Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,932 8,191 10,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.43% 13.74% 14.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.39% 14.37% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,883 3,692 5,160
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,997 £34,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,455 57,006 67,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.91% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,124 29,353 41,315
10th Percentile £27,128 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London 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
South East +5 2,892 £45,000 -14.29% 964
North of England +9 2,459 £45,000 - 1,103
Midlands +5 1,810 £42,000 -11.58% 830
South West +8 1,354 £47,500 -5.00% 524
North West +13 1,295 £45,000 -5.26% 630
West Midlands +6 1,153 £42,500 -15.00% 511
East of England +6 1,025 £42,500 -10.53% 503
Scotland -7 927 £45,000 -10.89% 266
Yorkshire +4 911 £42,810 -2.70% 351
East Midlands +5 635 £37,500 -16.67% 320
Wales +5 313 £41,600 +7.37% 123
North East +13 252 £45,000 +5.88% 134
Northern Ireland +20 138 £48,500 -3.00% 49
Isle of Man +2 20 £45,000 +50.00% 4
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 375 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 341 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 189 (1.73%) Apache
4 181 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 113 (1.03%) CMS
6 106 (0.97%) WordPress
7 105 (0.96%) IIS
8 90 (0.82%) Confluence
9 35 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 29 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 29 (0.27%) Umbraco
11 25 (0.23%) nginx
12 20 (0.18%) SAS
13 18 (0.16%) FileNet
14 17 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
14 17 (0.16%) OpenEdge
15 12 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 11 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 11 (0.10%) Jupyter
17 10 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1,037 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
2 705 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 272 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 59 (0.54%) Sketch
6 57 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 52 (0.48%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 39 (0.36%) Simulink
10 23 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 23 (0.21%) Trello
11 22 (0.20%) Adobe XD
12 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
13 18 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
14 16 (0.15%) InDesign
15 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
17 10 (0.091%) Revit
18 8 (0.073%) GNU Octave
18 8 (0.073%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 112 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.46%) Shopify
3 40 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 40 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
4 39 (0.36%) Magento
5 27 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 18 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.16%) iTrent
8 17 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
9 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
11 11 (0.10%) Endur
11 11 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 11 (0.10%) SAP Business One
11 11 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
12 10 (0.091%) Misys Midas
13 9 (0.082%) SAP CX
13 9 (0.082%) SAP MM
14 7 (0.064%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,805 (16.51%) Azure
2 1,278 (11.69%) AWS
3 1,126 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
4 545 (4.99%) GCP
5 503 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 352 (3.22%) SaaS
7 268 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 211 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 200 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 177 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 175 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 162 (1.48%) Serverless
13 142 (1.30%) GitHub
14 112 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 98 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
16 89 (0.81%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.69%) Figma
18 69 (0.63%) Miro
18 69 (0.63%) OneDrive
19 65 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 640 (5.85%) Firewall
2 329 (3.01%) DNS
3 317 (2.90%) WAN
4 257 (2.35%) DHCP
5 254 (2.32%) LAN
6 233 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 226 (2.07%) VPN
8 210 (1.92%) Wireless
9 184 (1.68%) Network Security
10 154 (1.41%) Internet
11 136 (1.24%) VoIP
12 130 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
13 119 (1.09%) SAN
14 101 (0.92%) VLAN
15 76 (0.70%) 5G
16 64 (0.59%) SD-WAN
17 60 (0.55%) IPsec
18 59 (0.54%) Ethernet
19 57 (0.52%) Broadband
20 55 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 659 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 428 (3.92%) Power BI
3 343 (3.14%) Looker
4 339 (3.10%) BigQuery
5 335 (3.06%) MySQL
6 326 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
7 254 (2.32%) NoSQL
8 232 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 193 (1.77%) Big Data
10 186 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
11 169 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
12 157 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 150 (1.37%) Tableau
14 94 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
15 88 (0.80%) Hadoop
15 88 (0.80%) Redis
16 85 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 79 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 77 (0.70%) Data Lake
19 73 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 554 (5.07%) Git
2 373 (3.41%) JIRA
3 226 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 104 (0.95%) GitLab
5 86 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 59 (0.54%) LabVIEW
7 55 (0.50%) Selenium
8 52 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 43 (0.39%) Maven
11 39 (0.36%) JUnit
12 38 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.32%) Postman
14 32 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.27%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.27%) JMeter
17 26 (0.24%) Cypress.io
18 25 (0.23%) IntelliJ
19 24 (0.22%) Ant
20 22 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,449 (49.84%) Social Skills
2 3,404 (31.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2,035 (18.62%) Finance
4 1,181 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 806 (7.37%) Law
6 799 (7.31%) Retail
7 699 (6.39%) Marketing
8 676 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
9 569 (5.20%) Manufacturing
10 453 (4.14%) Legal
11 439 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
12 393 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
13 355 (3.25%) Public Sector
14 293 (2.68%) Banking
15 257 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 226 (2.07%) Electronics
17 186 (1.70%) Aerospace
18 165 (1.51%) Investment Banking
19 153 (1.40%) Automotive
20 152 (1.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,575 (14.41%) Analyst
2 1,413 (12.93%) Senior
3 1,366 (12.50%) Developer
4 852 (7.79%) Software Engineer
5 822 (7.52%) Lead
6 549 (5.02%) IT Support
7 525 (4.80%) Architect
8 430 (3.93%) Support Engineer
9 411 (3.76%) Consultant
10 373 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 361 (3.30%) IT Engineer
12 337 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 312 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 310 (2.84%) Data Engineer
15 290 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 272 (2.49%) IT Technician
17 268 (2.45%) Software Developer
18 259 (2.37%) Graduate
18 259 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 257 (2.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (6.49%) .NET
2 617 (5.64%) HTML
3 542 (4.96%) CSS
4 486 (4.45%) React
5 344 (3.15%) AngularJS
6 283 (2.59%) Node.js
7 225 (2.06%) Spring
8 206 (1.88%) REST
9 193 (1.77%) RESTful
10 190 (1.74%) Vue
11 185 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 174 (1.59%) ASP.NET
13 173 (1.58%) .NET Core
14 145 (1.33%) Web Services
15 141 (1.29%) JSON
16 132 (1.21%) HTML5
17 130 (1.19%) jQuery
18 124 (1.13%) XML
19 112 (1.02%) Spring Boot
20 110 (1.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,040 (9.51%) Self-Motivation
2 567 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 402 (3.68%) Algorithms
4 379 (3.47%) Driving Licence
5 340 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 246 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 230 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 172 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 163 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 162 (1.48%) Data Structures
11 144 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 139 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 135 (1.23%) IoT
14 110 (1.01%) FMCG
15 107 (0.98%) NHS
16 105 (0.96%) Public Cloud
17 100 (0.91%) Client/Server
18 92 (0.84%) Clustering
19 82 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
20 75 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,687 (15.43%) Windows
2 745 (6.81%) Linux
3 562 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 394 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 185 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 165 (1.51%) Android
7 134 (1.23%) Unix
8 113 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 111 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 108 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
11 102 (0.93%) Mac OS
12 101 (0.92%) Windows 7
13 50 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
14 38 (0.35%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.31%) VMS
16 32 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
17 31 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 29 (0.27%) Windows 8
19 28 (0.26%) CentOS
20 27 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,203 (20.15%) Agile
2 1,516 (13.87%) Customer Service
3 1,354 (12.39%) Project Management
4 1,330 (12.17%) Mentoring
5 1,308 (11.96%) Software Engineering
6 1,273 (11.64%) Computer Science
7 1,230 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,186 (10.85%) Decision-Making
9 1,081 (9.89%) DevOps
10 895 (8.19%) Coaching
11 876 (8.01%) ITIL
12 818 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
13 719 (6.58%) Analytics
14 717 (6.56%) Mathematics
15 673 (6.16%) SDLC
16 671 (6.14%) Collaborative Working
17 666 (6.09%) CI/CD
18 641 (5.86%) Change Management
19 617 (5.64%) Actionable Insight
20 594 (5.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,658 (15.17%) SQL
2 1,122 (10.26%) Python
3 922 (8.43%) JavaScript
4 898 (8.21%) Java
5 880 (8.05%) C#
6 369 (3.38%) C++
7 364 (3.33%) C
8 329 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 289 (2.64%) PHP
10 285 (2.61%) TypeScript
11 225 (2.06%) Bash
12 153 (1.40%) Scala
13 117 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 94 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 87 (0.80%) Perl
16 81 (0.74%) Go
17 71 (0.65%) Ruby
18 69 (0.63%) VB
19 67 (0.61%) R
20 63 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,941 (26.90%) Degree
2 1,038 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 654 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 652 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 317 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 308 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 256 (2.34%) DBS Check
8 170 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 159 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 119 (1.09%) HNC
11 118 (1.08%) CCNA
12 111 (1.02%) A+ Certification
13 103 (0.94%) PhD
14 101 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 100 (0.91%) CISSP
16 97 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 96 (0.88%) HND
18 93 (0.85%) Azure Certification
19 81 (0.74%) MCSE
20 78 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (5.51%) QA
2 479 (4.38%) GDPR
3 396 (3.62%) SLA
4 362 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 172 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 140 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 134 (1.23%) PMO
8 126 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 91 (0.83%) ISO 9001
10 65 (0.59%) NIST
11 51 (0.47%) WCAG
12 44 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 41 (0.38%) IFRS
14 34 (0.31%) GAAP
15 28 (0.26%) NCSC
16 23 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 23 (0.21%) PCI DSS
16 23 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.20%) ISO 13485
18 21 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 916 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 404 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 395 (3.61%) Docker
4 291 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 126 (1.15%) Firmware
6 80 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 66 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.35%) vSphere
9 37 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 33 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
12 24 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 20 (0.18%) KVM
14 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.11%) XenApp
16 11 (0.10%) NFS
17 8 (0.073%) XenDesktop
18 6 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
18 6 (0.055%) pfSense
19 5 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 386 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 219 (2.00%) Terraform
3 192 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 172 (1.57%) Ansible
5 164 (1.50%) SCCM
6 67 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 56 (0.51%) Puppet
8 45 (0.41%) SCOM
9 36 (0.33%) WSUS
10 31 (0.28%) Grafana
11 30 (0.27%) EnCase
11 30 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (0.24%) OpenSSO
13 25 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
13 25 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 23 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
16 19 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
17 17 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,642 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 615 (5.63%) Google
3 562 (5.14%) VMware
4 382 (3.49%) Oracle
5 294 (2.69%) SAP
6 269 (2.46%) Cisco
7 178 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 120 (1.10%) Veeam
9 108 (0.99%) Databricks
10 107 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 105 (0.96%) Apple
12 97 (0.89%) Citrix
12 97 (0.89%) IBM
13 94 (0.86%) Adobe
14 91 (0.83%) Dell
15 90 (0.82%) Palo Alto
16 89 (0.81%) HP
17 77 (0.70%) Meraki
18 74 (0.68%) Red Hat
19 71 (0.65%) Sophos