Problem-Solving Jobs in Somerset

Problem Solving
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 5 28 9
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +11
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 101 38 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 12.17% 6.95% 14.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.57% 7.68% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 73 27 65
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,087 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,837 £64,750
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 544 495 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 65.54% 90.49% 84.99%
Number of salaries quoted 433 335 336
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,070 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,750 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £51,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% +7.76%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Somerset

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Somerset 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
Bath +19 45 £47,500 -13.64% 12
Taunton +11 24 £35,000 -0.59% 5
Portishead - 6 £50,000 -
Street +5 3 £35,750 - 44
Templecombe - 3 - - 1
Shepton Mallet - 3 £34,000 - 2
Yeovil -16 1 £42,500 +93.18% 6
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £35,000 - 5
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) JOnAS
2 1 (0.99%) Moodle
2 1 (0.99%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.92%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.98%) iTrent
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.80%) Azure
2 19 (18.81%) GCP
3 15 (14.85%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (12.87%) AWS
5 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.97%) SaaS
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.98%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (1.98%) dbt
8 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.98%) Firebase
8 2 (1.98%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.99%) PaaS
9 1 (0.99%) Serverless
9 1 (0.99%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) OFDM
2 6 (5.94%) LAN
2 6 (5.94%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (4.95%) Network Security
3 5 (4.95%) Wireless
4 2 (1.98%) Internet
5 1 (0.99%) MPLS
5 1 (0.99%) Skype
5 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) BigQuery
1 15 (14.85%) Looker
2 8 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.96%) Power BI
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.98%) Metabase
4 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) gulp
2 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 52 (51.49%) Social Skills
2 43 (42.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Finance
4 10 (9.90%) Electronics
5 8 (7.92%) Billing
6 5 (4.95%) Games
6 5 (4.95%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.97%) Marketing
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.99%) Back Office
10 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Military
10 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (15.84%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Analyst
3 9 (8.91%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (7.92%) Data Manager
4 8 (7.92%) DSP Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Electronics Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.93%) IT Support
5 7 (6.93%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Consultant
6 6 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Service Desk Manager
6 6 (5.94%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.95%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.95%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) Vue
2 8 (7.92%) CSS
2 8 (7.92%) HTML
3 7 (6.93%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) React
5 3 (2.97%) .NET
5 3 (2.97%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.98%) D3.js
6 2 (1.98%) REST
6 2 (1.98%) SOAP
6 2 (1.98%) Web Services
6 2 (1.98%) XML
7 1 (0.99%) CSS3
7 1 (0.99%) EDI
7 1 (0.99%) HTML5
7 1 (0.99%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (9.90%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.92%) FPGA
3 8 (7.92%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.92%) VHDL
4 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.96%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.98%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.98%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.99%) BBC
7 1 (0.99%) Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.88%) Windows
2 6 (5.94%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.96%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.99%) Linux
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.73%) Customer Service
2 19 (18.81%) DevOps
3 17 (16.83%) Agile
4 16 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (14.85%) Data Engineering
6 14 (13.86%) Change Management
6 14 (13.86%) Line Management
6 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
7 12 (11.88%) Business Strategy
7 12 (11.88%) SDLC
8 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
8 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
8 11 (10.89%) Data Science
9 10 (9.90%) Data Modelling
9 10 (9.90%) Process Improvement
9 10 (9.90%) Project Management
10 9 (8.91%) ETL
10 9 (8.91%) Scrum
11 8 (7.92%) Decision-Making
11 8 (7.92%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
2 12 (11.88%) SQL
3 10 (9.90%) C
3 10 (9.90%) C++
4 8 (7.92%) MATLAB
4 8 (7.92%) Python
5 5 (4.95%) C#
5 5 (4.95%) Java
6 4 (3.96%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) Embedded C
7 2 (1.98%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.98%) Lisp
7 2 (1.98%) PHP
7 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Degree
2 9 (8.91%) A+ Certification
2 9 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.91%) MCP
2 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.92%) DBS Check
3 8 (7.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.99%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.99%) HND
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) GDPR
1 11 (10.89%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.97%) Docker
3 2 (1.98%) Firmware
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.99%) SCCM
2 1 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.83%) Google
3 4 (3.96%) SAP
4 3 (2.97%) Oracle
4 3 (2.97%) Thales
5 1 (0.99%) Concur
5 1 (0.99%) Fujitsu
5 1 (0.99%) HP
5 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.99%) Workday