Creative Problem-Solving Jobs

Creative Problem-Solving
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 728 799
Rank change year-on-year +84 +71 -84
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 256 263 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 146 137 198
10th Percentile £34,500 £41,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,313 £60,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,528 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £127,500 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +17.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,343 100,922 147,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,769 59,097 83,311
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Salary trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +124 227 £59,556 -20.59% 147
UK excluding London +73 191 £57,500 -14.81% 129
Work from Home +150 142 £59,556 -29.93% 158
North of England +116 80 £59,556 +24.72% 35
London +134 63 £65,000 -13.33% 46
North West +50 43 £60,000 -9.43% 13
South West +22 43 £46,000 -8.00% 18
Yorkshire +112 33 £59,556 +45.26% 11
Midlands +18 22 £61,250 -2.00% 18
Scotland -41 19 £55,000 +2.90% 19
West Midlands +41 16 £57,500 -8.00% 7
South East +2 15 £52,500 -50.00% 26
Northern Ireland +29 7 - -
East Midlands -12 6 £80,000 +220.00% 11
North East +7 4 £42,750 +84.45% 11
East of England -34 4 £30,000 -60.00% 3
Wales - 1 - - 11

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.69%) CMS
2 8 (3.13%) Confluence
3 6 (2.34%) Drupal
4 3 (1.17%) WordPress
5 2 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Moodle
Applications
1 33 (12.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (8.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.34%) Photoshop
5 5 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (1.17%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.78%) CINEMA 4D
7 2 (0.78%) InDesign
7 2 (0.78%) SketchUp
7 2 (0.78%) SPSS
8 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.39%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) SAP R/3
2 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (16.80%) Azure
2 30 (11.72%) AWS
3 19 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.64%) GitHub
5 12 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.91%) Pulumi
7 8 (3.13%) Datadog
8 7 (2.73%) Azure AKS
8 7 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (2.73%) GCP
8 7 (2.73%) SaaS
9 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.95%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.56%) Figma
10 4 (1.56%) Miro
11 3 (1.17%) dbt
11 3 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.13%) OSPF
1 8 (3.13%) VPN
1 8 (3.13%) Wireless
2 5 (1.95%) Firewall
2 5 (1.95%) NAS
3 4 (1.56%) Internet
4 3 (1.17%) BGP
4 3 (1.17%) IGMP
4 3 (1.17%) IPv6
4 3 (1.17%) Multicast
4 3 (1.17%) RIP
4 3 (1.17%) SNMP
4 3 (1.17%) VLAN
4 3 (1.17%) VoIP
4 3 (1.17%) VRRP
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) Intranet
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.77%) Data Hub
2 24 (9.38%) MySQL
3 12 (4.69%) Power BI
4 8 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.73%) MariaDB
5 7 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.73%) Redis
5 7 (2.73%) Tableau
6 4 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.78%) GIS
8 2 (0.78%) QlikView
8 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.08%) JIRA
2 10 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.73%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.56%) Appium
4 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.56%) ESLint
4 4 (1.56%) Gatling
4 4 (1.56%) Git
4 4 (1.56%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.56%) JBehave
4 4 (1.56%) JMeter
4 4 (1.56%) JUnit
4 4 (1.56%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.78%) webpack
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (51.17%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.64%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (23.83%) Finance
4 46 (17.97%) Retail
5 35 (13.67%) Banking
6 32 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (10.55%) Marketing
8 14 (5.47%) Telecoms
9 13 (5.08%) Military
10 11 (4.30%) Games
10 11 (4.30%) Law
10 11 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.91%) Legal
12 8 (3.13%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.17%) French Language
15 3 (1.17%) German Language
15 3 (1.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (16.80%) Senior
2 27 (10.55%) Analyst
3 24 (9.38%) Developer
4 16 (6.25%) Consultant
4 16 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
5 15 (5.86%) Analytics Consultant
6 14 (5.47%) Lead
6 14 (5.47%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.08%) Architect
7 13 (5.08%) Senior Manager
8 12 (4.69%) Electrical Engineer
8 12 (4.69%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.20%) CSS
2 20 (7.81%) HTML
3 16 (6.25%) .NET
4 13 (5.08%) React
5 7 (2.73%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.73%) REST
6 6 (2.34%) .NET Core
6 6 (2.34%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.95%) Vue
8 4 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.56%) HTML5
8 4 (1.56%) Jest
8 4 (1.56%) Laravel
8 4 (1.56%) Redux
8 4 (1.56%) XML
9 3 (1.17%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.78%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.78%) Kafka
10 2 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.20%) Product Ownership
1 21 (8.20%) Renewable Energy
2 17 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.52%) Driving Licence
3 9 (3.52%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.13%) NHS
5 7 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.73%) Fibre Optics
5 7 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.34%) Blog
7 5 (1.95%) Social Media
8 3 (1.17%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Photography
8 3 (1.17%) Smart City
9 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.64%) Apple iOS
2 16 (6.25%) Android
3 11 (4.30%) Windows
4 9 (3.52%) Linux
5 7 (2.73%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.95%) VMS
6 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (38.67%) Agile
3 64 (25.00%) Analytics
4 48 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (17.19%) Collaborative Culture
5 44 (17.19%) Decision-Making
6 36 (14.06%) User Experience
7 35 (13.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 33 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
8 33 (12.89%) Visualisation
9 32 (12.50%) Data Analytics
9 32 (12.50%) DevOps
10 27 (10.55%) Project Management
10 27 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (9.77%) Data Governance
11 25 (9.77%) Data Sharing
11 25 (9.77%) WFM
12 24 (9.38%) Time Management
13 23 (8.98%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.41%) Python
2 38 (14.84%) C#
3 33 (12.89%) SQL
4 29 (11.33%) Java
5 28 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.86%) Ruby
7 14 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.08%) PHP
9 12 (4.69%) Swift
10 11 (4.30%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.91%) Groovy
12 9 (3.52%) Go
13 8 (3.13%) Bash
14 3 (1.17%) R
15 2 (0.78%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.78%) Tcl
16 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.39%) Bicep
16 1 (0.39%) Scala
16 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (19.14%) Degree
2 19 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.08%) HNC
4 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.17%) HND
6 3 (1.17%) MCT
7 2 (0.78%) ACCA
7 2 (0.78%) CIMA
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 18 (7.03%) QA
3 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.95%) SEPA
3 5 (1.95%) TARGET2
4 3 (1.17%) SLA
5 2 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (4.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (5.08%) Terraform
2 12 (4.69%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.13%) Ansible
4 8 (3.13%) Grafana
4 8 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 8 (3.13%) Puppet
5 5 (1.95%) Graphite
6 3 (1.17%) Consul
6 3 (1.17%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.73%) New Relic
2 7 (2.73%) SaltStack
3 6 (2.34%) Apple
3 6 (2.34%) Cisco
3 6 (2.34%) Xamarin
4 5 (1.95%) Adobe
4 5 (1.95%) Aruba
4 5 (1.95%) CheckPoint
4 5 (1.95%) HP
4 5 (1.95%) Juniper
4 5 (1.95%) Meraki
4 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
4 5 (1.95%) VMware
5 4 (1.56%) SAP
6 3 (1.17%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.17%) Databricks
6 3 (1.17%) Facebook
6 3 (1.17%) Progress
6 3 (1.17%) Twitter