Problem-Solving Jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Problem Solving
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 18 32 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 16.82% 8.33% 10.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% 10.19% 11.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 25 22
10th Percentile £26,968 £22,750 £22,150
25th Percentile £32,625 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £28,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -27.74% -3.13%
75th Percentile £61,250 £40,812 £54,688
90th Percentile £68,750 £56,000 £58,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £51,447 £35,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year +46.99% -9.68% -8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 314 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 89.72% 81.77% 97.32%
Number of salaries quoted 48 267 153
10th Percentile £28,000 £22,610 £23,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,501 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,750 £62,500 £67,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £40,000 £40,060 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.15% -10.98% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Stoke-on-Trent

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Stoke-on-Trent.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Stoke-on-Trent

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Stoke-on-Trent

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Games
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Automotive
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Customer Service Advisor
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support Technician
1 5 (27.78%) IT Technician
1 5 (27.78%) Support Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Database Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Technician
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Database Developer
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Electron
1 1 (5.56%) Ionic Framework
1 1 (5.56%) Jest
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) Parceljs
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
1 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
1 5 (27.78%) Windows 7
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (11.11%) B2B
4 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
4 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (11.11%) Coaching
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Pay per click
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) SEO
4 2 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Scrum
5 1 (5.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
1 4 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.56%) CCSP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) BT
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle