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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 124 116 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 11.51% 15.16% 20.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.70% 17.24% 23.76%
Number of salaries quoted 86 60 135
10th Percentile £25,592 £33,750 £24,569
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,956 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,250 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +27.23% +8.98%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £51,624
90th Percentile £68,538 £71,250 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%

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 790 673 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 73.35% 87.97% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 504 303 881
10th Percentile £27,150 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £49,104 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +9.12% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £78,797 £77,000 £72,253
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +2 93 £45,000 -30.23% 40
West Wales +2 15 £42,848 -12.74% 5
North Wales +3 11 £35,000 -0.36% 15
Mid Wales - 1 £28,000 - 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 16 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.81%) CMS
2 1 (0.81%) Drupal
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.61%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.48%) Azure
2 29 (23.39%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.03%) SaaS
6 4 (3.23%) AWS
7 3 (2.42%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.42%) GCP
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.61%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.61%) Pulumi
8 2 (1.61%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.10%) DHCP
1 15 (12.10%) DNS
2 7 (5.65%) Broadband
3 6 (4.84%) Wireless
4 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.61%) Firewall
5 2 (1.61%) Modbus
5 2 (1.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.81%) Internet
6 1 (0.81%) LAN
6 1 (0.81%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.81%) SSL
6 1 (0.81%) VoIP
6 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.87%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.45%) Power BI
4 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.23%) GIS
5 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.61%) Redis
8 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.81%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
1 6 (4.84%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.42%) Git
3 2 (1.61%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.61%) GitLab
3 2 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) git-flow
4 1 (0.81%) JMeter
4 1 (0.81%) JUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
4 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (56.45%) Social Skills
2 50 (40.32%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (29.03%) Finance
4 10 (8.06%) Games
5 8 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.45%) Welsh Language
6 7 (5.65%) Law
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.84%) Military
8 5 (4.03%) Banking
8 5 (4.03%) Local Government
8 5 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.42%) Marketing
11 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Police
12 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (11.29%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (8.06%) IT Support
2 10 (8.06%) Lead
3 9 (7.26%) Analyst
3 9 (7.26%) Customer Service Advisor
4 8 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.65%) Architect
5 7 (5.65%) Developer
5 7 (5.65%) Senior
6 6 (4.84%) IT Engineer
6 6 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (4.84%) Payroll Manager
6 6 (4.84%) Report Manager
6 6 (4.84%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Lead Architect
7 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.03%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.23%) Finance Manager
8 4 (3.23%) Systems Manager
9 3 (2.42%) Sage Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) .NET
2 3 (2.42%) Django
3 1 (0.81%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.81%) CSS
3 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.81%) Flask
3 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.81%) PySpark
3 1 (0.81%) pytest
3 1 (0.81%) REST
3 1 (0.81%) RESTful
3 1 (0.81%) Spring
3 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.26%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (4.03%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.61%) Clustering
8 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Anti-Spyware
9 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.94%) Windows
2 19 (15.32%) Windows Server
3 17 (13.71%) Linux
4 14 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.39%) Decision-Making
2 28 (22.58%) Customer Service
3 25 (20.16%) Migration
4 24 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (13.71%) Customer Experience
6 16 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 16 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
6 16 (12.90%) Project Management
6 16 (12.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 15 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (12.10%) DevOps
8 14 (11.29%) Email Filtering
8 14 (11.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 14 (11.29%) Web Filtering
9 13 (10.48%) Analytics
9 13 (10.48%) Data Protection
10 11 (8.87%) Agile
11 10 (8.06%) AI
11 10 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.06%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.90%) SQL
2 10 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.65%) C#
4 6 (4.84%) Python
5 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.42%) R
7 2 (1.61%) C
7 2 (1.61%) C++
7 2 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.61%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) Degree
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) APMP
6 1 (0.81%) CCNA
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.81%) IIBA
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) MCSE
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (11.29%) PCI DSS
2 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 26 (20.97%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.10%) Hyper-V
3 14 (11.29%) Terminal Server
4 5 (4.03%) Docker
5 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.61%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.52%) VMware
3 14 (11.29%) Brocade
3 14 (11.29%) Nimble Storage
3 14 (11.29%) SolarWinds
3 14 (11.29%) Splunk
3 14 (11.29%) Tanium
3 14 (11.29%) Veeam
4 6 (4.84%) BT
5 5 (4.03%) Oracle
5 5 (4.03%) Sage
6 4 (3.23%) Google
7 2 (1.61%) ESRI
7 2 (1.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco
8 1 (0.81%) Remedy
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) TIBCO