Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 8 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 13,859 10,633 21,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.71% 12.86% 14.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.74% 13.48% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,550 5,814 8,914
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £29,256
25th Percentile £32,750 £39,748 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,838 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,436 £90,000
UK median annual salary £48,900 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 3,372 £70,000 - 1,555
South East +4 3,004 £45,000 -14.29% 956
North of England +6 2,840 £45,000 - 1,092
Midlands +3 2,020 £40,000 -15.09% 803
North West +11 1,518 £45,000 -5.26% 578
South West +7 1,433 £47,500 -5.00% 553
West Midlands +4 1,305 £42,500 -11.55% 463
East of England +6 1,058 £42,500 -10.53% 459
Yorkshire +3 997 £42,500 -3.41% 377
East Midlands +10 692 £37,500 -15.32% 343
North East +15 324 £41,500 -2.35% 162
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 455 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 404 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 145 (1.05%) CMS
4 139 (1.00%) Apache
5 128 (0.92%) Confluence
6 107 (0.77%) WordPress
7 101 (0.73%) IIS
8 58 (0.42%) SAS
9 46 (0.33%) Apache Spark
10 33 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
11 32 (0.23%) Umbraco
12 26 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 23 (0.17%) nginx
14 21 (0.15%) OpenEdge
15 18 (0.13%) Drupal
16 17 (0.12%) ArcGIS
17 13 (0.094%) Tomcat
18 12 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2013
19 10 (0.072%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,246 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
2 969 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 290 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 68 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 58 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.35%) Sketch
8 46 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 46 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.32%) Simulink
10 29 (0.21%) Trello
11 27 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 23 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
12 23 (0.17%) Adobe XD
13 17 (0.12%) InDesign
13 17 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
14 13 (0.094%) SPSS
15 12 (0.087%) Chatbot
15 12 (0.087%) Revit
16 8 (0.058%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 133 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 56 (0.40%) Shopify
3 52 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 46 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 44 (0.32%) Magento
6 40 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
7 20 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 20 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 19 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
9 18 (0.13%) iTrent
10 17 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
12 13 (0.094%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.094%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.094%) Unit4 Business World
13 11 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
13 11 (0.079%) Sage 50
13 11 (0.079%) SAP CX
13 11 (0.079%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,307 (16.65%) Azure
2 1,703 (12.29%) AWS
3 1,340 (9.67%) Microsoft 365
4 695 (5.01%) Power Platform
5 682 (4.92%) GCP
6 460 (3.32%) SaaS
7 354 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
8 276 (1.99%) Serverless
9 271 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 216 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 206 (1.49%) GitHub
12 193 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
13 181 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
14 169 (1.22%) Amazon S3
15 154 (1.11%) Power Automate
16 152 (1.10%) PowerApps
17 110 (0.79%) Snowflake
18 108 (0.78%) IaaS
19 98 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
20 91 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 769 (5.55%) Firewall
2 416 (3.00%) DNS
3 338 (2.44%) WAN
4 311 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 309 (2.23%) Network Security
6 301 (2.17%) LAN
7 282 (2.03%) DHCP
8 262 (1.89%) Internet
9 248 (1.79%) Wireless
10 233 (1.68%) VPN
11 183 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 143 (1.03%) VoIP
13 115 (0.83%) VLAN
14 114 (0.82%) SAN
15 97 (0.70%) WLAN
16 77 (0.56%) 5G
17 76 (0.55%) SD-WAN
18 69 (0.50%) Broadband
19 68 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
20 55 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 821 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 575 (4.15%) Power BI
3 420 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 404 (2.92%) MySQL
5 383 (2.76%) Tableau
6 349 (2.52%) BigQuery
7 343 (2.47%) Looker
8 262 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 225 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
10 202 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 180 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 152 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
13 150 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
14 119 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 116 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 98 (0.71%) DynamoDB
16 98 (0.71%) Redis
17 93 (0.67%) Big Data
18 88 (0.63%) Data Lake
19 64 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 800 (5.77%) Git
2 457 (3.30%) JIRA
3 273 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 184 (1.33%) GitLab
5 119 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 74 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 59 (0.43%) Selenium
8 54 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 46 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
10 44 (0.32%) LabVIEW
11 40 (0.29%) Postman
12 37 (0.27%) Cucumber
13 36 (0.26%) Bitbucket
14 35 (0.25%) SpecFlow
14 35 (0.25%) Subversion
15 33 (0.24%) Metasploit
16 32 (0.23%) JUnit
17 30 (0.22%) Burp Suite
18 28 (0.20%) Eclipse
18 28 (0.20%) Sourcetree
General
1 7,305 (52.71%) Social Skills
2 4,522 (32.63%) Analytical Skills
3 2,448 (17.66%) Finance
4 1,281 (9.24%) Retail
5 1,237 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 907 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
7 848 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
8 732 (5.28%) Marketing
9 585 (4.22%) Legal
10 537 (3.87%) Law
11 532 (3.84%) Manufacturing
12 426 (3.07%) Public Sector
13 374 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 323 (2.33%) Banking
15 296 (2.14%) Telecoms
16 217 (1.57%) Billing
17 207 (1.49%) Electronics
18 204 (1.47%) Aerospace
19 181 (1.31%) Automotive
20 179 (1.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,991 (14.37%) Analyst
2 1,766 (12.74%) Developer
3 1,753 (12.65%) Senior
4 1,026 (7.40%) Lead
5 803 (5.79%) Architect
6 669 (4.83%) IT Support
7 651 (4.70%) Software Engineer
8 571 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 527 (3.80%) Consultant
10 439 (3.17%) Project Manager
11 394 (2.84%) IT Engineer
12 381 (2.75%) Senior Developer
13 369 (2.66%) Data Engineer
14 358 (2.58%) Business Analyst
15 322 (2.32%) Data Analyst
16 305 (2.20%) Support Analyst
17 295 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 291 (2.10%) IT Technician
19 276 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
20 268 (1.93%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 877 (6.33%) .NET
2 778 (5.61%) HTML
3 679 (4.90%) CSS
4 507 (3.66%) React
5 323 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 291 (2.10%) Node.js
7 283 (2.04%) RESTful
8 241 (1.74%) REST
9 233 (1.68%) Vue
10 229 (1.65%) ASP.NET
11 222 (1.60%) .NET Framework
12 217 (1.57%) Web Services
13 201 (1.45%) .NET Core
14 163 (1.18%) XML
15 153 (1.10%) HTML5
15 153 (1.10%) JSON
16 145 (1.05%) Spring
17 134 (0.97%) jQuery
18 125 (0.90%) SOAP
19 124 (0.89%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1,286 (9.28%) Self-Motivation
2 702 (5.07%) Management Information System
3 603 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 443 (3.20%) Algorithms
5 435 (3.14%) Driving Licence
6 421 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 283 (2.04%) Cyberattack
8 246 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 231 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 192 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 190 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 180 (1.30%) Mobile App
13 161 (1.16%) IoT
14 149 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 137 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
16 123 (0.89%) Cloud Native
17 112 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
18 109 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
18 109 (0.79%) Life Science
19 107 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,016 (14.55%) Windows
2 957 (6.91%) Linux
3 647 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 459 (3.31%) Windows 10
5 219 (1.58%) Apple iOS
6 199 (1.44%) Android
7 143 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 141 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
9 137 (0.99%) Unix
10 136 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 129 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 91 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 45 (0.32%) Ubuntu
14 44 (0.32%) VMS
15 40 (0.29%) Kali Linux
16 36 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
17 35 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 34 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
18 34 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
19 29 (0.21%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,780 (20.06%) Agile
2 2,166 (15.63%) Mentoring
3 1,885 (13.60%) Customer Service
4 1,813 (13.08%) Computer Science
5 1,624 (11.72%) Project Management
6 1,433 (10.34%) Software Engineering
7 1,378 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,366 (9.86%) DevOps
9 1,285 (9.27%) Decision-Making
10 1,101 (7.94%) Mathematics
11 1,099 (7.93%) Analytics
12 1,064 (7.68%) Data Analysis
13 1,049 (7.57%) ITIL
14 1,044 (7.53%) Coaching
15 967 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
16 956 (6.90%) User Experience
17 806 (5.82%) Collaborative Working
18 793 (5.72%) Data Engineering
19 749 (5.40%) CI/CD
20 745 (5.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2,098 (15.14%) SQL
2 1,588 (11.46%) Python
3 1,145 (8.26%) JavaScript
4 1,029 (7.42%) C#
5 761 (5.49%) Java
6 452 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 394 (2.84%) C++
8 341 (2.46%) C
8 341 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 315 (2.27%) PHP
10 245 (1.77%) Bash
11 164 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 134 (0.97%) R
13 113 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 82 (0.59%) Perl
14 82 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 73 (0.53%) Ruby
16 72 (0.52%) VB
17 70 (0.51%) Scala
18 62 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,171 (30.10%) Degree
2 1,090 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1,064 (7.68%) Security Cleared
4 614 (4.43%) SC Cleared
5 485 (3.50%) DBS Check
6 450 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 441 (3.18%) Master's Degree
8 331 (2.39%) HNC
9 266 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
10 204 (1.47%) CISSP
11 196 (1.41%) CCNA
12 195 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 164 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 159 (1.15%) CCNP
15 157 (1.13%) MCSE
16 148 (1.07%) MCP
17 133 (0.96%) PMI Certification
18 129 (0.93%) A+ Certification
18 129 (0.93%) AWS Certification
19 123 (0.89%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 710 (5.12%) QA
2 560 (4.04%) GDPR
3 511 (3.69%) SLA
4 468 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 244 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 170 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 146 (1.05%) PMO
8 140 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 106 (0.76%) NIST
10 99 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 98 (0.71%) IFRS
12 83 (0.60%) GAAP
13 63 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 38 (0.27%) WCAG
15 35 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
15 35 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 34 (0.25%) NCSC
17 33 (0.24%) HIPAA
18 32 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 27 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,086 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 562 (4.06%) Docker
3 450 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 307 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 111 (0.80%) Firmware
6 104 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 94 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 50 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 39 (0.28%) vSphere
10 31 (0.22%) KVM
10 31 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 22 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 18 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 16 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 12 (0.087%) NFS
14 12 (0.087%) XenApp
15 11 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
16 7 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 7 (0.051%) pfSense
16 7 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 485 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 336 (2.42%) Terraform
3 227 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 204 (1.47%) Ansible
5 175 (1.26%) SCCM
6 81 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 81 (0.58%) Puppet
7 71 (0.51%) Grafana
8 70 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 47 (0.34%) SCOM
10 46 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 41 (0.30%) WSUS
12 34 (0.25%) Functional Safety
13 32 (0.23%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.20%) FortiGate
15 26 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
17 23 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
18 21 (0.15%) OpenSSO
19 20 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3,335 (24.06%) Microsoft
2 726 (5.24%) Google
3 632 (4.56%) VMware
4 443 (3.20%) Oracle
5 387 (2.79%) Cisco
6 368 (2.66%) SAP
7 261 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 204 (1.47%) Databricks
9 148 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 142 (1.02%) Apple
11 134 (0.97%) Adobe
12 130 (0.94%) IBM
13 118 (0.85%) Veeam
14 108 (0.78%) CA
15 103 (0.74%) HP
16 101 (0.73%) Citrix
17 98 (0.71%) Juniper
18 95 (0.69%) Meraki
19 85 (0.61%) Dell
19 85 (0.61%) Palo Alto