Problem-Solving Jobs in the Thames Valley

Problem Solving
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,263 774 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.13% 13.20% 15.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.60% 13.92% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 704 380 554
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,438 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £93,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,846 5,559 6,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.91% 94.83% 93.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,916 3,042 3,882
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,026 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Buckinghamshire +5 530 £45,000 +14.28% 95
Berkshire +4 428 £42,500 -22.73% 136
Oxfordshire +14 305 £42,500 - 110
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.74%) WebLogic
3 20 (1.58%) CMS
4 18 (1.43%) Apache
4 18 (1.43%) WordPress
5 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.95%) Confluence
6 12 (0.95%) nginx
7 11 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.48%) Drupal
8 6 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.40%) Joomla!
10 4 (0.32%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.079%) SAS
11 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 120 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (6.97%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.63%) Sketch
6 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.40%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.32%) InDesign
9 4 (0.32%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.24%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.079%) Solid Edge
11 1 (0.079%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.24%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.079%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.079%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 173 (13.70%) Azure
2 106 (8.39%) AWS
3 91 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (4.35%) GCP
5 40 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (2.93%) SaaS
7 36 (2.85%) Power Platform
8 30 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.27%) OCI
11 14 (1.11%) GitHub
12 13 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (1.03%) IaaS
13 12 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.87%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.79%) Serverless
16 9 (0.71%) Entra ID
16 9 (0.71%) WhatsApp
17 8 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
17 8 (0.63%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.86%) Firewall
2 42 (3.33%) DNS
3 29 (2.30%) DHCP
4 21 (1.66%) SAN
5 20 (1.58%) Wireless
6 17 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 16 (1.27%) LAN
8 14 (1.11%) Internet
8 14 (1.11%) VoIP
9 13 (1.03%) SSL
10 10 (0.79%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.79%) VLAN
10 10 (0.79%) VPN
11 9 (0.71%) WAN
12 8 (0.63%) Broadband
13 7 (0.55%) NAS
13 7 (0.55%) SNMP
14 6 (0.48%) 5G
14 6 (0.48%) Network Security
14 6 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.12%) BigQuery
1 52 (4.12%) Looker
2 51 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (2.61%) MySQL
5 29 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.90%) Power BI
7 15 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.03%) OLTP
9 10 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.63%) CouchDB
10 8 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.55%) Data Mining
11 7 (0.55%) MariaDB
11 7 (0.55%) MS Access
11 7 (0.55%) Tableau
12 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (2.77%) JIRA
2 24 (1.90%) Git
3 19 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.71%) Gradle
5 8 (0.63%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.55%) GitLab
7 6 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.40%) Selenium
9 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.32%) Postman
9 4 (0.32%) PowerBuilder
9 4 (0.32%) Subversion
10 3 (0.24%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.24%) JMeter
10 3 (0.24%) JUnit
11 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.16%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.16%) ERwin
11 2 (0.16%) JDeveloper
General
1 672 (53.21%) Social Skills
2 381 (30.17%) Analytical Skills
3 220 (17.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (9.82%) Finance
5 67 (5.30%) Marketing
6 61 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (4.51%) Retail
8 51 (4.04%) Legal
9 45 (3.56%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.40%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.85%) Billing
12 35 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
13 33 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.90%) Police
14 24 (1.90%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.50%) Law
17 16 (1.27%) Back Office
18 15 (1.19%) Electronics
19 14 (1.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 178 (14.09%) Analyst
2 177 (14.01%) Senior
3 105 (8.31%) Data Scientist
4 94 (7.44%) Architect
5 87 (6.89%) Developer
6 69 (5.46%) Lead
7 65 (5.15%) Support Analyst
8 62 (4.91%) IT Support
9 53 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 53 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.04%) Project Manager
10 51 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 50 (3.96%) Consultant
12 40 (3.17%) Applications Support
13 38 (3.01%) Applications Support Analyst
13 38 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
15 36 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 33 (2.61%) Data Manager
16 33 (2.61%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.88%) .NET
2 48 (3.80%) HTML
3 32 (2.53%) Spring
4 30 (2.38%) CSS
5 26 (2.06%) XML
6 22 (1.74%) J2EE
6 22 (1.74%) Java EE
7 17 (1.35%) ASP.NET
8 14 (1.11%) JSON
8 14 (1.11%) SOAP
9 12 (0.95%) Kafka
9 12 (0.95%) React
10 11 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.79%) Web Services
12 9 (0.71%) Hibernate
12 9 (0.71%) Node.js
12 9 (0.71%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.63%) .NET Core
14 6 (0.48%) OpenMP
15 5 (0.40%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 153 (12.11%) Algorithms
2 131 (10.37%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (8.63%) Management Information System
4 42 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 38 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 32 (2.53%) Driving Licence
8 30 (2.38%) Life Science
9 24 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
10 21 (1.66%) Client/Server
11 19 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.11%) Biopharmaceutical
15 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.87%) IoT
17 10 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
18 9 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
18 9 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 172 (13.62%) Windows
2 84 (6.65%) Linux
3 62 (4.91%) Windows 10
4 39 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (2.93%) Windows Server
7 36 (2.85%) Windows 7
8 35 (2.77%) Unix
9 21 (1.66%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.95%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.95%) Windows XP
11 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.40%) CentOS
12 5 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.32%) Android
13 4 (0.32%) VMS
14 2 (0.16%) SUSE
14 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.079%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (27.71%) Mentoring
2 271 (21.46%) Coaching
3 254 (20.11%) Decision-Making
4 203 (16.07%) Computer Science
5 200 (15.84%) Project Management
6 197 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
7 176 (13.94%) Customer Service
8 175 (13.86%) Data Science
9 164 (12.98%) Mathematics
10 148 (11.72%) Data Analysis
11 147 (11.64%) Agile
12 134 (10.61%) Red Team
13 132 (10.45%) ITIL
14 130 (10.29%) Collaborative Working
15 112 (8.87%) Data Modelling
16 111 (8.79%) Actionable Insight
17 104 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (8.16%) Statistical Modelling
19 102 (8.08%) Digital Forensics
20 93 (7.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 105 (8.31%) Python
2 102 (8.08%) SQL
3 65 (5.15%) Java
4 56 (4.43%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.20%) C#
6 52 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 45 (3.56%) C++
8 42 (3.33%) Fortran
9 41 (3.25%) C
10 25 (1.98%) Bash
11 23 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 22 (1.74%) PHP
13 20 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.03%) Perl
14 13 (1.03%) VB.NET
15 11 (0.87%) Ruby
16 9 (0.71%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.63%) Scala
18 7 (0.55%) Embedded C
18 7 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 465 (36.82%) Degree
2 191 (15.12%) Security Cleared
3 105 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 79 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.56%) PhD
7 44 (3.48%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.30%) NVQ Level 3
10 25 (1.98%) HNC
11 19 (1.50%) CCNA
11 19 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.50%) MCP
12 17 (1.35%) CISSP
12 17 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 17 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 16 (1.27%) A+ Certification
14 13 (1.03%) ACCA
14 13 (1.03%) CCNP
15 10 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.25%) SLA
2 75 (5.94%) QA
3 64 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 55 (4.35%) PMO
5 54 (4.28%) GDPR
6 21 (1.66%) Good Clinical Practice
7 12 (0.95%) IFRS
7 12 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.63%) ISO 9001
9 7 (0.55%) ISO 14001
9 7 (0.55%) ISO 22301
9 7 (0.55%) NEBOSH
10 6 (0.48%) GxP
10 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.32%) WCAG
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 66 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 32 (2.53%) Docker
5 16 (1.27%) Firmware
6 12 (0.95%) KVM
6 12 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.48%) vSphere
9 5 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.32%) HDFS
11 1 (0.079%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (4.67%) SCCM
2 29 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.14%) SCOM
4 22 (1.74%) OpenSSO
4 22 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.50%) Ansible
6 17 (1.35%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.11%) NetBackup
8 12 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (0.95%) WSUS
9 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.63%) Terraform
11 5 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.40%) Puppet
11 5 (0.40%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 4 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.32%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.16%) Nagios
13 2 (0.16%) Netcool
13 2 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 313 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.78%) Oracle
3 67 (5.30%) Google
3 67 (5.30%) VMware
4 39 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 23 (1.82%) Juniper
6 22 (1.74%) Cisco
6 22 (1.74%) Remedy
7 21 (1.66%) HP
8 19 (1.50%) SAP
9 18 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.27%) Extreme Networks
11 16 (1.27%) Veeam
12 13 (1.03%) 3PAR
12 13 (1.03%) Dell
13 12 (0.95%) Adobe
13 12 (0.95%) CA
13 12 (0.95%) EMC
13 12 (0.95%) Symantec