Problem-Solving Jobs in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 182 274 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.58% 15.08% 14.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.29% 15.80% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 116 142 214
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £31,975
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,770 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,818 £80,627 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,272 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.46% -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,369 1,734 2,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.14% 95.43% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,013 1,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,731 £89,776 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +11.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 13 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.75%) Apache
3 2 (1.10%) WildFly
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.20%) Sketch
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.03%) Azure
2 29 (15.93%) AWS
3 23 (12.64%) GCP
4 21 (11.54%) Miro
5 20 (10.99%) SaaS
6 19 (10.44%) Amazon S3
7 18 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (9.34%) Google Docs
9 13 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (7.14%) Lucidchart
9 13 (7.14%) Slack
10 11 (6.04%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (4.40%) Figma
12 7 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.75%) Entra ID
14 4 (2.20%) Heroku
15 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (1.10%) OCI
16 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
16 1 (0.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.24%) Network Security
2 8 (4.40%) Firewall
3 7 (3.85%) Internet
4 6 (3.30%) VPN
5 5 (2.75%) IPsec
5 5 (2.75%) SNMP
6 2 (1.10%) LAN
6 2 (1.10%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) DNS
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.89%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (7.14%) Big Data
2 13 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 13 (7.14%) Redis
2 13 (7.14%) Scylla
3 5 (2.75%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.75%) Power BI
4 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.65%) Data Vault
5 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.65%) Looker
5 3 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Ataccama
7 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) JMeter
3 1 (0.55%) JUnit
3 1 (0.55%) Maven
3 1 (0.55%) Mockito
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
3 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 31 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.19%) Finance
5 13 (7.14%) Law
6 8 (4.40%) Retail
7 7 (3.85%) Banking
7 7 (3.85%) Marketing
8 5 (2.75%) Legal
8 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.20%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.65%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.55%) Games
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 26 (14.29%) Developer
3 18 (9.89%) Analyst
3 18 (9.89%) Senior
4 16 (8.79%) Principal Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) Architect
6 14 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 13 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Java Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.49%) React Developer
10 9 (4.95%) IT Support
11 8 (4.40%) Designer
11 8 (4.40%) UI Designer
11 8 (4.40%) UI/UX Designer
11 8 (4.40%) UX Designer
12 7 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (3.85%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.48%) React
2 23 (12.64%) GraphQL
3 15 (8.24%) Kafka
3 15 (8.24%) Node.js
3 15 (8.24%) WebGL
4 11 (6.04%) CSS
5 9 (4.95%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.40%) .NET
7 5 (2.75%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.75%) HTML
7 5 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.75%) REST
7 5 (2.75%) YAML
8 4 (2.20%) Express.js
8 4 (2.20%) FHIR
8 4 (2.20%) LDAP
8 4 (2.20%) Spring
8 4 (2.20%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.48%) Linux
2 22 (12.09%) Windows
3 14 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (2.75%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 46 (25.27%) Agile
3 33 (18.13%) Computer Science
4 26 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 25 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (13.19%) User Experience
7 22 (12.09%) Analytics
8 21 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (10.99%) Data Science
10 16 (8.79%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (8.79%) Mentoring
11 15 (8.24%) DevOps
11 15 (8.24%) Mathematics
11 15 (8.24%) Physics
12 13 (7.14%) Computer Security
12 13 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 13 (7.14%) High Availability
12 13 (7.14%) Roadmaps
12 13 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
12 13 (7.14%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.48%) Java
2 29 (15.93%) Python
3 19 (10.44%) TypeScript
4 17 (9.34%) Bash
5 15 (8.24%) GLSL
6 13 (7.14%) Go
6 13 (7.14%) Scala
7 10 (5.49%) SQL
8 8 (4.40%) C#
9 3 (1.65%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.10%) VBA
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (15.93%) Degree
2 19 (10.44%) SC Cleared
2 19 (10.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.65%) PMP
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.55%) CCNA
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.55%) MCSE
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) GDPR
2 4 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.20%) DICOM
2 4 (2.20%) HL7
2 4 (2.20%) ISO 13485
2 4 (2.20%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) WCAG
3 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.95%) Docker
2 7 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.85%) Ansible
3 5 (2.75%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.75%) Terraform
3 5 (2.75%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.64%) Google
3 14 (7.69%) Dell
4 7 (3.85%) VMware
5 6 (3.30%) NetApp
6 5 (2.75%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.75%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.75%) SolidFire
7 4 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.65%) Oracle
8 3 (1.65%) SAP
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco
9 2 (1.10%) Sybase
10 1 (0.55%) Aruba
10 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.55%) Citrix
10 1 (0.55%) HP
10 1 (0.55%) Keysight
10 1 (0.55%) Splunk