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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 4,748 5,585 8,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.07% 12.94% 13.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.35% 13.47% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,239 3,289 4,650
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,580 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,631
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

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 30,928 41,467 64,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.65% 96.10% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23,495 28,748 41,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 2024.

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
1 140 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 105 (2.21%) Apache
3 95 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.22%) WordPress
5 50 (1.05%) CMS
6 47 (0.99%) Confluence
6 47 (0.99%) IIS
7 45 (0.95%) Apache Spark
8 25 (0.53%) nginx
9 24 (0.51%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.42%) OpenEdge
11 15 (0.32%) SAS
12 13 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
13 11 (0.23%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
16 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
18 4 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 308 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 286 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 21 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.38%) Simulink
8 15 (0.32%) InDesign
8 15 (0.32%) Sketch
9 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.21%) Trello
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.15%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
13 6 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
13 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
14 5 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 62 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) Shopify
3 20 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.23%) iTrent
5 11 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 10 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
8 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.13%) Magento
9 6 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.13%) Sage CRM
9 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 945 (19.90%) Azure
2 756 (15.92%) AWS
3 346 (7.29%) Power Platform
4 340 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
5 277 (5.83%) SaaS
6 218 (4.59%) Serverless
7 191 (4.02%) GCP
8 135 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
9 134 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 132 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 127 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
12 118 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
13 98 (2.06%) GitHub
14 90 (1.90%) PowerApps
15 83 (1.75%) Power Automate
16 80 (1.68%) Snowflake
17 70 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
18 53 (1.12%) IaaS
19 50 (1.05%) WhatsApp
20 41 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 293 (6.17%) Firewall
2 144 (3.03%) DNS
3 117 (2.46%) Internet
4 105 (2.21%) VPN
5 95 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 83 (1.75%) DHCP
7 75 (1.58%) WAN
8 67 (1.41%) SNMP
9 65 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 63 (1.33%) LAN
10 63 (1.33%) Network Security
11 62 (1.31%) Wireless
12 57 (1.20%) IPsec
13 50 (1.05%) SAN
14 36 (0.76%) VLAN
15 35 (0.74%) NAS
15 35 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 28 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
17 26 (0.55%) VoIP
18 23 (0.48%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 271 (5.71%) Power BI
3 210 (4.42%) MySQL
3 210 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 190 (4.00%) Tableau
5 163 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
6 161 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 119 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
8 90 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
9 75 (1.58%) RDBMS
10 72 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 70 (1.47%) Redis
11 70 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 65 (1.37%) Big Data
13 59 (1.24%) Oracle Database
14 57 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
15 52 (1.10%) Data Lake
16 44 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 40 (0.84%) Hadoop
18 36 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 438 (9.22%) Git
2 204 (4.30%) JIRA
3 110 (2.32%) Jenkins
4 85 (1.79%) GitLab
5 42 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 36 (0.76%) JDeveloper
7 32 (0.67%) Maven
7 32 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 32 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 31 (0.65%) Selenium
9 19 (0.40%) JUnit
9 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
10 18 (0.38%) JMeter
11 16 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 16 (0.34%) Eclipse
11 16 (0.34%) webpack
12 15 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 15 (0.32%) SpecFlow
13 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 2,498 (52.61%) Social Skills
2 1,415 (29.80%) Analytical Skills
3 1,025 (21.59%) Finance
4 415 (8.74%) Retail
5 310 (6.53%) Marketing
6 290 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 277 (5.83%) Legal
8 247 (5.20%) Presentation Skills
9 201 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 192 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
11 151 (3.18%) Law
12 132 (2.78%) Banking
13 124 (2.61%) Manufacturing
14 85 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
15 75 (1.58%) Electronics
15 75 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.50%) Games
17 60 (1.26%) Automotive
18 55 (1.16%) Advertising
19 46 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 902 (19.00%) Developer
2 787 (16.58%) Senior
3 686 (14.45%) Analyst
4 405 (8.53%) Lead
5 385 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 282 (5.94%) Architect
7 251 (5.29%) Senior Developer
8 249 (5.24%) Consultant
9 187 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
10 176 (3.71%) Software Developer
11 151 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 148 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 146 (3.07%) Project Manager
14 137 (2.89%) Data Analyst
15 132 (2.78%) Support Engineer
16 127 (2.67%) .NET Developer
17 116 (2.44%) Presales Solution Architect
18 110 (2.32%) IT Support
19 102 (2.15%) Full Stack Developer
20 98 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (9.67%) .NET
2 358 (7.54%) React
3 329 (6.93%) HTML
4 308 (6.49%) CSS
5 266 (5.60%) Node.js
6 223 (4.70%) AngularJS
7 194 (4.09%) RESTful
8 130 (2.74%) Vue
9 128 (2.70%) .NET Core
10 116 (2.44%) ASP.NET
11 115 (2.42%) .NET Framework
12 102 (2.15%) Spring
13 100 (2.11%) GraphQL
14 96 (2.02%) Web Services
15 93 (1.96%) REST
16 81 (1.71%) Kafka
17 78 (1.64%) Django
18 75 (1.58%) YAML
19 74 (1.56%) JSON
20 69 (1.45%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 317 (6.68%) Self-Motivation
2 212 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 173 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 158 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 156 (3.29%) Client/Server
6 144 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 144 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 105 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 79 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 70 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 69 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 61 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 61 (1.28%) IoT
12 54 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
14 43 (0.91%) Life Science
15 38 (0.80%) PropTech
16 37 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 33 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
18 32 (0.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 527 (11.10%) Windows
2 359 (7.56%) Linux
3 201 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 107 (2.25%) Android
6 77 (1.62%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
8 46 (0.97%) Unix
9 39 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.59%) AIX
11 23 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.42%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.40%) Windows 8
14 14 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.27%) Windows 7
16 11 (0.23%) CentOS
17 10 (0.21%) VMS
18 9 (0.19%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,220 (25.70%) Agile
2 738 (15.54%) Software Engineering
3 591 (12.45%) DevOps
4 554 (11.67%) Analytics
5 540 (11.37%) Actionable Insight
6 525 (11.06%) Project Management
7 494 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 487 (10.26%) Computer Science
9 486 (10.24%) Mentoring
10 432 (9.10%) Decision-Making
11 415 (8.74%) Customer Service
12 364 (7.67%) User Experience
13 350 (7.37%) Business Intelligence
14 343 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (7.20%) CI/CD
16 340 (7.16%) Full Stack Development
17 308 (6.49%) Roadmaps
18 305 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
19 302 (6.36%) Data Analysis
20 293 (6.17%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 896 (18.87%) Python
2 874 (18.41%) SQL
3 575 (12.11%) JavaScript
4 569 (11.98%) C#
5 459 (9.67%) Java
6 224 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 156 (3.29%) C
8 153 (3.22%) Bash
9 141 (2.97%) PHP
10 130 (2.74%) C++
11 123 (2.59%) PowerShell
12 118 (2.49%) Go
13 108 (2.27%) T-SQL
14 90 (1.90%) Ruby
15 69 (1.45%) Perl
16 60 (1.26%) Scala
17 49 (1.03%) R
18 38 (0.80%) VB
19 31 (0.65%) Groovy
20 27 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,126 (23.72%) Degree
2 577 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 380 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 304 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 223 (4.70%) DBS Check
6 135 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 99 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 77 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 74 (1.56%) CISSP
10 69 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 66 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 63 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 55 (1.16%) PMI Certification
14 51 (1.07%) CCNA
15 49 (1.03%) Azure Certification
16 38 (0.80%) MCSE
17 33 (0.70%) CEH
17 33 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
18 32 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 30 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (7.39%) QA
2 114 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 105 (2.21%) SLA
4 90 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 70 (1.47%) GDPR
7 45 (0.95%) NIST
8 43 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 33 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.57%) NCSC
12 26 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 22 (0.46%) PMO
14 21 (0.44%) IFRS
14 21 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
15 18 (0.38%) SOC 2
16 14 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.29%) WCAG
17 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 10 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 340 (7.16%) Docker
2 277 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 177 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 72 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 43 (0.91%) Firmware
6 36 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 13 (0.27%) vSphere
10 10 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.15%) NFS
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 5 (0.11%) DFS Replication
14 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
15 2 (0.042%) Varnish
15 2 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.021%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 301 (6.34%) Kubernetes
2 183 (3.85%) Terraform
3 135 (2.84%) Ansible
4 81 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 76 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 76 (1.60%) vCenter Server
6 36 (0.76%) SCCM
7 35 (0.74%) Grafana
7 35 (0.74%) Puppet
8 16 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.27%) SCOM
10 11 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.23%) Nagios
10 11 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.21%) Consul
11 10 (0.21%) Graphite
11 10 (0.21%) HAProxy
11 10 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.19%) Data Guard
12 9 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,071 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 222 (4.68%) VMware
3 188 (3.96%) Google
4 170 (3.58%) Oracle
5 138 (2.91%) SAP
6 109 (2.30%) Databricks
7 91 (1.92%) Cisco
8 77 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 71 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 63 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.28%) Adobe
12 60 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 58 (1.22%) NetApp
14 54 (1.14%) SolidFire
15 53 (1.12%) Dell
16 48 (1.01%) IBM
17 40 (0.84%) Meraki
18 32 (0.67%) Splunk
19 27 (0.57%) Facebook
19 27 (0.57%) Sage