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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 110 85 285
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 8.40% 16.60% 17.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.02% 18.76% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 73 68 153
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £44,956 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,715 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +42.18% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,083 £73,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £69,576 £78,750 £57,050
UK median annual salary £45,497 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.28% +10.00% -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 915 453 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 69.90% 88.48% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 561 272 1,006
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £59,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 26 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 26 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 +4 76 £38,500 -35.22% 57
West Wales -1 17 £45,500 -7.34% 7
North Wales -1 10 £35,000 +29.97% 16
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 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.91%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.82%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.09%) Azure
1 32 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.45%) AWS
4 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.73%) GCP
4 3 (2.73%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.82%) dbt
5 2 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.82%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.82%) SaaS
5 2 (1.82%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.55%) DHCP
1 16 (14.55%) DNS
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
2 6 (5.45%) Wireless
3 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.64%) Broadband
4 4 (3.64%) VLAN
4 4 (3.64%) WAN
5 3 (2.73%) LAN
6 2 (1.82%) Modbus
7 1 (0.91%) Internet
7 1 (0.91%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.91%) SSL
7 1 (0.91%) VoIP
7 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.27%) Power BI
3 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.82%) GIS
5 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.82%) Redis
5 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.91%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Git
2 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.82%) GitLab
2 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.91%) git-flow
3 1 (0.91%) JMeter
3 1 (0.91%) JUnit
3 1 (0.91%) Selenium
3 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 47 (42.73%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.18%) Finance
4 10 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.27%) Welsh Language
6 7 (6.36%) Law
7 6 (5.45%) Games
7 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.45%) Military
8 5 (4.55%) Local Government
8 5 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.73%) Banking
10 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.82%) Electronics
11 2 (1.82%) Legal
11 2 (1.82%) Police
12 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (13.64%) IT Support
2 12 (10.91%) Senior
3 10 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) IT Technician
4 8 (7.27%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Architect
6 6 (5.45%) Customer Service Advisor
6 6 (5.45%) Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Lead
6 6 (5.45%) Report Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Administrator
7 5 (4.55%) Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Support Technician
7 5 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.64%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) Django
2 2 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.91%) Flask
3 1 (0.91%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.91%) PySpark
3 1 (0.91%) pytest
3 1 (0.91%) Spring
3 1 (0.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (8.18%) Driving Licence
3 9 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.82%) Clustering
6 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.91%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.91%) PMI
7 1 (0.91%) Robotics
7 1 (0.91%) SCADA
7 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.82%) Windows
2 20 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (10.00%) Linux
5 7 (6.36%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.55%) Decision-Making
2 25 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (20.00%) Migration
4 20 (18.18%) Customer Service
5 18 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (14.55%) Project Management
7 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (12.73%) Analytics
9 13 (11.82%) Data Protection
10 12 (10.91%) Customer Experience
11 11 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
11 11 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 9 (8.18%) Email Filtering
12 9 (8.18%) Process Improvement
12 9 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (8.18%) Time Management
12 9 (8.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 9 (8.18%) Web Filtering
13 8 (7.27%) Data Analysis
13 8 (7.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.00%) SQL
2 6 (5.45%) Python
3 5 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.73%) C#
5 3 (2.73%) R
6 2 (1.82%) C
6 2 (1.82%) C++
6 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.82%) Java
7 1 (0.91%) Delphi
7 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Degree
2 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.91%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.82%) CISM
7 2 (1.82%) CISSP
8 1 (0.91%) APMP
8 1 (0.91%) CCNA
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.91%) IIBA
8 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.91%) MCSE
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (8.18%) PCI DSS
2 8 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.73%) NIST
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 26 (23.64%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.55%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.18%) Terminal Server
5 4 (3.64%) Docker
6 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Terraform
2 2 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.27%) VMware
3 9 (8.18%) Brocade
3 9 (8.18%) Nimble Storage
3 9 (8.18%) SolarWinds
3 9 (8.18%) Splunk
3 9 (8.18%) Tanium
3 9 (8.18%) Veeam
4 5 (4.55%) Adobe
4 5 (4.55%) Oracle
4 5 (4.55%) Sage
5 4 (3.64%) Google
6 3 (2.73%) BT
7 2 (1.82%) ESRI
7 2 (1.82%) SAP
8 1 (0.91%) BMC
8 1 (0.91%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco
8 1 (0.91%) Juniper
8 1 (0.91%) Remedy