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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 1 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 220 195 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.90% 23.52% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.59% 28.47% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 163 148 65
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £32,083
25th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,811 £43,257
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.53% -0.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,600
UK median annual salary £47,000 £45,602 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.07% -13.14% -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 2,078 685 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.16% 82.63% 65.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 513 640
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,014
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +3.16% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -13 156 £38,500 -20.62% 122
West Wales -31 49 £47,500 +111.11% 14
North Wales -2 12 £32,993 +27.51% 19
Dyfed - 2 - - 1
Mid Wales - 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 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.27%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.27%) Sketch
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.45%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Maximo
2 2 (0.91%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.64%) Azure
2 41 (18.64%) AWS
3 37 (16.82%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (12.73%) GCP
5 17 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.36%) SaaS
7 13 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.64%) GitHub
10 7 (3.18%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.18%) IaaS
10 7 (3.18%) Miro
11 6 (2.73%) PowerApps
12 5 (2.27%) Figma
12 5 (2.27%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.27%) PaaS
13 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (1.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (7.73%) DHCP
2 17 (7.73%) DNS
3 13 (5.91%) LAN
3 13 (5.91%) WAN
4 6 (2.73%) Firewall
5 5 (2.27%) Broadband
6 3 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.36%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.36%) Network Security
6 3 (1.36%) RTP
6 3 (1.36%) VLAN
6 3 (1.36%) VoIP
7 1 (0.45%) NAS
7 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) SAN
7 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.55%) MySQL
1 21 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 16 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.09%) Power BI
5 8 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.82%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.82%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.82%) Redis
7 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.82%) TIBCO EBX
8 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.91%) GIS
8 2 (0.91%) Looker
9 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (14.55%) Git
2 17 (7.73%) JIRA
3 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.82%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.82%) GitLab
4 4 (1.82%) minitest
4 4 (1.82%) RSpec
5 3 (1.36%) Bugzilla
5 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.36%) Postman
5 3 (1.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
General
1 128 (58.18%) Social Skills
2 97 (44.09%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (24.09%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (11.82%) Finance
6 16 (7.27%) Manufacturing
6 16 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (6.82%) Banking
8 10 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.64%) Retail
10 6 (2.73%) Welsh Language
11 5 (2.27%) Billing
11 5 (2.27%) Local Government
12 4 (1.82%) Police
12 4 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.36%) Electronics
14 2 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.91%) Games
14 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (15.91%) Analyst
2 31 (14.09%) Senior
3 24 (10.91%) Developer
4 19 (8.64%) IT Support
5 17 (7.73%) Coordinator
5 17 (7.73%) Support Engineer
6 14 (6.36%) Support Technician
7 13 (5.91%) IT Manager
7 13 (5.91%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.91%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.45%) Applications Support
9 11 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
9 11 (5.00%) IT Technician
9 11 (5.00%) Junior
10 10 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) IT Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.64%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.82%) Terraform
2 21 (9.55%) RESTful
3 18 (8.18%) Kafka
3 18 (8.18%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (7.27%) Hibernate
4 16 (7.27%) JPA
4 16 (7.27%) Spring
4 16 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.73%) CSS
6 5 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.27%) HTML
6 5 (2.27%) React
7 4 (1.82%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.82%) Node.js
7 4 (1.82%) Playwright
7 4 (1.82%) PySpark
7 4 (1.82%) REST
7 4 (1.82%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.82%) Sidekiq
7 4 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.09%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.82%) Product Ownership
3 17 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (6.82%) Virtual Team
5 14 (6.36%) Cloud Native
5 14 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (5.91%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.73%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.27%) CCTV
10 5 (2.27%) Smart City
11 4 (1.82%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.82%) SCADA
12 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.36%) Replication
12 3 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.82%) Windows
2 22 (10.00%) Linux
3 18 (8.18%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.09%) Unix
4 9 (4.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.91%) Customer Service
2 61 (27.73%) Agile
3 60 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (25.00%) DevOps
5 46 (20.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (19.55%) CI/CD
7 41 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 36 (16.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 34 (15.45%) Decision-Making
10 33 (15.00%) ITIL
11 32 (14.55%) Collaborative Working
12 31 (14.09%) Incident Management
13 30 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 30 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (12.73%) Scrum
15 27 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (11.82%) Software Engineering
17 25 (11.36%) Project Delivery
18 21 (9.55%) Microservices
19 20 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (18.64%) SQL
2 26 (11.82%) Java
3 17 (7.73%) Python
4 15 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.64%) Ruby
6 7 (3.18%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.82%) C#
7 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
9 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.55%) Degree
2 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
2 19 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.73%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.73%) NVQ Level 3
5 5 (2.27%) HNC
5 5 (2.27%) HND
6 4 (1.82%) City & Guilds
6 4 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (1.82%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.82%) PMP
7 2 (0.91%) CBAP
7 2 (0.91%) CCNA
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.45%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.45%) CISSP
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.73%) QA
2 23 (10.45%) SLA
3 11 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.91%) GMP
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (13.18%) Active Directory
1 29 (13.18%) Docker
2 13 (5.91%) Hyper-V
3 9 (4.09%) Terminal Server
3 9 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.91%) Firmware
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.91%) Grafana
3 13 (5.91%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.91%) MaaS360
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
6 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.45%) Splunk
3 18 (8.18%) VMware
4 10 (4.55%) Google
4 10 (4.55%) Veeam
5 9 (4.09%) Brocade
5 9 (4.09%) Nimble Storage
5 9 (4.09%) SolarWinds
5 9 (4.09%) Tanium
6 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.73%) Adobe
7 6 (2.73%) SAP
8 4 (1.82%) Databricks
8 4 (1.82%) IBM
8 4 (1.82%) Informatica
8 4 (1.82%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.36%) Aruba
9 3 (1.36%) Draytek
9 3 (1.36%) Meraki
9 3 (1.36%) Yealink