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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,355 848 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.61% 12.45% 13.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.49% 13.18% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 806 420 549
10th Percentile £25,875 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,625 £34,604 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,775 £70,080
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.84%

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 7,748 6,435 7,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.55% 94.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,571 4,992
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,225 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 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 9 May 2024.

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 9 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
Bristol +8 417 £51,500 -10.43% 155
Dorset +19 257 £45,000 -14.29% 41
Gloucestershire +10 246 £49,000 -10.91% 66
Wiltshire +3 149 £43,500 -9.84% 51
Devon +9 134 £37,500 +0.22% 59
Somerset +12 107 £45,000 +2.86% 114
Cornwall -5 32 £35,625 -20.83% 15
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 26 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.48%) Apache
4 12 (0.89%) Confluence
5 9 (0.66%) CMS
6 8 (0.59%) WordPress
7 7 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.52%) SAS
8 5 (0.37%) NServiceBus
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.30%) IIS
9 4 (0.30%) Site Server
10 3 (0.22%) Luigi
10 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
12 1 (0.074%) JBoss
12 1 (0.074%) Moodle
Applications
1 96 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.52%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 5 (0.37%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.30%) Sketch
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.074%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.44%) HFM
1 6 (0.44%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (0.22%) Shopify
3 2 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.074%) iTrent
4 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.074%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 214 (15.79%) Azure
2 144 (10.63%) AWS
3 97 (7.16%) GCP
4 80 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
5 65 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (4.72%) Power Platform
7 35 (2.58%) SaaS
8 21 (1.55%) GitHub
9 19 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.11%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.03%) Serverless
12 12 (0.89%) Snowflake
13 11 (0.81%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.74%) npm
14 10 (0.74%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.52%) Figma
16 7 (0.52%) OCI
17 6 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.91%) WAN
2 50 (3.69%) Firewall
3 36 (2.66%) 5G
3 36 (2.66%) SD-WAN
4 29 (2.14%) Network Security
5 26 (1.92%) DNS
5 26 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.77%) Internet
7 21 (1.55%) LAN
7 21 (1.55%) VPN
8 16 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
8 16 (1.18%) Wireless
9 15 (1.11%) DHCP
10 11 (0.81%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.81%) HTTP
10 11 (0.81%) RS-232
11 9 (0.66%) SMTP
11 9 (0.66%) VoIP
11 9 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.09%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.87%) BigQuery
3 65 (4.80%) Looker
4 54 (3.99%) Power BI
5 51 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (2.58%) Tableau
7 32 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.92%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.92%) MySQL
9 19 (1.40%) Big Data
9 19 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.81%) Star Schema
12 10 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
14 7 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (6.20%) Git
2 48 (3.54%) JIRA
3 26 (1.92%) LabVIEW
4 21 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
6 15 (1.11%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.03%) Selenium
8 13 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
9 11 (0.81%) Storybook
10 8 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 6 (0.44%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.37%) IntelliJ
12 5 (0.37%) NetBeans
12 5 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.37%) webpack
13 4 (0.30%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.22%) JDeveloper
15 2 (0.15%) JMeter
General
1 638 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 454 (33.51%) Analytical Skills
3 299 (22.07%) Finance
4 172 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 158 (11.66%) Law
6 148 (10.92%) Banking
7 117 (8.63%) Investment Banking
8 111 (8.19%) Retail
9 87 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
10 74 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
11 68 (5.02%) Marketing
12 59 (4.35%) Electronics
13 55 (4.06%) Legal
14 47 (3.47%) Telecoms
15 42 (3.10%) Manufacturing
16 40 (2.95%) Billing
17 34 (2.51%) Aerospace
18 31 (2.29%) Public Sector
19 28 (2.07%) Military
20 27 (1.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 224 (16.53%) Developer
2 213 (15.72%) Senior
3 165 (12.18%) Analyst
4 100 (7.38%) Software Engineer
5 73 (5.39%) Software Developer
6 68 (5.02%) Lead
7 66 (4.87%) Senior Developer
8 61 (4.50%) Architect
9 55 (4.06%) Support Engineer
10 54 (3.99%) Project Manager
11 52 (3.84%) IT Support
12 50 (3.69%) Data Manager
13 44 (3.25%) IT Technician
14 42 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
15 41 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
16 39 (2.88%) Technical Support
17 38 (2.80%) Consultant
18 35 (2.58%) .NET Developer
18 35 (2.58%) Senior Manager
19 34 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (8.04%) .NET
2 90 (6.64%) HTML
2 90 (6.64%) React
3 80 (5.90%) CSS
4 72 (5.31%) AngularJS
5 42 (3.10%) Vue
6 41 (3.03%) Node.js
7 36 (2.66%) .NET Framework
8 27 (1.99%) ASP.NET
9 26 (1.92%) .NET Core
10 25 (1.85%) RESTful
11 21 (1.55%) Entity Framework
12 19 (1.40%) Spring
13 17 (1.25%) Laravel
14 16 (1.18%) LESS
14 16 (1.18%) SOAP
15 15 (1.11%) XML
16 14 (1.03%) WPF
17 12 (0.89%) Gherkin
17 12 (0.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.59%) Self-Motivation
2 68 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 52 (3.84%) Driving Licence
5 44 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 29 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.85%) GNSS
8 25 (1.85%) Robotics
9 24 (1.77%) FPGA
9 24 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.62%) Derivative
11 20 (1.48%) Credit Risk
12 18 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.18%) VHDL
15 15 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.96%) Replication
17 11 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
17 11 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 204 (15.06%) Windows
2 124 (9.15%) Linux
3 43 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 40 (2.95%) Apple iOS
5 35 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.36%) Unix
7 19 (1.40%) Android
8 14 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.96%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.59%) Debian
11 8 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.52%) AIX
12 7 (0.52%) CentOS
13 5 (0.37%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.37%) VMS
14 4 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (21.99%) Agile
2 196 (14.46%) Project Management
3 188 (13.87%) Software Engineering
4 178 (13.14%) DevOps
5 172 (12.69%) Customer Service
6 169 (12.47%) Mentoring
7 154 (11.37%) Computer Science
8 122 (9.00%) Test Automation
9 121 (8.93%) Analytics
10 108 (7.97%) CI/CD
11 98 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (6.86%) ITIL
13 91 (6.72%) Decision-Making
13 91 (6.72%) SDLC
14 89 (6.57%) Full Stack Development
15 84 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
15 84 (6.20%) Scrum
16 83 (6.13%) User Experience
17 81 (5.98%) Project Delivery
18 80 (5.90%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (14.32%) Python
2 170 (12.55%) JavaScript
3 145 (10.70%) C#
4 143 (10.55%) SQL
5 126 (9.30%) Java
6 73 (5.39%) C++
7 62 (4.58%) C
8 57 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.25%) PHP
10 38 (2.80%) MATLAB
11 29 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 24 (1.77%) R
13 19 (1.40%) VB
14 18 (1.33%) Bash
14 18 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.96%) Scala
16 12 (0.89%) Perl
17 10 (0.74%) Ada
17 10 (0.74%) Swift
18 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 399 (29.45%) Degree
2 195 (14.39%) Security Cleared
3 90 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 58 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.32%) Master's Degree
6 39 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.51%) A+ Certification
8 32 (2.36%) DV Cleared
9 30 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.92%) DBS Check
11 24 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.70%) HND
13 19 (1.40%) CISSP
14 17 (1.25%) HNC
15 14 (1.03%) MCP
16 13 (0.96%) AWS Certification
17 12 (0.89%) CCNA
17 12 (0.89%) CCNP
17 12 (0.89%) OSCP
18 11 (0.81%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (8.56%) QA
2 46 (3.39%) GDPR
3 45 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.92%) SLA
5 24 (1.77%) PMO
6 16 (1.18%) NIST
7 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.74%) ISO 9001
9 9 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.66%) IEC 61508
10 8 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.44%) SEPA
13 5 (0.37%) TARGET2
13 5 (0.37%) TickIT
13 5 (0.37%) WCAG
14 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 86 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 55 (4.06%) Docker
3 42 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.99%) Firmware
5 21 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 11 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.37%) vSphere
10 4 (0.30%) NFS
10 4 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.22%) KVM
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (3.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.77%) Ansible
3 17 (1.25%) Terraform
4 12 (0.89%) SCCM
5 7 (0.52%) WSUS
6 6 (0.44%) Puppet
7 5 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.37%) Graphite
7 5 (0.37%) Nagios
7 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.30%) Grafana
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
11 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.074%) Packer
11 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 287 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.79%) Google
3 48 (3.54%) VMware
4 39 (2.88%) Oracle
5 26 (1.92%) Cisco
6 18 (1.33%) IBM
7 16 (1.18%) Apple
7 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.18%) Xamarin
8 13 (0.96%) Databricks
9 11 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 11 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 11 (0.81%) Sophos
10 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.66%) Adobe
11 9 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.66%) UiPath
11 9 (0.66%) Veeam
12 8 (0.59%) Altera
12 8 (0.59%) Motorola