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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 123 137 255
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.91% 24.73% 12.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 29.27% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 91 98 167
10th Percentile £28,500 £23,544 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,483 £26,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,547 £41,200
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +0.84% +3.00%
75th Percentile £64,486 £73,438 £50,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -10.91%

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 1,347 468 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.70% 84.48% 71.01%
Number of salaries quoted 957 306 1,163
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £26,900
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,851 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,447 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +12.10% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 -16 88 £45,000 +18.13% 30
West Wales -16 21 £60,000 +166.67% 3
North Wales -13 7 £30,993 +19.78% 6
Mid Wales - 5 £28,000 -
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 (10.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.63%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.63%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.63%) Sketch
4 2 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.81%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.81%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.39%) Azure
2 28 (22.76%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.57%) AWS
4 12 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.69%) GCP
7 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.44%) IaaS
9 3 (2.44%) Miro
9 3 (2.44%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.44%) PaaS
9 3 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.44%) SaaS
10 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.63%) dbt
10 2 (1.63%) Figma
10 2 (1.63%) Vertex AI
11 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.45%) DHCP
1 19 (15.45%) DNS
2 10 (8.13%) LAN
2 10 (8.13%) WAN
3 7 (5.69%) Firewall
4 4 (3.25%) VLAN
5 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.63%) Network Security
6 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.81%) Modbus
7 1 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) VPN
7 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) Power BI
2 9 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.63%) GIS
5 2 (1.63%) Looker
5 2 (1.63%) MySQL
5 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Git
2 5 (4.07%) JIRA
General
1 74 (60.16%) Social Skills
2 48 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 20 (16.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (13.82%) Finance
6 11 (8.94%) Manufacturing
7 10 (8.13%) Telecoms
8 8 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.88%) Local Government
10 5 (4.07%) Welsh Language
11 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.25%) Electronics
11 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.44%) Billing
13 2 (1.63%) Banking
13 2 (1.63%) Retail
14 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.81%) Law
14 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (13.01%) Senior
2 14 (11.38%) IT Support
3 13 (10.57%) IT Technician
4 12 (9.76%) Analyst
5 10 (8.13%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) IT Support Technician
6 9 (7.32%) Support Technician
7 8 (6.50%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) IT Manager
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Coordinator
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Manager
10 5 (4.07%) Developer
10 5 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Senior IT Manager
10 5 (4.07%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
1 4 (3.25%) JPA
1 4 (3.25%) Kafka
1 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (3.25%) RESTful
1 4 (3.25%) Spring
1 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.44%) Node.js
3 2 (1.63%) CSS
3 2 (1.63%) HTML
3 2 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.81%) Next.js
4 1 (0.81%) PySpark
4 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.13%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.32%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.07%) SCADA
6 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.44%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.44%) Replication
8 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.81%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.02%) Windows
2 22 (17.89%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.57%) Linux
3 13 (10.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (5.69%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.25%) Unix
5 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (25.20%) Customer Service
3 25 (20.33%) Collaborative Working
4 24 (19.51%) Migration
5 23 (18.70%) DevOps
6 22 (17.89%) Agile
7 16 (13.01%) Decision-Making
8 15 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (12.20%) Project Management
8 15 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (11.38%) Mentoring
9 14 (11.38%) Project Delivery
9 14 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (11.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 13 (10.57%) Customer Experience
10 13 (10.57%) IT Strategy
11 12 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 11 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 11 (8.94%) PRINCE2
12 11 (8.94%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.63%) SQL
2 10 (8.13%) Java
3 9 (7.32%) Python
4 5 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.25%) C#
6 3 (2.44%) Bash
6 3 (2.44%) R
7 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.81%) C
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (14.63%) Degree
2 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.13%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (3.25%) PMP
6 4 (3.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.63%) CCNA
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.63%) CISM
7 2 (1.63%) CISSP
7 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CBAP
8 1 (0.81%) IIBA
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (7.32%) PCI DSS
1 9 (7.32%) SLA
2 5 (4.07%) QA
3 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 27 (21.95%) Active Directory
2 17 (13.82%) Hyper-V
3 12 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (7.32%) Terminal Server
5 8 (6.50%) Docker
6 1 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (8.13%) Terraform
2 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.63%) Grafana
3 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.07%) VMware
3 11 (8.94%) Splunk
4 10 (8.13%) Veeam
5 9 (7.32%) Brocade
5 9 (7.32%) Nimble Storage
5 9 (7.32%) SolarWinds
5 9 (7.32%) Tanium
6 6 (4.88%) Adobe
7 3 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.63%) ESRI
8 2 (1.63%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.81%) Acronis
9 1 (0.81%) Databricks
9 1 (0.81%) EMC
9 1 (0.81%) Google
9 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce