Problem-Solving Jobs in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 718 1,028 966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.38% 12.91% 13.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.24% 13.52% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 469 499 507
10th Percentile £26,125 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £30,716 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,422 7,606 6,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 94.71% 95.49% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,081 4,496 4,596
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
Bristol +11 313 £56,500 +13.00% 148
Gloucestershire +3 144 £45,000 -10.00% 64
Devon +4 96 £42,500 +10.77% 46
Somerset +9 52 £43,889 +9.94% 49
Wiltshire -20 52 £50,000 +19.17% 45
Dorset +33 47 £55,000 +15.79% 38
Cornwall +11 5 £31,000 - 8
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 28 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (0.97%) IIS
4 6 (0.84%) Apache
4 6 (0.84%) Confluence
5 5 (0.70%) JBoss
5 5 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
5 5 (0.70%) SAS
6 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.56%) Luigi
6 4 (0.56%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.28%) CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Jetty
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 58 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.56%) Windchill
7 2 (0.28%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.28%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.84%) Magento
3 2 (0.28%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.28%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (17.83%) Azure
2 98 (13.65%) AWS
3 63 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 34 (4.74%) GCP
6 32 (4.46%) Serverless
7 31 (4.32%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.65%) WhatsApp
9 17 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.23%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.53%) Google Analytics
12 11 (1.53%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.11%) SaaS
14 7 (0.97%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.70%) npm
16 4 (0.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 57 (7.94%) Firewall
2 52 (7.24%) WAN
3 41 (5.71%) DNS
4 36 (5.01%) Wireless
5 32 (4.46%) SD-WAN
6 31 (4.32%) DHCP
7 30 (4.18%) Internet
7 30 (4.18%) VPN
8 26 (3.62%) BGP
8 26 (3.62%) OSPF
9 24 (3.34%) VLAN
10 23 (3.20%) TCP/IP
11 22 (3.06%) LAN
12 21 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (2.79%) MPLS
14 19 (2.65%) BIG-IP
15 14 (1.95%) 5G
16 10 (1.39%) Network Security
16 10 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
17 9 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.80%) Power BI
2 48 (6.69%) SQL Server
3 32 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.48%) Big Data
5 21 (2.92%) Tableau
6 20 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.23%) MySQL
8 15 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.95%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.81%) Star Schema
11 12 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
13 10 (1.39%) Data Hub
13 10 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.25%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.11%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.84%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 69 (9.61%) Git
2 19 (2.65%) JIRA
3 12 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.25%) Selenium
5 8 (1.11%) LabVIEW
6 6 (0.84%) Maven
7 5 (0.70%) IntelliJ
7 5 (0.70%) JUnit
7 5 (0.70%) Rational Rhapsody
8 4 (0.56%) AutoIt
8 4 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.56%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.56%) GitLab
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.42%) CMake
9 3 (0.42%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.42%) JDeveloper
9 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.42%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 318 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 160 (22.28%) Analytical Skills
3 158 (22.01%) Finance
4 80 (11.14%) Retail
5 67 (9.33%) Banking
6 43 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (5.85%) Aerospace
7 42 (5.85%) Marketing
8 33 (4.60%) Legal
9 32 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 31 (4.32%) Military
11 29 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (3.62%) Manufacturing
13 23 (3.20%) Police
14 22 (3.06%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.79%) Local Government
15 20 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (2.23%) Electronics
17 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 120 (16.71%) Developer
2 99 (13.79%) Analyst
3 97 (13.51%) Senior
4 92 (12.81%) Software Engineer
5 55 (7.66%) Architect
6 37 (5.15%) Graduate
7 32 (4.46%) Lead
8 30 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (4.18%) Support Engineer
9 28 (3.90%) Java Developer
10 26 (3.62%) .NET Developer
11 23 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (3.06%) Java Engineer
12 22 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (3.06%) Presales Solution Architect
12 22 (3.06%) Senior Developer
13 20 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (2.79%) Service Manager
14 18 (2.51%) Angular Developer
14 18 (2.51%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.77%) HTML
2 62 (8.64%) React
3 49 (6.82%) AngularJS
4 45 (6.27%) .NET
5 44 (6.13%) Spring
6 40 (5.57%) RESTful
7 39 (5.43%) CSS
8 28 (3.90%) Node.js
9 27 (3.76%) Web Services
10 22 (3.06%) Kafka
11 20 (2.79%) XML
12 19 (2.65%) Pandas
13 18 (2.51%) Hibernate
13 18 (2.51%) JSON
14 15 (2.09%) SOAP
15 14 (1.95%) J2EE
15 14 (1.95%) PyTorch
15 14 (1.95%) scikit-learn
15 14 (1.95%) Spring Boot
16 13 (1.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.86%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 21 (2.92%) Cyberattack
4 20 (2.79%) NHS
5 18 (2.51%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.09%) Augmented Reality
6 15 (2.09%) Driving Licence
6 15 (2.09%) Virtual Reality
7 14 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.95%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.67%) GNSS
10 10 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.11%) Robotics
12 6 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (0.84%) iPhone
12 6 (0.84%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.74%) Windows
2 56 (7.80%) Linux
3 49 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.62%) Unix
5 19 (2.65%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.25%) Android
8 8 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.97%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.70%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.56%) AIX
11 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.42%) CentOS
13 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (28.27%) Agile
2 148 (20.61%) Software Engineering
3 141 (19.64%) Actionable Insight
4 114 (15.88%) Analytics
5 108 (15.04%) Mentoring
6 92 (12.81%) ITIL
7 91 (12.67%) DevOps
8 74 (10.31%) Visualisation
9 73 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
10 72 (10.03%) Project Management
10 72 (10.03%) SDLC
11 66 (9.19%) Computer Science
12 61 (8.50%) Customer Service
13 57 (7.94%) Data Analytics
14 56 (7.80%) Decision-Making
15 51 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (7.10%) Test Automation
16 50 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
17 45 (6.27%) Microservices
18 42 (5.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.70%) Python
2 116 (16.16%) Java
3 112 (15.60%) SQL
4 87 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 72 (10.03%) C#
6 32 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 31 (4.32%) PHP
8 30 (4.18%) Bash
8 30 (4.18%) C
9 26 (3.62%) C++
10 22 (3.06%) R
10 22 (3.06%) Ruby
11 12 (1.67%) VBA
12 11 (1.53%) Go
13 10 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.25%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.11%) Perl
15 8 (1.11%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.97%) Rust
17 6 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 193 (26.88%) Degree
2 177 (24.65%) Security Cleared
3 106 (14.76%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.65%) DBS Check
7 17 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.95%) Numerate Degree
9 13 (1.81%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.39%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.25%) HND
12 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.56%) PhD
15 4 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.42%) CCNP
16 3 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.10%) QA
2 25 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.81%) PMO
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.25%) SLA
6 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.70%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.42%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.42%) GDPR
9 3 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.28%) COBIT
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA
10 2 (0.28%) MISRA C
10 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 63 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.74%) Docker
3 14 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.81%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.53%) Firmware
6 4 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Flume
8 2 (0.28%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.14%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 49 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.79%) FortiGate
3 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.39%) Terraform
5 3 (0.42%) Ansible
6 2 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.28%) Grafana
6 2 (0.28%) Nmap
6 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.28%) Puppet
6 2 (0.28%) SCCM
6 2 (0.28%) ServiceCenter
7 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.14%) Icinga
7 1 (0.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 109 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.74%) Google
3 32 (4.46%) Oracle
4 31 (4.32%) VMware
5 30 (4.18%) Cisco
6 23 (3.20%) SAP
7 22 (3.06%) Meraki
8 20 (2.79%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.65%) CheckPoint
9 19 (2.65%) F5
10 14 (1.95%) Citrix
11 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.25%) Teradata
13 7 (0.97%) Apple
13 7 (0.97%) Databricks
13 7 (0.97%) NetApp
14 5 (0.70%) IBM
14 5 (0.70%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.56%) HP
15 4 (0.56%) Rackspace