Problem-Solving Jobs in South Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 90 262 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.38% 19.36% 15.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.79% 23.37% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 53 208 110
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £24,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £44,500 £32,200
Median % change year-on-year -26.97% +38.20% -12.97%
75th Percentile £46,250 £65,000 £46,188
90th Percentile £62,200 £78,750 £57,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,101 £43,586 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 1,121 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.65% 82.85% 98.67%
Number of salaries quoted 220 891 530
10th Percentile £26,921 £27,500 £26,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in South Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Sheffield -2 56 £35,000 -20.45% 68
Doncaster +4 17 £25,267 -57.89% 19
Rotherham +11 4 £60,000 - 9
Barnsley +8 2 - - 4
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) SAS
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.22%) Trello
5 1 (1.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (13.33%) AWS
4 8 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.78%) SaaS
6 3 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.33%) GCP
6 3 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.33%) Broadband
2 12 (13.33%) Firewall
3 11 (12.22%) Network Security
4 9 (10.00%) VPN
5 8 (8.89%) LAN
5 8 (8.89%) WAN
6 6 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (6.67%) DNS
6 6 (6.67%) DWDM
6 6 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.56%) Multicast
7 5 (5.56%) SAN
8 2 (2.22%) VLAN
9 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
9 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.11%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.78%) Power BI
3 5 (5.56%) DB2
4 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.22%) Tableau
6 1 (1.11%) Looker
6 1 (1.11%) Metadata
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 47 (52.22%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.78%) Banking
3 21 (23.33%) Games
4 16 (17.78%) Finance
5 14 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.67%) Legal
7 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.22%) Advertising
9 2 (2.22%) Billing
9 2 (2.22%) Law
9 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (1.11%) Electronics
10 1 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (17.78%) Customer Service Advisor
2 13 (14.44%) Support Engineer
3 8 (8.89%) IT Support
3 8 (8.89%) Lead
4 7 (7.78%) IT Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Network Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Team Leader
6 5 (5.56%) Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Applications Support
6 5 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Software Support Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Advisor
8 3 (3.33%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Help Desk Team Lead
8 3 (3.33%) Project Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) HTML
2 3 (3.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.11%) Kafka
4 1 (1.11%) React
4 1 (1.11%) RESTful
4 1 (1.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.56%) Replication
3 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.22%) FMCG
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.78%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.44%) Android
6 2 (2.22%) Linux
7 1 (1.11%) Unix
7 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) Customer Service
2 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (12.22%) Migration
3 11 (12.22%) Project Management
4 10 (11.11%) DevOps
5 9 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 9 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (8.89%) Process Improvement
7 7 (7.78%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (7.78%) Computer Science
7 7 (7.78%) Line Management
8 6 (6.67%) Agile
8 6 (6.67%) CRM
8 6 (6.67%) Network Architecture
8 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.67%) Task Automation
8 6 (6.67%) Test Automation
8 6 (6.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) SQL
2 8 (8.89%) Python
3 3 (3.33%) C#
4 2 (2.22%) Java
4 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.11%) C
5 1 (1.11%) Scala
5 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Degree
2 7 (7.78%) CCNA
2 7 (7.78%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (6.67%) CCNP
3 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.67%) JNCIA
3 6 (6.67%) JNCIS
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) NVQ Level 3
5 2 (2.22%) NVQ Level 4
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) GDPR
1 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.11%) XenApp
5 1 (1.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Ansible
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (23.33%) BT
3 12 (13.33%) Cisco
4 6 (6.67%) Arista
4 6 (6.67%) IBM
5 5 (5.56%) VMware
6 4 (4.44%) Zoho
7 2 (2.22%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.22%) Sun
8 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.11%) Citrix
8 1 (1.11%) Commvault
8 1 (1.11%) Google
8 1 (1.11%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle
8 1 (1.11%) Planview
8 1 (1.11%) SAP
8 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.11%) Splunk
8 1 (1.11%) Xamarin