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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 7,107 8,624 9,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.92% 16.49% 14.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.29% 18.88% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,788 5,563 4,066
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,650 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,938 £31,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,125 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,400
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.89% +8.07%

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 38,849 45,689 59,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.51% 87.38% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,186 33,270 31,803
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,786 £84,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 0 1,674 £45,814 +1.53% 934
South East 0 1,511 £50,967 +13.26% 1,286
Midlands +2 1,187 £51,000 +20.00% 560
Scotland +13 1,122 £50,000 +5.26% 164
North West -1 937 £47,683 +0.39% 510
West Midlands +3 799 £55,000 +29.41% 333
South West +5 760 £52,500 +11.11% 398
East of England 0 681 £50,967 +19.92% 420
Yorkshire +3 535 £42,973 -4.50% 308
East Midlands -1 385 £39,500 -1.17% 212
North East +3 202 £43,843 +2.86% 128
Wales -4 142 £52,250 +27.23% 81
Northern Ireland -3 44 £59,715 +15.95% 27
Isle of Man -1 9 £25,000 -44.44% 1
Channel Islands +3 7 £25,000 -46.81% 2
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
1 213 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 133 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 99 (1.39%) CMS
4 84 (1.18%) Confluence
5 46 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
6 43 (0.61%) WordPress
7 39 (0.55%) IIS
7 39 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 37 (0.52%) SAS
9 35 (0.49%) Apache
10 29 (0.41%) OpenEdge
11 25 (0.35%) Apache Spark
12 23 (0.32%) Jupyter
12 23 (0.32%) nginx
13 20 (0.28%) Mule
14 16 (0.23%) Tomcat
15 14 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
16 12 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 9 (0.13%) Kentico
17 9 (0.13%) WinCC
Applications
1 298 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 215 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 129 (1.82%) Simulink
4 65 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 40 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 33 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 20 (0.28%) MS Visio
9 15 (0.21%) Trello
10 14 (0.20%) Adobe XD
11 11 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
12 9 (0.13%) Sketch
13 4 (0.056%) Blender
14 3 (0.042%) Acrobat
14 3 (0.042%) AutoCAD
14 3 (0.042%) CATIA
14 3 (0.042%) Maya
14 3 (0.042%) Stateflow
15 2 (0.028%) InDesign
15 2 (0.028%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 104 (1.46%) Teamcenter
2 86 (1.21%) NetSuite
3 72 (1.01%) Shopify
4 56 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 28 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
6 23 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
7 17 (0.24%) Magento
8 11 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 9 (0.13%) Endur
9 9 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 8 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 8 (0.11%) Sage X3
10 8 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.11%) SAP Business One
11 7 (0.098%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.070%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.070%) SAP SD
13 4 (0.056%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
13 4 (0.056%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,107 (15.58%) Azure
2 752 (10.58%) AWS
3 649 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
4 401 (5.64%) Power Platform
5 243 (3.42%) SaaS
6 205 (2.88%) GCP
7 180 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 154 (2.17%) GitHub
9 108 (1.52%) Entra ID
10 83 (1.17%) Serverless
11 78 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
12 73 (1.03%) PowerApps
13 72 (1.01%) Power Automate
14 60 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
15 46 (0.65%) OneDrive
16 44 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
17 39 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (0.52%) PaaS
19 36 (0.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 806 (11.34%) Broadband
2 306 (4.31%) Firewall
3 289 (4.07%) Network Security
4 241 (3.39%) DNS
5 236 (3.32%) Internet
6 180 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 173 (2.43%) WLAN
8 169 (2.38%) DHCP
9 135 (1.90%) WAN
10 131 (1.84%) VPN
11 109 (1.53%) LAN
12 107 (1.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 79 (1.11%) Wireless
14 73 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
15 72 (1.01%) VLAN
16 67 (0.94%) VoIP
17 44 (0.62%) SAN
18 43 (0.61%) SD-WAN
19 40 (0.56%) Intranet
20 34 (0.48%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 316 (4.45%) Power BI
3 203 (2.86%) MySQL
4 149 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 122 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
6 112 (1.58%) GIS
7 111 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 109 (1.53%) Power Query
9 106 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 77 (1.08%) Big Data
11 73 (1.03%) Tableau
12 71 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 68 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 68 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 65 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 59 (0.83%) MongoDB
16 52 (0.73%) Data Hub
17 49 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 48 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
19 42 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 380 (5.35%) Git
2 274 (3.86%) JIRA
3 114 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 111 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
5 74 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 43 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
7 37 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 37 (0.52%) GitLab
8 34 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 32 (0.45%) Postman
10 31 (0.44%) Dreamweaver
11 29 (0.41%) Selenium
12 27 (0.38%) LabVIEW
12 27 (0.38%) MSBuild
13 20 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.27%) webpack
15 17 (0.24%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
17 14 (0.20%) Cucumber
18 13 (0.18%) Subversion
General
1 3,529 (49.66%) Social Skills
2 2,010 (28.28%) Analytical Skills
3 1,839 (25.88%) Finance
4 517 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
5 407 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 336 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 311 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 287 (4.04%) Marketing
9 279 (3.93%) Electronics
10 257 (3.62%) Telecoms
11 251 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
12 250 (3.52%) Retail
13 214 (3.01%) Legal
14 203 (2.86%) Banking
15 152 (2.14%) Public Sector
16 144 (2.03%) Law
17 130 (1.83%) Aerospace
18 104 (1.46%) Games
19 68 (0.96%) Automotive
20 59 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,025 (14.42%) Senior
2 796 (11.20%) Analyst
3 794 (11.17%) Developer
4 603 (8.48%) IT Support
5 402 (5.66%) Support Engineer
6 379 (5.33%) Lead
7 340 (4.78%) Sales Representative
8 326 (4.59%) IT Engineer
9 278 (3.91%) Senior Manager
10 277 (3.90%) Software Engineer
11 248 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
12 227 (3.19%) Architect
13 223 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
14 215 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
15 212 (2.98%) Junior
16 195 (2.74%) Consultant
16 195 (2.74%) Project Manager
17 151 (2.12%) IT Analyst
18 150 (2.11%) Senior Developer
19 148 (2.08%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (7.54%) HTML
2 450 (6.33%) .NET
3 418 (5.88%) CSS
4 241 (3.39%) React
5 176 (2.48%) ASP.NET
6 149 (2.10%) .NET Framework
7 138 (1.94%) RESTful
8 131 (1.84%) HTML5
9 129 (1.82%) REST
9 129 (1.82%) XML
10 104 (1.46%) Node.js
11 99 (1.39%) AngularJS
11 99 (1.39%) Entity Framework
12 91 (1.28%) Web Services
13 90 (1.27%) CSS3
14 83 (1.17%) Laravel
15 81 (1.14%) .NET Core
16 80 (1.13%) JSON
17 78 (1.10%) SOAP
18 75 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 715 (10.06%) Social Media
2 356 (5.01%) Xbox
3 339 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
4 322 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 260 (3.66%) Driving Licence
6 242 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 218 (3.07%) Algorithms
8 138 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 136 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 109 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 109 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 100 (1.41%) FMCG
12 98 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 96 (1.35%) IoT
14 90 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 88 (1.24%) Cyberattack
16 72 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
17 66 (0.93%) Virtual Team
18 60 (0.84%) FPGA
19 55 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,207 (16.98%) Windows
2 592 (8.33%) Linux
3 274 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 159 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 121 (1.70%) Android
6 119 (1.67%) Unix
7 112 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 97 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.32%) Windows 7
10 22 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
11 21 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.27%) Windows Vista
13 18 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 17 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 16 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
16 15 (0.21%) CentOS
17 11 (0.15%) Mac OS X
18 10 (0.14%) Windows 8
18 10 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.098%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 971 (13.66%) Customer Service
3 962 (13.54%) Agile
4 891 (12.54%) Computer Science
5 860 (12.10%) Mentoring
6 857 (12.06%) Project Management
7 649 (9.13%) ITIL
8 647 (9.10%) Software Engineering
9 638 (8.98%) DevOps
10 502 (7.06%) Mathematics
11 477 (6.71%) Collaborative Working
12 449 (6.32%) Analytics
13 447 (6.29%) Service Delivery
14 439 (6.18%) Decision-Making
15 407 (5.73%) Business Intelligence
16 377 (5.30%) CI/CD
17 368 (5.18%) Cybersecurity
18 356 (5.01%) Physics
19 351 (4.94%) Line Management
20 346 (4.87%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1,018 (14.32%) SQL
2 618 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 614 (8.64%) Python
4 571 (8.03%) C#
5 405 (5.70%) Java
6 243 (3.42%) C++
7 190 (2.67%) PHP
8 180 (2.53%) C
9 176 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 164 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 142 (2.00%) MATLAB
12 103 (1.45%) Bash
13 82 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 62 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 61 (0.86%) VB
16 50 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 44 (0.62%) Go
18 35 (0.49%) Tcl
19 34 (0.48%) Objective-C
20 32 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 1,950 (27.44%) Degree
2 521 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 391 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 352 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 251 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
6 217 (3.05%) CCNA
7 203 (2.86%) MCP
8 193 (2.72%) MCSE
9 191 (2.69%) CCNP
10 181 (2.55%) Master's Degree
11 177 (2.49%) SC Cleared
12 176 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 172 (2.42%) LPIC
14 165 (2.32%) DV Cleared
15 164 (2.31%) DBS Check
16 111 (1.56%) Azure Certification
17 94 (1.32%) CBAP
18 86 (1.21%) NVQ Level 3
18 86 (1.21%) NVQ Level 4
19 79 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (5.18%) QA
2 190 (2.67%) SLA
3 170 (2.39%) GDPR
4 149 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 114 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 82 (1.15%) NIST
7 74 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 64 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 57 (0.80%) PMO
10 55 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 41 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 36 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 29 (0.41%) WCAG
14 21 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.24%) GAAP
15 17 (0.24%) IFRS
16 16 (0.23%) HIPAA
17 15 (0.21%) GLP
17 15 (0.21%) SOC 2
18 13 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 459 (6.46%) Active Directory
2 247 (3.48%) Docker
3 181 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 132 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 45 (0.63%) vSphere
6 44 (0.62%) Firmware
7 37 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.056%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.056%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.042%) KVM
14 2 (0.028%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.028%) Postfix
14 2 (0.028%) Sendmail
15 1 (0.014%) HDFS
15 1 (0.014%) Samba
Systems Management
1 237 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 140 (1.97%) Terraform
3 106 (1.49%) Ansible
4 88 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 54 (0.76%) SCCM
6 50 (0.70%) Grafana
7 37 (0.52%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.30%) Puppet
9 15 (0.21%) Nagios
10 13 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.18%) WSUS
11 12 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.13%) Autotask
13 8 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.11%) SCOM
13 8 (0.11%) vRealize
13 8 (0.11%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.098%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.084%) Kibana
15 6 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1,429 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 677 (9.53%) Sun
3 302 (4.25%) Cisco
4 265 (3.73%) VMware
5 230 (3.24%) Google
5 230 (3.24%) Oracle
6 156 (2.20%) SAP
7 131 (1.84%) IBM
8 94 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 79 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 68 (0.96%) HP
11 60 (0.84%) Citrix
12 51 (0.72%) Xilinx
13 47 (0.66%) Apple
14 46 (0.65%) Databricks
15 43 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 42 (0.59%) Veeam
17 39 (0.55%) BT
18 35 (0.49%) Xamarin
19 34 (0.48%) Fortinet