Creative Problem-Solving Job Trends in Yorkshire

Creative Problem-Solving
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 139 188
Rank change year-on-year -44 +49 +86
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 11 14 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 3
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,855 £26,650
25th Percentile £72,500 £59,145 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +31.58% +15.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,044 £70,625
90th Percentile £104,250 £90,000 £80,750
England median annual salary £67,883 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.06% +9.52% -27.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Creative 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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,553 2,506 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.75% 93.72% 80.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,076 1,220 3,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -12.00%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Creative Problem-Solving relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Creative Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Creative Problem-Solving

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -30 11 £82,500 +16.04% 1
Creative Problem-Solving
England

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
1 3 (27.27%) Apigee
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
1 3 (27.27%) Serverless
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 2 (18.18%) Claude Code
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Software Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Angular Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
1 3 (27.27%) Drools
1 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
1 3 (27.27%) Jest
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Educational Technology
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Coaching
3 6 (54.55%) Software Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
5 4 (36.36%) AI
5 4 (36.36%) Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (27.27%) BDD
6 3 (27.27%) Budget Control
6 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Programme Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (27.27%) Software Architecture
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Groovy
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Kotlin
1 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) HP Fortify
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform