Creative Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative 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 568 625 745
Rank change year-on-year +57 +120 -142
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 192 136 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 88 68 69
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,242 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £49,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +22.73% +18.92%
75th Percentile £65,000 £112,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £115,375 £75,450
UK median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Creative 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +124 85 £60,000 +36.36% 31
North West +68 57 £60,000 -11.11% 17
South West +8 38 £42,500 -15.00% 15
Yorkshire +103 24 £47,500 +15.85% 12
Midlands +3 23 £61,250 -2.00% 15
Scotland -49 18 £55,000 +2.90% 11
West Midlands +21 17 £57,500 -8.00% 5
South East -19 16 £52,500 -50.00% 24
Northern Ireland +32 7 - - 1
East Midlands -12 6 £80,000 +220.00% 10
North East -1 4 £42,750 +84.45% 2
East of England -38 4 £30,000 -60.00% 2
Wales - 1 - - 11
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) CMS
2 2 (1.04%) WordPress
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) Moodle
Applications
1 36 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.56%) UserZoom
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.04%) CINEMA 4D
5 2 (1.04%) InDesign
5 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.04%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.10%) Azure
2 19 (9.90%) AWS
3 13 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.21%) GitHub
5 7 (3.65%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.65%) Pulumi
5 7 (3.65%) SaaS
6 6 (3.13%) Azure AKS
6 6 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (3.13%) Datadog
7 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.60%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.08%) Figma
8 4 (2.08%) Miro
9 3 (1.56%) dbt
9 3 (1.56%) GCP
10 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) VPN
2 5 (2.60%) Firewall
2 5 (2.60%) NAS
2 5 (2.60%) OSPF
2 5 (2.60%) Wireless
3 3 (1.56%) Internet
4 2 (1.04%) RS-232
4 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.98%) MySQL
2 7 (3.65%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.65%) Power BI
3 6 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (3.13%) MariaDB
3 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.13%) Redis
4 4 (2.08%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.04%) QlikView
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) GIS
7 1 (0.52%) OLTP
7 1 (0.52%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.73%) JIRA
2 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.08%) Appium
4 4 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.08%) ESLint
4 4 (2.08%) Gatling
4 4 (2.08%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.08%) JBehave
4 4 (2.08%) JMeter
4 4 (2.08%) JUnit
4 4 (2.08%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.56%) Git
6 2 (1.04%) webpack
7 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 57 (29.69%) Retail
3 45 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (19.79%) Marketing
5 28 (14.58%) Finance
6 23 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.29%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.77%) Military
9 12 (6.25%) Banking
10 10 (5.21%) Law
11 9 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (4.17%) Legal
13 7 (3.65%) Games
14 6 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (2.60%) Investment Banking
16 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
17 1 (0.52%) Billing
17 1 (0.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 30 (15.63%) Senior
2 19 (9.90%) Developer
3 18 (9.38%) Analyst
4 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.77%) Technical Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Electrical Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Lead
6 12 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 12 (6.25%) Senior Electrical Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Architect
8 10 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Senior Manager
9 9 (4.69%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (4.17%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.73%) .NET
2 9 (4.69%) React
3 7 (3.65%) HTML
4 6 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.60%) CSS
5 5 (2.60%) Vue
6 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.08%) Jest
6 4 (2.08%) Laravel
6 4 (2.08%) Redux
6 4 (2.08%) REST
7 3 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.56%) XML
8 2 (1.04%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.04%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.04%) HTML5
8 2 (1.04%) Parceljs
9 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.94%) Renewable Energy
2 17 (8.85%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.69%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.65%) Fibre Optics
5 7 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.65%) NHS
6 6 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.04%) Blog
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.52%) Molecular Biology
9 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.81%) Android
1 15 (7.81%) Apple iOS
2 10 (5.21%) Windows
3 8 (4.17%) Linux
4 6 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.60%) VMS
5 5 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (38.54%) Agile
3 53 (27.60%) Collaborative Culture
4 49 (25.52%) Analytics
5 35 (18.23%) Collaborative Working
6 29 (15.10%) Business Development
7 26 (13.54%) User Experience
8 20 (10.42%) DevOps
8 20 (10.42%) Time Management
9 19 (9.90%) Logistics
9 19 (9.90%) Project Management
10 17 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (7.81%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (6.77%) Data Science
14 13 (6.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.77%) Migration
15 11 (5.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.71%) C#
2 29 (15.10%) Python
3 26 (13.54%) SQL
4 25 (13.02%) Java
5 20 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.25%) PHP
7 11 (5.73%) Ruby
7 11 (5.73%) TypeScript
8 10 (5.21%) Swift
9 9 (4.69%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.65%) Go
10 7 (3.65%) Groovy
11 6 (3.13%) Bash
12 2 (1.04%) R
12 2 (1.04%) Tcl
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) VB
13 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (16.15%) Degree
2 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.77%) HNC
4 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.08%) HND
7 3 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.56%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) QA
2 5 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.60%) SEPA
2 5 (2.60%) TARGET2
3 4 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (3.65%) Docker
2 5 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 8 (4.17%) Terraform
2 7 (3.65%) Prometheus
3 6 (3.13%) Ansible
3 6 (3.13%) Grafana
3 6 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 6 (3.13%) Puppet
4 5 (2.60%) Graphite
5 1 (0.52%) Consul
5 1 (0.52%) Packer
5 1 (0.52%) SCCM
5 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.13%) New Relic
2 6 (3.13%) SaltStack
2 6 (3.13%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.60%) Apple
3 5 (2.60%) Aruba
3 5 (2.60%) CheckPoint
3 5 (2.60%) Cisco
3 5 (2.60%) HP
3 5 (2.60%) Juniper
3 5 (2.60%) Meraki
3 5 (2.60%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.60%) VMware
4 3 (1.56%) Qualtrics
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe
5 2 (1.04%) Databricks
5 2 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) ESRI
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Salesforce