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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 107 90 284
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.92% 17.27% 17.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.46% 19.69% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 71 70 155
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,657 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £43,114 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +30.95% +6.67%
75th Percentile £57,508 £72,188 £50,000
90th Percentile £69,576 £78,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,497 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.28% +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 934 457 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 69.13% 87.72% 80.50%
Number of salaries quoted 581 275 1,018
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% +11.98% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -1 75 £38,500 -30.00% 57
West Wales -2 15 £51,709 +5.31% 7
North Wales -3 10 £35,000 +29.97% 16
Mid Wales - 5 £28,000 - 2
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 (11.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.87%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Azure
1 32 (29.91%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.61%) AWS
4 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 3 (2.80%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.87%) dbt
5 2 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.87%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.87%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.87%) SaaS
5 2 (1.87%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.95%) DHCP
1 16 (14.95%) DNS
2 6 (5.61%) Wireless
3 5 (4.67%) Firewall
3 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.67%) WAN
4 4 (3.74%) Broadband
4 4 (3.74%) LAN
4 4 (3.74%) VLAN
5 2 (1.87%) Modbus
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
6 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
6 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.48%) Power BI
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.87%) GIS
5 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.87%) Redis
5 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.93%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.87%) GitLab
2 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.87%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) git-flow
3 1 (0.93%) JMeter
3 1 (0.93%) JUnit
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (65.42%) Social Skills
2 48 (44.86%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.76%) Finance
4 11 (10.28%) Manufacturing
5 10 (9.35%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.48%) Welsh Language
7 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.54%) Law
8 6 (5.61%) Games
8 6 (5.61%) Military
9 5 (4.67%) Local Government
9 5 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.80%) Banking
12 2 (1.87%) Electronics
12 2 (1.87%) Legal
12 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.87%) Police
13 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (14.02%) IT Support
2 13 (12.15%) Senior
3 10 (9.35%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) IT Technician
4 8 (7.48%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Analyst
5 7 (6.54%) Architect
6 6 (5.61%) Customer Service Advisor
6 6 (5.61%) Lead
6 6 (5.61%) Report Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Consultant
7 5 (4.67%) Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Lead Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Technical Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.74%) Help Desk Technician
8 4 (3.74%) Senior IT Technician
8 4 (3.74%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.80%) Django
2 2 (1.87%) .NET
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) Flask
3 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.93%) PySpark
3 1 (0.93%) pytest
3 1 (0.93%) Spring
3 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 11 (10.28%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (8.41%) Driving Licence
4 8 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (6.54%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.87%) Clustering
7 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.87%) SCADA
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.93%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) PMI
8 1 (0.93%) Robotics
8 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.36%) Windows
2 21 (19.63%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.15%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (10.28%) Linux
5 7 (6.54%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.23%) Decision-Making
2 25 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (20.56%) Migration
4 20 (18.69%) Customer Service
5 18 (16.82%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (14.95%) Project Management
7 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.08%) Analytics
9 13 (12.15%) Data Protection
10 12 (11.21%) Customer Experience
11 11 (10.28%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 10 (9.35%) Kalman Filter
13 9 (8.41%) Email Filtering
13 9 (8.41%) Process Improvement
13 9 (8.41%) Root Cause Analysis
13 9 (8.41%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 9 (8.41%) Web Filtering
14 8 (7.48%) Data Analysis
14 8 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (7.48%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.28%) SQL
2 6 (5.61%) Python
3 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.80%) C#
4 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.80%) R
5 2 (1.87%) C
5 2 (1.87%) C++
5 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.87%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) Delphi
6 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (20.56%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.21%) DBS Check
5 5 (4.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.87%) CISM
7 2 (1.87%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) APMP
8 1 (0.93%) IIBA
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (8.41%) PCI DSS
2 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 27 (25.23%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.95%) Hyper-V
3 11 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (8.41%) Terminal Server
5 4 (3.74%) Docker
6 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.69%) VMware
3 9 (8.41%) Brocade
3 9 (8.41%) Nimble Storage
3 9 (8.41%) SolarWinds
3 9 (8.41%) Splunk
3 9 (8.41%) Tanium
3 9 (8.41%) Veeam
4 5 (4.67%) Adobe
4 5 (4.67%) Oracle
4 5 (4.67%) Sage
5 4 (3.74%) Google
6 3 (2.80%) BT
7 2 (1.87%) ESRI
7 2 (1.87%) SAP
8 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.93%) Xero