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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 113 102 306
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 9.50% 17.11% 19.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.42% 18.82% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 77 68 166
10th Percentile £26,835 £33,750 £25,047
25th Percentile £31,250 £44,956 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,000 £41,399
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% +49.76% +6.85%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £69,576 £78,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -10.00%

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 842 542 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 70.82% 90.94% 84.78%
Number of salaries quoted 525 287 1,018
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +11.39% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,800 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +2 85 £39,250 -39.15% 83
West Wales -2 15 £42,848 -12.74% 4
North Wales -3 8 £35,000 -0.36% 23
Mid Wales - 3 £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 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.77%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.97%) Azure
2 30 (26.55%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.08%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.31%) AWS
5 5 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.65%) GCP
6 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.77%) dbt
7 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.77%) GitHub
7 2 (1.77%) PaaS
7 2 (1.77%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.77%) SaaS
7 2 (1.77%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.27%) DHCP
1 15 (13.27%) DNS
2 6 (5.31%) Broadband
2 6 (5.31%) Wireless
3 5 (4.42%) Firewall
3 5 (4.42%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.54%) WAN
5 3 (2.65%) LAN
5 3 (2.65%) VLAN
6 2 (1.77%) Modbus
7 1 (0.88%) Internet
7 1 (0.88%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.88%) VoIP
7 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.08%) Power BI
4 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.77%) GIS
6 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.77%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Spotfire
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
2 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.77%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.77%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.88%) git-flow
3 1 (0.88%) JMeter
3 1 (0.88%) JUnit
3 1 (0.88%) Selenium
3 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (60.18%) Social Skills
2 45 (39.82%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (22.12%) Finance
4 9 (7.96%) Games
4 9 (7.96%) Manufacturing
4 9 (7.96%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.08%) Welsh Language
6 7 (6.19%) Law
7 6 (5.31%) Military
8 5 (4.42%) Banking
8 5 (4.42%) Local Government
8 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.65%) Legal
10 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.77%) Electronics
11 2 (1.77%) Police
12 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 13 (11.50%) IT Support
2 10 (8.85%) Systems Engineer
3 9 (7.96%) Customer Service Advisor
3 9 (7.96%) Senior
4 8 (7.08%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Analyst
5 7 (6.19%) Architect
5 7 (6.19%) Lead
6 6 (5.31%) Report Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Administrator
7 5 (4.42%) Developer
7 5 (4.42%) IT Technician
7 5 (4.42%) Lead Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Payroll Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.54%) Finance Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) .NET
2 3 (2.65%) Django
3 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.88%) Flask
3 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.88%) PySpark
3 1 (0.88%) pytest
3 1 (0.88%) Spring
3 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (8.85%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.08%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.77%) Clustering
7 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Anti-Spyware
8 1 (0.88%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.88%) IoT
8 1 (0.88%) PMI
8 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.47%) Windows
2 19 (16.81%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.62%) Linux
3 12 (10.62%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (4.42%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.65%) Unix
5 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) Decision-Making
2 25 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (20.35%) Customer Service
4 22 (19.47%) Migration
5 16 (14.16%) Project Management
6 15 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (11.50%) Analytics
8 13 (11.50%) Data Protection
9 12 (10.62%) Customer Experience
10 11 (9.73%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (9.73%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 10 (8.85%) CI/CD
12 9 (7.96%) DevOps
12 9 (7.96%) Email Filtering
12 9 (7.96%) Process Improvement
12 9 (7.96%) Time Management
12 9 (7.96%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 9 (7.96%) Web Filtering
13 8 (7.08%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.50%) SQL
2 7 (6.19%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.31%) Python
4 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.65%) C#
5 3 (2.65%) R
6 2 (1.77%) C
6 2 (1.77%) C++
6 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.77%) Java
7 1 (0.88%) Delphi
7 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (17.70%) Degree
2 16 (14.16%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.85%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) APMP
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) IIBA
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (7.96%) PCI DSS
2 8 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.27%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.96%) Terminal Server
3 9 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.54%) Docker
5 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.77%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (31.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.93%) VMware
3 9 (7.96%) Brocade
3 9 (7.96%) Nimble Storage
3 9 (7.96%) SolarWinds
3 9 (7.96%) Splunk
3 9 (7.96%) Tanium
3 9 (7.96%) Veeam
4 5 (4.42%) BT
4 5 (4.42%) Oracle
4 5 (4.42%) Sage
5 4 (3.54%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) Adobe
7 2 (1.77%) ESRI
7 2 (1.77%) SAP
8 1 (0.88%) BMC
8 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Juniper
8 1 (0.88%) Xero