Creative Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 560 625
Rank change year-on-year +163 +65 +126
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 199 201 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 160 89 69
10th Percentile - £34,000 £37,700
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.80% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £42,627 £65,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £61,250 - £116,250
UK median annual salary £40,101 £52,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.62% -30.00% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Creative 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,036 59,839 56,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.94% 83.54% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,067 41,285 29,232
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
North of England +9 51 £40,101 -33.17% 41
South East +115 42 £40,101 -23.62% 56
Yorkshire +78 31 £40,101 -15.58% 10
Scotland +135 28 £40,101 -15.58% 2
Midlands +63 27 £40,101 -34.53% 15
South West +88 25 £40,101 -5.65% 13
North West -51 20 £40,101 -33.17% 27
East of England +52 19 £40,101 +33.67% 22
East Midlands +34 16 £40,101 -49.87% 4
West Midlands +54 11 £45,000 -21.74% 11
Wales +47 7 £40,101 - 1
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 5 (2.51%) IBM Domino
2 3 (1.51%) CMS
Applications
1 140 (70.35%) Simulink
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.51%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.50%) Blender
3 1 (0.50%) CATIA
3 1 (0.50%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 138 (69.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.03%) AWS
1 10 (5.03%) Azure
2 5 (2.51%) Figma
2 5 (2.51%) Kibo
3 4 (2.01%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.01%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.51%) GCP
5 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.50%) dbt
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.50%) GitHub
5 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) MySQL
2 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.02%) Data Hub
4 4 (2.01%) Power BI
5 3 (1.51%) Tableau
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 138 (69.35%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (2.51%) Git
3 3 (1.51%) GitLab
4 2 (1.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) Vite
4 2 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 166 (83.42%) Social Skills
2 142 (71.36%) Electronics
3 140 (70.35%) Aerospace
4 16 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.03%) Finance
6 6 (3.02%) Banking
7 5 (2.51%) Brand Awareness
7 5 (2.51%) Law
8 4 (2.01%) Czech Language
8 4 (2.01%) Marketing
9 3 (1.51%) Automotive
9 3 (1.51%) Aviation
9 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.51%) Retail
10 2 (1.01%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.01%) Avionics
11 1 (0.50%) Games
11 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 140 (70.35%) Junior
1 140 (70.35%) Systems Engineer
2 138 (69.35%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 14 (7.04%) Developer
4 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (4.52%) Senior
5 7 (3.52%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 7 (3.52%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (3.02%) Designer
6 6 (3.02%) Lead
7 5 (2.51%) Graduate
7 5 (2.51%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 5 (2.51%) Product Designer
7 5 (2.51%) Software Engineer
8 4 (2.01%) .NET Developer
8 4 (2.01%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (2.01%) Project Manager
8 4 (2.01%) Sales Executive
8 4 (2.01%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (2.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.52%) Node.js
2 7 (3.52%) Middleware
2 7 (3.52%) Svelte
3 6 (3.02%) CSS
3 6 (3.02%) HTML
3 6 (3.02%) jQuery
3 6 (3.02%) Vue
4 5 (2.51%) .NET
4 5 (2.51%) React
5 4 (2.01%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.01%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.01%) Flutter
6 3 (1.51%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.51%) HTML5
7 2 (1.01%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.01%) CSS3
7 2 (1.01%) Laravel
7 2 (1.01%) Sass
8 1 (0.50%) Pandas
8 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.52%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (3.02%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.51%) Social Media
4 4 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.51%) Android
1 5 (2.51%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.01%) Windows
3 2 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 153 (76.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 145 (72.86%) Project Management
4 141 (70.85%) Computer Science
5 140 (70.35%) Systems Engineering
6 138 (69.35%) Mathematics
6 138 (69.35%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 138 (69.35%) Physics
6 138 (69.35%) PLM
6 138 (69.35%) SysML
6 138 (69.35%) UML
7 20 (10.05%) Agile
8 15 (7.54%) User Experience
9 12 (6.03%) Actionable Insight
10 11 (5.53%) E-Commerce
11 9 (4.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (4.52%) Web Development
12 8 (4.02%) CI/CD
12 8 (4.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 140 (70.35%) MATLAB
2 17 (8.54%) JavaScript
3 10 (5.03%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.52%) C
5 5 (2.51%) C#
6 3 (1.51%) Java
7 2 (1.01%) Embedded C
7 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.01%) PHP
8 1 (0.50%) Python
8 1 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 147 (73.87%) Degree
2 138 (69.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.51%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.01%) HNC
5 2 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.02%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (1.51%) QA
3 2 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.51%) Docker
Vendors
1 138 (69.35%) IBM
2 8 (4.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.01%) HubSpot
4 3 (1.51%) Adobe
4 3 (1.51%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Alias
6 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg