Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 8,158 11,258 7,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.03% 14.52% 13.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.36% 18.02% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,229 6,757 3,790
10th Percentile £25,084 £25,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% -10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 38,188 62,476 50,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.09% 80.60% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 19,383 42,107 28,435
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

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 Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +4 2,494 £37,750 -16.11% 1,661
South East +2 1,845 £42,500 -5.56% 1,670
North West -1 1,277 £46,000 -1.08% 956
Midlands +1 1,221 £40,101 +0.25% 965
South West +4 801 £32,500 -32.29% 698
Yorkshire -2 791 £33,750 -21.51% 530
East of England 0 673 £35,000 -22.22% 645
West Midlands -2 665 £45,000 +5.88% 591
Wales +3 653 £25,087 -39.69% 188
East Midlands +4 555 £37,000 -1.33% 362
Scotland +12 451 £40,101 -15.58% 408
North East +4 426 £25,087 -39.75% 192
Northern Ireland 0 39 £55,000 +28.50% 150
Channel Islands - 6 £80,000 - 1
Isle of Man +1 2 £34,500 -6.76% 1
Problem-Solving
UK

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
1 207 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 171 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (0.76%) CMS
4 49 (0.60%) Confluence
5 44 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 42 (0.51%) Apache
7 41 (0.50%) IIS
8 33 (0.40%) IBM Domino
9 23 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 21 (0.26%) Umbraco
11 17 (0.21%) OpenEdge
12 15 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 13 (0.16%) WordPress
14 12 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
15 10 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
16 8 (0.098%) Camunda
16 8 (0.098%) nginx
17 7 (0.086%) Headless CMS
17 7 (0.086%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.086%) SAS
Applications
1 356 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 280 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 252 (3.09%) Simulink
4 106 (1.30%) Mathcad
5 49 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 32 (0.39%) Trello
8 30 (0.37%) MS Visio
9 14 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 13 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 10 (0.12%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 6 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
14 5 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
15 4 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
16 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
16 3 (0.037%) InDesign
17 2 (0.025%) Adobe After Effects
17 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
17 2 (0.025%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 138 (1.69%) Teamcenter
2 76 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 43 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 22 (0.27%) Shopify
7 18 (0.22%) Sage 200
8 17 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
9 16 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 16 (0.20%) Sage CRM
10 13 (0.16%) SAP Business One
11 11 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 11 (0.13%) SAP WM
12 10 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
12 10 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
13 8 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
13 8 (0.098%) Primavera
14 7 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
14 7 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
15 6 (0.074%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (13.28%) Azure
2 646 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
3 531 (6.51%) AWS
4 318 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 227 (2.78%) GCP
6 183 (2.24%) SaaS
7 151 (1.85%) Serverless
8 125 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 92 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
11 82 (1.01%) Power Automate
12 76 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
13 64 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 60 (0.74%) GitHub
15 53 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 50 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (0.59%) PowerApps
18 46 (0.56%) Amazon S3
18 46 (0.56%) PaaS
19 44 (0.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1,531 (18.77%) Broadband
2 502 (6.15%) VPN
3 336 (4.12%) Firewall
4 282 (3.46%) Cisco IOS
5 207 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 196 (2.40%) DNS
7 153 (1.88%) WAN
8 145 (1.78%) LAN
9 136 (1.67%) DHCP
10 100 (1.23%) VLAN
11 94 (1.15%) Network Security
12 91 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
13 66 (0.81%) VoIP
14 61 (0.75%) SAN
15 44 (0.54%) Wireless
16 36 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
17 34 (0.42%) SD-WAN
18 33 (0.40%) IP Telephony
19 29 (0.36%) NAS
20 27 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 284 (3.48%) Power BI
3 138 (1.69%) MySQL
4 116 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 81 (0.99%) Big Data
6 76 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 76 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 68 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 68 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 63 (0.77%) Tableau
9 62 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 58 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 52 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 46 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 44 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
15 36 (0.44%) Metadata
16 33 (0.40%) Redis
17 24 (0.29%) DynamoDB
17 24 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 227 (2.78%) Git
2 198 (2.43%) JIRA
3 150 (1.84%) Rational DOORS
4 71 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 69 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 62 (0.76%) Robot Framework
7 44 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 39 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 34 (0.42%) JUnit
10 32 (0.39%) GitLab
11 24 (0.29%) Maven
11 24 (0.29%) Selenium
11 24 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 22 (0.27%) MSBuild
13 19 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 17 (0.21%) Cypress.io
15 16 (0.20%) Postman
16 13 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
17 12 (0.15%) Mockito
18 11 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 3,321 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 1,939 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1,409 (17.27%) Games
4 1,384 (16.96%) Banking
5 1,262 (15.47%) Finance
6 1,105 (13.54%) Manufacturing
7 1,091 (13.37%) Retail
8 630 (7.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 442 (5.42%) Electronics
10 374 (4.58%) Law
11 302 (3.70%) Marketing
12 260 (3.19%) Telecoms
13 252 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
14 194 (2.38%) Dutch Language
15 192 (2.35%) Finnish Language
15 192 (2.35%) Norwegian Language
16 184 (2.26%) Aerospace
17 172 (2.11%) Legal
18 106 (1.30%) Public Sector
19 97 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,230 (15.08%) Customer Service Advisor
2 979 (12.00%) Senior
3 737 (9.03%) Analyst
4 720 (8.83%) Trainer
5 574 (7.04%) Lead
6 538 (6.59%) Developer
7 462 (5.66%) IT Support
8 343 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 343 (4.20%) Support Engineer
8 343 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
9 297 (3.64%) Support Analyst
10 248 (3.04%) Technical Support
11 218 (2.67%) Junior
12 206 (2.53%) 2nd Line Support
13 187 (2.29%) Software Engineer
14 140 (1.72%) 1st Line Support
14 140 (1.72%) Technical Engineer
15 138 (1.69%) Junior Systems Engineer
16 136 (1.67%) Applications Support
17 135 (1.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
2 272 (3.33%) .NET
3 215 (2.64%) HTML
4 205 (2.51%) CSS
5 172 (2.11%) React
6 127 (1.56%) REST
7 102 (1.25%) RESTful
8 98 (1.20%) ASP.NET
9 92 (1.13%) Node.js
10 83 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 81 (0.99%) XML
12 80 (0.98%) AngularJS
13 77 (0.94%) Spring
14 74 (0.91%) JSON
15 67 (0.82%) Spring Boot
16 66 (0.81%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 65 (0.80%) WebGL
18 60 (0.74%) .NET Framework
19 56 (0.69%) .NET Core
19 56 (0.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 748 (9.17%) Robotics
2 354 (4.34%) Cyberattack
3 335 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 292 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 216 (2.65%) Driving Licence
6 171 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 157 (1.92%) FMCG
8 156 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 150 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 99 (1.21%) Operational Technology
11 84 (1.03%) Social Media
12 81 (0.99%) Product Ownership
13 80 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 79 (0.97%) Manufacturing Execution System
15 71 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
16 69 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
17 68 (0.83%) Animation
18 61 (0.75%) Mobile App
19 58 (0.71%) IoT
19 58 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,202 (14.73%) Windows
2 565 (6.93%) Linux
3 356 (4.36%) Android
4 283 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 154 (1.89%) Windows 10
6 108 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 78 (0.96%) Unix
8 53 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 34 (0.42%) Windows Vista
10 26 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 25 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.098%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.074%) CentOS
15 6 (0.074%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.061%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 4 (0.049%) VMS
17 4 (0.049%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.025%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,055 (25.19%) Customer Service
2 1,113 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1,054 (12.92%) Machine Learning
4 975 (11.95%) Agile
5 957 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 896 (10.98%) Mentoring
7 797 (9.77%) LLM
8 783 (9.60%) Generative AI
9 742 (9.10%) Computer Science
10 723 (8.86%) DevOps
11 721 (8.84%) Red Team
12 712 (8.73%) Mathematics
13 702 (8.61%) Project Management
14 633 (7.76%) Data Privacy
15 593 (7.27%) Decision-Making
16 498 (6.10%) Software Engineering
17 479 (5.87%) Analytics
18 478 (5.86%) Roadmaps
19 453 (5.55%) Systems Engineering
20 401 (4.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 939 (11.51%) Python
2 780 (9.56%) SQL
3 499 (6.12%) PowerShell
4 414 (5.07%) JavaScript
5 378 (4.63%) Bash
6 345 (4.23%) C#
7 333 (4.08%) Java
8 254 (3.11%) MATLAB
9 180 (2.21%) TypeScript
10 122 (1.50%) C++
11 113 (1.39%) PHP
12 65 (0.80%) HLSL
13 60 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 51 (0.63%) C
15 39 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 28 (0.34%) VBA
17 26 (0.32%) Shell Script
18 25 (0.31%) Rust
19 22 (0.27%) R
20 18 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2,381 (29.19%) Degree
2 528 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 430 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 260 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 226 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 189 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 175 (2.15%) DBS Check
8 137 (1.68%) HNC
9 134 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 115 (1.41%) SC Cleared
11 102 (1.25%) A+ Certification
12 97 (1.19%) PhD
13 95 (1.16%) HND
14 89 (1.09%) PMP
15 85 (1.04%) PMI Certification
16 73 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
17 69 (0.85%) Azure Certification
18 53 (0.65%) CCNA
18 53 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
19 45 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (3.65%) QA
2 166 (2.03%) GDPR
3 143 (1.75%) SLA
4 122 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 112 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 99 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 62 (0.76%) Accessibility
8 50 (0.61%) NIST
9 36 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (0.29%) ISO 9001
10 24 (0.29%) PMO
11 22 (0.27%) DO-254
12 19 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 15 (0.18%) COBIT
16 14 (0.17%) PCI DSS
16 14 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.16%) WCAG
18 11 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 491 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 473 (5.80%) Docker
3 382 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 275 (3.37%) vSphere
5 267 (3.27%) VMware NSX
6 149 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 80 (0.98%) Firmware
8 30 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 22 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
11 14 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
12 11 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.098%) HDFS
14 7 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.049%) Dovecot
16 4 (0.049%) NFS
16 4 (0.049%) Postfix
16 4 (0.049%) XenApp
17 3 (0.037%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 406 (4.98%) Terraform
2 314 (3.85%) Ansible
3 220 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 149 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.31%) Grafana
6 23 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 21 (0.26%) SCCM
8 15 (0.18%) QRadar
9 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
10 9 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.086%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.086%) Puppet
12 6 (0.074%) AirWatch
12 6 (0.074%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.074%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.061%) Kibana
13 5 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,297 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 1,295 (15.87%) BT
3 893 (10.95%) Google
4 801 (9.82%) Databricks
5 740 (9.07%) Adobe
6 446 (5.47%) Cisco
7 307 (3.76%) Splunk
8 290 (3.55%) Juniper
9 260 (3.19%) 3PAR
10 209 (2.56%) SAP
11 193 (2.37%) VMware
12 180 (2.21%) Oracle
13 177 (2.17%) IBM
14 112 (1.37%) Salesforce
15 106 (1.30%) MathWorks
16 89 (1.09%) ServiceNow
17 75 (0.92%) Rockwell
17 75 (0.92%) Siemens
18 46 (0.56%) Apple
19 44 (0.54%) YouTube