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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 1 8
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 245 184 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.47% 21.50% 9.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.68% 25.52% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 182 144 53
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £32,966
25th Percentile £30,063 £27,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,122 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +1.31% +7.91%
75th Percentile £57,375 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,200
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 2,098 721 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 63.96% 84.23% 69.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 531 538
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,069 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,466
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,740
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 13 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 13 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 -10 172 £38,125 -21.39% 90
West Wales -24 55 £50,000 - 12
North Wales -4 13 £32,993 +27.51% 8
Dyfed - 3 - -
Mid Wales - 2 £55,000 -
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 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.04%) Adobe XD
3 5 (2.04%) Sketch
4 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.82%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.82%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Maximo
1 3 (1.22%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (30.20%) Azure
2 43 (17.55%) AWS
3 40 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (12.65%) GCP
5 20 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (5.71%) SaaS
8 10 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.08%) GitHub
9 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.27%) Miro
11 7 (2.86%) IaaS
12 6 (2.45%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.04%) Figma
13 5 (2.04%) PaaS
13 5 (2.04%) PowerApps
14 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.63%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
2 19 (7.76%) DHCP
2 19 (7.76%) DNS
3 11 (4.49%) LAN
3 11 (4.49%) WAN
4 5 (2.04%) Broadband
4 5 (2.04%) Firewall
5 3 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.22%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.22%) Network Security
5 3 (1.22%) RTP
5 3 (1.22%) VLAN
5 3 (1.22%) VoIP
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) NAS
6 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.80%) MySQL
1 24 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 18 (7.35%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.45%) Power BI
8 4 (1.63%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.63%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.63%) Redis
8 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.63%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.82%) GIS
9 2 (0.82%) Looker
10 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.41%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (14.29%) Git
2 19 (7.76%) JIRA
3 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.63%) GitLab
5 4 (1.63%) minitest
5 4 (1.63%) RSpec
6 3 (1.22%) Bugzilla
6 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.22%) Postman
6 3 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) git-flow
General
1 141 (57.55%) Social Skills
2 105 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (24.90%) Public Sector
4 31 (12.65%) Finance
5 29 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (11.02%) Manufacturing
7 21 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (7.76%) Banking
9 11 (4.49%) Retail
10 10 (4.08%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.45%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.45%) Welsh Language
13 5 (2.04%) Billing
13 5 (2.04%) Electronics
13 5 (2.04%) Local Government
14 4 (1.63%) Police
15 3 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (15.10%) Analyst
2 31 (12.65%) Developer
3 28 (11.43%) Senior
4 22 (8.98%) IT Support
5 21 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 16 (6.53%) Coordinator
6 16 (6.53%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.53%) Support Analyst
7 14 (5.71%) Lead
8 13 (5.31%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.31%) Support Technician
9 12 (4.90%) IT Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (4.90%) Junior
9 12 (4.90%) Service Analyst
9 12 (4.90%) Service Desk Analyst
10 11 (4.49%) IT Technician
11 10 (4.08%) IT Manager
11 10 (4.08%) IT Support Technician
11 10 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.43%) Terraform
2 25 (10.20%) RESTful
3 22 (8.98%) Kafka
4 21 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (7.76%) Hibernate
5 19 (7.76%) JPA
5 19 (7.76%) Spring
5 19 (7.76%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.86%) CSS
7 6 (2.45%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.45%) HTML
7 6 (2.45%) React
8 5 (2.04%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.04%) REST
9 4 (1.63%) Playwright
9 4 (1.63%) PySpark
9 4 (1.63%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (1.63%) Sidekiq
9 4 (1.63%) Vue
10 3 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.65%) Management Information System
1 31 (12.65%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (7.35%) Virtual Team
5 17 (6.94%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.71%) Driving Licence
7 13 (5.31%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.86%) CCTV
9 7 (2.86%) Smart City
10 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.63%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
12 2 (0.82%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.92%) Windows
2 21 (8.57%) Linux
3 16 (6.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (3.27%) Unix
6 2 (0.82%) macOS
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.39%) Customer Service
2 70 (28.57%) Agile
2 70 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (24.08%) DevOps
4 52 (21.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (19.59%) CI/CD
6 45 (18.37%) Mentoring
7 41 (16.73%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 39 (15.92%) Decision-Making
9 36 (14.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 35 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 34 (13.88%) Scrum
12 32 (13.06%) ITIL
13 31 (12.65%) Collaborative Working
13 31 (12.65%) Software Engineering
13 31 (12.65%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (10.20%) Microservices
16 23 (9.39%) Project Delivery
17 22 (8.98%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.14%) SQL
2 28 (11.43%) Java
3 15 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.12%) Python
4 9 (3.67%) Ruby
5 8 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.45%) C#
7 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.22%) Bash
9 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.61%) Degree
2 21 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.90%) HNC
5 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.67%) NVQ Level 3
7 8 (3.27%) HND
8 7 (2.86%) City & Guilds
8 7 (2.86%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.04%) PMP
10 4 (1.63%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.22%) CBAP
12 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.82%) CCNA
12 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.06%) QA
2 21 (8.57%) SLA
3 13 (5.31%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.90%) Accessibility
5 11 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.22%) GMP
8 2 (0.82%) GDPR
9 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (13.06%) Docker
2 29 (11.84%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.31%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.67%) Terminal Server
5 7 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.63%) Firmware
6 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.53%) Grafana
3 16 (6.53%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.82%) MaaS360
6 1 (0.41%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 62 (25.31%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.61%) Splunk
3 16 (6.53%) VMware
4 12 (4.90%) Google
5 10 (4.08%) Veeam
6 9 (3.67%) Brocade
6 9 (3.67%) Nimble Storage
6 9 (3.67%) SolarWinds
6 9 (3.67%) Tanium
7 8 (3.27%) SAP
8 7 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.04%) Adobe
10 4 (1.63%) Databricks
10 4 (1.63%) IBM
10 4 (1.63%) Informatica
10 4 (1.63%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.22%) Apple
11 3 (1.22%) IFS
11 3 (1.22%) Meraki
11 3 (1.22%) Yealink