Problem-Solving Jobs in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,358 833 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.67% 12.43% 13.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.60% 13.16% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 810 414 562
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,750 £71,165
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,717 6,331 7,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.38% 94.46% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,560 3,510 4,995
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,254 £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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol +7 411 £50,000 -13.04% 163
Dorset +16 258 £46,250 -11.90% 46
Gloucestershire +11 246 £47,500 -13.64% 70
Wiltshire +4 156 £43,500 -11.22% 51
Devon +11 135 £37,500 +0.22% 63
Somerset +13 105 £46,250 +8.82% 117
Cornwall -3 33 £38,750 -13.89% 17
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.47%) Apache
4 12 (0.88%) Confluence
5 10 (0.74%) CMS
6 9 (0.66%) WordPress
7 7 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.52%) SAS
8 6 (0.44%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.37%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.29%) IIS
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (0.29%) Site Server
11 3 (0.22%) Luigi
11 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.15%) nginx
13 1 (0.074%) JOnAS
13 1 (0.074%) Moodle
Applications
1 94 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
2 84 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 73 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.59%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.44%) Trello
7 5 (0.37%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.29%) Sketch
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) HFM
1 6 (0.44%) Hyperion Planning
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Shopify
4 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.074%) iTrent
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.074%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 215 (15.83%) Azure
2 142 (10.46%) AWS
3 97 (7.14%) GCP
4 81 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (4.64%) Power Platform
7 35 (2.58%) SaaS
8 22 (1.62%) GitHub
9 19 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.96%) Serverless
12 10 (0.74%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.74%) npm
12 10 (0.74%) OneDrive
12 10 (0.74%) Snowflake
13 9 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.52%) Figma
14 7 (0.52%) OCI
15 6 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.98%) WAN
2 51 (3.76%) Firewall
3 37 (2.72%) 5G
3 37 (2.72%) SD-WAN
4 29 (2.14%) Network Security
5 27 (1.99%) DNS
5 27 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.77%) Internet
7 21 (1.55%) LAN
7 21 (1.55%) VPN
8 17 (1.25%) Wireless
9 16 (1.18%) DHCP
9 16 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (0.81%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.81%) HTTP
10 11 (0.81%) RS-232
11 10 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.66%) SMTP
12 9 (0.66%) VLAN
12 9 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.86%) BigQuery
3 65 (4.79%) Looker
4 53 (3.90%) Power BI
5 49 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (2.50%) Tableau
7 33 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.99%) MongoDB
8 27 (1.99%) MySQL
9 18 (1.33%) Big Data
9 18 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 15 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
12 10 (0.74%) Star Schema
13 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
14 7 (0.52%) QlikView
14 7 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (6.33%) Git
2 49 (3.61%) JIRA
3 25 (1.84%) LabVIEW
4 21 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 16 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.18%) Rational Rhapsody
6 14 (1.03%) Selenium
7 13 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
8 11 (0.81%) Storybook
9 8 (0.59%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.52%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.44%) webpack
12 5 (0.37%) IntelliJ
12 5 (0.37%) NetBeans
12 5 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.29%) IDA Disassembler
13 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.22%) JDeveloper
General
1 641 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 455 (33.51%) Analytical Skills
3 299 (22.02%) Finance
4 171 (12.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 158 (11.63%) Law
6 147 (10.82%) Banking
7 117 (8.62%) Investment Banking
8 109 (8.03%) Retail
9 87 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
10 75 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
11 66 (4.86%) Marketing
12 59 (4.34%) Electronics
13 56 (4.12%) Legal
14 46 (3.39%) Telecoms
15 44 (3.24%) Manufacturing
16 40 (2.95%) Billing
17 34 (2.50%) Aerospace
18 30 (2.21%) Public Sector
19 28 (2.06%) Military
20 27 (1.99%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 228 (16.79%) Developer
2 216 (15.91%) Senior
3 164 (12.08%) Analyst
4 99 (7.29%) Software Engineer
5 73 (5.38%) Software Developer
6 70 (5.15%) Lead
7 69 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 58 (4.27%) Architect
9 55 (4.05%) Support Engineer
10 53 (3.90%) Project Manager
11 52 (3.83%) IT Support
12 50 (3.68%) Data Manager
13 44 (3.24%) IT Technician
14 42 (3.09%) Systems Engineer
15 41 (3.02%) Engineering Manager
16 40 (2.95%) Technical Support
17 38 (2.80%) Consultant
18 35 (2.58%) .NET Developer
18 35 (2.58%) Senior Manager
19 34 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (8.10%) .NET
2 92 (6.77%) HTML
3 91 (6.70%) React
4 83 (6.11%) CSS
5 71 (5.23%) AngularJS
6 44 (3.24%) Vue
7 43 (3.17%) Node.js
8 37 (2.72%) .NET Framework
9 27 (1.99%) .NET Core
9 27 (1.99%) ASP.NET
10 26 (1.91%) RESTful
11 21 (1.55%) Entity Framework
12 18 (1.33%) Spring
13 17 (1.25%) Laravel
14 16 (1.18%) LESS
14 16 (1.18%) SOAP
15 15 (1.10%) XML
16 14 (1.03%) WPF
17 13 (0.96%) REST
18 12 (0.88%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 155 (11.41%) Self-Motivation
2 68 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 50 (3.68%) Driving Licence
5 44 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 29 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.84%) FPGA
8 25 (1.84%) GNSS
9 24 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.77%) Robotics
10 22 (1.62%) Derivative
11 20 (1.47%) Credit Risk
12 18 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.25%) VHDL
13 17 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.03%) Replication
16 11 (0.81%) Analogue Electronics
16 11 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 208 (15.32%) Windows
2 128 (9.43%) Linux
3 43 (3.17%) Windows 10
4 40 (2.95%) Apple iOS
5 36 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 31 (2.28%) Unix
7 19 (1.40%) Android
8 14 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.96%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.59%) Debian
13 7 (0.52%) AIX
13 7 (0.52%) CentOS
14 5 (0.37%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.37%) VMS
15 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (21.80%) Agile
2 196 (14.43%) Project Management
3 188 (13.84%) Software Engineering
4 177 (13.03%) DevOps
5 173 (12.74%) Customer Service
6 167 (12.30%) Mentoring
7 155 (11.41%) Computer Science
8 122 (8.98%) Test Automation
9 118 (8.69%) Analytics
10 108 (7.95%) CI/CD
11 96 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (7.00%) ITIL
13 89 (6.55%) Decision-Making
14 88 (6.48%) Full Stack Development
14 88 (6.48%) SDLC
15 84 (6.19%) Collaborative Working
15 84 (6.19%) User Experience
16 82 (6.04%) Project Delivery
16 82 (6.04%) Scrum
17 80 (5.89%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 195 (14.36%) Python
2 173 (12.74%) JavaScript
3 145 (10.68%) C#
4 142 (10.46%) SQL
5 123 (9.06%) Java
6 73 (5.38%) C++
7 63 (4.64%) C
8 59 (4.34%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.24%) PHP
10 38 (2.80%) MATLAB
11 30 (2.21%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.69%) R
13 19 (1.40%) Bash
13 19 (1.40%) VB
14 18 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.88%) Perl
15 12 (0.88%) Scala
16 10 (0.74%) Ada
16 10 (0.74%) Swift
17 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 399 (29.38%) Degree
2 193 (14.21%) Security Cleared
3 91 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 59 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.02%) Master's Degree
5 41 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (2.50%) A+ Certification
7 31 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 24 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.62%) HND
11 18 (1.33%) CISSP
12 17 (1.25%) HNC
13 14 (1.03%) MCP
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.88%) CCNA
14 12 (0.88%) CCNP
14 12 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.32%) QA
2 46 (3.39%) GDPR
3 44 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.91%) SLA
5 22 (1.62%) PMO
6 16 (1.18%) NIST
7 13 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 9 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.66%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.59%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 6 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.44%) SEPA
14 5 (0.37%) TARGET2
14 5 (0.37%) TickIT
14 5 (0.37%) WCAG
15 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 87 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.12%) Docker
3 42 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.99%) Firmware
5 21 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.25%) Embedded Firmware
7 12 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.37%) vSphere
10 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.22%) KVM
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Flume
12 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.84%) Ansible
3 18 (1.33%) Terraform
4 12 (0.88%) SCCM
5 7 (0.52%) WSUS
6 6 (0.44%) Puppet
7 5 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.37%) Graphite
7 5 (0.37%) Nagios
7 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.29%) Grafana
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
11 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.074%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.074%) Packer
11 1 (0.074%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 294 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.70%) Google
3 50 (3.68%) VMware
4 38 (2.80%) Oracle
5 26 (1.91%) Cisco
6 18 (1.33%) IBM
7 16 (1.18%) Apple
7 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.18%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.88%) Databricks
9 11 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 11 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 11 (0.81%) Sophos
10 10 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 10 (0.74%) Veeam
11 9 (0.66%) Adobe
11 9 (0.66%) UiPath
12 8 (0.59%) Altera
12 8 (0.59%) Motorola