Problem-Solving Jobs in West Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 282 477 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.19% 15.88% 16.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.54% 18.35% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 148 322 261
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,034 £31,569
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,438 £38,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,995 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% -0.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,063 £69,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £85,750 £80,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,101 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% -2.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,104 2,599 5,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 94.68% 86.52% 97.95%
Number of salaries quoted 687 1,878 2,319
10th Percentile £25,425 £28,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,918 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,228 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,964 £86,393
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in West Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +3 165 £48,004 -8.56% 172
Halifax -4 18 £106,466 +117.28% 3
Bradford +7 14 £50,000 +29.87% 27
Pontefract +4 11 £40,000 +29.72% 3
Huddersfield +2 11 £27,500 -47.62% 7
Wakefield -1 7 £39,750 -6.47% 18
Wetherby -1 7 - - 1
Brighouse +3 5 £27,250 - 12
Mirfield +4 3 - -
Castleford +2 3 - - 12
Batley +1 3 - - 10
Knottingley 0 3 - -
Ossett -1 3 - -
Otley - 3 - - 1
Liversedge - 3 - -
Ilkley - 3 - - 3
Heckmondwike - 3 - -
Dewsbury - 3 - - 11
Elland - 3 - - 10
Cleckheaton - 2 - - 6
Pudsey - 2 - -
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 15 (5.32%) Confluence
2 8 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.06%) SugarCRM
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.71%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Blender
2 3 (1.06%) Maya
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.71%) ZBrush
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 108 (38.30%) AWS
2 29 (10.28%) Azure
3 16 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.96%) Serverless
5 11 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.48%) GitHub
7 6 (2.13%) GCP
7 6 (2.13%) SaaS
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.06%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.06%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.71%) Datadog
10 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.84%) Firewall
2 7 (2.48%) VPN
3 6 (2.13%) NAS
3 6 (2.13%) SAN
4 4 (1.42%) DHCP
4 4 (1.42%) DNS
4 4 (1.42%) Network Security
4 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.06%) LAN
5 3 (1.06%) VoIP
6 2 (0.71%) BGP
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.71%) Intranet
6 2 (0.71%) IPsec
6 2 (0.71%) OSPF
6 2 (0.71%) PSTN
6 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.71%) Wireless
6 2 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.55%) Data Lake
2 9 (3.19%) MySQL
3 8 (2.84%) Power BI
4 7 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.42%) Redis
7 4 (1.42%) Tableau
8 3 (1.06%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.71%) Big Data
9 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.71%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (9.22%) JIRA
2 9 (3.19%) Git
3 2 (0.71%) GitLab
3 2 (0.71%) Mocha
3 2 (0.71%) Selenium
4 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.35%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.35%) Postman
4 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (74.11%) Social Skills
2 77 (27.30%) Presentation Skills
3 47 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (16.67%) Finance
4 23 (8.16%) Manufacturing
5 22 (7.80%) Banking
6 12 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.55%) Legal
8 7 (2.48%) Law
9 6 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.77%) Games
11 4 (1.42%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Back Office
12 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Local Government
12 3 (1.06%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.71%) Police
13 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (27.66%) IT Support
2 35 (12.41%) Senior
3 29 (10.28%) Lead
4 22 (7.80%) Developer
5 20 (7.09%) Data Engineer
6 19 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
7 17 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (4.96%) Analyst
9 11 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (2.13%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.13%) ServiceNow Developer
11 6 (2.13%) Support Engineer
12 5 (1.77%) .NET Developer
12 5 (1.77%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (1.77%) Technical Leader
12 5 (1.77%) Technical Manager
13 4 (1.42%) .NET Software Engineer
13 4 (1.42%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.61%) .NET
2 9 (3.19%) React
3 8 (2.84%) REST
4 7 (2.48%) HTML
4 7 (2.48%) SOAP
4 7 (2.48%) Vue
5 6 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.13%) CSS
5 6 (2.13%) Flutter
5 6 (2.13%) Web Services
6 5 (1.77%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.77%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.77%) jQuery
6 5 (1.77%) Unreal Engine
7 3 (1.06%) Node.js
8 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
8 2 (0.71%) Flask
8 2 (0.71%) HTML5
8 2 (0.71%) OSGi
8 2 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 78 (27.66%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (8.51%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.38%) FMCG
4 13 (4.61%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.19%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 8 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.13%) CMDB
7 6 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.71%) Animation
11 2 (0.71%) Learning Management System
11 2 (0.71%) PKI
11 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.14%) Windows
2 8 (2.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.42%) Linux
4 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (27.30%) Mathematics
2 75 (26.60%) Line Management
3 67 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (14.89%) Agile
5 36 (12.77%) DevOps
6 29 (10.28%) Analytics
6 29 (10.28%) Mentoring
7 25 (8.87%) Project Management
8 24 (8.51%) CI/CD
9 22 (7.80%) Software Engineering
10 21 (7.45%) ITIL
11 20 (7.09%) Budgeting
11 20 (7.09%) Coaching
12 19 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (6.38%) Quality Management
13 18 (6.38%) Roadmaps
14 17 (6.03%) Change Management
14 17 (6.03%) Customer Service
14 17 (6.03%) Decision-Making
14 17 (6.03%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.77%) SQL
2 25 (8.87%) JavaScript
3 22 (7.80%) Java
4 18 (6.38%) Python
5 16 (5.67%) C#
6 8 (2.84%) R
7 6 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.42%) PHP
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) C++
11 2 (0.71%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.35%) ABAP
12 1 (0.35%) F#
12 1 (0.35%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 27 (9.57%) Degree
2 10 (3.55%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.84%) HNC
4 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.42%) NVQ Level 3
5 4 (1.42%) NVQ Level 4
5 4 (1.42%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.42%) PMP
6 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.71%) CCNA
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) PhD
8 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.35%) PgMP
8 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.55%) QA
2 8 (2.84%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.84%) SLA
3 4 (1.42%) NIST
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) COBIT
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (5.32%) Docker
2 6 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) pfSense
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.77%) Ansible
3 4 (1.42%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.42%) Terraform
4 2 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 26 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.96%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.61%) IFS
4 8 (2.84%) Rockwell
4 8 (2.84%) Siemens
5 6 (2.13%) Oracle
6 4 (1.42%) Cisco
6 4 (1.42%) Databricks
6 4 (1.42%) SAP
6 4 (1.42%) Splunk
7 3 (1.06%) Adobe
7 3 (1.06%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.06%) Palantir
7 3 (1.06%) Sage
7 3 (1.06%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) F5
8 2 (0.71%) Intapp
8 2 (0.71%) Varonis
8 2 (0.71%) Veeam
8 2 (0.71%) Zoho