Problem-Solving Jobs in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 252 131 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.58% 10.31% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.63% 10.64% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 210 73 82
10th Percentile £24,500 £24,700 £25,575
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,163 £53,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £57,500 £72,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,231 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 86.85% 96.85% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 596 943
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,375 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +13.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,772 £73,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Tyne and Wear +7 173 £51,250 +20.59% 94
Durham +17 64 £41,500 +18.57% 30
Northumberland +6 12 £24,500 -14.78% 6
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 13 (5.16%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) IIS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Sage X3
2 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.19%) SAP Business One
3 3 (1.19%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.17%) Azure
2 60 (23.81%) AWS
3 49 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (10.32%) GCP
5 18 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (5.95%) Serverless
7 14 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 11 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (4.37%) GitHub
9 10 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.17%) OCI
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.98%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.98%) SaaS
13 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.59%) dbt
14 3 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.75%) Firewall
2 14 (5.56%) LAN
3 13 (5.16%) WAN
4 8 (3.17%) Network Security
4 8 (3.17%) VoIP
4 8 (3.17%) VPN
4 8 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.98%) SAN
5 5 (1.98%) VLAN
6 3 (1.19%) 4G
6 3 (1.19%) 5G
6 3 (1.19%) DHCP
6 3 (1.19%) DNS
6 3 (1.19%) MQTT
6 3 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.90%) MySQL
2 25 (9.92%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.73%) BigQuery
4 18 (7.14%) Looker
4 18 (7.14%) Power BI
5 14 (5.56%) Redis
6 13 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.17%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.38%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.38%) Tableau
11 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.59%) Big Data
12 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.79%) Delta Lake
15 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (4.37%) TeamCity
2 10 (3.97%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) Sourcetree
4 3 (1.19%) JIRA
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) Gradle
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 86 (34.13%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.27%) Finance
4 22 (8.73%) Games
5 18 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 17 (6.75%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.95%) Law
8 14 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.76%) Retail
10 8 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Banking
12 4 (1.59%) Police
13 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Marketing
13 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.79%) Billing
14 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (14.68%) Senior
2 33 (13.10%) Developer
3 31 (12.30%) Lead
4 27 (10.71%) Analyst
5 19 (7.54%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.75%) Architect
7 17 (6.75%) Consultant
8 13 (5.16%) Service Analyst
9 12 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
10 11 (4.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) Administrator
10 11 (4.37%) Data Architect
10 11 (4.37%) DBA
11 10 (3.97%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (3.97%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.97%) Trainee
12 9 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.32%) .NET
2 19 (7.54%) .NET Core
2 19 (7.54%) ASP.NET
3 18 (7.14%) Node.js
4 15 (5.95%) ASP.NET MVC
4 15 (5.95%) CSS
4 15 (5.95%) Vue
5 14 (5.56%) HTML
6 13 (5.16%) RESTful
7 10 (3.97%) jQuery
8 6 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.98%) Ajax
9 5 (1.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.98%) Flask
9 5 (1.98%) Jinja
9 5 (1.98%) REST
9 5 (1.98%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (1.59%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.92%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (8.73%) Client/Server
2 22 (8.73%) Online Games
3 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.16%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.76%) IoT
6 9 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.17%) Clustering
8 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.98%) NHS
10 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.19%) Arduino
11 3 (1.19%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.19%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.19%) Industry 4.0
11 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.06%) Windows
2 25 (9.92%) Windows 10
3 18 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.97%) Windows 7
5 6 (2.38%) Linux
5 6 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.79%) AIX
7 2 (0.79%) Unix
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (17.86%) Customer Service
2 42 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 39 (15.48%) Mentoring
4 37 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (11.11%) Agile
6 27 (10.71%) ITIL
7 26 (10.32%) DevOps
8 25 (9.92%) Coaching
8 25 (9.92%) Collaborative Working
9 24 (9.52%) Data Engineering
9 24 (9.52%) Data Modelling
9 24 (9.52%) Project Management
10 22 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (8.73%) ETL
11 21 (8.33%) Data Architecture
12 20 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (7.54%) Analytics
13 19 (7.54%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (6.75%) Data Governance
14 17 (6.75%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 60 (23.81%) SQL
2 36 (14.29%) C#
3 30 (11.90%) Python
4 29 (11.51%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.13%) PowerShell
6 19 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.17%) Bash
7 8 (3.17%) Java
7 8 (3.17%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.59%) Ruby
8 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.79%) C
9 2 (0.79%) C++
9 2 (0.79%) PHP
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
9 2 (0.79%) VB
10 1 (0.40%) Go
10 1 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (32.14%) Degree
2 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.17%) OCP
5 8 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
6 6 (2.38%) CISA
6 6 (2.38%) CISMP
6 6 (2.38%) CISSP
6 6 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.38%) GIAC
6 6 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.38%) SANS
7 5 (1.98%) MCSE
7 5 (1.98%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) CCNA
8 4 (1.59%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.59%) PMP
8 4 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.94%) GDPR
3 14 (5.56%) SLA
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.19%) NCSC
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.40%) QA
System Software
1 32 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.73%) Docker
3 14 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (8.33%) Terraform
2 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (3.97%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (1.98%) Autotask
5 5 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.98%) SCCM
6 4 (1.59%) Cacti
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.79%) Grafana
8 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.40%) Ansible
9 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 100 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.52%) Google
3 21 (8.33%) Oracle
4 18 (7.14%) VMware
5 14 (5.56%) Cisco
6 9 (3.57%) SAP
7 6 (2.38%) Apple
7 6 (2.38%) Sage
8 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.59%) Datto
9 4 (1.59%) Juniper
9 4 (1.59%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.59%) Sophos
10 3 (1.19%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.19%) BMC
10 3 (1.19%) Epicor
10 3 (1.19%) IBM
10 3 (1.19%) Meraki
10 3 (1.19%) Northgate
10 3 (1.19%) Splunk