Problem-Solving Jobs in the Thames Valley

Problem Solving
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 593 1,208 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.51% 17.91% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.95% 21.02% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 281 720 402
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £25,726
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,920 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -4.62% -14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £59,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £83,750 £71,250 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,830 5,747 5,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.09% 85.19% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 4,024 3,153
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +2 281 £62,000 +55.00% 256
Buckinghamshire -1 211 £50,967 +13.26% 187
Oxfordshire -2 101 £47,500 +11.76% 147
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.35%) Apache
3 8 (1.35%) CMS
4 6 (1.01%) IIS
5 5 (0.84%) IBM Domino
6 4 (0.67%) Kentico
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.51%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.34%) Sitefinity
8 2 (0.34%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.17%) Blender
4 1 (0.17%) CATIA
4 1 (0.17%) InDesign
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
4 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.17%) Pipeline Pilot
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (3.20%) Shopify
2 4 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.67%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.17%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (15.68%) Azure
2 59 (9.95%) Power Platform
3 51 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (6.75%) AWS
5 28 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.22%) GCP
7 23 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 22 (3.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (3.71%) SonarCloud
9 20 (3.37%) Google Ads
9 20 (3.37%) Google Analytics
9 20 (3.37%) Google Tag Manager
10 15 (2.53%) Vertex AI
11 12 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.52%) SaaS
13 8 (1.35%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.01%) Salsify
15 5 (0.84%) Serverless
16 4 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.29%) TCP/IP
2 54 (9.11%) VPN
3 30 (5.06%) DNS
4 20 (3.37%) DHCP
4 20 (3.37%) Firewall
5 14 (2.36%) VLAN
6 10 (1.69%) Network Security
7 9 (1.52%) VoIP
8 6 (1.01%) Internet
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.84%) SNMP
9 5 (0.84%) WAN
10 4 (0.67%) DWDM
10 4 (0.67%) LAN
10 4 (0.67%) MPLS
11 3 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.51%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.51%) VSAN
11 3 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.43%) Power BI
2 30 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.72%) Geospatial Data
3 28 (4.72%) GIS
3 28 (4.72%) Power Query
4 24 (4.05%) Data Mining
5 22 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (2.70%) OLTP
7 11 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.18%) MySQL
10 7 (1.18%) Tableau
11 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.01%) Metadata
12 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.67%) Metabase
14 3 (0.51%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.58%) Git
2 34 (5.73%) Cucumber
2 34 (5.73%) Robot Framework
3 22 (3.71%) MSBuild
3 22 (3.71%) Octopus Deploy
3 22 (3.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 22 (3.71%) Visual Studio
4 20 (3.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.01%) GitLab
6 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.67%) JUnit
7 4 (0.67%) Subversion
8 3 (0.51%) Mockito
9 2 (0.34%) MLflow
9 2 (0.34%) Mocha
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) Babel
10 1 (0.17%) Redmine
10 1 (0.17%) Vite
10 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 311 (52.45%) Social Skills
2 177 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (17.37%) Law
4 95 (16.02%) Finance
5 85 (14.33%) Retail
6 75 (12.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (8.09%) Telecoms
8 42 (7.08%) Marketing
9 34 (5.73%) Manufacturing
10 31 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (3.04%) Legal
12 17 (2.87%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.35%) Local Government
16 7 (1.18%) Electronics
17 6 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.84%) Back Office
18 5 (0.84%) Banking
18 5 (0.84%) Games
Job Titles
1 113 (19.06%) Lead
2 111 (18.72%) Senior
3 62 (10.46%) Analyst
4 43 (7.25%) Developer
5 36 (6.07%) Test Engineer
6 34 (5.73%) Support Engineer
6 34 (5.73%) Test Automation Engineer
7 31 (5.23%) Architect
8 30 (5.06%) IT Support
9 27 (4.55%) Business Change Analyst
9 27 (4.55%) Change Analyst
10 23 (3.88%) Technical Architect
10 23 (3.88%) Technical Manager
11 22 (3.71%) IT Engineer
12 19 (3.20%) PPC Executive
12 19 (3.20%) Senior Manager
13 18 (3.04%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.87%) IT Support Engineer
14 17 (2.87%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.70%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.59%) HTML
2 41 (6.91%) XML
3 37 (6.24%) .NET
4 30 (5.06%) REST
5 29 (4.89%) CSS
6 25 (4.22%) JSON
7 24 (4.05%) ASP.NET
8 23 (3.88%) Bootstrap
9 22 (3.71%) gRPC
10 19 (3.20%) SOAP
11 16 (2.70%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.19%) React
13 8 (1.35%) Kafka
14 6 (1.01%) HTML5
14 6 (1.01%) Node.js
15 5 (0.84%) RESTful
15 5 (0.84%) Spring
15 5 (0.84%) Vue
16 4 (0.67%) .NET Framework
16 4 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.46%) Algorithms
2 40 (6.75%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (3.54%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.37%) Driving Licence
5 14 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.18%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.01%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.67%) CCTV
11 4 (0.67%) CPLD
11 4 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.67%) FPGA
11 4 (0.67%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.51%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 105 (17.71%) Windows
2 55 (9.27%) Linux
3 20 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.20%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.52%) Android
7 5 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.34%) Unix
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (17.71%) DevOps
2 104 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 100 (16.86%) Strategic Thinking
4 89 (15.01%) Agile
5 84 (14.17%) Change Management
6 72 (12.14%) Analytics
7 70 (11.80%) Roadmaps
8 69 (11.64%) Coaching
9 65 (10.96%) Customer Service
10 64 (10.79%) Process Improvement
11 62 (10.46%) Project Management
11 62 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 61 (10.29%) Mentoring
12 61 (10.29%) Service Delivery
13 60 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence
14 54 (9.11%) Use Case
15 50 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
15 50 (8.43%) Business Transformation
16 47 (7.93%) Collaborative Working
16 47 (7.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (19.56%) SQL
2 73 (12.31%) Python
3 70 (11.80%) JavaScript
4 51 (8.60%) PowerShell
5 42 (7.08%) C#
6 35 (5.90%) Bash
7 16 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.36%) C++
9 13 (2.19%) Java
10 6 (1.01%) Go
11 4 (0.67%) C
11 4 (0.67%) R
11 4 (0.67%) Ruby
11 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.51%) PHP
13 2 (0.34%) VBScript
14 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) VB
14 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (17.71%) Degree
2 34 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 27 (4.55%) CBAP
4 22 (3.71%) PMI Certification
4 22 (3.71%) PMP
5 20 (3.37%) MCP
6 19 (3.20%) NVQ Level 3
6 19 (3.20%) NVQ Level 4
7 17 (2.87%) Security Cleared
8 16 (2.70%) A+ Certification
9 15 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.19%) SC Cleared
11 11 (1.85%) MCSA
12 10 (1.69%) MCSE
13 8 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 7 (1.18%) ACCA
14 7 (1.18%) CCNP
14 7 (1.18%) CIMA
15 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.09%) QA
2 24 (4.05%) GDPR
3 12 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.35%) SLA
6 4 (0.67%) GMP
7 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.17%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.17%) GxP
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.17%) PMO
8 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (7.08%) Active Directory
1 42 (7.08%) Docker
2 14 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.51%) HDFS
5 3 (0.51%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.51%) vSphere
6 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 20 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.85%) Terraform
3 6 (1.01%) ZABBIX
4 4 (0.67%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.51%) PaperCut
5 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.34%) vRealize
7 1 (0.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.17%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 144 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.93%) SAP
3 44 (7.42%) Google
4 22 (3.71%) Oracle
4 22 (3.71%) VMware
5 20 (3.37%) IBM
5 20 (3.37%) Workday
6 19 (3.20%) Concur
7 17 (2.87%) Cisco
8 16 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.53%) Pinterest
9 15 (2.53%) TikTok
10 12 (2.02%) Databricks
11 7 (1.18%) Apple
12 5 (0.84%) Dell
12 5 (0.84%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.84%) Veeam
13 4 (0.67%) Agilent
13 4 (0.67%) Fortinet
14 3 (0.51%) SonicWALL