Problem-Solving Jobs in Wales

Problem Solving
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 5 6 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 274 274 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.93% 17.09% 15.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.73% 17.59% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 79 160 115
10th Percentile £23,750 £23,725 £22,540
25th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,190 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -11.11% +1.69%
75th Percentile £54,375 £58,125 £55,625
90th Percentile £69,687 £66,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +1.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,065 1,558 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 96.91% 97.19% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 615 959 1,108
10th Percentile £30,450 £31,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £35,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,890 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,169 £72,500 £67,513
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wales over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +5 236 £48,500 -0.51% 59
Mid Wales +5 18 £37,000 - 2
North Wales -9 8 £24,000 -52.00% 10
West Wales -18 6 £32,500 +3.17% 19
Dyfed +3 2 £41,250 -
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 53 (19.34%) WebLogic
2 22 (8.03%) IIS
3 6 (2.19%) SAS
4 5 (1.82%) JBoss
4 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
5 3 (1.09%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
3 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.15%) Azure
2 23 (8.39%) Serverless
3 20 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.01%) AWS
6 9 (3.28%) SaaS
7 6 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.46%) IaaS
10 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.09%) PaaS
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub
11 2 (0.73%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.73%) Miro
12 1 (0.36%) Boomi
12 1 (0.36%) GCP
12 1 (0.36%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.23%) Network Security
2 38 (13.87%) TCP/IP
3 36 (13.14%) Firewall
4 34 (12.41%) LAN
4 34 (12.41%) VPN
4 34 (12.41%) WAN
5 32 (11.68%) Internet
6 31 (11.31%) FTP
6 31 (11.31%) HTTP
6 31 (11.31%) SMTP
6 31 (11.31%) Sourcefire
7 23 (8.39%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (2.55%) DNS
9 5 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.82%) VLAN
10 4 (1.46%) SAN
11 3 (1.09%) MPLS
11 3 (1.09%) SMS
11 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (19.34%) Elasticsearch
2 48 (17.52%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.57%) Power BI
4 16 (5.84%) Relational Database
5 15 (5.47%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.38%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.28%) MS Access
8 7 (2.55%) MySQL
9 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database 11g
10 4 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.46%) Tableau
11 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.73%) JasperReports
12 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 38 (13.87%) Git
2 35 (12.77%) JIRA
3 22 (8.03%) GitLab
3 22 (8.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (2.19%) Selenium
6 5 (1.82%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.09%) JDeveloper
8 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.73%) Maven
9 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 140 (51.09%) Analytical Skills
2 108 (39.42%) Social Skills
3 36 (13.14%) Police
4 33 (12.04%) Finance
5 31 (11.31%) Games
6 22 (8.03%) Local Government
7 21 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (5.47%) Marketing
9 14 (5.11%) Retail
10 11 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.65%) Banking
12 9 (3.28%) Advertising
13 7 (2.55%) Law
14 6 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.82%) Legal
15 5 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.46%) Aerospace
17 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (43.80%) Analyst
2 70 (25.55%) Senior
3 66 (24.09%) Support Analyst
4 62 (22.63%) Applications Support
4 62 (22.63%) Applications Support Analyst
5 41 (14.96%) Senior Analyst
6 31 (11.31%) Senior Applications Support
6 31 (11.31%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 31 (11.31%) Senior Support Analyst
6 31 (11.31%) SOC Analyst
6 31 (11.31%) Software Engineer
7 29 (10.58%) Architect
8 27 (9.85%) Developer
9 21 (7.66%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (6.93%) Java Engineer
10 19 (6.93%) Presales Solution Architect
11 18 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
12 9 (3.28%) ICT Specialist
12 9 (3.28%) Insight Analyst
13 8 (2.92%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (26.64%) Spring
2 64 (23.36%) J2EE
3 57 (20.80%) Java EE
4 46 (16.79%) .NET
5 31 (11.31%) LDAP
6 29 (10.58%) React
7 16 (5.84%) Node.js
8 15 (5.47%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.38%) CSS
9 12 (4.38%) HTML
9 12 (4.38%) RESTful
10 11 (4.01%) Ruby on Rails
11 10 (3.65%) ASP.NET
12 7 (2.55%) Express.js
12 7 (2.55%) Web Services
12 7 (2.55%) XML
13 6 (2.19%) Hibernate
13 6 (2.19%) REST
13 6 (2.19%) SOAP
14 5 (1.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.31%) Analytical Mindset
1 31 (11.31%) Cyber Threat
1 31 (11.31%) PKI
1 31 (11.31%) Security Operations Centre
2 16 (5.84%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.46%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.09%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.73%) IoT
8 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.73%) Smart City
9 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.71%) Unix
2 40 (14.60%) Windows
3 22 (8.03%) Android
4 8 (2.92%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (62.41%) Actionable Insight
2 79 (28.83%) Containerisation
3 72 (26.28%) ITIL
4 62 (22.63%) Agile
5 57 (20.80%) Incident Management
5 57 (20.80%) Service Management
6 55 (20.07%) Enterprise Architecture
7 53 (19.34%) Impact Assessments
7 53 (19.34%) Information Management
8 43 (15.69%) Analytics
9 42 (15.33%) Time Management
10 39 (14.23%) DevOps
11 37 (13.50%) Software Engineering
12 35 (12.77%) Customer Service
13 34 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (12.41%) Mentoring
14 32 (11.68%) Design Patterns
14 32 (11.68%) Security Operations
14 32 (11.68%) SIEM
15 31 (11.31%) Blue Team
Programming Languages
1 96 (35.04%) Java
2 63 (22.99%) C#
3 41 (14.96%) SQL
4 37 (13.50%) Python
5 32 (11.68%) Shell Script
6 28 (10.22%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.30%) Ruby
8 19 (6.93%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.74%) Bash
10 9 (3.28%) Go
10 9 (3.28%) Perl
11 3 (1.09%) R
12 2 (0.73%) C
12 2 (0.73%) C++
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 142 (51.82%) Security Cleared
2 118 (43.07%) SC Cleared
3 49 (17.88%) Degree
4 17 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.01%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.92%) MCSA
6 8 (2.92%) MCSE
7 4 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.46%) MCP
8 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (22.26%) SLA
2 18 (6.57%) QA
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.92%) Docker
3 3 (1.09%) Firmware
3 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (19.34%) OpenSSO
1 53 (19.34%) Single Sign-On
2 31 (11.31%) FortiGate
3 22 (8.03%) AirWatch
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.19%) SCCM
5 3 (1.09%) SCOM
5 3 (1.09%) Terraform
6 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (27.01%) Microsoft
2 69 (25.18%) Oracle
3 36 (13.14%) Cisco
4 32 (11.68%) IBM
5 31 (11.31%) ArcSight
5 31 (11.31%) CheckPoint
5 31 (11.31%) F5
5 31 (11.31%) Juniper
5 31 (11.31%) Remedy
5 31 (11.31%) Splunk
5 31 (11.31%) TippingPoint
5 31 (11.31%) Trend Micro
6 9 (3.28%) SAP
7 4 (1.46%) HP
7 4 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.09%) Citrix
8 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.09%) Teradata
8 3 (1.09%) TOWER Software
8 3 (1.09%) VMware