Hybrid/Remote Problem-Solving Job Trends

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,112 3,121 4,480
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 11.40% 21.33% 13.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.77% 22.44% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,463 1,811 3,235
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,982 £36,250 £39,643
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -7.77% +4.04% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Problem-Solving and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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
1 109 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 84 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.04%) Confluence
4 21 (0.99%) Apache
5 17 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.76%) CMS
7 10 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2007
8 9 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
8 9 (0.43%) Totara
9 8 (0.38%) WordPress
10 7 (0.33%) Drupal
11 6 (0.28%) nginx
12 5 (0.24%) Moodle
13 4 (0.19%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.14%) IIS
15 2 (0.095%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 97 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.095%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.047%) Simulink
10 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.24%) SAP Business One
6 5 (0.24%) Shopify
7 4 (0.19%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.095%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.095%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.095%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.047%) HFM
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.047%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 470 (22.25%) Azure
2 332 (15.72%) AWS
3 238 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 176 (8.33%) SaaS
5 139 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 115 (5.45%) Entra ID
7 107 (5.07%) GCP
8 80 (3.79%) Serverless
9 71 (3.36%) GitHub
10 66 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 38 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
14 33 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (1.52%) Google Workspace
16 28 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (1.33%) Figma
17 25 (1.18%) OneDrive
18 23 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 134 (6.34%) Broadband
2 109 (5.16%) Firewall
3 105 (4.97%) DNS
4 86 (4.07%) Wi-Fi
5 83 (3.93%) VPN
6 79 (3.74%) DHCP
7 70 (3.31%) LAN
7 70 (3.31%) WAN
8 50 (2.37%) TCP/IP
9 35 (1.66%) VoIP
10 26 (1.23%) VLAN
10 26 (1.23%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.18%) SD-WAN
12 24 (1.14%) Wireless
13 18 (0.85%) BGP
14 17 (0.80%) Network Security
15 16 (0.76%) NGFW
15 16 (0.76%) Wireshark
16 14 (0.66%) OSPF
17 13 (0.62%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (4.92%) Power BI
2 69 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.66%) NoSQL
4 33 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 29 (1.37%) Tableau
6 26 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
7 25 (1.18%) MySQL
8 22 (1.04%) Metadata
9 21 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 18 (0.85%) Power Query
11 17 (0.80%) OLTP
11 17 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (0.71%) DynamoDB
13 14 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.57%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 113 (5.35%) Git
2 80 (3.79%) JIRA
3 34 (1.61%) GitLab
4 19 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.47%) Subversion
6 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 9 (0.43%) Postman
6 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (0.33%) webpack
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.24%) MLflow
9 5 (0.24%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.19%) Babel
10 4 (0.19%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.19%) Selenium
11 3 (0.14%) Maven
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 956 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 602 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
3 491 (23.25%) Finance
4 181 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 155 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 133 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
7 123 (5.82%) Banking
8 111 (5.26%) Marketing
9 89 (4.21%) Law
9 89 (4.21%) Retail
10 80 (3.79%) Legal
11 69 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 47 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 38 (1.80%) Back Office
14 38 (1.80%) Games
15 30 (1.42%) Electronics
16 29 (1.37%) Advertising
16 29 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 350 (16.57%) Senior
2 275 (13.02%) Developer
3 223 (10.56%) Analyst
4 182 (8.62%) Lead
5 168 (7.95%) IT Support
6 151 (7.15%) Support Engineer
7 115 (5.45%) Consultant
8 100 (4.73%) IT Engineer
9 93 (4.40%) Architect
10 90 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 87 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
12 79 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 76 (3.60%) Senior Developer
14 57 (2.70%) Support Technician
15 56 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 56 (2.65%) Support Analyst
16 55 (2.60%) Applications Support
17 53 (2.51%) Data Engineer
18 41 (1.94%) Administrator
19 40 (1.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.92%) React
2 110 (5.21%) .NET
3 83 (3.93%) HTML
4 63 (2.98%) REST
5 56 (2.65%) Node.js
6 54 (2.56%) CSS
7 51 (2.41%) RESTful
8 46 (2.18%) gRPC
9 41 (1.94%) SOAP
10 34 (1.61%) Spring
11 32 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 29 (1.37%) Kafka
12 29 (1.37%) Vue
13 27 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
14 24 (1.14%) Middleware
15 23 (1.09%) JSON
16 22 (1.04%) OAuth
16 22 (1.04%) XML
17 19 (0.90%) Visualforce
17 19 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 131 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 113 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 95 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 94 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 84 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
6 76 (3.60%) Driving Licence
7 71 (3.36%) Management Information System
8 68 (3.22%) Data Centre
9 52 (2.46%) Video\Live Streaming
10 51 (2.41%) Over-the-Top Content
10 51 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 42 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 40 (1.89%) Data Structures
13 36 (1.70%) Social Media
14 34 (1.61%) Cyberattack
15 31 (1.47%) Low-Code
15 31 (1.47%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.37%) Algorithms
17 27 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 213 (10.09%) Windows
2 100 (4.73%) Linux
3 85 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 33 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 26 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (1.14%) Android
7 24 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.66%) Unix
11 11 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.47%) CentOS
13 8 (0.38%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.24%) Debian
15 5 (0.24%) VMS
16 3 (0.14%) SUSE
16 3 (0.14%) VME
17 2 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (21.02%) Agile
2 380 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 357 (16.90%) CI/CD
4 330 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 265 (12.55%) DevOps
6 251 (11.88%) Software Engineering
7 242 (11.46%) Decision-Making
8 230 (10.89%) Project Management
9 229 (10.84%) Coaching
10 227 (10.75%) AI
11 210 (9.94%) Roadmaps
12 209 (9.90%) Analytics
13 207 (9.80%) ITIL
14 195 (9.23%) Customer Service
15 192 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
16 149 (7.05%) Collaborative Culture
16 149 (7.05%) Cybersecurity
17 148 (7.01%) Collaborative Working
18 147 (6.96%) Computer Science
19 145 (6.87%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 352 (16.67%) Python
2 291 (13.78%) SQL
3 190 (9.00%) JavaScript
4 119 (5.63%) Java
5 114 (5.40%) C#
6 110 (5.21%) TypeScript
7 77 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 65 (3.08%) Go
9 47 (2.23%) Scala
10 35 (1.66%) PHP
11 31 (1.47%) Bash
12 30 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 28 (1.33%) Apex Code
14 23 (1.09%) C++
15 19 (0.90%) T-SQL
16 12 (0.57%) Bicep
17 11 (0.52%) R
17 11 (0.52%) Rust
18 10 (0.47%) C
18 10 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 346 (16.38%) Degree
2 160 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 118 (5.59%) DBS Check
4 105 (4.97%) SC Cleared
5 83 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.23%) CISSP
8 39 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.66%) ACCA
9 35 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 30 (1.42%) PMP
11 29 (1.37%) CIMA
12 28 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 25 (1.18%) CISM
15 24 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.99%) SANS
17 20 (0.95%) CISA
18 16 (0.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.35%) QA
3 85 (4.02%) GDPR
4 60 (2.84%) NIST
5 51 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.37%) Accessibility
7 44 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 43 (2.04%) SLA
9 27 (1.28%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (0.90%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.76%) COBIT
12 12 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 12 (0.57%) PMO
13 11 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.38%) IFRS
14 8 (0.38%) WCAG
15 7 (0.33%) GRC
16 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 150 (7.10%) Active Directory
2 131 (6.20%) Docker
3 46 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 36 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.47%) Firmware
6 10 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.14%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.047%) KVM
9 1 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (5.73%) Terraform
2 78 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (3.41%) Kubernetes
4 56 (2.65%) Ansible
5 27 (1.28%) Grafana
6 26 (1.23%) SCCM
7 15 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (0.62%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.47%) Puppet
11 6 (0.28%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.28%) Packer
12 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.19%) Nmap
14 3 (0.14%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.14%) PaperCut
14 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.095%) Argo
15 2 (0.095%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 475 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 73 (3.46%) Salesforce
3 72 (3.41%) Oracle
4 70 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.94%) Google
6 58 (2.75%) Cisco
7 52 (2.46%) SAP
8 45 (2.13%) Adobe
8 45 (2.13%) Typelevel
9 43 (2.04%) VMware
10 26 (1.23%) Databricks
11 24 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.09%) Apple
13 22 (1.04%) Meraki
14 19 (0.90%) MuleSoft
15 18 (0.85%) Aruba
15 18 (0.85%) BT
15 18 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 17 (0.80%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.76%) Dell