Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,947 11,486 19,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.97% 12.97% 14.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.59% 13.57% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,466 5,942 8,658
10th Percentile £26,117 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £38,279
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,606 84,635 130,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.09% 95.60% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53,947 50,378 73,071
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in England.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +3 3,266 £70,000 - 1,976
South East +5 2,907 £45,000 -14.29% 1,239
North of England +9 2,457 £45,000 - 1,130
Midlands +4 1,807 £42,000 -11.58% 883
South West +7 1,362 £47,500 -5.00% 540
North West +14 1,292 £45,000 -5.26% 611
West Midlands +4 1,146 £42,500 -15.00% 541
East of England +6 1,024 £42,500 -10.99% 546
Yorkshire +4 909 £43,000 -1.88% 396
East Midlands +8 638 £37,500 -16.67% 343
North East +14 255 £45,000 +5.88% 138
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 451 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 399 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 142 (1.10%) CMS
4 140 (1.08%) Confluence
5 136 (1.05%) Apache
6 105 (0.81%) WordPress
7 102 (0.79%) IIS
8 54 (0.42%) SAS
9 48 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 31 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 29 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 22 (0.17%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 14 (0.11%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.10%) JBoss
19 12 (0.093%) ArcGIS
19 12 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1,233 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 916 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 294 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 56 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 47 (0.36%) Sketch
8 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 43 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 42 (0.32%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 20 (0.15%) Adobe XD
15 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
16 17 (0.13%) InDesign
17 14 (0.11%) SPSS
18 12 (0.093%) Chatbot
19 10 (0.077%) Revit
20 8 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 125 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 45 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 41 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
6 40 (0.31%) Magento
7 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
10 17 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
12 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
12 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
12 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
13 11 (0.085%) Sage 50
13 11 (0.085%) Teamcenter
14 10 (0.077%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2,208 (17.05%) Azure
2 1,628 (12.57%) AWS
3 1,312 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 671 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 648 (5.01%) GCP
6 458 (3.54%) SaaS
7 346 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 289 (2.23%) Serverless
9 269 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 201 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 198 (1.53%) GitHub
12 197 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
13 185 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 172 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 152 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 145 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 114 (0.88%) Snowflake
18 110 (0.85%) IaaS
19 99 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
20 86 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 765 (5.91%) Firewall
2 412 (3.18%) DNS
3 351 (2.71%) WAN
4 305 (2.36%) LAN
5 294 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 281 (2.17%) DHCP
7 242 (1.87%) Wireless
8 236 (1.82%) VPN
9 225 (1.74%) Network Security
10 189 (1.46%) Internet
11 184 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
12 144 (1.11%) VoIP
13 115 (0.89%) SAN
14 108 (0.83%) VLAN
15 81 (0.63%) SD-WAN
16 78 (0.60%) 5G
17 69 (0.53%) Broadband
18 68 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 55 (0.42%) SNMP
20 53 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 805 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 555 (4.29%) Power BI
3 408 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 398 (3.07%) MySQL
5 358 (2.77%) Tableau
6 348 (2.69%) BigQuery
7 345 (2.66%) Looker
8 270 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 221 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
10 195 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 175 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 152 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 150 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
14 114 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 113 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 100 (0.77%) Redis
17 98 (0.76%) DynamoDB
18 90 (0.70%) Data Lake
19 89 (0.69%) RDBMS
20 86 (0.66%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 803 (6.20%) Git
2 458 (3.54%) JIRA
3 286 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 181 (1.40%) GitLab
5 108 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 72 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 55 (0.42%) Selenium
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 43 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 42 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 39 (0.30%) Postman
12 37 (0.29%) Subversion
13 36 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 31 (0.24%) Metasploit
14 31 (0.24%) SpecFlow
15 30 (0.23%) JUnit
16 29 (0.22%) Ant
17 28 (0.22%) Burp Suite
18 26 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 6,898 (53.28%) Social Skills
2 4,419 (34.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2,421 (18.70%) Finance
4 1,046 (8.08%) Retail
5 974 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 795 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
7 717 (5.54%) Marketing
8 675 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
9 565 (4.36%) Legal
10 514 (3.97%) Manufacturing
11 513 (3.96%) Law
12 423 (3.27%) Public Sector
13 375 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
14 333 (2.57%) Banking
15 291 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 220 (1.70%) Billing
17 202 (1.56%) Aerospace
18 198 (1.53%) Electronics
19 179 (1.38%) Automotive
20 174 (1.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,944 (15.02%) Analyst
2 1,694 (13.08%) Senior
3 1,672 (12.91%) Developer
4 930 (7.18%) Lead
5 702 (5.42%) Architect
6 578 (4.46%) Software Engineer
7 574 (4.43%) IT Support
8 497 (3.84%) Support Engineer
9 494 (3.82%) Consultant
10 432 (3.34%) Project Manager
11 370 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 365 (2.82%) Business Analyst
13 352 (2.72%) Senior Developer
14 318 (2.46%) IT Engineer
15 301 (2.32%) Data Analyst
16 293 (2.26%) Support Analyst
17 290 (2.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 274 (2.12%) IT Technician
19 266 (2.05%) Software Developer
20 263 (2.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 836 (6.46%) .NET
2 722 (5.58%) HTML
3 629 (4.86%) CSS
4 514 (3.97%) React
5 316 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 307 (2.37%) Node.js
7 279 (2.15%) RESTful
8 232 (1.79%) REST
9 215 (1.66%) Vue
10 214 (1.65%) ASP.NET
11 208 (1.61%) .NET Framework
12 194 (1.50%) Web Services
13 190 (1.47%) .NET Core
14 163 (1.26%) JSON
15 153 (1.18%) XML
16 152 (1.17%) Spring
17 143 (1.10%) HTML5
18 122 (0.94%) jQuery
18 122 (0.94%) SOAP
19 120 (0.93%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1,244 (9.61%) Self-Motivation
2 710 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 435 (3.36%) Algorithms
4 420 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 377 (2.91%) Driving Licence
6 314 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 252 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 226 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 196 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 183 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 174 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 151 (1.17%) IoT
13 143 (1.10%) Virtual Team
14 137 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 123 (0.95%) Cloud Native
16 111 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
17 106 (0.82%) NHS
18 102 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
19 93 (0.72%) Life Science
20 84 (0.65%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,922 (14.85%) Windows
2 887 (6.85%) Linux
3 640 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 471 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 216 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 190 (1.47%) Android
7 140 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 138 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 136 (1.05%) Unix
10 129 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 126 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
12 103 (0.80%) Windows 7
13 39 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 38 (0.29%) VMS
15 36 (0.28%) Kali Linux
15 36 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
17 33 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
17 33 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 29 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,487 (19.21%) Agile
2 1,670 (12.90%) Customer Service
3 1,665 (12.86%) Computer Science
4 1,610 (12.44%) Mentoring
5 1,601 (12.37%) Project Management
6 1,342 (10.37%) DevOps
7 1,320 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,267 (9.79%) Decision-Making
9 1,187 (9.17%) Software Engineering
10 1,055 (8.15%) Analytics
11 1,044 (8.06%) Coaching
12 983 (7.59%) ITIL
13 965 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
14 876 (6.77%) Mathematics
15 836 (6.46%) Data Analysis
16 797 (6.16%) Collaborative Working
17 749 (5.79%) CI/CD
18 730 (5.64%) Roadmaps
19 720 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
20 714 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,019 (15.59%) SQL
2 1,563 (12.07%) Python
3 1,081 (8.35%) JavaScript
4 966 (7.46%) C#
5 776 (5.99%) Java
6 444 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 395 (3.05%) C++
8 338 (2.61%) C
9 330 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 299 (2.31%) PHP
11 266 (2.05%) Bash
12 164 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 132 (1.02%) R
14 112 (0.87%) MATLAB
15 97 (0.75%) Perl
16 95 (0.73%) Ruby
17 80 (0.62%) Go
18 72 (0.56%) VB
19 68 (0.53%) Scala
20 64 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,773 (29.14%) Degree
2 1,062 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 970 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 620 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 467 (3.61%) DBS Check
6 444 (3.43%) Master's Degree
7 367 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 201 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 191 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 185 (1.43%) CISSP
11 156 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 132 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 132 (1.02%) CCNA
13 131 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 126 (0.97%) HNC
15 119 (0.92%) A+ Certification
16 114 (0.88%) ACCA
17 113 (0.87%) PhD
18 99 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 96 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 701 (5.41%) QA
2 546 (4.22%) GDPR
3 472 (3.65%) SLA
4 444 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 244 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 157 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 144 (1.11%) PMO
8 140 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
9 104 (0.80%) NIST
10 101 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 95 (0.73%) IFRS
12 81 (0.63%) GAAP
13 64 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 40 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 40 (0.31%) WCAG
15 36 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 35 (0.27%) NCSC
17 31 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 29 (0.22%) HIPAA
19 25 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,077 (8.32%) Active Directory
2 542 (4.19%) Docker
3 441 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 302 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 107 (0.83%) Firmware
6 99 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 38 (0.29%) vSphere
10 31 (0.24%) KVM
11 29 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 23 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
13 20 (0.15%) VMware NSX
14 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
15 13 (0.10%) NFS
15 13 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 13 (0.10%) XenApp
16 8 (0.062%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.054%) pfSense
18 6 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 478 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 311 (2.40%) Terraform
3 220 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 190 (1.47%) Ansible
5 176 (1.36%) SCCM
6 82 (0.63%) Puppet
7 78 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 71 (0.55%) Grafana
8 71 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 47 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 44 (0.34%) SCOM
11 39 (0.30%) WSUS
12 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
13 30 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 29 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 25 (0.19%) EnCase
16 24 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 24 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
17 22 (0.17%) Consul
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,176 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 729 (5.63%) Google
3 629 (4.86%) VMware
4 444 (3.43%) Oracle
5 378 (2.92%) SAP
6 316 (2.44%) Cisco
7 269 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 198 (1.53%) Databricks
9 139 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 136 (1.05%) Apple
11 127 (0.98%) Adobe
11 127 (0.98%) IBM
12 119 (0.92%) Veeam
13 104 (0.80%) CA
14 103 (0.80%) Citrix
14 103 (0.80%) Juniper
15 100 (0.77%) HP
16 97 (0.75%) Meraki
17 92 (0.71%) Palo Alto
18 86 (0.66%) Dell