Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

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 Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,903 8,506 9,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.49% 13.86% 14.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.37% 14.49% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,883 3,818 5,138
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,111
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.43% +2.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,438
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £74,257
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
South East +4 2,838 £45,000 -14.29% 948
North of England +9 2,462 £45,000 - 1,047
Midlands +4 1,790 £42,100 -13.33% 786
South West +8 1,358 £47,500 -5.00% 578
North West +10 1,294 £45,000 -5.26% 574
West Midlands +5 1,147 £42,500 -15.00% 471
East of England +5 1,027 £42,500 -10.53% 506
Scotland -6 946 £45,543 -17.19% 260
Yorkshire +5 918 £43,293 -1.68% 357
East Midlands +4 623 £37,500 -16.67% 315
Wales +7 321 £41,067 +6.00% 126
North East +14 249 £45,000 +5.88% 130
Northern Ireland +17 146 £49,500 -1.00% 59
Isle of Man +3 21 £45,000 +50.00% 6
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
1 377 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 339 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 187 (1.72%) Apache
4 180 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 112 (1.03%) IIS
6 110 (1.01%) CMS
7 104 (0.95%) WordPress
8 90 (0.83%) Confluence
9 38 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 29 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 26 (0.24%) nginx
13 23 (0.21%) JBoss
13 23 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
14 20 (0.18%) SAS
15 18 (0.17%) FileNet
16 17 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
16 17 (0.16%) OpenEdge
17 13 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 12 (0.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1,046 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 708 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 266 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 59 (0.54%) Sketch
6 56 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 50 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 36 (0.33%) Simulink
10 25 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 23 (0.21%) Trello
12 22 (0.20%) Adobe XD
13 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
13 19 (0.17%) InDesign
14 18 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
17 9 (0.083%) Revit
18 8 (0.073%) InVision
19 7 (0.064%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 113 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.46%) Shopify
3 41 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 39 (0.36%) Magento
4 39 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
5 25 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 18 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.16%) iTrent
9 16 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
12 11 (0.10%) Endur
12 11 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 11 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
13 10 (0.092%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
14 9 (0.083%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.083%) SAP MM
15 7 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,813 (16.63%) Azure
2 1,278 (11.72%) AWS
3 1,123 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
4 544 (4.99%) GCP
5 509 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 354 (3.25%) SaaS
7 267 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 210 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 201 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
10 182 (1.67%) Serverless
11 175 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 174 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 143 (1.31%) GitHub
14 111 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 101 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
16 91 (0.83%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.69%) Figma
18 69 (0.63%) Miro
19 67 (0.61%) IaaS
19 67 (0.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 649 (5.95%) Firewall
2 333 (3.05%) DNS
3 326 (2.99%) WAN
4 259 (2.38%) DHCP
5 257 (2.36%) LAN
6 233 (2.14%) TCP/IP
7 227 (2.08%) VPN
8 212 (1.94%) Wireless
9 186 (1.71%) Network Security
10 157 (1.44%) Internet
11 141 (1.29%) VoIP
12 129 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 121 (1.11%) SAN
14 105 (0.96%) VLAN
15 74 (0.68%) 5G
16 62 (0.57%) SD-WAN
17 60 (0.55%) IPsec
18 59 (0.54%) Ethernet
19 58 (0.53%) Broadband
20 56 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 673 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 432 (3.96%) Power BI
3 343 (3.15%) Looker
4 339 (3.11%) BigQuery
5 336 (3.08%) MySQL
6 326 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 257 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 229 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 192 (1.76%) Big Data
10 189 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
11 169 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
12 157 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 152 (1.39%) Tableau
14 94 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
15 90 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 88 (0.81%) Hadoop
17 84 (0.77%) Redis
18 81 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 78 (0.72%) Data Lake
20 73 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 564 (5.17%) Git
2 371 (3.40%) JIRA
3 220 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 100 (0.92%) GitLab
5 83 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 60 (0.55%) LabVIEW
7 57 (0.52%) Selenium
8 52 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 43 (0.39%) Maven
11 39 (0.36%) IntelliJ
11 39 (0.36%) JUnit
12 38 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 33 (0.30%) Postman
14 32 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.28%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.27%) Cypress.io
16 29 (0.27%) JMeter
17 24 (0.22%) Ant
18 22 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,387 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 3,410 (31.28%) Analytical Skills
3 2,046 (18.77%) Finance
4 1,128 (10.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 807 (7.40%) Law
6 779 (7.14%) Retail
7 689 (6.32%) Marketing
8 674 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
9 571 (5.24%) Manufacturing
10 447 (4.10%) Legal
11 426 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
12 396 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
13 374 (3.43%) Public Sector
14 304 (2.79%) Banking
15 261 (2.39%) Telecoms
16 223 (2.05%) Electronics
17 179 (1.64%) Aerospace
18 167 (1.53%) Investment Banking
19 153 (1.40%) Billing
20 150 (1.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,581 (14.50%) Analyst
2 1,411 (12.94%) Senior
3 1,363 (12.50%) Developer
4 880 (8.07%) Software Engineer
5 797 (7.31%) Lead
6 546 (5.01%) IT Support
7 490 (4.49%) Architect
8 427 (3.92%) Support Engineer
9 416 (3.82%) Consultant
10 379 (3.48%) Project Manager
11 357 (3.27%) IT Engineer
12 339 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 314 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 312 (2.86%) Data Engineer
15 301 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 283 (2.60%) Graduate
17 269 (2.47%) IT Technician
18 265 (2.43%) Software Developer
19 264 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 261 (2.39%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 698 (6.40%) .NET
2 606 (5.56%) HTML
3 534 (4.90%) CSS
4 510 (4.68%) React
5 365 (3.35%) AngularJS
6 282 (2.59%) Node.js
7 262 (2.40%) Spring
8 219 (2.01%) REST
9 208 (1.91%) RESTful
10 188 (1.72%) Vue
11 181 (1.66%) .NET Framework
12 174 (1.60%) .NET Core
13 173 (1.59%) ASP.NET
14 156 (1.43%) JSON
15 154 (1.41%) Web Services
16 136 (1.25%) XML
17 130 (1.19%) HTML5
18 126 (1.16%) jQuery
19 114 (1.05%) Spring Boot
20 113 (1.04%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,035 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
2 570 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 410 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 396 (3.63%) Algorithms
5 336 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 244 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 227 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 175 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 166 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 161 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 144 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 137 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 137 (1.26%) IoT
13 109 (1.00%) FMCG
13 109 (1.00%) Public Cloud
14 107 (0.98%) NHS
15 100 (0.92%) Client/Server
15 100 (0.92%) Clustering
16 84 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
17 74 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,694 (15.54%) Windows
2 733 (6.72%) Linux
3 569 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 399 (3.66%) Windows 10
5 191 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 171 (1.57%) Android
7 135 (1.24%) Unix
8 113 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 111 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 108 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
11 106 (0.97%) Mac OS
12 102 (0.94%) Windows 7
13 50 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
14 37 (0.34%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (0.31%) VMS
16 30 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
16 30 (0.28%) Windows 8
17 29 (0.27%) CentOS
18 27 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,225 (20.41%) Agile
2 1,507 (13.82%) Customer Service
3 1,351 (12.39%) Project Management
4 1,332 (12.22%) Software Engineering
5 1,283 (11.77%) Mentoring
6 1,255 (11.51%) Computer Science
7 1,219 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,182 (10.84%) Decision-Making
9 1,080 (9.91%) DevOps
10 871 (7.99%) ITIL
11 848 (7.78%) Coaching
12 814 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
13 726 (6.66%) Analytics
14 700 (6.42%) Mathematics
15 686 (6.29%) Actionable Insight
16 682 (6.26%) SDLC
17 673 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
18 662 (6.07%) CI/CD
19 639 (5.86%) Change Management
20 606 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,654 (15.17%) SQL
2 1,129 (10.35%) Python
3 940 (8.62%) Java
4 919 (8.43%) JavaScript
5 889 (8.15%) C#
6 359 (3.29%) C++
7 357 (3.27%) C
8 325 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 287 (2.63%) PHP
10 285 (2.61%) TypeScript
11 221 (2.03%) Bash
12 155 (1.42%) Scala
13 118 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 91 (0.83%) MATLAB
14 91 (0.83%) Perl
15 89 (0.82%) Ruby
16 81 (0.74%) Go
17 69 (0.63%) VB
18 68 (0.62%) R
19 64 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,869 (26.31%) Degree
2 1,096 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 690 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 641 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 337 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 309 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 250 (2.29%) DBS Check
8 172 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 167 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 120 (1.10%) CCNA
11 113 (1.04%) HNC
12 112 (1.03%) A+ Certification
13 102 (0.94%) PhD
14 97 (0.89%) CISSP
14 97 (0.89%) HND
14 97 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 94 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 91 (0.83%) Azure Certification
17 82 (0.75%) MCSE
18 75 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (5.54%) QA
2 479 (4.39%) GDPR
3 399 (3.66%) SLA
4 357 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 179 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 154 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 135 (1.24%) PMO
8 133 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 98 (0.90%) ISO 9001
10 65 (0.60%) NIST
11 51 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 51 (0.47%) WCAG
12 40 (0.37%) IFRS
13 34 (0.31%) GAAP
14 30 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 29 (0.27%) NCSC
16 26 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.19%) ISO 13485
17 21 (0.19%) PCI DSS
17 21 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 923 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 413 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 397 (3.64%) Docker
4 292 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 125 (1.15%) Firmware
6 81 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 64 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 43 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 38 (0.35%) vSphere
10 31 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
12 25 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.19%) KVM
14 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.11%) XenApp
16 10 (0.092%) NFS
17 8 (0.073%) XenDesktop
18 7 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 6 (0.055%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 387 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 215 (1.97%) Terraform
3 193 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 165 (1.51%) SCCM
5 164 (1.50%) Ansible
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 63 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 55 (0.50%) Puppet
9 46 (0.42%) SCOM
10 37 (0.34%) EnCase
10 37 (0.34%) WSUS
11 33 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (0.27%) OpenSSO
13 28 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 26 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
14 26 (0.24%) Grafana
15 22 (0.20%) Progress Chef
15 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
16 18 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
17 17 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,640 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 616 (5.65%) Google
3 573 (5.26%) VMware
4 382 (3.50%) Oracle
5 294 (2.70%) SAP
6 273 (2.50%) Cisco
7 179 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 119 (1.09%) Veeam
9 106 (0.97%) Apple
10 105 (0.96%) Databricks
11 102 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 100 (0.92%) Adobe
12 100 (0.92%) IBM
13 98 (0.90%) Citrix
14 93 (0.85%) Dell
14 93 (0.85%) HP
15 90 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 77 (0.71%) Meraki
17 75 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 71 (0.65%) Sophos