Problem-Solving Jobs in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 765 469 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.60% 10.26% 15.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.13% 10.67% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 514 265 398
10th Percentile £26,325 £24,750 £28,266
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,769 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,367 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,934 £83,750
North West median annual salary £45,000 £48,939 £45,488
% change year-on-year -8.05% +7.59% +1.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,743 4,394 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.33% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,524 2,479 3,544
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £32,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Manchester 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
Bolton +21 35 £60,000 +31.15% 21
Stockport +28 26 £50,000 +42.86% 22
Oldham +31 25 £27,500 -45.00% 4
Sale +3 11 £29,000 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 9 £22,000 - 1
Rochdale +17 7 £45,000 +18.42% 4
Salford +1 6 £45,000 -10.00% 12
Bury - 5 £50,000 - 5
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Cheadle -7 3 £35,000 +59.09%
Stalybridge - 3 £47,500 -
Altrincham -14 2 £48,750 +54.76% 3
Wigan -1 1 - - 9
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 18 (2.35%) CMS
2 14 (1.83%) Apache
3 12 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.44%) ArcGIS
5 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.92%) IIS
6 7 (0.92%) OpenEdge
7 6 (0.78%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.65%) WordPress
9 4 (0.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.52%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.39%) Confluence
10 3 (0.39%) Moodle
11 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.26%) SAS
12 1 (0.13%) Jetty
12 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 69 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.31%) Sketch
5 7 (0.92%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.13%) InVision
6 1 (0.13%) Marvel
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 17 (2.22%) Magento
2 16 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.70%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (1.70%) iTrent
3 13 (1.70%) Shopify
4 6 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 132 (17.25%) Azure
2 62 (8.10%) AWS
3 50 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (5.62%) Power Platform
5 26 (3.40%) GCP
6 20 (2.61%) SaaS
7 19 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 13 (1.70%) Serverless
10 11 (1.44%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (1.31%) Figma
12 9 (1.18%) GitHub
12 9 (1.18%) Heroku
13 8 (1.05%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (0.78%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.14%) Firewall
2 21 (2.75%) Wireless
3 20 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (2.22%) LAN
5 16 (2.09%) Network Security
5 16 (2.09%) VoIP
6 15 (1.96%) DNS
7 13 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.57%) Internet
8 12 (1.57%) VPN
9 8 (1.05%) DHCP
9 8 (1.05%) PBX
9 8 (1.05%) SAN
10 6 (0.78%) NAS
10 6 (0.78%) WAN
11 5 (0.65%) IPsec
11 5 (0.65%) SNMP
11 5 (0.65%) VLAN
12 4 (0.52%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (7.97%) SQL Server
2 33 (4.31%) MySQL
3 31 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (3.92%) Power BI
5 22 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.48%) Tableau
7 18 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.22%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.22%) Looker
9 16 (2.09%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.70%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (1.44%) GIS
11 11 (1.44%) Redis
12 9 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (1.05%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (5.49%) Git
2 18 (2.35%) JIRA
3 17 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.78%) Eclipse
4 6 (0.78%) GitLab
4 6 (0.78%) Postman
5 4 (0.52%) Subversion
6 3 (0.39%) webpack
7 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.13%) Maven
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 374 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 231 (30.20%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (17.91%) Finance
4 84 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (9.67%) Retail
6 45 (5.88%) Legal
7 44 (5.75%) Marketing
8 40 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (5.10%) Public Sector
10 35 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.27%) Law
12 20 (2.61%) Billing
13 19 (2.48%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.96%) Banking
15 14 (1.83%) Local Government
16 11 (1.44%) Automotive
17 10 (1.31%) Games
17 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
18 8 (1.05%) Back Office
19 7 (0.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 116 (15.16%) Analyst
2 111 (14.51%) Developer
3 90 (11.76%) Senior
4 72 (9.41%) Software Engineer
5 59 (7.71%) Lead
6 52 (6.80%) Architect
7 30 (3.92%) IT Support
8 26 (3.40%) Business Analyst
8 26 (3.40%) Financial Analyst
9 25 (3.27%) Consultant
10 24 (3.14%) Data Engineer
11 22 (2.88%) Systems Analyst
12 21 (2.75%) Project Manager
13 19 (2.48%) IT Engineer
13 19 (2.48%) Programmer
14 18 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (2.35%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (2.35%) Software Programmer
14 18 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.07%) HTML
2 70 (9.15%) .NET
3 68 (8.89%) CSS
4 32 (4.18%) React
5 30 (3.92%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.75%) .NET Core
7 19 (2.48%) RESTful
8 18 (2.35%) .NET Framework
8 18 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (2.35%) Vue
9 17 (2.22%) Node.js
10 14 (1.83%) ASP.NET
11 12 (1.57%) Web Services
12 11 (1.44%) JSON
12 11 (1.44%) XML
13 10 (1.31%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.31%) Sass
14 9 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
14 9 (1.18%) HTML5
14 9 (1.18%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.80%) Cyberattack
2 39 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.75%) EPoS
5 20 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 20 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.35%) NHS
7 16 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.83%) Housing Association
9 12 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.18%) CCTV
11 9 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
11 9 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.92%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 118 (15.42%) Windows
2 54 (7.06%) Linux
3 34 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.88%) Windows Vista
5 18 (2.35%) Windows 10
6 16 (2.09%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.96%) Android
8 9 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.78%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.52%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.52%) VMS
13 3 (0.39%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.26%) CentOS
14 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (24.97%) Agile
2 135 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 126 (16.47%) Software Engineering
4 114 (14.90%) Project Management
5 113 (14.77%) User Experience
6 108 (14.12%) Customer Service
7 86 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (11.24%) Data Engineering
8 84 (10.98%) Analytics
8 84 (10.98%) Decision-Making
9 81 (10.59%) Computer Science
10 78 (10.20%) DevOps
11 71 (9.28%) Machine Learning
12 65 (8.50%) Business Intelligence
12 65 (8.50%) Collaborative Working
13 63 (8.24%) Business Development
14 61 (7.97%) Coaching
15 58 (7.58%) Creative Thinking
16 55 (7.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 54 (7.06%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 83 (10.85%) JavaScript
2 81 (10.59%) SQL
3 79 (10.33%) Python
4 69 (9.02%) C#
5 39 (5.10%) Java
6 27 (3.53%) PHP
7 16 (2.09%) C++
8 11 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.18%) C
9 9 (1.18%) Swift
9 9 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.92%) Embedded C
10 7 (0.92%) Rust
11 6 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.78%) Objective-C
12 5 (0.65%) R
12 5 (0.65%) VB
12 5 (0.65%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (20.78%) Degree
2 56 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (3.66%) ACCA
4 24 (3.14%) Security Cleared
5 22 (2.88%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.61%) SC Cleared
8 17 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.70%) CCNA
9 13 (1.70%) HND
10 11 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.31%) CCNP
12 8 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (1.05%) CIMA
12 8 (1.05%) HNC
13 6 (0.78%) CEH
13 6 (0.78%) CISA
13 6 (0.78%) MCSA
14 5 (0.65%) CFA
14 5 (0.65%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.44%) SLA
2 33 (4.31%) GDPR
3 27 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.53%) QA
4 14 (1.83%) GAAP
4 14 (1.83%) IFRS
5 12 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.57%) NIST
6 10 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.31%) PMO
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.65%) WCAG
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.31%) Docker
3 20 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.18%) Terminal Services
6 8 (1.05%) Firmware
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.13%) Postfix
8 1 (0.13%) Snort
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) XenApp
8 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.22%) Terraform
3 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.31%) Ansible
5 6 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.65%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.39%) SELinux
8 1 (0.13%) Grafana
8 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.13%) Nagios
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.40%) Cisco
3 24 (3.14%) Oracle
3 24 (3.14%) VMware
4 21 (2.75%) SAP
5 20 (2.61%) CA
5 20 (2.61%) Google
6 13 (1.70%) Infor
6 13 (1.70%) NetApp
7 12 (1.57%) IBM
7 12 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.31%) Adobe
8 10 (1.31%) HP
9 9 (1.18%) Facebook
10 8 (1.05%) Dell
11 7 (0.92%) F5
11 7 (0.92%) Progress
11 7 (0.92%) Sophos
12 6 (0.78%) ESET
12 6 (0.78%) Verint