Problem-Solving Job Trends in West Wales

Problem Solving
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -21
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 16 22 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 13.79% 20.18% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.58% 22.92% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 6
10th Percentile - £34,375 £30,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,848 £49,104 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +51.09% +30.00%
75th Percentile £55,875 £53,252 £37,500
90th Percentile £57,633 £63,825 £45,374
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £43,190
% change year-on-year -5.00% +15.77% +7.97%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 96 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 78.45% 88.07% 89.92%
Number of salaries quoted 56 39 102
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £32,603
25th Percentile £38,122 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,924 £42,512 £46,816
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% -9.19% +4.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,252 £60,938
90th Percentile £82,800 £65,000 £72,743
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in West Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West Wales over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in West Wales

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Swansea +2 15 £42,674 -13.09% 2
Carmarthenshire +2 1 £52,500 - 1
Problem-Solving
Wales

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (6.25%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Wireless
2 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MS Access
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Law
3 6 (37.50%) Military
3 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 6 (37.50%) Welsh Language
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Report Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Access Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Flask
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 6 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 6 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
2 6 (37.50%) Time Management
2 6 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) BDD
5 1 (6.25%) Coaching
5 1 (6.25%) Product Management
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C#
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Delphi
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) IIBA
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) BMC
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy