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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 158 182 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.33% 24.56% 9.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.72% 29.59% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 123 138 116
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £31,625
25th Percentile £32,000 £26,250 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,122 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +13.23% -4.31%
75th Percentile £61,875 £66,633 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £78,750 £62,350
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -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 1,626 615 1,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.17% 83.00% 66.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 455 885
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,197 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £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% - -8.41%

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 1 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 1 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 -16 106 £40,000 -17.53% 123
West Wales -17 36 £60,000 +166.67% 7
North Wales -5 10 £28,500 +10.14% 12
Mid Wales - 4 - - 1
Dyfed - 1 - - 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 16 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.59%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.16%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.27%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.53%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.53%) Sketch
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.63%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.63%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 56 (35.44%) Azure
2 42 (26.58%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (22.15%) AWS
4 20 (12.66%) GCP
5 15 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.43%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.80%) IaaS
8 6 (3.80%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.16%) Miro
9 5 (3.16%) SaaS
10 4 (2.53%) Figma
10 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.53%) PaaS
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.90%) GitHub
11 3 (1.90%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.46%) DHCP
1 26 (16.46%) DNS
2 16 (10.13%) LAN
2 16 (10.13%) WAN
3 13 (8.23%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (6.33%) Firewall
5 7 (4.43%) VLAN
6 3 (1.90%) Broadband
6 3 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.90%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.90%) Network Security
6 3 (1.90%) RTP
6 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.90%) VoIP
7 1 (0.63%) NAS
7 1 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.63%) SAN
7 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.23%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (8.23%) MySQL
1 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.06%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.06%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.43%) Power BI
4 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.53%) Ataccama
5 4 (2.53%) IBM InfoSphere
5 4 (2.53%) Redis
5 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.53%) TIBCO EBX
6 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.27%) Looker
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Git
2 8 (5.06%) JIRA
3 4 (2.53%) minitest
3 4 (2.53%) RSpec
4 3 (1.90%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.90%) GitLab
4 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.90%) Postman
4 3 (1.90%) Selenium
5 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 93 (58.86%) Social Skills
2 63 (39.87%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (22.78%) Public Sector
4 26 (16.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (8.23%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.96%) Finance
7 10 (6.33%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.43%) Welsh Language
10 5 (3.16%) Banking
10 5 (3.16%) Local Government
11 4 (2.53%) Billing
11 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.90%) Electronics
12 3 (1.90%) Police
13 2 (1.27%) Retail
14 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
14 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (14.56%) Senior
2 19 (12.03%) IT Support
3 17 (10.76%) Analyst
4 13 (8.23%) Developer
4 13 (8.23%) IT Technician
5 12 (7.59%) Support Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Support Technician
5 12 (7.59%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Coordinator
8 9 (5.70%) IT Support Technician
8 9 (5.70%) Lead
9 8 (5.06%) IT Manager
9 8 (5.06%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) Help Desk Technician
10 7 (4.43%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.43%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (3.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.23%) RESTful
2 10 (6.33%) Kafka
2 10 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (5.06%) Hibernate
3 8 (5.06%) JPA
3 8 (5.06%) Spring
3 8 (5.06%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.16%) CSS
4 5 (3.16%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.16%) React
5 4 (2.53%) HTML
5 4 (2.53%) Node.js
5 4 (2.53%) Playwright
5 4 (2.53%) REST
5 4 (2.53%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (2.53%) Sidekiq
5 4 (2.53%) Vue
6 2 (1.27%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.27%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (1.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Management Information System
2 15 (9.49%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 10 (6.33%) Driving Licence
6 9 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (4.43%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.80%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.16%) SCADA
10 4 (2.53%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.90%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.90%) Replication
11 3 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.22%) Windows
2 27 (17.09%) Windows Server
3 23 (14.56%) Linux
4 15 (9.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (5.06%) Unix
6 7 (4.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.63%) Android
9 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 45 (28.48%) Customer Service
3 44 (27.85%) DevOps
4 41 (25.95%) Agile
5 30 (18.99%) Collaborative Working
6 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
7 28 (17.72%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 23 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (13.92%) Mentoring
10 21 (13.29%) ITIL
10 21 (13.29%) Migration
11 20 (12.66%) Decision-Making
12 19 (12.03%) Customer Experience
13 18 (11.39%) Incident Management
13 18 (11.39%) Scrum
13 18 (11.39%) Software Engineering
13 18 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (10.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (10.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.72%) SQL
2 18 (11.39%) Java
3 14 (8.86%) Python
4 10 (6.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.80%) Ruby
7 4 (2.53%) C#
8 3 (1.90%) Bash
9 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.27%) R
10 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) SC Cleared
1 20 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.13%) Degree
3 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.16%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (2.53%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.53%) PMP
6 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.27%) CCNA
7 2 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.27%) CISM
7 2 (1.27%) CISSP
7 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) HNC
8 1 (0.63%) HND
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) QA
2 13 (8.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (6.96%) PCI DSS
3 11 (6.96%) SLA
4 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) NIST
7 1 (0.63%) GMP
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (24.05%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.92%) Hyper-V
3 21 (13.29%) Docker
4 16 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (6.96%) Terminal Server
6 4 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.27%) Firmware
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (11.39%) Terraform
2 13 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (3.16%) Grafana
5 5 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.27%) MaaS360
7 1 (0.63%) SCCM
7 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 67 (42.41%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.09%) VMware
3 16 (10.13%) Splunk
4 12 (7.59%) Veeam
5 11 (6.96%) Brocade
5 11 (6.96%) Nimble Storage
5 11 (6.96%) SolarWinds
5 11 (6.96%) Tanium
6 8 (5.06%) Adobe
7 7 (4.43%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.16%) Google
9 4 (2.53%) IBM
9 4 (2.53%) Informatica
9 4 (2.53%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.90%) Aruba
10 3 (1.90%) Cisco
10 3 (1.90%) Draytek
10 3 (1.90%) Meraki
10 3 (1.90%) Yealink
11 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy