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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 1 9
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 167 197 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.13% 24.17% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.37% 28.80% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 128 152 99
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £32,066
25th Percentile £31,880 £26,250 £37,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,122 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +13.23% -12.37%
75th Percentile £61,875 £60,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,875 £73,750 £63,785
UK median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% -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 1,782 684 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.42% 83.93% 65.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 511 812
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,550
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -19 111 £42,500 -12.37% 68
West Wales -24 41 £55,855 +148.24% 4
North Wales -3 10 £28,500 +10.14% 8
Mid Wales - 4 - - 2
Dyfed - 1 - - 1
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 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.59%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.99%) Adobe XD
2 5 (2.99%) Sketch
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.60%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.60%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.60%) Maximo
2 1 (0.60%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.13%) Azure
2 41 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (20.96%) AWS
4 22 (13.17%) GCP
5 16 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.19%) IaaS
7 7 (4.19%) Miro
8 6 (3.59%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.99%) Figma
9 5 (2.99%) PaaS
9 5 (2.99%) SaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.80%) GitHub
11 3 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.80%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.17%) DHCP
1 22 (13.17%) DNS
2 15 (8.98%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (8.38%) LAN
3 14 (8.38%) WAN
4 9 (5.39%) Firewall
5 6 (3.59%) VLAN
6 3 (1.80%) Broadband
6 3 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.80%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.80%) Network Security
6 3 (1.80%) RTP
6 3 (1.80%) VoIP
7 1 (0.60%) NAS
7 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.60%) SAN
7 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) MySQL
1 15 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.99%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.59%) Power BI
5 6 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.40%) Ataccama
6 4 (2.40%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (2.40%) Redis
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.40%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.20%) Looker
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (11.38%) Git
2 9 (5.39%) JIRA
3 4 (2.40%) minitest
3 4 (2.40%) RSpec
4 3 (1.80%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.80%) GitLab
4 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.80%) Postman
4 3 (1.80%) Selenium
5 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
General
1 94 (56.29%) Social Skills
2 69 (41.32%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (25.15%) Public Sector
4 28 (16.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (8.38%) Finance
6 12 (7.19%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.59%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.19%) Banking
10 6 (3.59%) Welsh Language
11 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.99%) Local Government
12 4 (2.40%) Billing
12 4 (2.40%) Police
12 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.80%) Electronics
14 2 (1.20%) Retail
15 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (13.77%) Senior
2 19 (11.38%) Analyst
2 19 (11.38%) IT Support
3 15 (8.98%) Developer
4 14 (8.38%) IT Technician
4 14 (8.38%) Support Technician
5 11 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.59%) IT Support Technician
5 11 (6.59%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Coordinator
6 10 (5.99%) IT Manager
6 10 (5.99%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.79%) IT Engineer
7 8 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (4.79%) Lead
7 8 (4.79%) Support Analyst
8 7 (4.19%) IT Analyst
8 7 (4.19%) IT Support Analyst
8 7 (4.19%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.59%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.98%) RESTful
2 12 (7.19%) Kafka
2 12 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (5.99%) Hibernate
3 10 (5.99%) JPA
3 10 (5.99%) Spring
3 10 (5.99%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.59%) CSS
5 5 (2.99%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.99%) HTML
5 5 (2.99%) React
6 4 (2.40%) Node.js
6 4 (2.40%) Playwright
6 4 (2.40%) REST
6 4 (2.40%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (2.40%) Sidekiq
6 4 (2.40%) Vue
7 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.20%) Next.js
7 2 (1.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.59%) Driving Licence
3 11 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (6.59%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.39%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.99%) SCADA
9 4 (2.40%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.80%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.80%) Replication
10 3 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.60%) Analogue Electronics
11 1 (0.60%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.55%) Windows
2 23 (13.77%) Windows Server
3 22 (13.17%) Linux
4 13 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.79%) Unix
6 5 (2.99%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.60%) Android
9 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.74%) Continuous Improvement
1 48 (28.74%) DevOps
2 47 (28.14%) Customer Service
3 44 (26.35%) Agile
4 32 (19.16%) CI/CD
4 32 (19.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 31 (18.56%) Collaborative Working
6 29 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (15.57%) Mentoring
8 23 (13.77%) Decision-Making
9 22 (13.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 22 (13.17%) ITIL
10 21 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (11.98%) Incident Management
11 20 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (11.98%) Scrum
11 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
12 19 (11.38%) Project Delivery
13 18 (10.78%) Customer Experience
14 17 (10.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.37%) SQL
2 20 (11.98%) Java
3 15 (8.98%) Python
4 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.59%) Ruby
7 4 (2.40%) C#
8 3 (1.80%) Bash
9 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.60%) R
10 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
1 18 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.18%) Degree
3 7 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.40%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (2.40%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.40%) PMP
5 3 (1.80%) City & Guilds
5 3 (1.80%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.80%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (1.20%) CBAP
6 2 (1.20%) CCNA
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.20%) CISM
6 2 (1.20%) CISSP
6 2 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.60%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 14 (8.38%) SLA
3 12 (7.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.99%) PCI DSS
5 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
6 7 (4.19%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.20%) NIST
8 1 (0.60%) GMP
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (20.36%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.77%) Docker
3 18 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.99%) Terminal Server
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.20%) Firmware
8 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (11.98%) Terraform
2 15 (8.98%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.19%) Grafana
4 7 (4.19%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.20%) MaaS360
6 1 (0.60%) SCCM
6 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (38.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.77%) VMware
3 17 (10.18%) Splunk
4 11 (6.59%) Veeam
5 10 (5.99%) Brocade
5 10 (5.99%) Nimble Storage
5 10 (5.99%) SolarWinds
5 10 (5.99%) Tanium
6 9 (5.39%) Adobe
7 7 (4.19%) Google
7 7 (4.19%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.40%) IBM
8 4 (2.40%) Informatica
8 4 (2.40%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.80%) Aruba
9 3 (1.80%) Cisco
9 3 (1.80%) Draytek
9 3 (1.80%) Meraki
9 3 (1.80%) Yealink
10 2 (1.20%) SAP