Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,900 2,007 2,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.24% 13.87% 13.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.40% 14.68% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,760 999 1,496
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,173 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,216 13,675 18,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 94.51% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,913 7,963 11,906
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,200 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Thames Valley +7 1,240 £45,000 - 362
Surrey +2 542 £47,500 -20.83% 123
Buckinghamshire +7 523 £45,000 +24.14% 108
Hampshire +12 515 £50,000 - 217
Berkshire +4 417 £42,000 -18.21% 138
Oxfordshire +16 300 £42,500 - 117
Kent -2 251 £40,000 -11.11% 80
West Sussex +8 177 £60,000 +14.29% 47
East Sussex +3 115 £52,500 +2.94% 32
Sussex +1 38 £50,000 - 2
Middlesex -8 12 £32,000 -61.21% 1
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 87 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 83 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.59%) CMS
4 31 (1.07%) Apache
5 23 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 23 (0.79%) WordPress
6 21 (0.72%) Confluence
6 21 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.45%) nginx
8 8 (0.28%) Drupal
9 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.17%) Joomla!
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.14%) SAS
13 3 (0.10%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.069%) IIS
15 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 303 (10.45%) Microsoft Office
2 233 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.10%) Simulink
4 30 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.69%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.28%) Sketch
10 7 (0.24%) Stateflow
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.14%) InDesign
13 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
13 3 (0.10%) Siemens NX
14 2 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
14 2 (0.069%) Trello
15 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 40 (1.38%) Siebel CRM
2 31 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.17%) Magento
7 5 (0.17%) Odoo
7 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.069%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 485 (16.72%) Azure
2 327 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
3 273 (9.41%) AWS
4 121 (4.17%) SaaS
5 105 (3.62%) GCP
6 70 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 69 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (1.76%) IaaS
9 50 (1.72%) Serverless
10 48 (1.66%) GitHub
11 47 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (1.55%) Entra ID
13 42 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (1.00%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.93%) Amazon S3
17 23 (0.79%) Mimecast
17 23 (0.79%) PaaS
18 20 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
19 17 (0.59%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 212 (7.31%) Firewall
2 125 (4.31%) DNS
3 93 (3.21%) DHCP
4 76 (2.62%) Wireless
5 67 (2.31%) TCP/IP
6 62 (2.14%) LAN
7 56 (1.93%) VPN
8 46 (1.59%) WAN
9 44 (1.52%) VoIP
10 34 (1.17%) SAN
11 33 (1.14%) Internet
12 29 (1.00%) VLAN
13 26 (0.90%) Network Security
14 23 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
15 21 (0.72%) 5G
15 21 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
16 20 (0.69%) Broadband
17 17 (0.59%) 4G
18 16 (0.55%) Unified Communications
19 14 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 90 (3.10%) MySQL
3 84 (2.90%) BigQuery
3 84 (2.90%) Looker
4 74 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 45 (1.55%) Power BI
7 44 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 41 (1.41%) Power Query
10 40 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (1.28%) NoSQL
12 32 (1.10%) Oracle BI EE
12 32 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
13 25 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.66%) DynamoDB
15 18 (0.62%) Redis
15 18 (0.62%) Tableau
16 12 (0.41%) OLTP
17 11 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 129 (4.45%) Git
2 121 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 98 (3.38%) JIRA
4 45 (1.55%) GitLab
5 25 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.83%) Ant
7 22 (0.76%) Subversion
7 22 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (0.55%) Selenium
9 15 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 12 (0.41%) Maven
11 11 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 11 (0.38%) TestRail
12 10 (0.34%) JMeter
13 9 (0.31%) Gradle
14 8 (0.28%) Hudson
14 8 (0.28%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.24%) CMake
15 7 (0.24%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,484 (51.17%) Social Skills
2 841 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
3 370 (12.76%) Finance
4 274 (9.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 188 (6.48%) Organisational Skills
6 140 (4.83%) Marketing
6 140 (4.83%) Retail
7 118 (4.07%) Legal
8 117 (4.03%) Manufacturing
9 103 (3.55%) Aerospace
10 84 (2.90%) Telecoms
11 75 (2.59%) Public Sector
12 62 (2.14%) Electronics
13 58 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.90%) Aviation
15 53 (1.83%) Billing
15 53 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
16 47 (1.62%) Law
17 43 (1.48%) Automotive
18 42 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 356 (12.28%) Analyst
2 341 (11.76%) Developer
3 340 (11.72%) Senior
4 197 (6.79%) Lead
5 194 (6.69%) Architect
6 144 (4.97%) IT Support
7 134 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 111 (3.83%) Consultant
9 106 (3.66%) Data Scientist
10 103 (3.55%) Support Analyst
11 99 (3.41%) Support Engineer
12 93 (3.21%) Senior Developer
13 89 (3.07%) Coordinator
13 89 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 85 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 84 (2.90%) Project Manager
16 74 (2.55%) Data Engineer
17 72 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
18 60 (2.07%) IT Engineer
19 58 (2.00%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (6.10%) .NET
2 130 (4.48%) HTML
3 104 (3.59%) CSS
4 83 (2.86%) React
5 53 (1.83%) Spring
6 51 (1.76%) AngularJS
7 46 (1.59%) XML
8 43 (1.48%) RESTful
8 43 (1.48%) Web Services
9 42 (1.45%) Node.js
10 39 (1.34%) HTML5
11 38 (1.31%) Hibernate
12 36 (1.24%) .NET Framework
13 35 (1.21%) REST
14 32 (1.10%) ASP.NET
15 28 (0.97%) CSS3
15 28 (0.97%) Java EE
16 27 (0.93%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.93%) SOAP
16 27 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 360 (12.41%) Self-Motivation
2 238 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 211 (7.28%) Algorithms
4 100 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 86 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.55%) Driving Licence
7 70 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 55 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.79%) IoT
10 44 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.21%) Client/Server
12 33 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 26 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
14 26 (0.90%) NHS
15 25 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (0.83%) PMI
17 22 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
17 22 (0.76%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 512 (17.66%) Windows
2 210 (7.24%) Linux
3 161 (5.55%) Windows Server
4 127 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 58 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 44 (1.52%) Windows 7
8 41 (1.41%) Apple iOS
9 40 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (1.34%) Unix
11 33 (1.14%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.00%) Android
13 18 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.41%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.28%) VMS
17 6 (0.21%) CentOS
17 6 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
18 5 (0.17%) AIX
19 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (17.14%) Agile
2 482 (16.62%) Mentoring
3 452 (15.59%) Customer Service
4 388 (13.38%) Computer Science
5 386 (13.31%) Project Management
6 359 (12.38%) Decision-Making
7 356 (12.28%) Coaching
8 351 (12.10%) DevOps
9 288 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
10 259 (8.93%) Mathematics
11 248 (8.55%) ITIL
12 247 (8.52%) Collaborative Working
12 247 (8.52%) Software Engineering
13 242 (8.34%) Actionable Insight
13 242 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 196 (6.76%) Data Analysis
14 196 (6.76%) Data Science
15 173 (5.97%) CI/CD
16 170 (5.86%) CRM
17 150 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 310 (10.69%) SQL
2 269 (9.28%) Python
3 200 (6.90%) Java
4 195 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 191 (6.59%) C#
6 181 (6.24%) C++
7 140 (4.83%) C
8 118 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 78 (2.69%) Bash
10 54 (1.86%) PHP
11 49 (1.69%) Fortran
12 35 (1.21%) Perl
13 29 (1.00%) TypeScript
14 28 (0.97%) Shell Script
15 27 (0.93%) MATLAB
16 24 (0.83%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.62%) Go
18 16 (0.55%) R
18 16 (0.55%) Ruby
19 13 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 845 (29.14%) Degree
2 448 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 297 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 196 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 113 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 98 (3.38%) DBS Check
8 86 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 62 (2.14%) PhD
10 53 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 43 (1.48%) AWS Certification
12 40 (1.38%) NVQ Level 3
13 35 (1.21%) PMI Certification
14 34 (1.17%) CCNP
15 33 (1.14%) CCNA
16 32 (1.10%) MCP
17 30 (1.03%) MCSE
18 29 (1.00%) HNC
19 23 (0.79%) A+ Certification
19 23 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (7.28%) QA
2 144 (4.97%) GDPR
3 137 (4.72%) SLA
4 110 (3.79%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.38%) PMO
6 36 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.90%) ISO 9001
9 21 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
10 14 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
11 11 (0.38%) COSHH
11 11 (0.38%) ISO 26262
11 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 10 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
12 10 (0.34%) IFRS
13 8 (0.28%) ISO 13485
13 8 (0.28%) ISO 14001
13 8 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 262 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 144 (4.97%) Docker
3 103 (3.55%) Hyper-V
4 100 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (1.17%) Firmware
6 27 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.48%) KVM
10 12 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.21%) vSphere
12 5 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
13 4 (0.14%) HDFS
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.034%) NFS
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 115 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 75 (2.59%) SCCM
3 57 (1.97%) Ansible
4 40 (1.38%) Terraform
5 39 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (1.14%) Puppet
7 30 (1.03%) SCOM
8 22 (0.76%) OpenSSO
8 22 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.59%) WSUS
10 15 (0.52%) ZABBIX
11 13 (0.45%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.41%) Consul
12 12 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.38%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.24%) Autotask
15 7 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 817 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.10%) Oracle
3 127 (4.38%) VMware
4 124 (4.28%) Google
5 98 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 85 (2.93%) Cisco
7 80 (2.76%) SAP
8 40 (1.38%) Siebel
9 33 (1.14%) HP
10 31 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.03%) Juniper
12 26 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 25 (0.86%) Adobe
13 25 (0.86%) Dell
13 25 (0.86%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.83%) Remedy
15 23 (0.79%) Apple
16 21 (0.72%) Citrix
16 21 (0.72%) Veeam
17 20 (0.69%) IBM