Problem-Solving Jobs in the Midlands

Problem Solving
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,815 1,234 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.85% 14.41% 14.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.37% 14.94% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 559 896
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,200 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,450 8,262 10,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.72% 96.48% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,471 4,403 6,956
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,356 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,437 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +1 1,154 £42,500 -12.89% 541
East Midlands +8 638 £37,500 -16.67% 326
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 101 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 72 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 47 (2.59%) IIS
4 30 (1.65%) WordPress
5 9 (0.50%) Apache
5 9 (0.50%) Confluence
6 7 (0.39%) CMS
7 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.17%) IBM Notes
8 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) MTS
9 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.055%) Drupal
10 1 (0.055%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.055%) PrestaShop
10 1 (0.055%) TYPO3
Applications
1 274 (15.10%) Microsoft Office
2 144 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 5 (0.28%) Sketch
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.22%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.22%) EPLAN
8 4 (0.22%) InDesign
8 4 (0.22%) Trello
9 3 (0.17%) 3ds Max
9 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.17%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 25 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 14 (0.77%) Shopify
3 10 (0.55%) Misys Midas
4 8 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.28%) Magento
7 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) NEC Housing
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.11%) SAP WM
11 1 (0.055%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.055%) MIS ActiveH
11 1 (0.055%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.055%) Primavera
11 1 (0.055%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 320 (17.63%) Azure
2 237 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
3 159 (8.76%) AWS
4 126 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 72 (3.97%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.36%) SaaS
7 59 (3.25%) GCP
8 38 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 26 (1.43%) PowerApps
11 24 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 24 (1.32%) GitHub
12 21 (1.16%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.10%) WhatsApp
14 18 (0.99%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.83%) Amazon S3
15 15 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (0.77%) Figma
16 14 (0.77%) Matillion
16 14 (0.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 119 (6.56%) Firewall
2 95 (5.23%) WAN
3 63 (3.47%) DNS
4 61 (3.36%) LAN
5 53 (2.92%) DHCP
6 52 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 43 (2.37%) VPN
8 34 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (1.71%) Wireless
10 27 (1.49%) Network Security
11 25 (1.38%) SAN
12 18 (0.99%) Broadband
12 18 (0.99%) Internet
13 17 (0.94%) Intranet
14 15 (0.83%) VoIP
15 13 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
15 13 (0.72%) VLAN
16 12 (0.66%) PBX
16 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
17 11 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (9.04%) SQL Server
2 116 (6.39%) Power BI
3 64 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.81%) Looker
5 46 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 45 (2.48%) MySQL
6 45 (2.48%) Tableau
7 29 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
7 29 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 20 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 18 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 17 (0.94%) NoSQL
12 16 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 16 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
14 13 (0.72%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.55%) Metadata
16 9 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
16 9 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (3.80%) Git
2 48 (2.64%) JIRA
3 15 (0.83%) GitLab
4 12 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.28%) CANoe
8 5 (0.28%) ESLint
8 5 (0.28%) gulp
8 5 (0.28%) Postman
9 4 (0.22%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.22%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.22%) JUnit
10 3 (0.17%) JBehave
10 3 (0.17%) JMeter
10 3 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 976 (53.77%) Social Skills
2 674 (37.13%) Analytical Skills
3 262 (14.44%) Finance
4 192 (10.58%) Organisational Skills
5 187 (10.30%) Retail
6 142 (7.82%) Influencing Skills
7 129 (7.11%) Manufacturing
8 99 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 84 (4.63%) Marketing
10 75 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (2.81%) Automotive
12 49 (2.70%) Law
12 49 (2.70%) Public Sector
13 35 (1.93%) Legal
14 32 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.49%) Local Government
16 21 (1.16%) Electronics
17 15 (0.83%) Billing
17 15 (0.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 367 (20.22%) Analyst
2 182 (10.03%) Developer
3 161 (8.87%) Senior
4 125 (6.89%) Product Analyst
5 121 (6.67%) Lead
6 116 (6.39%) Sales Analyst
7 113 (6.23%) Support Engineer
8 105 (5.79%) IT Support
9 83 (4.57%) Consultant
10 75 (4.13%) IT Manager
11 69 (3.80%) IT Engineer
12 63 (3.47%) Project Manager
13 60 (3.31%) Architect
14 52 (2.87%) IT Technician
15 49 (2.70%) Applications Support
16 48 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 48 (2.64%) Software Engineer
17 47 (2.59%) Data Analyst
18 46 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
19 44 (2.42%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.67%) .NET
2 91 (5.01%) HTML
3 69 (3.80%) CSS
4 42 (2.31%) React
5 39 (2.15%) REST
6 38 (2.09%) AngularJS
7 27 (1.49%) ASP.NET
8 25 (1.38%) Laravel
8 25 (1.38%) Node.js
9 23 (1.27%) .NET Core
9 23 (1.27%) HTML5
10 21 (1.16%) jQuery
11 20 (1.10%) Vue
12 15 (0.83%) WebRTC
12 15 (0.83%) XML
13 14 (0.77%) Web Services
14 13 (0.72%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.66%) RESTful
15 12 (0.66%) Yocto
16 11 (0.61%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
2 97 (5.34%) Driving Licence
3 60 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 50 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.09%) Clustering
7 37 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 25 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.32%) Replication
11 22 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 20 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (0.94%) IoT
15 16 (0.88%) NHS
16 15 (0.83%) CCTV
16 15 (0.83%) Public Cloud
17 14 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
18 12 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 287 (15.81%) Windows
2 136 (7.49%) Windows Server
3 93 (5.12%) Linux
4 73 (4.02%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (1.43%) Windows 7
7 18 (0.99%) Android
8 17 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.72%) VMS
10 12 (0.66%) Unix
10 12 (0.66%) Windows 8
11 11 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.55%) CentOS
12 10 (0.55%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (0.28%) SUSE
17 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (18.13%) Customer Service
2 303 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 278 (15.32%) Agile
4 236 (13.00%) Mathematics
5 229 (12.62%) Project Management
6 190 (10.47%) Computer Science
7 189 (10.41%) Mentoring
8 153 (8.43%) Customer Requirements
9 143 (7.88%) Analytics
10 142 (7.82%) ITIL
11 141 (7.77%) Data Analysis
12 139 (7.66%) Business Intelligence
12 139 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
13 127 (7.00%) Decision-Making
14 126 (6.94%) User Experience
15 125 (6.89%) DevOps
16 107 (5.90%) ERP
17 104 (5.73%) Software Engineering
18 100 (5.51%) CRM
19 88 (4.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 338 (18.62%) SQL
2 123 (6.78%) Python
3 119 (6.56%) JavaScript
4 114 (6.28%) C#
5 60 (3.31%) Java
6 51 (2.81%) PHP
7 42 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 42 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 29 (1.60%) C
8 29 (1.60%) C++
9 13 (0.72%) T-SQL
10 12 (0.66%) Bash
10 12 (0.66%) RPG
11 11 (0.61%) Perl
11 11 (0.61%) RPG IV
11 11 (0.61%) RPG/400
12 9 (0.50%) VB
13 8 (0.44%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.44%) Rust
14 6 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 544 (29.97%) Degree
2 104 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 91 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 55 (3.03%) DBS Check
5 49 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 47 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.38%) HNC
9 23 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 21 (1.16%) A+ Certification
11 17 (0.94%) CISSP
12 16 (0.88%) CISM
13 15 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.72%) HND
15 12 (0.66%) CCNA
15 12 (0.66%) ISEB
15 12 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.66%) MCSE
15 12 (0.66%) PhD
16 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.01%) GDPR
2 90 (4.96%) QA
3 65 (3.58%) SLA
4 53 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 52 (2.87%) Data Quality
6 35 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.49%) ISO 9001
9 23 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 17 (0.94%) PMO
11 7 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 26262
14 4 (0.22%) GAAP
14 4 (0.22%) IFRS
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 14001
14 4 (0.22%) NIST
14 4 (0.22%) WCAG
15 3 (0.17%) GRC
16 2 (0.11%) COSHH
System Software
1 178 (9.81%) Active Directory
2 86 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (3.53%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (1.16%) Docker
6 19 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.66%) vSphere
8 11 (0.61%) Firmware
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) NFS
10 6 (0.33%) pfSense
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.22%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 48 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.43%) SCCM
3 22 (1.21%) EnCase
4 21 (1.16%) Kubernetes
5 15 (0.83%) Terraform
6 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (0.50%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.39%) WSUS
9 6 (0.33%) Ansible
9 6 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
10 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.28%) SCOM
11 4 (0.22%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.22%) Autotask
11 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 470 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.50%) VMware
3 86 (4.74%) Google
4 47 (2.59%) SAP
5 46 (2.53%) Cisco
6 45 (2.48%) Veeam
7 29 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.38%) Databricks
8 25 (1.38%) Oracle
9 22 (1.21%) HP
9 22 (1.21%) IBM
10 20 (1.10%) Meraki
11 19 (1.05%) Sophos
12 17 (0.94%) Dell
12 17 (0.94%) Sage
13 16 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.77%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.72%) Adobe
16 12 (0.66%) Apple
16 12 (0.66%) ServiceNow