Problem-Solving Jobs in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,681 2,141 2,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.10% 13.36% 14.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.39% 13.81% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 985 1,329
10th Percentile £24,960 £24,060 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £74,051
England median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,421 15,501 17,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.11% 96.75% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,582 7,803 10,719
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,467
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,225 £81,250 £80,000
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North West +11 1,454 £45,000 -7.16% 577
Yorkshire +3 927 £42,500 -2.10% 350
North East +17 299 £41,500 -2.35% 150
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 96 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 83 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.42%) Apache
4 32 (1.19%) CMS
5 24 (0.90%) IIS
6 20 (0.75%) WordPress
7 15 (0.56%) Confluence
7 15 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 11 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.26%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.15%) Moodle
10 4 (0.15%) SAS
10 4 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.11%) nginx
12 2 (0.075%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.075%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 223 (8.32%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.75%) Sketch
5 11 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.22%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.19%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.15%) InDesign
10 4 (0.15%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.15%) Trello
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.075%) SPSS
12 2 (0.075%) Stata
13 1 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.037%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.037%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.12%) Shopify
3 28 (1.04%) Magento
4 13 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.48%) iTrent
5 11 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.37%) SAP Business One
7 9 (0.34%) SAP CX
8 6 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.19%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.19%) Sage 50
9 5 (0.19%) Sage CRM
9 5 (0.19%) Sage X3
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP APO
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.15%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 454 (16.93%) Azure
2 287 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
3 282 (10.52%) AWS
4 145 (5.41%) GCP
5 144 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 78 (2.91%) SaaS
7 60 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
8 58 (2.16%) Entra ID
9 45 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 43 (1.60%) GitHub
11 42 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (1.57%) Serverless
12 34 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (1.12%) PowerApps
14 26 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 25 (0.93%) Google Workspace
16 23 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (0.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 150 (5.59%) Firewall
2 87 (3.25%) LAN
3 68 (2.54%) WAN
4 63 (2.35%) Network Security
5 60 (2.24%) DNS
6 56 (2.09%) VPN
6 56 (2.09%) Wireless
7 50 (1.86%) TCP/IP
8 48 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
9 46 (1.72%) DHCP
10 37 (1.38%) Internet
10 37 (1.38%) VoIP
11 31 (1.16%) SAN
11 31 (1.16%) VLAN
12 25 (0.93%) PPP
13 22 (0.82%) IPsec
14 15 (0.56%) SNMP
15 13 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (0.41%) Ethernet
16 11 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 124 (4.63%) Power BI
3 123 (4.59%) MySQL
4 107 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (3.69%) BigQuery
6 96 (3.58%) Looker
7 53 (1.98%) Tableau
8 48 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 42 (1.57%) MongoDB
12 33 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.12%) Redis
15 28 (1.04%) Data Lake
16 27 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
18 20 (0.75%) MS Access
19 19 (0.71%) RDBMS
20 18 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (5.78%) Git
2 84 (3.13%) JIRA
3 30 (1.12%) TeamCity
4 27 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 22 (0.82%) GitLab
6 20 (0.75%) Postman
7 15 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.34%) Selenium
10 7 (0.26%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.26%) Subversion
11 6 (0.22%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.22%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.22%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.19%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.19%) JetBrains Rider
12 5 (0.19%) JMeter
12 5 (0.19%) Sourcetree
12 5 (0.19%) Xcode
13 3 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,318 (49.16%) Social Skills
2 780 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
3 449 (16.75%) Finance
4 262 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (7.91%) Retail
6 133 (4.96%) Marketing
7 131 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
8 129 (4.81%) Public Sector
9 103 (3.84%) Legal
10 99 (3.69%) Law
11 92 (3.43%) Manufacturing
12 88 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (1.86%) Games
14 44 (1.64%) Banking
15 36 (1.34%) Billing
16 32 (1.19%) Local Government
17 29 (1.08%) Telecoms
18 23 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.71%) Tech for Good
20 18 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 358 (13.35%) Developer
2 333 (12.42%) Analyst
3 307 (11.45%) Senior
4 245 (9.14%) Lead
5 208 (7.76%) Architect
6 175 (6.53%) Software Engineer
7 115 (4.29%) IT Support
8 104 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 95 (3.54%) Support Engineer
10 90 (3.36%) IT Engineer
10 90 (3.36%) Project Manager
11 85 (3.17%) Consultant
12 84 (3.13%) Administrator
13 78 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
14 69 (2.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 67 (2.50%) Data Architect
16 66 (2.46%) IT Technician
17 65 (2.42%) Senior Developer
18 62 (2.31%) Programmer
19 61 (2.28%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (8.84%) .NET
2 185 (6.90%) HTML
3 174 (6.49%) CSS
4 88 (3.28%) React
5 82 (3.06%) AngularJS
6 81 (3.02%) Vue
7 79 (2.95%) Node.js
8 69 (2.57%) .NET Framework
9 68 (2.54%) .NET Core
9 68 (2.54%) ASP.NET
10 62 (2.31%) RESTful
11 45 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
11 45 (1.68%) JSON
12 44 (1.64%) Web Services
13 43 (1.60%) HTML5
14 39 (1.45%) REST
15 37 (1.38%) jQuery
16 30 (1.12%) Entity Framework
17 28 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (6.64%) Cyberattack
3 103 (3.84%) Management Information System
4 87 (3.25%) Driving Licence
5 70 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 44 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 41 (1.53%) NHS
8 40 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 39 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 35 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 31 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 30 (1.12%) Housing Association
13 28 (1.04%) IoT
14 27 (1.01%) Cloud Native
14 27 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
15 26 (0.97%) Algorithms
15 26 (0.97%) EPoS
15 26 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 24 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
17 22 (0.82%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 415 (15.48%) Windows
2 141 (5.26%) Linux
3 130 (4.85%) Windows Server
4 99 (3.69%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.83%) Android
6 47 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 33 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.86%) Mac OS
11 22 (0.82%) Windows Vista
12 20 (0.75%) Windows 7
13 16 (0.60%) Unix
14 15 (0.56%) Data ONTAP
14 15 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.45%) Windows 8
16 10 (0.37%) Ubuntu
16 10 (0.37%) VMS
17 6 (0.22%) AIX
18 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (23.35%) Agile
2 482 (17.98%) Mentoring
3 363 (13.54%) Software Engineering
4 355 (13.24%) Customer Service
5 325 (12.12%) User Experience
6 313 (11.67%) Project Management
7 302 (11.26%) Computer Science
8 296 (11.04%) Data Engineering
9 289 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 250 (9.32%) DevOps
11 234 (8.73%) ITIL
12 213 (7.94%) Analytics
13 205 (7.65%) Decision-Making
14 192 (7.16%) Collaborative Working
14 192 (7.16%) Machine Learning
15 178 (6.64%) Coaching
16 176 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
17 175 (6.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 173 (6.45%) Creative Thinking
19 166 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 416 (15.52%) SQL
2 276 (10.29%) C#
3 268 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 178 (6.64%) Python
5 99 (3.69%) Java
6 93 (3.47%) PHP
7 87 (3.25%) PowerShell
8 60 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 39 (1.45%) T-SQL
10 33 (1.23%) Bash
11 31 (1.16%) C++
12 27 (1.01%) VB
13 26 (0.97%) Swift
14 25 (0.93%) C
15 21 (0.78%) VB.NET
16 14 (0.52%) Ruby
16 14 (0.52%) VBScript
17 12 (0.45%) Embedded C
17 12 (0.45%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 618 (23.05%) Degree
2 196 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 95 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 84 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 71 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 57 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 54 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 45 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
9 42 (1.57%) ACCA
10 37 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
11 34 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 33 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 33 (1.23%) CCNA
13 32 (1.19%) HNC
13 32 (1.19%) HND
14 30 (1.12%) PMP
15 23 (0.86%) CISSP
16 21 (0.78%) CCNP
17 19 (0.71%) CISA
18 17 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.56%) SLA
2 138 (5.15%) GDPR
3 97 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 77 (2.87%) QA
5 55 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.04%) GAAP
7 28 (1.04%) NIST
8 27 (1.01%) IFRS
9 19 (0.71%) PMO
10 16 (0.60%) WCAG
11 14 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.34%) NCSC
14 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.15%) COBIT
15 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 217 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 104 (3.88%) Docker
3 74 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.37%) Firmware
7 9 (0.34%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.22%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) XenApp
8 6 (0.22%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.037%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.037%) Lustre
10 1 (0.037%) Postfix
10 1 (0.037%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.037%) Snort
10 1 (0.037%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 81 (3.02%) Terraform
2 80 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 73 (2.72%) Kubernetes
4 33 (1.23%) SCCM
5 31 (1.16%) Ansible
6 28 (1.04%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.56%) Grafana
7 15 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 11 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.37%) Puppet
10 9 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (0.34%) Nessus
11 6 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.19%) Autotask
12 5 (0.19%) SCOM
13 4 (0.15%) Cacti
13 4 (0.15%) WSUS
14 3 (0.11%) SELinux
15 2 (0.075%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 653 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.30%) Google
3 119 (4.44%) VMware
4 98 (3.66%) SAP
5 75 (2.80%) Oracle
6 71 (2.65%) Cisco
7 45 (1.68%) Apple
8 44 (1.64%) Citrix
9 41 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.34%) CA
11 27 (1.01%) F5
12 26 (0.97%) Adobe
13 23 (0.86%) NetApp
13 23 (0.86%) Veeam
14 20 (0.75%) HP
14 20 (0.75%) IBM
15 19 (0.71%) Epicor
15 19 (0.71%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.71%) Red Hat
15 19 (0.71%) Salesforce