Creative Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Creative 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 434 575 668
Rank change year-on-year +141 +93 -180
Permanent jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 152 77 201
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 66 41 58
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,838 £48,550
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% -3.45% +31.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £95,625 £165,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Creative 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Creative Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Creative Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Creative Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) CMS
3 2 (1.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.66%) Moodle
4 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (23.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.63%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.97%) UserZoom
5 2 (1.32%) SPSS
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.66%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.08%) Azure
2 24 (15.79%) AWS
3 16 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.24%) GitHub
5 10 (6.58%) Pulumi
6 8 (5.26%) Datadog
6 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.61%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.95%) GCP
9 5 (3.29%) SaaS
10 4 (2.63%) Figma
10 4 (2.63%) Miro
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.97%) Canva
11 3 (1.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.26%) OSPF
1 8 (5.26%) VPN
1 8 (5.26%) Wireless
2 5 (3.29%) Firewall
3 4 (2.63%) RS-232
3 4 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.97%) BGP
4 3 (1.97%) IGMP
4 3 (1.97%) Internet
4 3 (1.97%) IPv6
4 3 (1.97%) Multicast
4 3 (1.97%) RIP
4 3 (1.97%) SNMP
4 3 (1.97%) VLAN
4 3 (1.97%) VoIP
4 3 (1.97%) VRRP
5 1 (0.66%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) MySQL
2 8 (5.26%) Power BI
3 7 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.61%) MariaDB
3 7 (4.61%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.61%) Redis
4 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.97%) Tableau
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.32%) Data Hub
6 2 (1.32%) QlikView
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) OLTP
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.92%) JIRA
3 7 (4.61%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.63%) Appium
4 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.63%) Gatling
4 4 (2.63%) JBehave
4 4 (2.63%) JMeter
4 4 (2.63%) JUnit
4 4 (2.63%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.66%) Git
General
1 69 (45.39%) Retail
2 49 (32.24%) Social Skills
3 46 (30.26%) Marketing
4 26 (17.11%) Finance
5 21 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.61%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.29%) Banking
9 5 (3.29%) Law
10 3 (1.97%) Legal
10 3 (1.97%) Publishing
11 2 (1.32%) Advertising
11 2 (1.32%) Back Office
11 2 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.32%) Front Office
11 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Social Science
12 1 (0.66%) Digital Economy
12 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (16.45%) Senior
2 15 (9.87%) Developer
3 12 (7.89%) Architect
3 12 (7.89%) Electrical Engineer
3 12 (7.89%) Senior Electrical Engineer
4 8 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 7 (4.61%) Analyst
5 7 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (4.61%) Lead
6 6 (3.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 6 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
6 6 (3.95%) Junior
6 6 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Applications Developer
7 5 (3.29%) Designer
7 5 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (3.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) .NET
2 9 (5.92%) CSS
3 8 (5.26%) HTML
4 7 (4.61%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.29%) React
5 5 (3.29%) Vue
6 4 (2.63%) Laravel
7 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.32%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.32%) HTML5
8 2 (1.32%) Kafka
8 2 (1.32%) Playwright
8 2 (1.32%) RAML
8 2 (1.32%) REST
8 2 (1.32%) UIKit
8 2 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.89%) Renewable Energy
3 8 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.26%) NHS
4 7 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.29%) Blog
7 4 (2.63%) Social Media
8 3 (1.97%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.97%) Photography
8 3 (1.97%) Smart City
9 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.66%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.29%) Android
2 5 (3.29%) Windows
3 3 (1.97%) Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (56.58%) Agile
3 66 (43.42%) Collaborative Culture
4 53 (34.87%) Analytics
5 39 (25.66%) Collaborative Working
6 35 (23.03%) Business Development
7 27 (17.76%) DevOps
8 22 (14.47%) User Experience
9 14 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (8.55%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.24%) Data Science
11 11 (7.24%) Mentoring
12 10 (6.58%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.58%) Configuration Management
12 10 (6.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 10 (6.58%) Project Management
13 9 (5.92%) Customer Service
13 9 (5.92%) Design Patterns
13 9 (5.92%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.47%) C#
1 22 (14.47%) Python
2 19 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.18%) SQL
4 14 (9.21%) Ruby
5 12 (7.89%) Java
6 11 (7.24%) PHP
6 11 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.58%) Groovy
7 10 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.26%) Go
9 7 (4.61%) Bash
10 3 (1.97%) R
11 2 (1.32%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.32%) Swift
11 2 (1.32%) Tcl
12 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.66%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (21.05%) Degree
2 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.97%) MCT
4 3 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (6.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (7.89%) Terraform
2 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.58%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.61%) Ansible
4 7 (4.61%) Grafana
4 7 (4.61%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.61%) Puppet
5 3 (1.97%) Consul
5 3 (1.97%) Packer
6 1 (0.66%) SCCM
6 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.61%) New Relic
2 7 (4.61%) SaltStack
3 5 (3.29%) Apple
3 5 (3.29%) Aruba
3 5 (3.29%) CheckPoint
3 5 (3.29%) Cisco
3 5 (3.29%) HP
3 5 (3.29%) Juniper
3 5 (3.29%) Meraki
3 5 (3.29%) Palo Alto
3 5 (3.29%) Xamarin
4 3 (1.97%) Databricks
4 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.97%) Facebook
4 3 (1.97%) Instagram
4 3 (1.97%) Progress
4 3 (1.97%) Qualtrics
4 3 (1.97%) Twitter
4 3 (1.97%) YouTube