Problem-Solving Jobs in Staffordshire

Problem Solving
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 7 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 142 154 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 20.85% 13.18% 11.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.02% 16.04% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24 53 42
10th Percentile £26,968 £23,000 £22,000
25th Percentile £37,375 £26,250 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,474 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.35% -6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £51,108
90th Percentile £68,375 £57,000 £58,750
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 473 960 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 69.46% 82.19% 93.02%
Number of salaries quoted 209 641 353
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,625 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,580 £28,119 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,060 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -7.91% -3.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Staffordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Staffordshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Staffordshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Burton-upon-Trent +14 24 £37,500 +7.14% 1
Stoke-on-Trent +7 18 £57,500 +105.36% 14
Leek +2 18 £51,887 +15.30% 1
Lichfield -2 17 - - 5
Cannock -4 17 £38,000 +1.33% 2
Rugeley +4 15 - -
Burntwood 0 15 - -
Tamworth +12 9 - - 3
Problem-Solving
West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (1.41%) CMS
1 2 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.70%) IIS
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.70%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.70%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.97%) Azure
2 6 (4.23%) AWS
2 6 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (4.23%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
3 2 (1.41%) GCP
3 2 (1.41%) SaaS
4 1 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (0.70%) CloudFront
4 1 (0.70%) GitHub
4 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.70%) Serverless
4 1 (0.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) Broadband
2 2 (1.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.41%) VLAN
2 2 (1.41%) WAN
3 1 (0.70%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.70%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) Power BI
1 6 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.52%) Metadata
3 2 (1.41%) MySQL
3 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Git
1 4 (2.82%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.41%) webpack
3 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.70%) ERwin
3 1 (0.70%) Postman
3 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.70%) Subversion
3 1 (0.70%) TestComplete
3 1 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 101 (71.13%) Retail
2 90 (63.38%) Manufacturing
3 35 (24.65%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.90%) Dutch Language
4 24 (16.90%) Finnish Language
4 24 (16.90%) Norwegian Language
5 21 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (9.86%) Finance
7 9 (6.34%) Digital Health
8 6 (4.23%) Catalan Language
9 5 (3.52%) Banking
9 5 (3.52%) Games
10 3 (2.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.41%) Automotive
11 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.41%) Marketing
11 2 (1.41%) Police
11 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (63.38%) Trainer
2 10 (7.04%) Developer
3 5 (3.52%) Customer Service Advisor
3 5 (3.52%) Data Modeller
3 5 (3.52%) SQL Developer
4 4 (2.82%) Database Developer
4 4 (2.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (2.82%) Infrastructure Support Technician
4 4 (2.82%) Infrastructure Technician
4 4 (2.82%) IT Support
4 4 (2.82%) IT Support Technician
4 4 (2.82%) IT Technician
4 4 (2.82%) Support Technician
5 3 (2.11%) Administrator
5 3 (2.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (2.11%) SQL Database Developer
6 2 (1.41%) Analyst
6 2 (1.41%) Architect
6 2 (1.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (1.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) .NET
1 4 (2.82%) CSS
2 3 (2.11%) HTML
2 3 (2.11%) React
3 2 (1.41%) JSON
3 2 (1.41%) Vue
3 2 (1.41%) XML
4 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.70%) CSS3
4 1 (0.70%) Django
4 1 (0.70%) EDI
4 1 (0.70%) Electron
4 1 (0.70%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (0.70%) jQuery
4 1 (0.70%) React Native
4 1 (0.70%) REST
4 1 (0.70%) SOAP
4 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (63.38%) Robotics
2 10 (7.04%) FMCG
3 5 (3.52%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.52%) Linux
1 5 (3.52%) Windows
1 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.82%) Windows 10
2 4 (2.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (66.20%) Artificial Intelligence
2 90 (63.38%) Generative AI
2 90 (63.38%) LLM
2 90 (63.38%) Machine Learning
2 90 (63.38%) Red Team
3 66 (46.48%) Data Privacy
4 19 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (7.75%) Logistics
6 9 (6.34%) Preventative Maintenance
7 7 (4.93%) Agile
7 7 (4.93%) Decision-Making
8 6 (4.23%) Biochemistry
8 6 (4.23%) Biology
8 6 (4.23%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (4.23%) Chemistry
8 6 (4.23%) Customer Service
9 5 (3.52%) Logical Data Model
9 5 (3.52%) Metadata Management
9 5 (3.52%) Physical Data Model
9 5 (3.52%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.34%) SQL
2 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
2 4 (2.82%) T-SQL
3 3 (2.11%) C#
3 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.41%) Python
5 1 (0.70%) C++
5 1 (0.70%) Java
5 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.70%) PHP
5 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (68.31%) Degree
2 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
3 3 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (2.11%) CCSP
3 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.11%) CISSP
3 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.70%) ACCA
4 1 (0.70%) CIMA
4 1 (0.70%) CISM
4 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
4 1 (0.70%) HNC
4 1 (0.70%) HND
4 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.82%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.70%) COBIT
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 95 (66.90%) Databricks
2 90 (63.38%) Adobe
2 90 (63.38%) Google
3 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.52%) BT
5 4 (2.82%) Oracle
5 4 (2.82%) VMware
6 3 (2.11%) Cisco
7 2 (1.41%) Avaya
7 2 (1.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.41%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.70%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.70%) Meraki
8 1 (0.70%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) SAP
8 1 (0.70%) Siemens