Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 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 10 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 4,769 5,214 9,501
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 12.81% 13.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.47% 13.34% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,232 3,046 4,696
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,672 £45,000 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 30,823 39,093 67,833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.36% 96.07% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,354 27,124 41,194
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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
1 135 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 106 (2.22%) Apache
3 94 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.22%) WordPress
5 49 (1.03%) CMS
6 46 (0.96%) IIS
7 44 (0.92%) Apache Spark
8 40 (0.84%) Confluence
9 26 (0.55%) nginx
10 24 (0.50%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.42%) OpenEdge
12 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
13 17 (0.36%) SAS
14 10 (0.21%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
17 5 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 5 (0.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 5 (0.10%) Tomcat
18 4 (0.084%) Drupal
Applications
1 300 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 283 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 23 (0.48%) Simulink
6 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 21 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 14 (0.29%) Sketch
9 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 13 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.21%) Trello
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 9 (0.19%) InDesign
11 9 (0.19%) MS Visio
12 6 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
12 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 6 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
12 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
13 5 (0.10%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 62 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) Shopify
3 21 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.23%) iTrent
5 11 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 10 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
8 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.13%) Sage CRM
9 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.10%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 943 (19.77%) Azure
2 803 (16.84%) AWS
3 339 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
4 335 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 275 (5.77%) SaaS
6 204 (4.28%) Serverless
7 190 (3.98%) GCP
8 133 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 132 (2.77%) Amazon S3
9 132 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 127 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 123 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (1.89%) GitHub
13 88 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 85 (1.78%) Snowflake
15 83 (1.74%) Power Automate
16 68 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
17 51 (1.07%) IaaS
18 45 (0.94%) WhatsApp
19 43 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 290 (6.08%) Firewall
2 146 (3.06%) DNS
3 111 (2.33%) Internet
4 105 (2.20%) VPN
5 101 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 83 (1.74%) DHCP
7 77 (1.61%) WAN
8 67 (1.40%) SNMP
9 65 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (1.28%) LAN
11 58 (1.22%) Network Security
11 58 (1.22%) Wireless
12 57 (1.20%) IPsec
13 49 (1.03%) SAN
14 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 35 (0.73%) VLAN
16 34 (0.71%) NAS
17 28 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
18 25 (0.52%) VoIP
19 22 (0.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 265 (5.56%) Power BI
3 234 (4.91%) Tableau
4 212 (4.45%) Relational Database
5 202 (4.24%) MySQL
6 164 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
7 153 (3.21%) MongoDB
8 111 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 75 (1.57%) RDBMS
11 74 (1.55%) Redis
12 69 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 66 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 65 (1.36%) Big Data
15 63 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
16 59 (1.24%) Oracle Database
17 53 (1.11%) DynamoDB
18 52 (1.09%) Data Lake
19 40 (0.84%) Hadoop
20 36 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 462 (9.69%) Git
2 197 (4.13%) JIRA
3 109 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 96 (2.01%) GitLab
5 45 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 36 (0.75%) JDeveloper
7 32 (0.67%) Selenium
7 32 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 31 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (0.61%) Maven
10 21 (0.44%) JUnit
11 19 (0.40%) JMeter
11 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
12 18 (0.38%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.38%) Eclipse
13 15 (0.31%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.29%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.29%) webpack
15 13 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 2,552 (53.51%) Social Skills
2 1,444 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
3 1,004 (21.05%) Finance
4 476 (9.98%) Retail
5 325 (6.81%) Marketing
6 292 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 292 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 283 (5.93%) Legal
8 197 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 192 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 143 (3.00%) Law
11 125 (2.62%) Manufacturing
12 97 (2.03%) Banking
13 89 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
14 76 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 74 (1.55%) Electronics
15 74 (1.55%) Games
16 62 (1.30%) Automotive
17 49 (1.03%) Advertising
18 47 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 899 (18.85%) Developer
2 815 (17.09%) Senior
3 736 (15.43%) Analyst
4 412 (8.64%) Lead
5 358 (7.51%) Software Engineer
6 254 (5.33%) Architect
7 239 (5.01%) Consultant
8 237 (4.97%) Senior Developer
9 182 (3.82%) Data Analyst
9 182 (3.82%) Software Developer
10 159 (3.33%) Project Manager
11 158 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 147 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 141 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 141 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
14 134 (2.81%) Support Engineer
15 125 (2.62%) .NET Developer
16 109 (2.29%) IT Support
17 102 (2.14%) Full Stack Developer
18 101 (2.12%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (9.77%) .NET
2 321 (6.73%) React
3 319 (6.69%) HTML
4 296 (6.21%) CSS
5 256 (5.37%) Node.js
6 206 (4.32%) AngularJS
7 195 (4.09%) RESTful
8 130 (2.73%) .NET Core
8 130 (2.73%) Vue
9 122 (2.56%) .NET Framework
10 117 (2.45%) ASP.NET
11 104 (2.18%) GraphQL
12 100 (2.10%) Web Services
13 94 (1.97%) REST
14 84 (1.76%) Django
15 82 (1.72%) Spring
16 78 (1.64%) Kafka
17 77 (1.61%) YAML
18 69 (1.45%) JSON
18 69 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 313 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
2 216 (4.53%) Management Information System
3 169 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 159 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 159 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 150 (3.15%) Algorithms
6 147 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 108 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 75 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 71 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 69 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 61 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 58 (1.22%) IoT
13 54 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
14 48 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (0.90%) Life Science
16 41 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.80%) PropTech
18 35 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
19 32 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 514 (10.78%) Windows
2 363 (7.61%) Linux
3 196 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 115 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 107 (2.24%) Android
6 74 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
8 43 (0.90%) Unix
9 38 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.59%) AIX
11 22 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.40%) Windows 8
13 18 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
13 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.27%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.25%) CentOS
17 11 (0.23%) VMS
18 8 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 8 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (25.31%) Agile
2 707 (14.82%) Software Engineering
3 594 (12.46%) DevOps
4 584 (12.25%) Analytics
5 541 (11.34%) Project Management
6 518 (10.86%) Actionable Insight
7 500 (10.48%) Computer Science
8 490 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 486 (10.19%) Mentoring
10 421 (8.83%) Decision-Making
11 417 (8.74%) Customer Service
12 353 (7.40%) User Experience
13 349 (7.32%) Data Analysis
14 345 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
14 345 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 344 (7.21%) CI/CD
16 331 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
17 313 (6.56%) Roadmaps
18 308 (6.46%) Cybersecurity
19 307 (6.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 922 (19.33%) Python
1 922 (19.33%) SQL
2 573 (12.02%) JavaScript
3 549 (11.51%) C#
4 441 (9.25%) Java
5 226 (4.74%) TypeScript
6 161 (3.38%) C
7 151 (3.17%) Bash
8 142 (2.98%) PHP
9 134 (2.81%) C++
10 125 (2.62%) PowerShell
11 119 (2.50%) Go
12 107 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 70 (1.47%) Ruby
14 68 (1.43%) Perl
15 55 (1.15%) Scala
16 50 (1.05%) R
17 38 (0.80%) VB
18 32 (0.67%) Groovy
19 29 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,189 (24.93%) Degree
2 559 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 362 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 313 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 280 (5.87%) DBS Check
6 128 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 96 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 77 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 75 (1.57%) CISSP
10 69 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 65 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 61 (1.28%) PMI Certification
14 52 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 51 (1.07%) CCNA
16 38 (0.80%) MCSE
17 36 (0.75%) CEH
17 36 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
18 34 (0.71%) PMP
19 31 (0.65%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (7.38%) QA
2 115 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 110 (2.31%) SLA
4 94 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 72 (1.51%) GDPR
6 64 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.94%) NIST
8 44 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 27 (0.57%) NCSC
12 24 (0.50%) IFRS
13 22 (0.46%) PMO
14 21 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
15 20 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 17 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.25%) WCAG
19 11 (0.23%) GRC
19 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 329 (6.90%) Docker
2 269 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 168 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 42 (0.88%) Firmware
6 34 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.15%) NFS
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.063%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.042%) Kamailio
16 2 (0.042%) Varnish
16 2 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 291 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 183 (3.84%) Terraform
3 133 (2.79%) Ansible
4 79 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 78 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.59%) vCenter Server
7 38 (0.80%) Puppet
8 36 (0.75%) Grafana
9 32 (0.67%) SCCM
10 18 (0.38%) SCOM
11 16 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.25%) Consul
13 11 (0.23%) Nagios
13 11 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.21%) Graphite
14 10 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.21%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.19%) Data Guard
15 9 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,059 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.51%) VMware
3 190 (3.98%) Google
4 176 (3.69%) Oracle
5 156 (3.27%) Databricks
6 141 (2.96%) SAP
7 91 (1.91%) Cisco
8 76 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 74 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 63 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.17%) NetApp
13 54 (1.13%) SolidFire
14 53 (1.11%) Adobe
15 47 (0.99%) Dell
16 43 (0.90%) IBM
17 40 (0.84%) Meraki
18 35 (0.73%) Splunk
19 27 (0.57%) Facebook
20 26 (0.55%) Sage