Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 18 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +18
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 3,605 6,505 5,793
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.83% 11.82% 11.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.60% 12.29% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 4,151 3,779
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,556 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £91,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,722 52,931 48,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 95.40% 96.16% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,948 36,786 36,186
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £35,745
25th Percentile £46,306 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,070 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

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
1 109 (3.02%) SAS
2 75 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.36%) Confluence
4 44 (1.22%) IIS
5 28 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 27 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 26 (0.72%) Apache
8 24 (0.67%) WebSphere Application Server
9 23 (0.64%) Apache Spark
10 14 (0.39%) MS Exchange
11 11 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
12 10 (0.28%) WordPress
13 9 (0.25%) nginx
13 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
15 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.14%) CMS
16 5 (0.14%) JBoss
16 5 (0.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 182 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 163 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.25%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.22%) InDesign
7 7 (0.19%) Simulink
8 6 (0.17%) Sketch
8 6 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
8 6 (0.17%) SPSS
9 5 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
10 4 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 4 (0.11%) Blender
11 3 (0.083%) 3ds Max
11 3 (0.083%) Maya
11 3 (0.083%) Stata
11 3 (0.083%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.055%) CANalyzer
12 2 (0.055%) EViews
Business Applications
1 79 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.97%) Endur
3 23 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.14%) Shopify
6 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.083%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.083%) Magento
7 3 (0.083%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.083%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.055%) Misys Equation
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.055%) SAP CS
8 2 (0.055%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.055%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.055%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 762 (21.14%) Azure
2 428 (11.87%) AWS
3 316 (8.77%) Serverless
4 291 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 224 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
6 200 (5.55%) GCP
7 197 (5.46%) SaaS
8 166 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (3.50%) GitHub
10 117 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (1.72%) Entra ID
12 54 (1.50%) PowerApps
13 50 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
13 50 (1.39%) WhatsApp
14 49 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
15 43 (1.19%) IaaS
15 43 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 42 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
17 35 (0.97%) Amazon S3
18 33 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 179 (4.97%) Firewall
2 118 (3.27%) WAN
3 114 (3.16%) DNS
4 87 (2.41%) Internet
5 84 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 83 (2.30%) SD-WAN
7 80 (2.22%) VPN
8 77 (2.14%) Wireless
9 67 (1.86%) LAN
10 65 (1.80%) DHCP
10 65 (1.80%) Network Security
11 51 (1.41%) MPLS
12 47 (1.30%) BGP
13 43 (1.19%) OSPF
14 38 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
15 33 (0.92%) BIG-IP
16 31 (0.86%) VLAN
17 27 (0.75%) VoIP
18 24 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
18 24 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 248 (6.88%) Power BI
3 190 (5.27%) Relational Database
4 139 (3.86%) RDBMS
5 109 (3.02%) MySQL
6 98 (2.72%) Oracle Database
7 87 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 85 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (2.33%) Metadata
10 83 (2.30%) Base SAS
11 66 (1.83%) Big Data
12 62 (1.72%) MongoDB
13 58 (1.61%) NoSQL
14 55 (1.53%) Tableau
15 50 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
16 43 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
17 40 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 36 (1.00%) Hadoop
19 33 (0.92%) Data Lake
20 32 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 493 (13.68%) Git
2 179 (4.97%) JIRA
3 150 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.64%) GitLab
4 59 (1.64%) Maven
5 38 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 35 (0.97%) Selenium
7 33 (0.92%) IntelliJ
8 30 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 24 (0.67%) JDeveloper
10 23 (0.64%) IBM UrbanCode
10 23 (0.64%) webpack
11 22 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 14 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
14 14 (0.39%) Spinnaker
15 11 (0.31%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
16 10 (0.28%) Gradle
General
1 1,798 (49.88%) Social Skills
2 857 (23.77%) Analytical Skills
3 801 (22.22%) Finance
4 327 (9.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 283 (7.85%) Banking
6 225 (6.24%) Retail
7 186 (5.16%) Police
8 131 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
9 127 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 124 (3.44%) Marketing
11 122 (3.38%) Legal
12 111 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 109 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
14 78 (2.16%) Manufacturing
15 68 (1.89%) Games
16 59 (1.64%) Law
17 56 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
18 55 (1.53%) Telecoms
19 49 (1.36%) Electronics
20 42 (1.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 662 (18.36%) Developer
2 562 (15.59%) Senior
3 475 (13.18%) Software Engineer
4 408 (11.32%) Architect
5 380 (10.54%) Analyst
6 315 (8.74%) Solutions Architect
7 243 (6.74%) Presales Solution Architect
8 198 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 178 (4.94%) Lead
10 163 (4.52%) Java Engineer
11 157 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 117 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
13 104 (2.88%) Support Analyst
14 103 (2.86%) Consultant
15 92 (2.55%) Applications Support
15 92 (2.55%) Java Developer
16 90 (2.50%) Angular Developer
17 89 (2.47%) .NET Developer
17 89 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 84 (2.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (12.40%) React
2 344 (9.54%) .NET
3 325 (9.02%) HTML
4 291 (8.07%) CSS
5 265 (7.35%) Node.js
6 234 (6.49%) Spring
7 216 (5.99%) AngularJS
8 206 (5.71%) J2EE
9 157 (4.36%) Ruby on Rails
10 146 (4.05%) RESTful
11 124 (3.44%) XML
12 108 (3.00%) REST
13 91 (2.52%) ASP.NET
14 90 (2.50%) Express.js
15 83 (2.30%) JSON
16 77 (2.14%) Web Services
17 74 (2.05%) SOAP
18 61 (1.69%) Kafka
19 49 (1.36%) .NET Core
20 47 (1.30%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 278 (7.71%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 125 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 105 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 102 (2.83%) Life Science
6 90 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 83 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 71 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 65 (1.80%) Algorithms
10 64 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 55 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.22%) Cyberattack
13 42 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 36 (1.00%) IoT
15 35 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 35 (0.97%) Swaptions
16 31 (0.86%) Cloud Native
17 30 (0.83%) Mobile App
18 27 (0.75%) Taxonomies
19 25 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 341 (9.46%) Windows
2 174 (4.83%) Linux
3 142 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 93 (2.58%) Unix
5 67 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 61 (1.69%) Android
7 36 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (0.97%) Mac OS
9 26 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (0.50%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (0.31%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.28%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.19%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.19%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.17%) Debian
17 4 (0.11%) AIX
18 3 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
18 3 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,084 (30.07%) Agile
2 867 (24.05%) Actionable Insight
3 659 (18.28%) Software Engineering
4 645 (17.89%) DevOps
5 582 (16.14%) Analytics
6 499 (13.84%) Mentoring
7 446 (12.37%) Computer Science
8 426 (11.82%) Microservices
9 390 (10.82%) Containerisation
10 375 (10.40%) Project Management
11 345 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
12 335 (9.29%) Data Analytics
13 318 (8.82%) Design Patterns
14 302 (8.38%) Presales
15 299 (8.29%) Business Case
15 299 (8.29%) Code Quality
16 298 (8.27%) Decision-Making
17 295 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
17 295 (8.18%) ITIL
18 285 (7.91%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 766 (21.25%) Python
2 616 (17.09%) Java
3 572 (15.87%) SQL
4 522 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 511 (14.17%) C#
6 262 (7.27%) Ruby
7 205 (5.69%) Bash
8 190 (5.27%) PowerShell
9 116 (3.22%) Go
9 116 (3.22%) TypeScript
10 100 (2.77%) Perl
11 89 (2.47%) C++
12 83 (2.30%) SAS Macro
13 69 (1.91%) C
14 54 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 46 (1.28%) R
16 37 (1.03%) VB
17 36 (1.00%) Scala
18 32 (0.89%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 848 (23.52%) Degree
2 782 (21.69%) Security Cleared
3 674 (18.70%) SC Cleared
4 229 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 66 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
8 47 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 35 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 35 (0.97%) CISSP
11 30 (0.83%) CCNA
12 29 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 28 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 28 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
14 27 (0.75%) CCNP
15 24 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.61%) CISM
17 21 (0.58%) PhD
18 16 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (8.24%) QA
2 84 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 83 (2.30%) CDISC
4 59 (1.64%) SLA
5 54 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 44 (1.22%) PMO
7 43 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 38 (1.05%) GDPR
9 33 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 33 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (0.61%) NIST
11 16 (0.44%) WCAG
12 15 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 13 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
15 9 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
16 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.19%) IEC 61508
18 6 (0.17%) DO-178B
18 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 259 (7.18%) Docker
2 217 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 44 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.97%) Firmware
6 23 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.58%) vSphere
8 15 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.17%) Ceph
10 6 (0.17%) DFS Replication
10 6 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
13 3 (0.083%) vCloud
14 2 (0.055%) Apache Flume
14 2 (0.055%) pfSense
14 2 (0.055%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 238 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 134 (3.72%) Terraform
3 90 (2.50%) Ansible
4 55 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.36%) FortiGate
6 30 (0.83%) SCCM
7 28 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (0.75%) Grafana
9 26 (0.72%) AirWatch
9 26 (0.72%) OpenSSO
10 22 (0.61%) Puppet
11 19 (0.53%) Prometheus
12 16 (0.44%) Kibana
13 14 (0.39%) Nessus
14 12 (0.33%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.31%) Nagios
16 10 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.28%) SCOM
17 8 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 7 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 732 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 235 (6.52%) Oracle
3 139 (3.86%) Google
4 117 (3.25%) VMware
5 105 (2.91%) Cisco
6 65 (1.80%) SAP
7 55 (1.53%) Meraki
7 55 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 44 (1.22%) F5
9 41 (1.14%) Fortinet
9 41 (1.14%) IBM
10 39 (1.08%) CheckPoint
10 39 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 35 (0.97%) Adobe
11 35 (0.97%) OpenLink
11 35 (0.97%) Sybase
11 35 (0.97%) TIBCO
12 32 (0.89%) Apple
13 30 (0.83%) Citrix
13 30 (0.83%) Splunk