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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 1 8
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 191 191 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 6.43% 23.26% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 28.38% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 146 144 79
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,087 £32,083
25th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,122 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +10.63% -10.31%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -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 1,935 673 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.11% 81.97% 64.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 508 710
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,113
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +7.78% -1.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,375
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 4 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 4 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 -16 132 £39,250 -19.07% 133
West Wales -30 44 £51,709 +129.82% 11
North Wales -7 11 £29,000 +12.08% 16
Dyfed - 2 - - 4
Mid Wales - 2 - - 4
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 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (2.62%) Adobe XD
2 5 (2.62%) Sketch
3 3 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.05%) Maximo
2 2 (1.05%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (30.89%) Azure
2 39 (20.42%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (19.37%) AWS
4 24 (12.57%) GCP
5 17 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.71%) SaaS
7 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.66%) IaaS
7 7 (3.66%) Miro
8 6 (3.14%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.62%) Figma
9 5 (2.62%) GitHub
9 5 (2.62%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.62%) PaaS
10 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.95%) DHCP
1 19 (9.95%) DNS
2 18 (9.42%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (6.81%) LAN
3 13 (6.81%) WAN
4 7 (3.66%) Firewall
5 4 (2.09%) Broadband
5 4 (2.09%) VLAN
6 3 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.57%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.57%) Network Security
6 3 (1.57%) RTP
6 3 (1.57%) VoIP
7 1 (0.52%) NAS
7 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) MySQL
1 17 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.28%) MongoDB
2 12 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.19%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.66%) Power BI
5 5 (2.62%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.09%) Ataccama
6 4 (2.09%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (2.09%) Redis
6 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.09%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.05%) Looker
8 1 (0.52%) GIS
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (13.09%) Git
2 15 (7.85%) JIRA
3 5 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.09%) minitest
4 4 (2.09%) RSpec
5 3 (1.57%) Bugzilla
5 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.57%) GitLab
5 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.57%) Postman
5 3 (1.57%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
General
1 111 (58.12%) Social Skills
2 84 (43.98%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (24.61%) Public Sector
4 28 (14.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (10.99%) Finance
6 14 (7.33%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (5.76%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.24%) Banking
10 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (3.14%) Welsh Language
12 5 (2.62%) Billing
12 5 (2.62%) Local Government
12 5 (2.62%) Retail
13 4 (2.09%) Police
13 4 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.05%) Electronics
14 2 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 28 (14.66%) Senior
2 27 (14.14%) Analyst
3 19 (9.95%) IT Support
4 18 (9.42%) Developer
5 15 (7.85%) Support Technician
6 14 (7.33%) Coordinator
6 14 (7.33%) Support Engineer
7 13 (6.81%) IT Technician
8 12 (6.28%) IT Support Technician
9 11 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) IT Manager
10 10 (5.24%) Support Analyst
10 10 (5.24%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Junior
12 8 (4.19%) Lead
13 7 (3.66%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.66%) IT Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) IT Support Analyst
13 7 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) Terraform
2 17 (8.90%) RESTful
3 14 (7.33%) Kafka
3 14 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (6.28%) Hibernate
4 12 (6.28%) JPA
4 12 (6.28%) Spring
4 12 (6.28%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.14%) CSS
6 5 (2.62%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.62%) HTML
6 5 (2.62%) React
7 4 (2.09%) Node.js
7 4 (2.09%) Playwright
7 4 (2.09%) REST
7 4 (2.09%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (2.09%) Sidekiq
7 4 (2.09%) Vue
8 3 (1.57%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.18%) Management Information System
2 21 (10.99%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.76%) Driving Licence
5 11 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (5.76%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.76%) Virtual Team
6 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.14%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.62%) SCADA
9 4 (2.09%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.57%) CCTV
10 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.57%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.57%) Replication
10 3 (1.57%) Smart City
10 3 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.42%) Windows
2 22 (11.52%) Linux
3 20 (10.47%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.19%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) VMS
6 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.52%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (30.37%) Customer Service
2 54 (28.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (27.75%) Agile
4 51 (26.70%) DevOps
5 38 (19.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (19.37%) CI/CD
7 34 (17.80%) Mentoring
7 34 (17.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 31 (16.23%) Collaborative Working
9 28 (14.66%) Decision-Making
10 27 (14.14%) ITIL
11 26 (13.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 25 (13.09%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (12.57%) Incident Management
14 23 (12.04%) Scrum
15 22 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (11.52%) Software Engineering
16 20 (10.47%) Project Delivery
17 19 (9.95%) Customer Experience
18 17 (8.90%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.85%) SQL
2 22 (11.52%) Java
3 16 (8.38%) Python
4 12 (6.28%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.66%) Ruby
6 4 (2.09%) C#
7 3 (1.57%) Bash
7 3 (1.57%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.52%) R
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Degree
1 18 (9.42%) SC Cleared
1 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.62%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.09%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (2.09%) NVQ Level 3
4 4 (2.09%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.09%) PMP
5 3 (1.57%) City & Guilds
5 3 (1.57%) HND
6 2 (1.05%) CBAP
6 2 (1.05%) CCNA
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.05%) CISM
6 2 (1.05%) CISSP
6 2 (1.05%) HNC
6 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.04%) QA
2 20 (10.47%) SLA
3 12 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.24%) Accessibility
4 10 (5.24%) PCI DSS
5 9 (4.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.05%) GMP
6 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.05%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.09%) Docker
3 15 (7.85%) Hyper-V
4 10 (5.24%) Terminal Server
4 10 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.09%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.05%) Firmware
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.71%) Grafana
3 9 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.05%) MaaS360
6 1 (0.52%) SCCM
6 1 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 62 (32.46%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.47%) VMware
3 19 (9.95%) Splunk
4 11 (5.76%) Veeam
5 10 (5.24%) Brocade
5 10 (5.24%) Google
5 10 (5.24%) Nimble Storage
5 10 (5.24%) SolarWinds
5 10 (5.24%) Tanium
6 7 (3.66%) Adobe
6 7 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.62%) SAP
8 4 (2.09%) IBM
8 4 (2.09%) Informatica
8 4 (2.09%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.57%) Aruba
9 3 (1.57%) Cisco
9 3 (1.57%) Draytek
9 3 (1.57%) Meraki
9 3 (1.57%) Yealink