Problem-Solving Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 5,220 4,841 4,853
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.76% 13.57% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.51% 15.18% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,243 3,272 2,924
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £25,267 £39,750 £44,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,831 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.85% -11.22% -

All Process and 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 18,309 31,893 35,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.85% 89.39% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,584 23,747 25,453
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 111 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 91 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (0.65%) OpenEdge
4 33 (0.63%) IIS
5 27 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.52%) CMS
6 26 (0.50%) Apache
7 23 (0.44%) Confluence
7 23 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.21%) nginx
9 9 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 9 (0.17%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 6 (0.11%) Drupal
11 6 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.11%) WordPress
12 5 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.057%) GemFire
13 3 (0.057%) Kentico
13 3 (0.057%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 141 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.29%) Photoshop
5 14 (0.27%) Trello
6 13 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.13%) Blender
9 6 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.077%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.077%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.077%) Sketch
12 3 (0.057%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.057%) InDesign
13 2 (0.038%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.019%) Houdini
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 47 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.31%) Sage 200
4 16 (0.31%) Sage CRM
5 13 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.25%) Shopify
6 12 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 10 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
8 7 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite
8 7 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 4 (0.077%) Magento
9 4 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.077%) Sage 1000
9 4 (0.077%) SAP HR
10 3 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.057%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.057%) Sage 50
10 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 789 (15.11%) Azure
2 484 (9.27%) AWS
3 324 (6.21%) GCP
4 267 (5.11%) Serverless
5 252 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
6 251 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
7 183 (3.51%) SaaS
8 172 (3.30%) Power Platform
9 91 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (1.34%) GitHub
11 59 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 58 (1.11%) Entra ID
13 54 (1.03%) OneDrive
14 53 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
15 46 (0.88%) PowerApps
16 35 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (0.67%) IaaS
17 34 (0.65%) PaaS
18 28 (0.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 27 (0.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1,980 (37.93%) Broadband
2 324 (6.21%) VPN
3 262 (5.02%) Cisco IOS
4 139 (2.66%) Firewall
5 85 (1.63%) DNS
6 69 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 53 (1.02%) DHCP
8 52 (1.00%) WAN
9 44 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (0.79%) LAN
11 37 (0.71%) Network Security
12 34 (0.65%) VLAN
13 25 (0.48%) SAN
13 25 (0.48%) VoIP
14 24 (0.46%) Wireless
15 17 (0.33%) HTTP
15 17 (0.33%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.31%) BGP
16 16 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
17 15 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (3.87%) SQL Server
2 138 (2.64%) Power BI
3 103 (1.97%) MySQL
4 89 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
5 69 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (1.32%) Tableau
6 67 (1.28%) Big Data
7 47 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 42 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 41 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 33 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 31 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 23 (0.44%) Data Hub
13 22 (0.42%) Data Lake
14 20 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (0.38%) Redis
15 16 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.29%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.25%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 185 (3.54%) Git
2 80 (1.53%) JIRA
3 45 (0.86%) Visual Studio
4 29 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 28 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 24 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (0.42%) MSBuild
8 18 (0.34%) JUnit
8 18 (0.34%) Selenium
9 12 (0.23%) Subversion
10 11 (0.21%) GitLab
10 11 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.21%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.19%) Gradle
11 10 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.19%) webpack
12 9 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.17%) NUnit
12 9 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,934 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (24.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1,255 (24.04%) Games
4 1,114 (21.34%) Banking
5 699 (13.39%) Retail
6 683 (13.08%) Finance
7 640 (12.26%) Manufacturing
8 509 (9.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 196 (3.75%) Dutch Language
9 196 (3.75%) Finnish Language
10 123 (2.36%) Marketing
11 114 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 99 (1.90%) Law
13 96 (1.84%) Legal
14 88 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 85 (1.63%) Multimedia
16 79 (1.51%) Public Sector
17 58 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.03%) Billing
19 49 (0.94%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 981 (18.79%) Customer Service Advisor
2 749 (14.35%) Senior
3 542 (10.38%) Trainer
4 431 (8.26%) Lead
5 427 (8.18%) Developer
6 312 (5.98%) Analyst
7 293 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 218 (4.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 170 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
10 140 (2.68%) IT Support
11 110 (2.11%) Team Leader
12 101 (1.93%) Architect
13 100 (1.92%) Consultant
13 100 (1.92%) Engineering Manager
14 98 (1.88%) Support Engineer
15 85 (1.63%) Senior Developer
16 82 (1.57%) Software Engineer
17 77 (1.48%) Support Analyst
18 66 (1.26%) Administrator
18 66 (1.26%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
2 235 (4.50%) GraphQL
3 226 (4.33%) .NET
4 222 (4.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 215 (4.12%) WebGL
6 150 (2.87%) CSS
7 138 (2.64%) HTML
8 103 (1.97%) React
9 101 (1.93%) REST
10 96 (1.84%) ASP.NET
11 73 (1.40%) RESTful
12 68 (1.30%) Node.js
13 65 (1.25%) XML
14 61 (1.17%) JSON
15 59 (1.13%) .NET Framework
16 52 (1.00%) AngularJS
17 49 (0.94%) .NET Core
18 46 (0.88%) Kafka
19 42 (0.80%) Web Services
20 41 (0.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 548 (10.50%) Robotics
2 396 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 312 (5.98%) Cyberattack
4 221 (4.23%) Animation
5 92 (1.76%) Onboarding
6 91 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 90 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 51 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 51 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 51 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 49 (0.94%) Product Ownership
10 42 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (0.73%) Driving Licence
11 38 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 35 (0.67%) Cloud Native
12 35 (0.67%) Data Structures
13 33 (0.63%) Mobile Games
14 31 (0.59%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 549 (10.52%) Windows
2 432 (8.28%) Linux
3 304 (5.82%) Android
4 116 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 59 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 46 (0.88%) Unix
7 40 (0.77%) Mac OS
8 31 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 13 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.15%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.15%) Windows Vista
12 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.077%) CentOS
15 3 (0.057%) Solaris
15 3 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.038%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.038%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,244 (23.83%) Customer Service
2 1,073 (20.56%) Mentoring
3 945 (18.10%) Artificial Intelligence
4 871 (16.69%) Machine Learning
5 859 (16.46%) Computer Science
6 766 (14.67%) Roadmaps
7 730 (13.98%) Agile
8 618 (11.84%) Data Privacy
9 612 (11.72%) High Availability
10 606 (11.61%) Product Management
11 579 (11.09%) LLM
12 569 (10.90%) DevOps
13 557 (10.67%) Broadcast Engineering
14 554 (10.61%) Generative AI
15 539 (10.33%) Red Team
16 422 (8.08%) CI/CD
17 397 (7.61%) Mathematics
18 348 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 345 (6.61%) Risk Management
20 333 (6.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 813 (15.57%) Python
2 537 (10.29%) SQL
3 351 (6.72%) PowerShell
4 297 (5.69%) Bash
5 296 (5.67%) TypeScript
6 264 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 252 (4.83%) C#
8 231 (4.43%) Java
9 215 (4.12%) HLSL
10 91 (1.74%) C++
11 81 (1.55%) PHP
12 34 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 32 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.50%) VBA
15 24 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 23 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 22 (0.42%) R
17 22 (0.42%) Swift
18 21 (0.40%) C
19 19 (0.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1,858 (35.59%) Degree
2 759 (14.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 239 (4.58%) PhD
4 155 (2.97%) Security Cleared
5 95 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 92 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 78 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 71 (1.36%) DBS Check
9 68 (1.30%) SC Cleared
10 55 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 45 (0.86%) CISSP
12 42 (0.80%) Azure Certification
13 40 (0.77%) PMP
14 35 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 31 (0.59%) CCNA
16 28 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
17 27 (0.52%) ACCA
18 26 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
19 25 (0.48%) CISM
20 24 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (2.74%) QA
2 77 (1.48%) GDPR
3 68 (1.30%) SLA
4 65 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 60 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 60 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (0.46%) NIST
7 20 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.23%) GRC
11 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.15%) NCSC
13 8 (0.15%) PMO
14 7 (0.13%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 6 (0.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 407 (7.80%) Docker
2 317 (6.07%) Hyper-V
3 267 (5.11%) VMware NSX
4 266 (5.10%) vSphere
5 149 (2.85%) Active Directory
6 66 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 17 (0.33%) Firmware
8 9 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.077%) HDFS
12 3 (0.057%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.057%) GPFS
12 3 (0.057%) Lustre
12 3 (0.057%) NFS
12 3 (0.057%) Postfix
12 3 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.038%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.038%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 367 (7.03%) Terraform
2 305 (5.84%) Ansible
3 138 (2.64%) Kubernetes
4 61 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.48%) Grafana
7 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.23%) SCCM
9 10 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.13%) Argo
10 7 (0.13%) PaperCut
11 6 (0.11%) Puppet
12 5 (0.096%) AirWatch
12 5 (0.096%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.096%) Nagios
12 5 (0.096%) Nessus
12 5 (0.096%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.077%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.077%) RSA Archer
13 4 (0.077%) SCOM
Vendors
1 992 (19.00%) BT
2 683 (13.08%) Google
3 589 (11.28%) Databricks
4 582 (11.15%) Adobe
5 568 (10.88%) Microsoft
6 327 (6.26%) Cisco
7 273 (5.23%) Juniper
7 273 (5.23%) Splunk
8 262 (5.02%) 3PAR
9 125 (2.39%) Oracle
10 102 (1.95%) VMware
11 94 (1.80%) SAP
12 75 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 48 (0.92%) ServiceNow
14 35 (0.67%) Progress
15 31 (0.59%) Sage
16 26 (0.50%) Apple
17 21 (0.40%) TikTok
18 19 (0.36%) Meraki
19 18 (0.34%) Red Hat