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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 238 189 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.27% 21.85% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.41% 25.93% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 176 146 57
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,188 £27,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,122 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +1.31% +9.98%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £66,600
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -4.55%

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 2,086 729 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 63.75% 84.28% 69.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 532 555
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £29,400
25th Percentile £37,625 £31,159 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -10 167 £38,500 -20.62% 164
West Wales -27 55 £50,000 +4.71% 17
North Wales -3 13 £32,993 +27.51% 12
Dyfed - 2 - -
Mid Wales - 1 - - 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 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.10%) Adobe XD
4 5 (2.10%) Sketch
5 3 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.84%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.84%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Maximo
2 2 (0.84%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.25%) Azure
2 43 (18.07%) AWS
3 39 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (13.03%) GCP
5 19 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.88%) SaaS
8 10 (4.20%) GitHub
9 8 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.36%) Miro
9 8 (3.36%) Power Platform
10 7 (2.94%) IaaS
11 5 (2.10%) Figma
11 5 (2.10%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.10%) PaaS
12 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.68%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.98%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (7.56%) DHCP
2 18 (7.56%) DNS
3 11 (4.62%) LAN
3 11 (4.62%) WAN
4 5 (2.10%) Broadband
4 5 (2.10%) Firewall
5 3 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.26%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.26%) Network Security
5 3 (1.26%) RTP
5 3 (1.26%) VLAN
5 3 (1.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) NAS
6 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) SAN
6 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.08%) MySQL
1 24 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 18 (7.56%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.52%) Power BI
8 4 (1.68%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.68%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.68%) Redis
8 4 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.68%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.84%) GIS
9 2 (0.84%) Looker
10 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (14.29%) Git
2 19 (7.98%) JIRA
3 7 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.10%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.68%) GitLab
5 4 (1.68%) minitest
5 4 (1.68%) RSpec
6 3 (1.26%) Bugzilla
6 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.26%) Postman
6 3 (1.26%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) git-flow
General
1 136 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 104 (43.70%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (24.79%) Public Sector
4 29 (12.18%) Finance
4 29 (12.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (10.92%) Manufacturing
6 20 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (7.56%) Banking
8 10 (4.20%) Retail
8 10 (4.20%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.52%) Welsh Language
11 5 (2.10%) Billing
11 5 (2.10%) Local Government
12 4 (1.68%) Electronics
12 4 (1.68%) Police
13 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Automotive
14 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (14.71%) Analyst
2 30 (12.61%) Developer
3 28 (11.76%) Senior
4 21 (8.82%) IT Support
5 20 (8.40%) Support Engineer
6 16 (6.72%) Coordinator
6 16 (6.72%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.30%) Support Analyst
8 14 (5.88%) Lead
9 13 (5.46%) Applications Support
9 13 (5.46%) Support Technician
10 12 (5.04%) Junior
11 11 (4.62%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (4.20%) IT Manager
12 10 (4.20%) IT Support Technician
12 10 (4.20%) IT Technician
12 10 (4.20%) Service Analyst
12 10 (4.20%) Service Desk Analyst
12 10 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.76%) Terraform
2 25 (10.50%) RESTful
3 22 (9.24%) Kafka
4 21 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (7.98%) Hibernate
5 19 (7.98%) JPA
5 19 (7.98%) Spring
5 19 (7.98%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.52%) CSS
6 6 (2.52%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.10%) Gherkin
7 5 (2.10%) HTML
7 5 (2.10%) React
8 4 (1.68%) Playwright
8 4 (1.68%) PySpark
8 4 (1.68%) REST
8 4 (1.68%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (1.68%) Sidekiq
8 4 (1.68%) Vue
9 3 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.03%) Product Ownership
2 29 (12.18%) Management Information System
3 21 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (7.56%) Virtual Team
6 17 (7.14%) Cloud Native
7 14 (5.88%) Driving Licence
8 12 (5.04%) Onboarding
9 10 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.52%) CCTV
10 6 (2.52%) Smart City
11 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.68%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.84%) Replication
13 2 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.55%) Windows
2 21 (8.82%) Linux
3 16 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.36%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.83%) Customer Service
2 69 (28.99%) Agile
2 69 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 58 (24.37%) DevOps
4 51 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (19.75%) CI/CD
6 45 (18.91%) Mentoring
7 41 (17.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 39 (16.39%) Decision-Making
9 36 (15.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 35 (14.71%) Incident Management
11 33 (13.87%) ITIL
11 33 (13.87%) Scrum
12 31 (13.03%) Software Engineering
12 31 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (12.61%) Collaborative Working
13 30 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (10.50%) Microservices
15 23 (9.66%) Project Delivery
16 22 (9.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.23%) SQL
2 28 (11.76%) Java
3 15 (6.30%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.30%) Python
4 9 (3.78%) Ruby
5 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.52%) C#
7 4 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.26%) Bash
9 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (10.08%) Degree
2 20 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.62%) HNC
5 9 (3.78%) NVQ Level 3
6 7 (2.94%) City & Guilds
6 7 (2.94%) HND
7 6 (2.52%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.10%) PMP
9 4 (1.68%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.68%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.26%) CBAP
11 2 (0.84%) CCNA
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.45%) QA
2 22 (9.24%) SLA
3 12 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.84%) GMP
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (13.45%) Docker
2 28 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.46%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.78%) Terminal Server
5 7 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.26%) Firmware
7 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.72%) Grafana
3 16 (6.72%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.84%) MaaS360
6 1 (0.42%) SCCM
6 1 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.92%) Splunk
3 16 (6.72%) VMware
4 11 (4.62%) Google
5 10 (4.20%) Veeam
6 9 (3.78%) Brocade
6 9 (3.78%) Nimble Storage
6 9 (3.78%) SolarWinds
6 9 (3.78%) Tanium
7 7 (2.94%) SAP
7 7 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.10%) Adobe
9 4 (1.68%) Databricks
9 4 (1.68%) IBM
9 4 (1.68%) Informatica
9 4 (1.68%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.26%) Cisco
10 3 (1.26%) Draytek
10 3 (1.26%) Meraki
10 3 (1.26%) Salesforce