Problem-Solving Jobs in the West Midlands

Problem Solving
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 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 4 8 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,305 904 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.45% 15.63% 13.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.19% 16.16% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 729 400 577
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,475 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £33,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,050 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +6.78% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,400 £70,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £49,838 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,802 5,593 7,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.54% 96.68% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 3,137 4,863
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £39,935 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +5 354 £45,750 -14.29% 129
Warwickshire +3 248 £43,750 -12.50% 59
Staffordshire +6 150 £35,000 -6.67% 76
Worcestershire +9 104 £30,500 -28.24% 41
Shropshire +9 60 £41,250 -10.81% 32
Coventry +21 46 £43,072 -10.36% 37
Solihull +5 39 £50,000 +51.52% 14
Wolverhampton +31 38 £25,500 -16.39% 20
Sutton Coldfield +3 18 £45,000 +66.67%
Dudley - 15 £25,000 - 5
Herefordshire +6 14 £27,500 -36.42% 12
Tipton - 13 £25,000 - 6
Walsall +8 11 £34,409 -31.18% 6
Wednesbury +3 10 - - 7
West Bromwich - 8 - -
Brierley Hill -3 6 - - 1
Halesowen -9 6 - - 2
Rowley Regis - 6 - -
Smethwick - 6 - - 3
Willenhall - 6 - -
Bilston - 6 - -
Stourbridge - 2 - - 2
Kingswinford - 2 - -
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 78 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.53%) IIS
4 21 (1.61%) WordPress
5 10 (0.77%) Confluence
6 5 (0.38%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.31%) CMS
8 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.23%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.15%) MTS
10 1 (0.077%) Apache
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.077%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 224 (17.16%) Microsoft Office
2 120 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.77%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.46%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.31%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.31%) EPLAN
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.31%) Revit
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.23%) InDesign
8 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.15%) Fusion 360
Business Applications
1 20 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.00%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.54%) Shopify
4 4 (0.31%) Magento
4 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.23%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.15%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.077%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.077%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 186 (14.25%) Azure
2 159 (12.18%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (7.97%) Power Platform
4 75 (5.75%) AWS
5 50 (3.83%) Entra ID
6 43 (3.30%) SaaS
7 33 (2.53%) GCP
8 24 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.84%) PowerApps
9 21 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 19 (1.46%) GitHub
11 14 (1.07%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (0.84%) Matillion
13 11 (0.84%) Snowflake
14 10 (0.77%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 72 (5.52%) WAN
2 68 (5.21%) Firewall
3 61 (4.67%) Network Security
4 57 (4.37%) Internet
5 54 (4.14%) WLAN
6 41 (3.14%) LAN
7 30 (2.30%) TCP/IP
8 29 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.76%) DHCP
9 23 (1.76%) DNS
10 17 (1.30%) Intranet
11 15 (1.15%) VPN
12 13 (1.00%) VoIP
13 12 (0.92%) VLAN
13 12 (0.92%) Wireless
14 10 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (0.77%) iSCSI
14 10 (0.77%) PBX
14 10 (0.77%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (7.43%) Power BI
2 94 (7.20%) SQL Server
3 41 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.30%) MySQL
5 25 (1.92%) Looker
6 20 (1.53%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (1.30%) Tableau
8 16 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.07%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 11 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.77%) Star Schema
13 7 (0.54%) Metadata
13 7 (0.54%) Redis
14 6 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.46%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (3.22%) JIRA
2 39 (2.99%) Git
3 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 10 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.38%) ESLint
7 5 (0.38%) Postman
8 4 (0.31%) CANoe
8 4 (0.31%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.23%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.23%) gulp
9 3 (0.23%) Toad
10 2 (0.15%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.15%) Snyk
10 2 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.077%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.077%) Grunt
General
1 744 (57.01%) Social Skills
2 444 (34.02%) Analytical Skills
3 182 (13.95%) Finance
4 181 (13.87%) Retail
5 167 (12.80%) Organisational Skills
6 132 (10.11%) Influencing Skills
7 107 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
8 84 (6.44%) Manufacturing
9 83 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (3.75%) Marketing
11 39 (2.99%) Public Sector
12 34 (2.61%) Automotive
13 29 (2.22%) Legal
14 25 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.84%) Local Government
16 21 (1.61%) Law
17 20 (1.53%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.92%) Back Office
18 12 (0.92%) Electronics
19 10 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 285 (21.84%) Analyst
2 137 (10.50%) Developer
3 120 (9.20%) Product Analyst
4 116 (8.89%) Sales Analyst
5 109 (8.35%) Senior
6 108 (8.28%) IT Support
7 96 (7.36%) Support Engineer
8 82 (6.28%) IT Engineer
9 72 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
10 59 (4.52%) Lead
11 56 (4.29%) Consultant
12 54 (4.14%) IT Manager
13 42 (3.22%) Project Manager
14 35 (2.68%) Systems Engineer
15 33 (2.53%) Software Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) Data Engineer
16 30 (2.30%) IT Technician
16 30 (2.30%) Software Developer
17 29 (2.22%) Administrator
18 26 (1.99%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (5.29%) .NET
2 63 (4.83%) HTML
3 56 (4.29%) CSS
4 28 (2.15%) AngularJS
5 24 (1.84%) REST
6 22 (1.69%) React
7 21 (1.61%) .NET Core
8 17 (1.30%) HTML5
9 16 (1.23%) ASP.NET
9 16 (1.23%) Vue
10 15 (1.15%) XML
11 14 (1.07%) jQuery
11 14 (1.07%) Laravel
11 14 (1.07%) RESTful
11 14 (1.07%) WebRTC
12 13 (1.00%) Node.js
13 12 (0.92%) Yocto
14 9 (0.69%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.69%) JSON
15 8 (0.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 162 (12.41%) Onboarding
2 100 (7.66%) Driving Licence
3 96 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 29 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 25 (1.92%) Clustering
9 18 (1.38%) Replication
9 18 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 16 (1.23%) NHS
11 14 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.07%) IoT
12 13 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.92%) Smartcard
14 11 (0.84%) AS400
14 11 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 218 (16.70%) Windows
2 100 (7.66%) Linux
3 63 (4.83%) Windows 10
4 62 (4.75%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (1.84%) Windows 7
7 12 (0.92%) VMS
7 12 (0.92%) Windows 8
8 11 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (0.77%) Android
10 8 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.54%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.31%) CentOS
13 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.23%) Unix
15 2 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (24.67%) Customer Service
2 269 (20.61%) Mathematics
3 258 (19.77%) Mentoring
4 236 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 191 (14.64%) Computer Science
6 190 (14.56%) Agile
7 175 (13.41%) Data Analysis
8 152 (11.65%) ITIL
9 134 (10.27%) Project Management
10 132 (10.11%) Customer Requirements
11 114 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
12 99 (7.59%) Decision-Making
13 96 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
14 91 (6.97%) User Experience
15 90 (6.90%) Analytics
16 89 (6.82%) Mechatronics
17 81 (6.21%) Asset Management
18 71 (5.44%) Software Engineering
19 69 (5.29%) CRM
20 61 (4.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 205 (15.71%) SQL
2 83 (6.36%) JavaScript
3 70 (5.36%) C#
4 63 (4.83%) Python
5 40 (3.07%) Java
6 29 (2.22%) PHP
6 29 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.30%) C
9 16 (1.23%) C++
10 11 (0.84%) RPG
10 11 (0.84%) RPG IV
10 11 (0.84%) RPG/400
11 10 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.69%) Perl
13 6 (0.46%) VB
14 5 (0.38%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.31%) Bash
16 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 542 (41.53%) Degree
2 125 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 96 (7.36%) HNC
4 84 (6.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 67 (5.13%) Security Cleared
6 60 (4.60%) MCSE
7 58 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (4.29%) CCNA
9 55 (4.21%) MCP
10 53 (4.06%) CCNP
11 50 (3.83%) LPIC
12 33 (2.53%) SC Cleared
13 28 (2.15%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.69%) DBS Check
15 14 (1.07%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.07%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.69%) HND
16 9 (0.69%) PhD
17 8 (0.61%) DV Cleared
17 8 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.37%) GDPR
2 53 (4.06%) QA
3 49 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.91%) SLA
6 26 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.92%) ISO 9001
8 21 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 6 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.38%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.31%) GAAP
11 4 (0.31%) IFRS
11 4 (0.31%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.31%) PMO
12 3 (0.23%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.15%) COSHH
14 1 (0.077%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.077%) MISRA
System Software
1 98 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 60 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (2.84%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.38%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.69%) vSphere
7 7 (0.54%) Docker
7 7 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.46%) NFS
9 5 (0.38%) Firmware
10 4 (0.31%) pfSense
10 4 (0.31%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 31 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (2.07%) SCCM
3 20 (1.53%) EnCase
4 15 (1.15%) Terraform
5 9 (0.69%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.38%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.38%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.31%) AirWatch
7 4 (0.31%) Autotask
7 4 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.23%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.23%) SCOM
8 3 (0.23%) WSUS
9 2 (0.15%) Grafana
9 2 (0.15%) Kibana
10 1 (0.077%) Nessus
10 1 (0.077%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 378 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.51%) VMware
3 80 (6.13%) Cisco
4 47 (3.60%) Google
5 27 (2.07%) SAP
6 23 (1.76%) Veeam
7 20 (1.53%) IBM
8 19 (1.46%) Sophos
9 17 (1.30%) HP
9 17 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.23%) Sage
11 14 (1.07%) Oracle
12 13 (1.00%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.92%) Adobe
13 12 (0.92%) Meraki
13 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.84%) Dell
15 9 (0.69%) Juniper
15 9 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.69%) Xero