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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 7 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 182 135 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 16.62% 12.53% 17.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.97% 16.19% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 145 67 80
10th Percentile £25,227 £33,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,134 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £43,190
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +15.77% +7.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £69,000 £72,439
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All Process and 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 868 834 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.27% 77.44% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 621 450 621
10th Percentile £25,200 £30,725 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £73,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 +6 151 £45,000 -25.62% 70
West Wales -1 13 £47,750 -2.76% 4
North Wales -3 9 £35,000 -12.50% 5
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 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Drupal
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.10%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.55%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.55%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.32%) Azure
2 23 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.30%) SaaS
6 5 (2.75%) AWS
7 3 (1.65%) GitHub
7 3 (1.65%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.10%) dbt
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.10%) GCP
8 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.10%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.34%) Broadband
2 12 (6.59%) DNS
3 11 (6.04%) DHCP
4 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.65%) Firewall
5 3 (1.65%) Wireless
6 2 (1.10%) Modbus
6 2 (1.10%) VoIP
6 2 (1.10%) VPN
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.55%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.55%) SSL
7 1 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (6.04%) GIS
4 10 (5.49%) Geospatial Data
4 10 (5.49%) MySQL
5 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.20%) Power BI
7 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.10%) Redis
9 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.55%) MS Access
9 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.55%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
1 13 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 8 (4.40%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.55%) git-flow
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.55%) JUnit
3 1 (0.55%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
3 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 70 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 64 (35.16%) Finance
3 62 (34.07%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.54%) Games
5 14 (7.69%) Banking
5 14 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.49%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.40%) Electronics
7 8 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.30%) Marketing
10 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.20%) Automotive
11 4 (2.20%) Law
12 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.65%) Aviation
12 3 (1.65%) Legal
12 3 (1.65%) Military
12 3 (1.65%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.03%) Lead
2 20 (10.99%) Customer Service Advisor
3 15 (8.24%) Analyst
3 15 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (7.14%) IT Support
4 13 (7.14%) Senior
5 11 (6.04%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (5.49%) Payroll Manager
7 9 (4.95%) Consultant
7 9 (4.95%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.40%) Applications Support
8 8 (4.40%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (4.40%) Developer
9 7 (3.85%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.30%) Support Consultant
11 5 (2.75%) Help Desk Manager
11 5 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.99%) .NET
2 13 (7.14%) Django
3 11 (6.04%) CSS
4 10 (5.49%) HTML
4 10 (5.49%) HTML5
4 10 (5.49%) React
5 1 (0.55%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.55%) Flask
5 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.55%) pytest
5 1 (0.55%) REST
5 1 (0.55%) RESTful
5 1 (0.55%) Spring
5 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.55%) WinForms
5 1 (0.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.99%) Virtual Team
3 19 (10.44%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.65%) FPGA
8 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Clustering
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) IoT
9 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.55%) Anti-Spyware
10 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.64%) Windows
2 16 (8.79%) Linux
3 15 (8.24%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.82%) Customer Service
2 32 (17.58%) CI/CD
3 31 (17.03%) Decision-Making
4 29 (15.93%) Agile
5 28 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (13.19%) Mentoring
7 20 (10.99%) DevOps
7 20 (10.99%) Service Delivery
8 19 (10.44%) Customer Experience
9 16 (8.79%) AI
10 15 (8.24%) Migration
11 14 (7.69%) Analytics
11 14 (7.69%) Software Delivery
11 14 (7.69%) User Experience
12 13 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (7.14%) Risk Management
13 12 (6.59%) Project Management
13 12 (6.59%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (6.04%) Scrum
14 11 (6.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.09%) SQL
2 17 (9.34%) C#
3 16 (8.79%) Python
4 15 (8.24%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.75%) C
6 5 (2.75%) C++
7 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.55%) Delphi
8 1 (0.55%) Java
8 1 (0.55%) R
8 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.19%) Degree
2 17 (9.34%) SC Cleared
2 17 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.59%) DBS Check
4 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) CCNA
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.55%) HNC
5 1 (0.55%) HND
5 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.55%) MCSE
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (6.04%) PCI DSS
2 5 (2.75%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (12.09%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.04%) Hyper-V
2 11 (6.04%) Terminal Server
3 6 (3.30%) Docker
4 4 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (1.65%) Firmware
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.55%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (9.34%) Terraform
2 14 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.55%) Ansible
4 1 (0.55%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.34%) VMware
3 15 (8.24%) BT
4 11 (6.04%) Brocade
4 11 (6.04%) Nimble Storage
4 11 (6.04%) SolarWinds
4 11 (6.04%) Splunk
4 11 (6.04%) Tanium
4 11 (6.04%) Veeam
5 5 (2.75%) Google
5 5 (2.75%) Sage
6 4 (2.20%) Oracle
6 4 (2.20%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Ariba
7 1 (0.55%) BMC
7 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Juniper
7 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.55%) Veritas