Problem-Solving Job Trends in Wales

Problem Solving
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 145 170 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.12% 24.36% 10.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.53% 28.96% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 113 128 153
10th Percentile £28,300 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,519 £26,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,750 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +11.31% -4.62%
75th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £78,750 £61,250
UK median annual salary £47,203 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% -4.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 587 1,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.27% 84.10% 69.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 421 1,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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 Wales -17 97 £40,000 -11.11% 43
West Wales -19 31 £60,000 +166.67% 9
North Wales -6 10 £28,500 +10.14% 5
Mid Wales - 5 £28,000 - 2
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.45%) Confluence
4 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.38%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.76%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.76%) Sketch
3 3 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.69%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.41%) Azure
2 40 (27.59%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (20.00%) AWS
4 16 (11.03%) GCP
5 13 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.14%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.14%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.45%) Miro
9 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.76%) Figma
9 4 (2.76%) IaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.76%) SaaS
10 3 (2.07%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.07%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.07%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.07%) PaaS
10 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.93%) DHCP
1 26 (17.93%) DNS
2 15 (10.34%) LAN
2 15 (10.34%) WAN
3 12 (8.28%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (6.21%) Firewall
5 6 (4.14%) VLAN
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.07%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.38%) Broadband
7 2 (1.38%) Network Security
7 2 (1.38%) RTP
7 2 (1.38%) VoIP
8 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.28%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (6.21%) MySQL
2 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.52%) Power BI
4 7 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.07%) Ataccama
6 3 (2.07%) IBM InfoSphere
6 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.07%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (1.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.38%) GIS
7 2 (1.38%) Looker
7 2 (1.38%) Redis
8 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Git
2 7 (4.83%) JIRA
3 2 (1.38%) Bugzilla
3 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.38%) GitLab
3 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.38%) minitest
3 2 (1.38%) Postman
3 2 (1.38%) RSpec
3 2 (1.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
General
1 91 (62.76%) Social Skills
2 57 (39.31%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (23.45%) Public Sector
4 23 (15.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.59%) Finance
5 11 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.21%) Manufacturing
7 8 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (4.83%) Welsh Language
9 4 (2.76%) Banking
9 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Local Government
9 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.07%) Billing
10 3 (2.07%) Electronics
11 2 (1.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.69%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (14.48%) Senior
2 19 (13.10%) IT Support
3 17 (11.72%) Analyst
4 13 (8.97%) IT Technician
5 12 (8.28%) Support Technician
5 12 (8.28%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Support Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Developer
7 10 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Lead
8 9 (6.21%) IT Support Technician
9 8 (5.52%) Coordinator
9 8 (5.52%) IT Manager
9 8 (5.52%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.83%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.83%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (4.14%) Help Desk Technician
11 6 (4.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) RESTful
2 8 (5.52%) Kafka
2 8 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (4.83%) Hibernate
3 7 (4.83%) JPA
3 7 (4.83%) Spring
3 7 (4.83%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.45%) CSS
5 4 (2.76%) HTML
5 4 (2.76%) Node.js
6 3 (2.07%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.07%) Playwright
6 3 (2.07%) React
6 3 (2.07%) REST
7 2 (1.38%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.38%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (1.38%) Next.js
7 2 (1.38%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.38%) Sidekiq
7 2 (1.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.28%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.21%) Driving Licence
5 8 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.14%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.45%) SCADA
8 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.07%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.07%) Replication
9 3 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.66%) Windows
2 27 (18.62%) Windows Server
3 20 (13.79%) Linux
4 15 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (4.83%) Unix
5 7 (4.83%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.69%) Android
7 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.34%) Customer Service
2 42 (28.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (25.52%) DevOps
4 36 (24.83%) Agile
5 30 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
6 24 (16.55%) CI/CD
6 24 (16.55%) Migration
6 24 (16.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 20 (13.79%) ITIL
7 20 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (13.10%) Mentoring
9 18 (12.41%) Decision-Making
10 17 (11.72%) Customer Experience
11 16 (11.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 16 (11.03%) Project Delivery
11 16 (11.03%) Scrum
11 16 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (9.66%) Incident Management
12 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (9.66%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.24%) SQL
2 16 (11.03%) Java
3 12 (8.28%) Python
4 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.76%) C#
6 4 (2.76%) Ruby
7 3 (2.07%) Bash
7 3 (2.07%) R
8 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
1 19 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) Degree
3 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.14%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (2.76%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.76%) PMP
5 2 (1.38%) CCNA
5 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.38%) CISM
5 2 (1.38%) CISSP
5 2 (1.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.69%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.69%) APMP
6 1 (0.69%) CBAP
6 1 (0.69%) HNC
6 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) QA
2 12 (8.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (7.59%) PCI DSS
3 11 (7.59%) SLA
4 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.69%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (26.21%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.17%) Hyper-V
3 17 (11.72%) Docker
4 15 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (7.59%) Terminal Server
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (2.07%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.69%) Firmware
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Terraform
2 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (2.76%) Grafana
5 4 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.69%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 63 (43.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.93%) VMware
3 15 (10.34%) Splunk
4 12 (8.28%) Veeam
5 11 (7.59%) Brocade
5 11 (7.59%) Nimble Storage
5 11 (7.59%) SolarWinds
5 11 (7.59%) Tanium
6 8 (5.52%) Adobe
7 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.07%) Cisco
8 3 (2.07%) Google
8 3 (2.07%) IBM
8 3 (2.07%) Informatica
8 3 (2.07%) Meraki
8 3 (2.07%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.38%) Aruba
9 2 (1.38%) Draytek
9 2 (1.38%) ESRI
9 2 (1.38%) MicroStrategy