Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 5 9 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,954 1,894 2,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.53% 13.78% 14.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.94% 14.61% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,771 957 1,549
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,400 £78,750
England median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,815 12,968 19,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.90% 94.35% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 7,710 11,912
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,268 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley +5 1,276 £45,000 -6.25% 350
Surrey +3 566 £48,250 -19.58% 111
Buckinghamshire +6 529 £45,000 +11.39% 100
Hampshire +10 506 £50,000 - 200
Berkshire +4 435 £42,500 -22.73% 144
Oxfordshire +14 312 £42,500 -14.57% 108
Kent -1 256 £40,000 -5.88% 90
West Sussex +8 183 £60,000 +14.29% 46
East Sussex +5 109 £52,500 +2.94% 42
Sussex +1 38 £50,000 -
Middlesex -15 11 £30,000 -63.64% 13
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 85 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 81 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.56%) CMS
4 30 (1.02%) Apache
5 23 (0.78%) WebLogic
5 23 (0.78%) WordPress
6 21 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 18 (0.61%) Confluence
8 12 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.27%) Drupal
10 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Joomla!
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.10%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.034%) IIS
Applications
1 302 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 264 (8.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.32%) Simulink
4 29 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.64%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.27%) Sketch
10 7 (0.24%) Stateflow
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.14%) InDesign
13 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
13 3 (0.10%) Siemens NX
14 2 (0.068%) Trello
15 1 (0.034%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.034%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 41 (1.39%) Siebel CRM
2 31 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.17%) Magento
7 5 (0.17%) Odoo
7 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.068%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.068%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.068%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.068%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.068%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 489 (16.55%) Azure
2 330 (11.17%) Microsoft 365
3 284 (9.61%) AWS
4 118 (3.99%) SaaS
5 111 (3.76%) GCP
6 76 (2.57%) Power Platform
7 67 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (1.76%) GitHub
9 48 (1.62%) IaaS
10 46 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.46%) Serverless
12 40 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (0.98%) Power Automate
15 27 (0.91%) Amazon S3
16 23 (0.78%) Mimecast
16 23 (0.78%) PaaS
17 20 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
18 18 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 221 (7.48%) Firewall
2 123 (4.16%) DNS
3 91 (3.08%) DHCP
4 75 (2.54%) Wireless
5 65 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 60 (2.03%) LAN
7 55 (1.86%) VPN
8 46 (1.56%) VoIP
8 46 (1.56%) WAN
9 34 (1.15%) SAN
10 31 (1.05%) Internet
11 30 (1.02%) VLAN
12 25 (0.85%) Network Security
13 23 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (0.71%) 5G
15 20 (0.68%) Broadband
15 20 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
16 17 (0.58%) 4G
17 16 (0.54%) Unified Communications
18 14 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 90 (3.05%) MySQL
3 84 (2.84%) BigQuery
3 84 (2.84%) Looker
4 75 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (1.76%) Power BI
6 50 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 45 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 40 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
11 37 (1.25%) Power Query
12 36 (1.22%) Oracle BI EE
12 36 (1.22%) Siebel EIM
13 25 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (0.71%) Redis
15 20 (0.68%) Tableau
16 16 (0.54%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.44%) OLTP
18 12 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 133 (4.50%) Git
2 125 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 96 (3.25%) JIRA
4 47 (1.59%) GitLab
5 30 (1.02%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.81%) Subversion
7 23 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 21 (0.71%) Ant
9 17 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 15 (0.51%) Selenium
11 13 (0.44%) Robot Framework
12 12 (0.41%) TestRail
13 11 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.30%) Gradle
14 9 (0.30%) Maven
15 8 (0.27%) CMake
15 8 (0.27%) Hudson
15 8 (0.27%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.24%) JMeter
16 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,518 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 843 (28.54%) Analytical Skills
3 384 (13.00%) Finance
4 289 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 200 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
6 141 (4.77%) Marketing
7 137 (4.64%) Retail
8 114 (3.86%) Legal
9 113 (3.83%) Aerospace
10 109 (3.69%) Manufacturing
11 87 (2.95%) Telecoms
12 74 (2.51%) Public Sector
13 70 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.13%) Electronics
15 53 (1.79%) Aviation
15 53 (1.79%) Billing
16 51 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 45 (1.52%) Automotive
19 43 (1.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 359 (12.15%) Developer
2 358 (12.12%) Senior
3 344 (11.65%) Analyst
4 208 (7.04%) Lead
5 193 (6.53%) Architect
6 151 (5.11%) IT Support
7 138 (4.67%) Software Engineer
8 118 (3.99%) Consultant
9 107 (3.62%) Coordinator
10 106 (3.59%) Data Scientist
11 103 (3.49%) Support Analyst
12 97 (3.28%) Support Engineer
13 92 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 84 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 83 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 83 (2.81%) Project Manager
16 73 (2.47%) Data Engineer
17 72 (2.44%) Systems Engineer
18 62 (2.10%) IT Engineer
18 62 (2.10%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (6.26%) .NET
2 148 (5.01%) HTML
3 120 (4.06%) CSS
4 83 (2.81%) React
5 52 (1.76%) Spring
6 50 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 48 (1.62%) XML
8 46 (1.56%) Web Services
9 43 (1.46%) RESTful
10 42 (1.42%) HTML5
11 39 (1.32%) Node.js
12 37 (1.25%) REST
13 36 (1.22%) .NET Framework
13 36 (1.22%) Hibernate
14 33 (1.12%) ASP.NET
15 30 (1.02%) SOAP
16 29 (0.98%) .NET Core
16 29 (0.98%) CSS3
17 28 (0.95%) Vue
18 27 (0.91%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 379 (12.83%) Self-Motivation
2 242 (8.19%) Management Information System
3 215 (7.28%) Algorithms
4 98 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 84 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 73 (2.47%) Driving Licence
7 72 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 57 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (1.79%) IoT
10 52 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 38 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (1.18%) Client/Server
14 31 (1.05%) Life Science
15 28 (0.95%) Cloud Native
16 26 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
16 26 (0.88%) NHS
17 24 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
17 24 (0.81%) PMI
18 22 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 505 (17.10%) Windows
2 209 (7.08%) Linux
3 162 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 119 (4.03%) Windows 10
5 59 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 56 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 40 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 40 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 39 (1.32%) Unix
9 38 (1.29%) Windows 7
10 33 (1.12%) Mac OS
11 28 (0.95%) Android
12 23 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
13 12 (0.41%) Windows XP
14 8 (0.27%) VMS
15 7 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.17%) AIX
16 5 (0.17%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
17 4 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (16.93%) Agile
2 492 (16.66%) Mentoring
3 454 (15.37%) Customer Service
4 400 (13.54%) Computer Science
5 383 (12.97%) Project Management
6 361 (12.22%) Coaching
7 359 (12.15%) Decision-Making
8 355 (12.02%) DevOps
9 288 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
10 264 (8.94%) Mathematics
11 260 (8.80%) Software Engineering
12 256 (8.67%) Collaborative Working
13 248 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
14 239 (8.09%) ITIL
15 227 (7.68%) Actionable Insight
16 212 (7.18%) Data Analysis
17 208 (7.04%) Data Science
18 173 (5.86%) CI/CD
19 168 (5.69%) CRM
20 150 (5.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 315 (10.66%) SQL
2 278 (9.41%) Python
3 201 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 199 (6.74%) C#
5 195 (6.60%) Java
6 182 (6.16%) C++
7 147 (4.98%) C
8 125 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.71%) Bash
10 58 (1.96%) PHP
11 50 (1.69%) Fortran
12 31 (1.05%) Perl
12 31 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 30 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 29 (0.98%) MATLAB
15 28 (0.95%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.61%) R
17 16 (0.54%) Go
18 13 (0.44%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 882 (29.86%) Degree
2 436 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 287 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 206 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 121 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 109 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 101 (3.42%) DBS Check
8 88 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 62 (2.10%) PhD
10 53 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.29%) AWS Certification
12 36 (1.22%) NVQ Level 3
13 34 (1.15%) PMI Certification
14 33 (1.12%) CCNA
14 33 (1.12%) CCNP
14 33 (1.12%) MCP
15 28 (0.95%) MCSE
16 26 (0.88%) HNC
17 25 (0.85%) A+ Certification
18 22 (0.74%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (7.04%) QA
2 143 (4.84%) GDPR
3 140 (4.74%) SLA
4 111 (3.76%) Data Quality
5 67 (2.27%) PMO
6 32 (1.08%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.88%) ISO 9001
9 22 (0.74%) Good Clinical Practice
10 18 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
11 14 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.44%) IFRS
13 11 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
13 11 (0.37%) COSHH
13 11 (0.37%) ISO 26262
13 11 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 9 (0.30%) ISO 13485
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 14001
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 264 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 142 (4.81%) Docker
3 103 (3.49%) Hyper-V
4 101 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 32 (1.08%) Firmware
6 27 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.37%) KVM
11 6 (0.20%) vSphere
12 5 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
13 4 (0.14%) HDFS
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.034%) NFS
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 119 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 71 (2.40%) SCCM
3 60 (2.03%) Ansible
4 36 (1.22%) Terraform
5 34 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 32 (1.08%) SCOM
7 31 (1.05%) Puppet
8 22 (0.74%) OpenSSO
8 22 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.58%) WSUS
10 15 (0.51%) ZABBIX
11 14 (0.47%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.37%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.30%) Consul
15 8 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.24%) Prometheus
17 6 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 833 (28.20%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.11%) Oracle
3 127 (4.30%) Google
3 127 (4.30%) VMware
4 92 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 86 (2.91%) Cisco
6 78 (2.64%) SAP
7 41 (1.39%) Siebel
8 30 (1.02%) HP
8 30 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 29 (0.98%) Juniper
10 25 (0.85%) Dell
10 25 (0.85%) Palo Alto
10 25 (0.85%) Xilinx
11 24 (0.81%) Adobe
11 24 (0.81%) Fortinet
11 24 (0.81%) Remedy
12 23 (0.78%) Apple
13 21 (0.71%) Citrix
13 21 (0.71%) Veeam