2.40%) XML
6 44 (2.35%) REST
7 33 (1.76%) JSON
8 32 (1.71%) ASP.NET
8 32 (1.71%) RESTful
9 30 (1.60%) Node.js
10 29 (1.55%) GraphQL
11 26 (1.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 25 (1.33%) WebGL
13 21 (1.12%) Bootstrap
14 20 (1.07%) gRPC
15 19 (1.01%) Kafka
16 16 (0.85%) SOAP
17 15 (0.80%) .NET Framework
18 13 (0.69%) AngularJS
18 13 (0.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 252 (13.43%) Robotics
2 92 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
3 69 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 68 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 67 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 60 (3.20%) Driving Licence
7 58 (3.09%) Onboarding
8 40 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 31 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.44%) Animation
11 20 (1.07%) Security Posture
12 18 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.75%) Product Ownership
13 14 (0.75%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.48%) IoT
14 9 (0.48%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (0.48%) VHDL
15 8 (0.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 243 (12.95%) Windows
2 80 (4.26%) Linux
3 67 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 17 (0.91%) Unix
7 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.64%) Android
9 11 (0.59%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.053%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.053%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (19.67%) Machine Learning
2 363 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
3 317 (16.90%) Agile
4 288 (15.35%) Generative AI
5 271 (14.45%) LLM
6 254 (13.54%) Mentoring
7 245 (13.06%) Roadmaps
8 241 (12.85%) Red Team
9 223 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 219 (11.67%) Customer Service
11 206 (10.98%) Data Privacy
12 192 (10.23%) DevOps
13 190 (10.13%) Computer Science
14 164 (8.74%) Analytics
15 152 (8.10%) Project Management
16 146 (7.78%) Mathematics
16 146 (7.78%) Systems Engineering
17 137 (7.30%) Validation
18 136 (7.25%) Product Management
19 128 (6.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 258 (13.75%) Python
2 218 (11.62%) SQL
3 129 (6.88%) MATLAB
4 123 (6.56%) JavaScript
5 102 (5.44%) C#
6 97 (5.17%) PowerShell
7 57 (3.04%) Java
8 55 (2.93%) Bash
9 39 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.33%) HLSL
11 21 (1.12%) Rust
12 19 (1.01%) PHP
13 18 (0.96%) C++
14 12 (0.64%) T-SQL
15 11 (0.59%) VBA
16 10 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.53%) Perl
16 10 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.48%) R
18 7 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 646 (34.43%) Degree
2 168 (8.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 131 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 83 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 52 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (2.35%) SC Cleared
7 42 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.55%) PhD
9 29 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 28 (1.49%) PMP
11 26 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.28%) A+ Certification
12 24 (1.28%) MCP
13 22 (1.17%) DBS Check
14 20 (1.07%) ACCA
14 20 (1.07%) CCNP
15 19 (1.01%) CIMA
16 17 (0.91%) CCNA
17 14 (0.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 78 (4.16%) QA
3 57 (3.04%) GDPR
4 42 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.92%) SLA
6 27 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.91%) NIST
9 14 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.27%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.27%) PMO
11 5 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.21%) GMP
13 3 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 3 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.16%) PMBOK
System Software
1 93 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 61 (3.25%) Docker
3 29 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.91%) Firmware
6 11 (0.59%) Terminal Services
6 11 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) GPFS
10 3 (0.16%) HDFS
10 3 (0.16%) Lustre
10 3 (0.16%) vSphere
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.053%) vCloud
12 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.03%) Terraform
3 30 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.69%) QRadar
5 10 (0.53%) Ansible
6 8 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.32%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.32%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.21%) Grafana
8 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.16%) PaperCut
9 3 (0.16%) SCCM
9 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.11%) Nessus
10 2 (0.11%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.11%) vRealize
11 1 (0.053%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.053%) VxRail
Vendors
1 393 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 295 (15.72%) Google
3 254 (13.54%) Databricks
4 243 (12.95%) Adobe
5 101 (5.38%) MathWorks
6 71 (3.78%) SAP
7 49 (2.61%) Cisco
8 47 (2.51%) IBM
8 47 (2.51%) VMware
9 43 (2.29%) Oracle
10 38 (2.03%) Workday
11 31 (1.65%) OpenAI
12 22 (1.17%) Salesforce
13 21 (1.12%) Sage
14 20 (1.07%) Meraki
15 19 (1.01%) Concur
15 19 (1.01%) Splunk
16 15 (0.80%) Apple
17 14 (0.75%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.75%) Veeam