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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,558 2,899 2,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.83% 17.25% 13.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.36% 20.41% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,760 1,001
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,625 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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 8,484 14,207 13,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.66% 84.52% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,284 9,914 7,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +1 669 £53,750 +22.16% 529
Berkshire +5 307 £60,000 +42.86% 275
Buckinghamshire 0 269 £50,967 +13.26% 160
Hampshire -4 261 £50,000 - 304
Surrey 0 215 £46,250 -2.63% 159
Isle of Wight - 100 £55,000 - 1
Kent -5 96 £32,500 -18.75% 92
Oxfordshire -8 93 £50,000 +17.65% 148
East Sussex +6 92 £43,000 -18.10% 117
Middlesex +21 73 £62,500 +95.31% 28
West Sussex -3 45 £48,250 -19.58% 83
Sussex -1 6 £28,500 -43.00% 82
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 38 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.71%) CMS
4 10 (0.64%) Apache
5 7 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.45%) IIS
6 6 (0.39%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.32%) IBM Domino
7 5 (0.32%) nginx
8 4 (0.26%) Kentico
8 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.064%) GemFire
10 1 (0.064%) Mule
10 1 (0.064%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 107 (6.87%) Simulink
2 77 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (4.62%) Mathcad
4 69 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.45%) Trello
7 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.19%) InDesign
9 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.064%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.064%) Blender
11 1 (0.064%) CATIA
11 1 (0.064%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.064%) Notion
11 1 (0.064%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 35 (2.25%) Teamcenter
2 17 (1.09%) Shopify
3 12 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.26%) Endur
7 4 (0.26%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.064%) Fidessa
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.064%) Sage CRM
10 1 (0.064%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.064%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.064%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 221 (14.18%) Azure
2 114 (7.32%) Power Platform
3 111 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (5.65%) AWS
5 46 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (2.95%) SaaS
6 38 (2.44%) GCP
7 33 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 33 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 24 (1.54%) SonarCloud
9 18 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (0.96%) GitHub
11 15 (0.96%) Vertex AI
12 14 (0.90%) Google Ads
12 14 (0.90%) Google Analytics
12 14 (0.90%) Google Tag Manager
12 14 (0.90%) Salsify
12 14 (0.90%) Serverless
13 13 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.78%) Broadband
2 84 (5.39%) TCP/IP
3 66 (4.24%) VPN
4 62 (3.98%) Firewall
5 52 (3.34%) DNS
6 34 (2.18%) VLAN
7 30 (1.93%) DHCP
8 20 (1.28%) Network Security
9 18 (1.16%) VoIP
10 13 (0.83%) Wireless
11 10 (0.64%) SAN
12 9 (0.58%) IPsec
13 8 (0.51%) WAN
13 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.45%) LAN
15 6 (0.39%) NAS
15 6 (0.39%) SNMP
16 5 (0.32%) HTTPS
16 5 (0.32%) Internet
16 5 (0.32%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.65%) Power BI
2 68 (4.36%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.31%) MySQL
4 30 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 28 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
5 28 (1.80%) GIS
5 28 (1.80%) Power Query
6 25 (1.60%) Data Mining
7 24 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 22 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.16%) Metadata
11 17 (1.09%) Redis
12 16 (1.03%) OLTP
13 12 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.58%) SQLite
16 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (4.36%) Git
2 49 (3.15%) JIRA
3 38 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.37%) Cucumber
4 37 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 36 (2.31%) Rational DOORS
6 34 (2.18%) Robot Framework
7 29 (1.86%) Visual Studio
8 26 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 25 (1.60%) MSBuild
10 10 (0.64%) GitLab
11 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.39%) git-flow
13 5 (0.32%) Postman
13 5 (0.32%) Subversion
13 5 (0.32%) TestComplete
14 4 (0.26%) JUnit
14 4 (0.26%) Selenium
15 3 (0.19%) Mockito
15 3 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 824 (52.89%) Social Skills
2 345 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
3 203 (13.03%) Retail
4 201 (12.90%) Finance
5 166 (10.65%) Manufacturing
6 136 (8.73%) Law
7 102 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 98 (6.29%) Electronics
9 82 (5.26%) Telecoms
10 69 (4.43%) Marketing
11 51 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (2.95%) Aerospace
13 38 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.25%) Legal
15 32 (2.05%) Dutch Language
15 32 (2.05%) Finnish Language
15 32 (2.05%) Norwegian Language
16 28 (1.80%) Public Sector
17 24 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.96%) Banking
Job Titles
1 284 (18.23%) Senior
2 220 (14.12%) Lead
3 158 (10.14%) Analyst
4 118 (7.57%) Developer
5 96 (6.16%) Trainer
6 88 (5.65%) IT Support
7 86 (5.52%) Support Engineer
8 74 (4.75%) Systems Engineer
9 64 (4.11%) Mathematical Modeller
10 61 (3.92%) Junior
11 51 (3.27%) IT Engineer
12 47 (3.02%) Support Analyst
13 45 (2.89%) Team Leader
14 42 (2.70%) Architect
14 42 (2.70%) Technical Manager
14 42 (2.70%) Technical Support
15 41 (2.63%) IT Support Engineer
16 40 (2.57%) Senior Manager
17 38 (2.44%) Test Engineer
18 37 (2.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.46%) HTML
2 83 (5.33%) .NET
3 65 (4.17%) CSS
4 53 (3.40%) XML
5 51 (3.27%) REST
6 37 (2.37%) React
7 33 (2.12%) ASP.NET
8 32 (2.05%) JSON
9 25 (1.60%) Bootstrap
10 24 (1.54%) gRPC
10 24 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (1.41%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.28%) SOAP
13 19 (1.22%) RESTful
14 18 (1.16%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.16%) Vue
15 16 (1.03%) Kafka
16 15 (0.96%) Laravel
17 12 (0.77%) MSMQ
18 11 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 107 (6.87%) Robotics
2 72 (4.62%) Algorithms
3 57 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 47 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 40 (2.57%) Driving Licence
7 36 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 14 (0.90%) Taxonomies
11 13 (0.83%) Security Posture
12 12 (0.77%) IoT
13 11 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.64%) Product Ownership
15 8 (0.51%) Client/Server
15 8 (0.51%) Cloud Native
16 7 (0.45%) Clustering
16 7 (0.45%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (0.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 189 (12.13%) Windows
2 83 (5.33%) Linux
3 35 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.86%) Mac OS
5 20 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.83%) Unix
8 12 (0.77%) Android
9 10 (0.64%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Vista
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.064%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.064%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.064%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.064%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.064%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 220 (14.12%) Agile
3 204 (13.09%) Mentoring
4 203 (13.03%) Computer Science
5 191 (12.26%) Roadmaps
6 190 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 170 (10.91%) DevOps
8 167 (10.72%) Project Management
9 164 (10.53%) Customer Service
10 156 (10.01%) Machine Learning
11 142 (9.11%) Systems Engineering
12 130 (8.34%) Generative AI
13 127 (8.15%) Product Management
13 127 (8.15%) Strategic Thinking
14 126 (8.09%) Mathematics
15 121 (7.77%) Coaching
16 118 (7.57%) Process Improvement
17 114 (7.32%) Analytics
18 112 (7.19%) LLM
19 111 (7.12%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 217 (13.93%) SQL
2 200 (12.84%) Python
3 122 (7.83%) JavaScript
4 118 (7.57%) C#
5 111 (7.12%) MATLAB
6 90 (5.78%) PowerShell
7 69 (4.43%) Java
8 48 (3.08%) Bash
9 29 (1.86%) PHP
10 21 (1.35%) C++
10 21 (1.35%) Rust
10 21 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.64%) C
13 8 (0.51%) Scala
14 7 (0.45%) Go
14 7 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.45%) Perl
15 6 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 485 (31.13%) Degree
2 161 (10.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 130 (8.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 45 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.25%) SC Cleared
8 33 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.99%) NVQ Level 3
9 31 (1.99%) NVQ Level 4
10 30 (1.93%) PMP
11 29 (1.86%) CBAP
12 26 (1.67%) DBS Check
12 26 (1.67%) DV Cleared
13 22 (1.41%) A+ Certification
14 21 (1.35%) MCP
15 18 (1.16%) ACCA
16 17 (1.09%) CIMA
17 16 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.01%) QA
2 72 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 41 (2.63%) GDPR
4 32 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (1.73%) SLA
6 25 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.58%) NIST
10 8 (0.51%) PMO
11 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.26%) GMP
15 3 (0.19%) PMBOK
16 2 (0.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 2 (0.13%) Dublin Core
16 2 (0.13%) Good Clinical Practice
16 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 64 (4.11%) Docker
3 31 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.39%) Firmware
5 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.26%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.26%) vSphere
7 3 (0.19%) HDFS
7 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.064%) NFS
8 1 (0.064%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 51 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.31%) Terraform
3 18 (1.16%) Ansible
4 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.58%) QRadar
6 6 (0.39%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.19%) Grafana
8 3 (0.19%) PaperCut
8 3 (0.19%) vRealize
9 2 (0.13%) Argo
9 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.13%) Nessus
9 2 (0.13%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.13%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 313 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 148 (9.50%) Google
3 110 (7.06%) Databricks
4 99 (6.35%) Adobe
5 72 (4.62%) MathWorks
6 67 (4.30%) SAP
7 56 (3.59%) IBM
8 44 (2.82%) VMware
9 37 (2.37%) Cisco
10 34 (2.18%) Oracle
11 23 (1.48%) Workday
12 20 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.22%) Concur
14 17 (1.09%) Meraki
15 16 (1.03%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.96%) Splunk
17 12 (0.77%) Dell
17 12 (0.77%) Pinterest
17 12 (0.77%) TikTok
18 10 (0.64%) ServiceNow