Creative Problem-Solving Jobs

Creative Problem-Solving
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 687 747
Rank change year-on-year +20 +60 +76
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 176 201 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 91 106 207
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £35,450
25th Percentile £38,375 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £112,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £116,250 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £105,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -47.62% +110.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Top 15 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 26 July 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 +18 156 £52,500 -27.59% 27
UK excluding London -21 127 £55,000 -47.62% 25
Work from Home +87 102 £55,000 -21.43% 13
North of England +63 57 £60,000 +36.36% 4
North West +45 55 £60,000 -19.46% 2
London +71 47 £50,000 -25.93% 6
South East -6 20 £52,500 -50.00% 7
South West 0 19 £42,500 -20.93% 2
Scotland - 18 £47,550 - 2
Midlands -25 12 £57,500 -8.00% 6
West Midlands -9 11 £57,500 -8.00% 5
North East -11 1 £42,750 +84.45%
East of England -53 1 £22,500 -80.43% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £49,493 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £80,000 - 1

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 8 (4.55%) CMS
2 6 (3.41%) Drupal
3 3 (1.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) SAS
4 2 (1.14%) WordPress
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (21.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 19 (10.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.14%) Simulink
5 2 (1.14%) SPSS
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.57%) Elementor
6 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP R/3
1 2 (1.14%) Teamcenter
1 2 (1.14%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.80%) Azure
2 10 (5.68%) AWS
3 8 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.55%) GitHub
3 8 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.98%) Figma
5 6 (3.41%) SaaS
6 5 (2.84%) Nutanix
7 4 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.27%) Miro
8 3 (1.70%) dbt
9 2 (1.14%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.14%) Serverless
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.57%) Datadog
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) Firewall
2 5 (2.84%) NAS
2 5 (2.84%) OSPF
2 5 (2.84%) RS-232
2 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.84%) VPN
2 5 (2.84%) Wireless
3 1 (0.57%) Intranet
3 1 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.09%) MySQL
2 12 (6.82%) Tableau
3 8 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
3 8 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (4.55%) Power BI
4 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.14%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.14%) QlikView
6 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) GIS
7 1 (0.57%) Metadata
7 1 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Redis
7 1 (0.57%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 4 (2.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.14%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.41%) Marketing
3 41 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (22.16%) Retail
5 29 (16.48%) Finance
6 28 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (5.11%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.98%) Banking
10 7 (3.98%) Law
11 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.84%) Investment Banking
12 4 (2.27%) Games
13 3 (1.70%) Electronics
13 3 (1.70%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.14%) iGaming
14 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.14%) Legal
14 2 (1.14%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 24 (13.64%) Analyst
2 22 (12.50%) Senior
3 16 (9.09%) Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.39%) Lead
6 10 (5.68%) Designer
7 9 (5.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) IT Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (5.11%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.11%) UI Designer
7 9 (5.11%) UI/UX Designer
7 9 (5.11%) UX Designer
8 8 (4.55%) Junior
9 7 (3.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.98%) Lead Designer
9 7 (3.98%) Lead UX Designer
10 6 (3.41%) Electrical Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.25%) HTML
2 10 (5.68%) CSS
3 8 (4.55%) .NET
4 6 (3.41%) React
5 4 (2.27%) Laravel
5 4 (2.27%) Vue
6 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.14%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.14%) HTML5
6 2 (1.14%) Kafka
6 2 (1.14%) RAML
6 2 (1.14%) REST
6 2 (1.14%) UIKit
6 2 (1.14%) XML
7 1 (0.57%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.57%) Parceljs
7 1 (0.57%) PySpark
7 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.68%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.41%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.70%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.70%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.14%) Blog
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
6 2 (1.14%) Podcast
6 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.57%) CMDB
7 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) Molecular Biology
7 1 (0.57%) Social Media
7 1 (0.57%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 15 (8.52%) Android
3 10 (5.68%) Windows
4 6 (3.41%) Linux
4 6 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.84%) VMS
5 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (38.64%) Agile
3 62 (35.23%) Analytics
4 42 (23.86%) Collaborative Working
5 37 (21.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 35 (19.89%) Business Development
7 29 (16.48%) Mathematics
8 22 (12.50%) User Experience
9 20 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (10.80%) Computer Science
11 18 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.23%) Logistics
12 17 (9.66%) Project Management
13 16 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
13 16 (9.09%) CI/CD
14 15 (8.52%) Migration
15 14 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (7.95%) Time Management
15 14 (7.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.77%) SQL
2 18 (10.23%) Python
3 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.25%) Swift
5 10 (5.68%) C#
6 6 (3.41%) PHP
7 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.14%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.57%) C++
9 1 (0.57%) Java
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.57%) Ruby
9 1 (0.57%) Scala
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.57%) Tcl
9 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (23.30%) Degree
2 10 (5.68%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.27%) HND
5 2 (1.14%) ACCA
5 2 (1.14%) CIMA
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.57%) PhD
6 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.84%) SEPA
3 5 (2.84%) TARGET2
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.14%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.84%) Graphite
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.41%) Apple
2 6 (3.41%) CheckPoint
2 6 (3.41%) Cisco
2 6 (3.41%) Xamarin
3 5 (2.84%) Aruba
3 5 (2.84%) HP
3 5 (2.84%) Juniper
3 5 (2.84%) Meraki
3 5 (2.84%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.84%) VMware
4 3 (1.70%) Adobe
4 3 (1.70%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.14%) Google
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.14%) Progress
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Splunk