Problem-Solving Jobs in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,399 832 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.00% 12.58% 13.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.32% 13.32% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 842 438 588
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,125 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,760 £35,343
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £81,625 £73,675
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,079 6,247 8,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.87% 94.48% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 3,513 4,997
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,505 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +9.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the South West 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
Bristol +6 424 £50,000 -13.04% 167
Gloucestershire +10 262 £47,500 -13.64% 99
Dorset +15 260 £46,250 -11.90% 44
Wiltshire +6 170 £45,000 -10.00% 73
Devon +8 133 £37,500 +0.22% 65
Somerset +23 101 £45,000 +5.88% 118
Cornwall -4 35 £32,500 -27.78% 17
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 29 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.57%) Apache
2 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.93%) Confluence
4 12 (0.86%) CMS
5 10 (0.71%) WordPress
6 8 (0.57%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.50%) SAS
8 6 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.36%) Luigi
9 5 (0.36%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.29%) IIS
10 4 (0.29%) Site Server
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
13 1 (0.071%) JOnAS
13 1 (0.071%) Moodle
Applications
1 96 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.57%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.43%) Trello
7 5 (0.36%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.29%) Sketch
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.071%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.43%) HFM
1 6 (0.43%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (0.21%) Shopify
3 2 (0.14%) iTrent
3 2 (0.14%) Magento
3 2 (0.14%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.071%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.071%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.071%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 220 (15.73%) Azure
2 146 (10.44%) AWS
3 96 (6.86%) GCP
4 80 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (4.72%) Power Platform
7 36 (2.57%) SaaS
8 23 (1.64%) GitHub
9 17 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.07%) Power Automate
11 11 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 10 (0.71%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.71%) OneDrive
12 10 (0.71%) Serverless
13 9 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (0.64%) npm
14 7 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.50%) Figma
14 7 (0.50%) OCI
15 6 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.72%) Firewall
2 50 (3.57%) WAN
3 36 (2.57%) 5G
3 36 (2.57%) SD-WAN
4 31 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.00%) Network Security
6 25 (1.79%) DNS
6 25 (1.79%) Internet
7 22 (1.57%) VPN
8 18 (1.29%) LAN
8 18 (1.29%) Wireless
9 16 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
10 15 (1.07%) DHCP
11 11 (0.79%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.79%) HTTP
11 11 (0.79%) RS-232
11 11 (0.79%) VLAN
12 9 (0.64%) SMTP
12 9 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.72%) BigQuery
3 65 (4.65%) Looker
4 55 (3.93%) Power BI
5 50 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (2.57%) Tableau
7 31 (2.22%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.07%) MySQL
9 28 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (1.36%) Big Data
12 15 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.64%) Redis
15 9 (0.64%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
17 7 (0.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 90 (6.43%) Git
2 52 (3.72%) JIRA
3 24 (1.72%) LabVIEW
4 23 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 17 (1.22%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.07%) Rational Rhapsody
7 14 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
8 13 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.93%) Selenium
9 11 (0.79%) Storybook
10 8 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 8 (0.57%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.50%) IDA Disassembler
11 7 (0.50%) webpack
12 6 (0.43%) NetBeans
13 5 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.29%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.29%) JMeter
14 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 652 (46.60%) Social Skills
2 463 (33.10%) Analytical Skills
3 300 (21.44%) Finance
4 179 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (11.44%) Law
6 142 (10.15%) Banking
7 117 (8.36%) Investment Banking
8 104 (7.43%) Retail
9 89 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
11 66 (4.72%) Marketing
12 59 (4.22%) Electronics
13 55 (3.93%) Legal
14 48 (3.43%) Manufacturing
15 46 (3.29%) Telecoms
16 40 (2.86%) Billing
17 33 (2.36%) Aerospace
18 31 (2.22%) Public Sector
19 27 (1.93%) Front Office
19 27 (1.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 234 (16.73%) Developer
2 213 (15.23%) Senior
3 171 (12.22%) Analyst
4 96 (6.86%) Software Engineer
5 74 (5.29%) Software Developer
6 70 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 69 (4.93%) Lead
8 65 (4.65%) Architect
9 56 (4.00%) IT Support
9 56 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 53 (3.79%) Support Engineer
11 49 (3.50%) Consultant
12 48 (3.43%) Data Manager
13 45 (3.22%) IT Technician
14 43 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
15 40 (2.86%) Technical Support
16 39 (2.79%) Engineering Manager
17 35 (2.50%) .NET Developer
18 34 (2.43%) Senior Manager
19 33 (2.36%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (7.79%) .NET
2 93 (6.65%) HTML
3 87 (6.22%) React
4 84 (6.00%) CSS
5 70 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 45 (3.22%) Vue
7 38 (2.72%) .NET Framework
7 38 (2.72%) Node.js
8 28 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 28 (2.00%) ASP.NET
9 22 (1.57%) Entity Framework
10 21 (1.50%) RESTful
11 17 (1.22%) Laravel
12 16 (1.14%) LESS
12 16 (1.14%) SOAP
12 16 (1.14%) Spring
13 15 (1.07%) WPF
13 15 (1.07%) XML
14 14 (1.00%) jQuery
15 13 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.79%) Self-Motivation
2 71 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 49 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 44 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.29%) Algorithms
7 29 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.79%) FPGA
9 24 (1.72%) GNSS
9 24 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.64%) Robotics
11 22 (1.57%) Derivative
12 20 (1.43%) Credit Risk
13 19 (1.36%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.22%) VHDL
16 15 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.07%) Replication
17 12 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 11 (0.79%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 208 (14.87%) Windows
2 129 (9.22%) Linux
3 43 (3.07%) Windows 10
4 38 (2.72%) Apple iOS
5 37 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 29 (2.07%) Unix
7 17 (1.22%) Android
8 14 (1.00%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.86%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.57%) Debian
13 7 (0.50%) AIX
13 7 (0.50%) CentOS
13 7 (0.50%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.43%) VMS
15 5 (0.36%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.29%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (22.02%) Agile
2 200 (14.30%) Project Management
3 184 (13.15%) Software Engineering
4 178 (12.72%) DevOps
5 175 (12.51%) Customer Service
5 175 (12.51%) Mentoring
6 165 (11.79%) Computer Science
7 125 (8.93%) Analytics
8 115 (8.22%) Test Automation
9 110 (7.86%) CI/CD
10 104 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (6.86%) ITIL
12 92 (6.58%) User Experience
13 89 (6.36%) Decision-Making
14 88 (6.29%) Full Stack Development
14 88 (6.29%) SDLC
15 87 (6.22%) Project Delivery
16 84 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
17 82 (5.86%) Scrum
18 81 (5.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 196 (14.01%) Python
2 171 (12.22%) JavaScript
3 147 (10.51%) SQL
4 143 (10.22%) C#
5 117 (8.36%) Java
6 75 (5.36%) C++
7 64 (4.57%) C
8 61 (4.36%) TypeScript
9 44 (3.15%) PHP
10 37 (2.64%) MATLAB
11 32 (2.29%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.64%) R
13 19 (1.36%) VB
14 17 (1.22%) Bash
14 17 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.71%) Scala
15 10 (0.71%) Swift
16 9 (0.64%) Ada
16 9 (0.64%) Perl
16 9 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 409 (29.24%) Degree
2 201 (14.37%) Security Cleared
3 96 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (2.57%) A+ Certification
6 36 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.14%) DBS Check
10 23 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.43%) HND
12 18 (1.29%) CISSP
13 17 (1.22%) HNC
14 14 (1.00%) MCP
15 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.86%) CCNA
15 12 (0.86%) CEH
15 12 (0.86%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.08%) QA
2 48 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.29%) GDPR
4 26 (1.86%) SLA
5 24 (1.72%) PMO
6 16 (1.14%) NIST
7 14 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.71%) IEC 61508
11 9 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.57%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.43%) SEPA
15 5 (0.36%) TARGET2
15 5 (0.36%) TickIT
15 5 (0.36%) WCAG
16 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 90 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 58 (4.15%) Docker
3 43 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.93%) Firmware
5 21 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 12 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.36%) vSphere
10 4 (0.29%) NFS
10 4 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.21%) KVM
12 2 (0.14%) Kamailio
13 1 (0.071%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.071%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.93%) Ansible
3 22 (1.57%) Terraform
4 13 (0.93%) SCCM
5 7 (0.50%) WSUS
6 6 (0.43%) Puppet
7 5 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.36%) Graphite
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.29%) Grafana
8 4 (0.29%) Nagios
9 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.14%) CASB
10 2 (0.14%) SCOM
11 1 (0.071%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.071%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.071%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.071%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 307 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.43%) Google
3 54 (3.86%) VMware
4 36 (2.57%) Oracle
5 25 (1.79%) Cisco
6 20 (1.43%) IBM
7 18 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.22%) Databricks
9 16 (1.14%) Apple
9 16 (1.14%) Xamarin
10 12 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.79%) Alteryx
11 11 (0.79%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.71%) Sophos
12 10 (0.71%) Veeam
13 9 (0.64%) Adobe
13 9 (0.64%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.64%) UiPath
14 8 (0.57%) Motorola
14 8 (0.57%) SAP