Problem-Solving Jobs in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 181 293 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.20% 14.72% 14.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.69% 15.38% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 113 151 195
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,829 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,357 £70,625
90th Percentile £73,858 £80,627 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,322 1,905 2,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.08% 95.68% 93.83%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,098 1,452
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,274 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 20 (11.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (7.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.21%) Sketch
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.23%) AWS
2 28 (15.47%) Miro
3 27 (14.92%) GCP
3 27 (14.92%) SaaS
4 26 (14.36%) Amazon S3
5 25 (13.81%) Azure
6 24 (13.26%) Google Docs
7 20 (11.05%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (11.05%) Lucidchart
7 20 (11.05%) Slack
8 18 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.42%) Figma
11 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.21%) Heroku
14 3 (1.66%) Serverless
15 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (1.10%) OpenShift
16 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.73%) Network Security
2 8 (4.42%) Firewall
3 7 (3.87%) Internet
4 6 (3.31%) VPN
5 5 (2.76%) IPsec
5 5 (2.76%) SNMP
6 2 (1.10%) LAN
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) DNS
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (11.05%) Big Data
2 20 (11.05%) Hadoop
2 20 (11.05%) Redis
2 20 (11.05%) Scylla
3 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.76%) Power BI
4 4 (2.21%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.66%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.66%) Looker
5 3 (1.66%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.66%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) JIRA
2 4 (2.21%) Git
3 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.10%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.10%) Maven
4 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.55%) JMeter
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Mockito
5 1 (0.55%) Postman
5 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 71 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.60%) Finance
5 9 (4.97%) Law
6 8 (4.42%) Banking
6 8 (4.42%) Retail
7 7 (3.87%) Marketing
8 5 (2.76%) Legal
8 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.21%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (32.60%) Software Engineer
2 23 (12.71%) Principal Engineer
3 22 (12.15%) Developer
4 20 (11.05%) Principal Software Engineer
5 19 (10.50%) Senior
6 16 (8.84%) Analyst
7 14 (7.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 12 (6.63%) Architect
9 11 (6.08%) Java Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) React Developer
11 9 (4.97%) IT Support
12 8 (4.42%) Designer
12 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.42%) UI Designer
12 8 (4.42%) UI/UX Designer
12 8 (4.42%) UX Designer
13 7 (3.87%) 2nd Line Support
13 7 (3.87%) Consultant
13 7 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.68%) React
2 30 (16.57%) GraphQL
3 23 (12.71%) Kafka
4 17 (9.39%) Node.js
5 15 (8.29%) WebGL
6 11 (6.08%) CSS
7 8 (4.42%) .NET
7 8 (4.42%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.76%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.76%) HTML
8 5 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.76%) REST
8 5 (2.76%) YAML
9 4 (2.21%) Express.js
9 4 (2.21%) FHIR
9 4 (2.21%) LDAP
9 4 (2.21%) Spring
10 3 (1.66%) JSON
10 3 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.60%) Algorithms
2 20 (11.05%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.26%) Linux
2 22 (12.15%) Windows
3 10 (5.52%) Unix
4 5 (2.76%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (34.25%) Software Engineering
2 46 (25.41%) Agile
3 33 (18.23%) Computer Science
4 32 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (17.68%) User Experience
5 29 (16.02%) Actionable Insight
6 27 (14.92%) Data Science
7 22 (12.15%) Analytics
8 20 (11.05%) Computer Security
8 20 (11.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 20 (11.05%) High Availability
8 20 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (11.05%) Threat Intelligence
8 20 (11.05%) UX Research
9 17 (9.39%) DevOps
10 15 (8.29%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (8.29%) Mathematics
10 15 (8.29%) Mentoring
10 15 (8.29%) Physics
11 13 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.99%) Python
2 37 (20.44%) Java
3 26 (14.36%) Bash
4 22 (12.15%) Go
5 20 (11.05%) Scala
6 19 (10.50%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.29%) GLSL
8 8 (4.42%) C#
8 8 (4.42%) SQL
9 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.10%) Perl
10 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.10%) Ruby
10 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.10%) VBA
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (15.47%) Degree
2 20 (11.05%) SC Cleared
2 20 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.66%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.55%) CCNA
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.55%) MCSE
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) GDPR
1 7 (3.87%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.21%) DICOM
2 4 (2.21%) HL7
2 4 (2.21%) ISO 13485
2 4 (2.21%) WCAG
3 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.97%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.42%) Ansible
3 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.76%) vCenter Server
4 4 (2.21%) Terraform
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.10%) Rancher
6 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (16.57%) Google
2 24 (13.26%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.60%) Dell
4 7 (3.87%) VMware
5 6 (3.31%) NetApp
6 5 (2.76%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.76%) SolidFire
7 4 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.66%) SAP
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
10 1 (0.55%) Aruba
10 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.55%) Citrix
10 1 (0.55%) Darktrace
10 1 (0.55%) HP
10 1 (0.55%) iManage
10 1 (0.55%) Splunk