Problem-Solving Jobs in the West Midlands

Problem Solving
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 665 1,265 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.07% 15.18% 15.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.11% 18.87% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 430 688 446
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £26,875
25th Percentile £30,563 £29,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £71,275 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,673 6,703 5,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.78% 80.46% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,760 4,548 3,202
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,025
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
Birmingham +5 242 £48,000 +1.05% 210
Staffordshire +2 142 £49,474 +41.35% 150
Worcestershire +2 74 £30,500 -3.17% 42
Warwickshire -20 60 £46,250 +23.33% 134
Coventry -6 34 £52,500 +22.70% 39
Shropshire -1 27 £42,500 +6.25% 32
Solihull -3 27 £55,000 +10.00% 9
Herefordshire +7 14 £53,750 +95.45% 11
Walsall +2 5 £44,000 +27.87% 10
West Bromwich -5 5 £26,000 - 1
Wolverhampton -6 4 £32,500 +27.45% 16
Willenhall -1 3 £45,000 - 2
Wednesbury +2 2 £45,000 +20.00% 2
Halesowen +6 1 £37,500 -
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.41%) OpenEdge
3 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.20%) CMS
5 4 (0.60%) Confluence
5 4 (0.60%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 39 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (4.51%) NetSuite
2 15 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
4 8 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.60%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.60%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 4 (0.60%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.60%) Shopify
7 2 (0.30%) iTrent
7 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (20.30%) Azure
2 69 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.71%) AWS
5 25 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
7 18 (2.71%) Power Automate
7 18 (2.71%) PowerApps
8 17 (2.56%) GCP
9 14 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.80%) SaaS
11 10 (1.50%) IaaS
11 10 (1.50%) PaaS
11 10 (1.50%) Serverless
12 9 (1.35%) GitHub
13 8 (1.20%) Miro
14 7 (1.05%) Boomi
14 7 (1.05%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.90%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.42%) Firewall
1 56 (8.42%) WAN
2 49 (7.37%) LAN
3 25 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
5 20 (3.01%) VPN
6 19 (2.86%) DNS
7 18 (2.71%) Broadband
8 17 (2.56%) DHCP
9 10 (1.50%) Network Security
10 9 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.20%) VLAN
12 4 (0.60%) HTTP
12 4 (0.60%) SAN
13 2 (0.30%) Skype
13 2 (0.30%) Wireless
14 1 (0.15%) NAS
14 1 (0.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.82%) Power BI
2 37 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (1.80%) MySQL
6 10 (1.50%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.50%) Star Schema
6 10 (1.50%) Tableau
7 8 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.05%) Big Data
8 7 (1.05%) Metadata
9 5 (0.75%) MS Access
9 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.60%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (0.60%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.60%) Looker
10 4 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (3.61%) Git
2 21 (3.16%) JIRA
3 10 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (0.90%) JUnit
5 5 (0.75%) NUnit
6 3 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.45%) ERwin
6 3 (0.45%) GitLab
6 3 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.45%) Postman
6 3 (0.45%) Selenium
6 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.30%) Mocha
7 2 (0.30%) Mockito
7 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 308 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 139 (20.90%) Retail
3 137 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (17.74%) Finance
4 118 (17.74%) Manufacturing
5 54 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (4.51%) Dutch Language
7 29 (4.36%) Law
8 28 (4.21%) Finnish Language
8 28 (4.21%) Norwegian Language
9 25 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.11%) Marketing
11 13 (1.95%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.65%) Digital Health
12 11 (1.65%) Games
13 10 (1.50%) Banking
13 10 (1.50%) Legal
14 9 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (15.79%) Trainer
2 99 (14.89%) Developer
3 97 (14.59%) IT Support
4 70 (10.53%) Analyst
5 49 (7.37%) Senior
6 39 (5.86%) Support Engineer
7 33 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support
8 28 (4.21%) Lead
9 24 (3.61%) Consultant
10 21 (3.16%) SQL Developer
10 21 (3.16%) Technical Support
11 19 (2.86%) Architect
12 18 (2.71%) Technical Engineer
12 18 (2.71%) Technical Support Engineer
13 17 (2.56%) Applications Support
14 16 (2.41%) Business Analyst
14 16 (2.41%) OpenEdge Developer
14 16 (2.41%) Progress Developer
14 16 (2.41%) Support Analyst
15 15 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.56%) .NET
2 23 (3.46%) React
3 20 (3.01%) CSS
4 18 (2.71%) HTML
5 12 (1.80%) Node.js
6 11 (1.65%) .NET Core
6 11 (1.65%) Middleware
6 11 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 8 (1.20%) Entity Framework
9 7 (1.05%) Jest
9 7 (1.05%) Web Services
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.90%) ASP.NET
10 6 (0.90%) Blazor
10 6 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.90%) jQuery
10 6 (0.90%) REST
10 6 (0.90%) WPF
11 5 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 106 (15.94%) Robotics
2 32 (4.81%) Management Information System
3 29 (4.36%) Driving Licence
4 22 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.56%) EPoS
8 14 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.95%) FMCG
9 13 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.65%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.05%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (0.75%) Cyberattack
15 5 (0.75%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 114 (17.14%) Windows
2 37 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 28 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 23 (3.46%) Linux
5 11 (1.65%) Android
5 11 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.20%) Unix
7 7 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.60%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (20.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 124 (18.65%) Machine Learning
3 108 (16.24%) LLM
4 105 (15.79%) Generative AI
4 105 (15.79%) Red Team
5 99 (14.89%) Customer Service
6 91 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (13.23%) Data Privacy
8 81 (12.18%) Agile
9 60 (9.02%) Decision-Making
10 57 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
11 56 (8.42%) Mentoring
11 56 (8.42%) Project Management
12 53 (7.97%) CRM
13 48 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (6.62%) Analytics
15 41 (6.17%) Collaborative Working
16 40 (6.02%) Computer Science
16 40 (6.02%) DevOps
16 40 (6.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (15.04%) SQL
2 44 (6.62%) C#
3 40 (6.02%) JavaScript
4 36 (5.41%) Python
5 18 (2.71%) Java
5 18 (2.71%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.41%) Bash
7 15 (2.26%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.50%) PHP
10 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.90%) C++
12 5 (0.75%) C
13 4 (0.60%) Delphi
13 4 (0.60%) R
13 4 (0.60%) XAML
14 3 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.30%) Go
15 2 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 190 (28.57%) Degree
2 35 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (1.95%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.35%) A+ Certification
6 9 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.90%) MCP
9 6 (0.90%) MCSA
10 5 (0.75%) CCNA
10 5 (0.75%) CISSP
10 5 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.60%) OCA
11 4 (0.60%) OCP
11 4 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.61%) QA
1 24 (3.61%) SLA
2 21 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.65%) GDPR
5 9 (1.35%) COBIT
6 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.60%) PMO
9 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) NIST
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.15%) PMBOK
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.26%) Docker
4 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) LXC
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.90%) Terraform
3 5 (0.75%) Grafana
3 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (0.60%) SCOM
5 3 (0.45%) Ansible
5 3 (0.45%) SCCM
6 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.30%) SCOrch
6 2 (0.30%) SCSM
7 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.15%) Nagios
7 1 (0.15%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 154 (23.16%) Microsoft
2 120 (18.05%) Google
3 116 (17.44%) Databricks
4 107 (16.09%) Adobe
5 26 (3.91%) Cisco
5 26 (3.91%) Oracle
6 25 (3.76%) VMware
7 21 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.71%) SAP
9 16 (2.41%) Dell
9 16 (2.41%) Progress
10 15 (2.26%) Juniper
11 12 (1.80%) Apple
11 12 (1.80%) McAfee
12 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.75%) BT
13 5 (0.75%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.60%) Infor
14 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.60%) Splunk