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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 13,296 10,904 20,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.57% 12.94% 14.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 13.55% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,543 5,827 8,846
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +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 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 3,323 £70,000 - 1,815
South East +4 2,963 £45,000 -14.29% 963
North of England +6 2,628 £45,000 - 1,062
Midlands +2 1,815 £40,000 -15.79% 864
North West +11 1,409 £45,000 -8.05% 579
South West +7 1,399 £47,500 -5.00% 585
West Midlands +1 1,154 £42,500 -12.89% 541
East of England +6 1,041 £42,500 -10.53% 468
Yorkshire +3 922 £42,500 -2.10% 353
East Midlands +8 638 £37,500 -16.67% 326
North East +17 296 £41,500 -2.35% 151
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
1 446 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 399 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 146 (1.10%) CMS
4 140 (1.05%) Apache
5 129 (0.97%) Confluence
6 106 (0.80%) WordPress
7 101 (0.76%) IIS
8 55 (0.41%) SAS
9 47 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 34 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 31 (0.23%) Umbraco
13 26 (0.20%) OpenStack
14 23 (0.17%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 15 (0.11%) ArcGIS
18 14 (0.11%) Tomcat
19 12 (0.090%) Exchange Server 2013
20 10 (0.075%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,220 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
2 933 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 287 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 65 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 57 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.36%) Sketch
8 47 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.34%) AutoCAD
10 44 (0.33%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 23 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 22 (0.17%) Adobe XD
15 17 (0.13%) InDesign
15 17 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
16 13 (0.098%) SPSS
17 12 (0.090%) Chatbot
18 11 (0.083%) Revit
19 8 (0.060%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 128 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 54 (0.41%) Shopify
3 52 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 45 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 42 (0.32%) Magento
6 41 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
7 20 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
7 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 18 (0.14%) iTrent
9 18 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 16 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.098%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.098%) SAP Business One
11 13 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
12 11 (0.083%) Sage 50
12 11 (0.083%) SAP CX
12 11 (0.083%) Teamcenter
13 10 (0.075%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2,250 (16.92%) Azure
2 1,671 (12.57%) AWS
3 1,317 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
4 687 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 665 (5.00%) GCP
6 455 (3.42%) SaaS
7 346 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 270 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 270 (2.03%) Serverless
9 206 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 206 (1.55%) GitHub
10 191 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
11 182 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 169 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 148 (1.11%) Power Automate
14 147 (1.11%) PowerApps
15 112 (0.84%) Snowflake
16 105 (0.79%) IaaS
17 97 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
18 89 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 763 (5.74%) Firewall
2 407 (3.06%) DNS
3 339 (2.55%) WAN
4 299 (2.25%) LAN
4 299 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 278 (2.09%) DHCP
6 241 (1.81%) Wireless
7 235 (1.77%) Network Security
8 228 (1.71%) VPN
9 189 (1.42%) Internet
10 181 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
11 141 (1.06%) VoIP
12 115 (0.86%) SAN
13 108 (0.81%) VLAN
14 77 (0.58%) 5G
14 77 (0.58%) SD-WAN
15 69 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
16 68 (0.51%) Broadband
17 55 (0.41%) SNMP
18 52 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 812 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 571 (4.29%) Power BI
3 418 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 407 (3.06%) MySQL
5 377 (2.84%) Tableau
6 349 (2.62%) BigQuery
7 343 (2.58%) Looker
8 258 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 229 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
10 202 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 177 (1.33%) NoSQL
12 153 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 151 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 115 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 113 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 102 (0.77%) Redis
17 98 (0.74%) DynamoDB
18 90 (0.68%) Big Data
19 88 (0.66%) Data Lake
20 66 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 793 (5.96%) Git
2 453 (3.41%) JIRA
3 278 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 184 (1.38%) GitLab
5 115 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 75 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 57 (0.43%) Selenium
8 54 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 46 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 43 (0.32%) LabVIEW
11 40 (0.30%) Postman
12 39 (0.29%) Bitbucket
13 38 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 36 (0.27%) Subversion
15 35 (0.26%) SpecFlow
16 34 (0.26%) JUnit
17 31 (0.23%) Metasploit
18 28 (0.21%) Burp Suite
18 28 (0.21%) Sourcetree
19 27 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 7,013 (52.75%) Social Skills
2 4,468 (33.60%) Analytical Skills
3 2,426 (18.25%) Finance
4 1,109 (8.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,082 (8.14%) Retail
6 823 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
7 720 (5.42%) Marketing
8 703 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
9 578 (4.35%) Legal
10 534 (4.02%) Law
11 521 (3.92%) Manufacturing
12 418 (3.14%) Public Sector
13 377 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
14 323 (2.43%) Banking
15 295 (2.22%) Telecoms
16 218 (1.64%) Billing
17 204 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 199 (1.50%) Electronics
19 180 (1.35%) Automotive
20 177 (1.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,980 (14.89%) Analyst
2 1,725 (12.97%) Senior
3 1,720 (12.94%) Developer
4 980 (7.37%) Lead
5 767 (5.77%) Architect
6 604 (4.54%) Software Engineer
7 590 (4.44%) IT Support
8 514 (3.87%) Consultant
9 502 (3.78%) Support Engineer
10 435 (3.27%) Project Manager
11 370 (2.78%) Data Engineer
12 367 (2.76%) Senior Developer
13 363 (2.73%) Business Analyst
14 325 (2.44%) Data Analyst
15 322 (2.42%) IT Engineer
16 300 (2.26%) Support Analyst
17 291 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 284 (2.14%) IT Technician
19 276 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
20 268 (2.02%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 848 (6.38%) .NET
2 755 (5.68%) HTML
3 659 (4.96%) CSS
4 497 (3.74%) React
5 311 (2.34%) AngularJS
6 284 (2.14%) Node.js
7 275 (2.07%) RESTful
8 236 (1.77%) REST
9 224 (1.68%) Vue
10 222 (1.67%) ASP.NET
11 217 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 211 (1.59%) Web Services
13 196 (1.47%) .NET Core
14 157 (1.18%) XML
15 151 (1.14%) JSON
16 149 (1.12%) HTML5
17 146 (1.10%) Spring
18 132 (0.99%) jQuery
19 122 (0.92%) Laravel
19 122 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1,266 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 702 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 443 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 417 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 368 (2.77%) Driving Licence
6 321 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 251 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 227 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 194 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 187 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 177 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 165 (1.24%) Cyberattack
13 154 (1.16%) IoT
14 147 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 137 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
16 124 (0.93%) Cloud Native
17 112 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
18 109 (0.82%) Life Science
19 107 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
19 107 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,926 (14.49%) Windows
2 886 (6.66%) Linux
3 643 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 458 (3.44%) Windows 10
5 215 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 195 (1.47%) Android
7 139 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 139 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 135 (1.02%) Unix
9 132 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 125 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 95 (0.71%) Windows 7
12 42 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 42 (0.32%) VMS
13 38 (0.29%) Kali Linux
14 37 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 35 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
16 34 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
17 28 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,633 (19.80%) Agile
2 1,762 (13.25%) Mentoring
3 1,719 (12.93%) Computer Science
4 1,676 (12.61%) Customer Service
5 1,615 (12.15%) Project Management
6 1,359 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,352 (10.17%) DevOps
8 1,303 (9.80%) Software Engineering
9 1,270 (9.55%) Decision-Making
10 1,087 (8.18%) Analytics
11 1,042 (7.84%) Coaching
12 979 (7.36%) ITIL
13 966 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
14 893 (6.72%) Mathematics
15 860 (6.47%) Data Analysis
16 823 (6.19%) User Experience
17 802 (6.03%) Collaborative Working
18 753 (5.66%) CI/CD
19 736 (5.54%) Roadmaps
20 728 (5.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,061 (15.50%) SQL
2 1,564 (11.76%) Python
3 1,108 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 986 (7.42%) C#
5 753 (5.66%) Java
6 448 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 391 (2.94%) C++
8 339 (2.55%) C
9 333 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 308 (2.32%) PHP
11 243 (1.83%) Bash
12 162 (1.22%) T-SQL
13 131 (0.99%) R
14 109 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 78 (0.59%) Perl
16 75 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 75 (0.56%) Ruby
17 71 (0.53%) Scala
17 71 (0.53%) VB
18 64 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3,849 (28.95%) Degree
2 1,057 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 1,005 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 609 (4.58%) SC Cleared
5 480 (3.61%) DBS Check
6 431 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 373 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 200 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 199 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 197 (1.48%) CISSP
11 160 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 132 (0.99%) PMI Certification
13 131 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 131 (0.99%) CCNA
14 129 (0.97%) HNC
15 124 (0.93%) A+ Certification
16 123 (0.93%) PhD
17 120 (0.90%) ACCA
18 108 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
19 98 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 699 (5.26%) QA
2 556 (4.18%) GDPR
3 504 (3.79%) SLA
4 464 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 245 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 167 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 146 (1.10%) PMO
8 139 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
9 106 (0.80%) NIST
10 100 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 97 (0.73%) IFRS
12 81 (0.61%) GAAP
13 65 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.29%) WCAG
15 37 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 35 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
16 35 (0.26%) NCSC
17 33 (0.25%) HIPAA
18 30 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,073 (8.07%) Active Directory
2 558 (4.20%) Docker
3 442 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 304 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 107 (0.80%) Firmware
6 97 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 96 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 39 (0.29%) vSphere
10 31 (0.23%) KVM
11 28 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
13 19 (0.14%) VMware NSX
14 15 (0.11%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.090%) NFS
15 12 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
15 12 (0.090%) XenApp
16 7 (0.053%) pfSense
16 7 (0.053%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.045%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 484 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 329 (2.47%) Terraform
3 224 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 201 (1.51%) Ansible
5 173 (1.30%) SCCM
6 81 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 81 (0.61%) Puppet
7 73 (0.55%) Grafana
8 70 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 47 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 45 (0.34%) SCOM
11 40 (0.30%) WSUS
12 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
13 31 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.20%) FortiGate
15 25 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
16 23 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
17 22 (0.17%) EnCase
17 22 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,206 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 726 (5.46%) Google
3 630 (4.74%) VMware
4 438 (3.29%) Oracle
5 367 (2.76%) SAP
6 319 (2.40%) Cisco
7 268 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 203 (1.53%) Databricks
9 144 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 139 (1.05%) Apple
11 131 (0.99%) Adobe
12 129 (0.97%) IBM
13 120 (0.90%) Veeam
14 107 (0.80%) CA
15 103 (0.77%) Citrix
15 103 (0.77%) HP
16 97 (0.73%) Juniper
17 96 (0.72%) Meraki
18 87 (0.65%) Palo Alto
19 84 (0.63%) Dell