Problem-Solving Jobs in Kent

Problem Solving
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 7 7 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 253 193 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 15.47% 19.07% 16.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.69% 20.00% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 175 65 65
10th Percentile £23,950 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £38,041
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +11.72% +8.69%
75th Percentile £51,598 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,285 £66,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,285 965 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 78.59% 95.36% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 913 486 711
10th Percentile £25,600 £27,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,800 £60,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,375 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Kent 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
Maidstone +17 35 £33,000 -5.71% 8
Tonbridge 0 16 £35,000 - 2
Sevenoaks +1 13 £40,000 -15.79%
Gravesend -5 12 £50,723 -8.92%
Tunbridge Wells -13 12 £25,750 -15.57% 7
Chatham +16 9 £38,500 - 8
West Malling -6 9 £45,000 - 1
Canterbury 0 7 £31,250 - 1
Dartford -8 5 £45,000 - 7
Rochester -9 5 £61,000 +117.86% 4
Stansted - 3 £44,500 - 3
Margate - 2 - - 3
Aylesford - 1 £23,500 -
Broadstairs - 1 - - 1
Sittingbourne - 1 £27,500 - 3
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 22 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (15.02%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.35%) Simulink
3 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.77%) Stateflow
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (15.42%) Azure
3 16 (6.32%) AWS
4 10 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (3.95%) IaaS
4 10 (3.95%) PaaS
4 10 (3.95%) Serverless
5 9 (3.56%) GCP
6 8 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (2.77%) Azure Functions
7 7 (2.77%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.37%) SaaS
9 4 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.19%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (1.19%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.19%) GitHub
10 3 (1.19%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.79%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.04%) Firewall
2 21 (8.30%) DHCP
2 21 (8.30%) DNS
3 16 (6.32%) WAN
4 11 (4.35%) 5G
5 9 (3.56%) 4G
5 9 (3.56%) MPLS
5 9 (3.56%) VPN
6 8 (3.16%) LAN
7 7 (2.77%) FTP
7 7 (2.77%) HTTP
7 7 (2.77%) J1939
8 6 (2.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.98%) VLAN
9 5 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.79%) Broadband
11 1 (0.40%) SSL
11 1 (0.40%) VoIP
11 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.65%) Power Query
2 23 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.72%) MySQL
3 17 (6.72%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.32%) Redis
5 14 (5.53%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.77%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.77%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.77%) Looker
8 6 (2.37%) Power BI
9 5 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.98%) GIS
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Jenkins
1 16 (6.32%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (3.56%) JIRA
3 7 (2.77%) Git
4 3 (1.19%) Babel
4 3 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (1.19%) webpack
5 1 (0.40%) eggPlant
General
1 117 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 90 (35.57%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (19.37%) Finance
4 15 (5.93%) Retail
5 11 (4.35%) Automotive
5 11 (4.35%) Marketing
6 10 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 52 (20.55%) Analyst
2 44 (17.39%) Developer
3 28 (11.07%) Systems Engineer
4 25 (9.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 25 (9.88%) Support Analyst
5 21 (8.30%) Senior
6 19 (7.51%) Coordinator
6 19 (7.51%) Data Coordinator
7 17 (6.72%) .NET Developer
7 17 (6.72%) Lead
8 16 (6.32%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (6.32%) C# Developer
9 15 (5.93%) Help Desk Analyst
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (5.53%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 14 (5.53%) Data Analyst
11 12 (4.74%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
11 12 (4.74%) First Line Help Desk Support
11 12 (4.74%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.23%) .NET
2 16 (6.32%) MSMQ
2 16 (6.32%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (6.32%) REST
3 15 (5.93%) RESTful
4 13 (5.14%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.35%) CSS
5 11 (4.35%) HTML
6 8 (3.16%) Web Services
7 7 (2.77%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.77%) gRPC
8 6 (2.37%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.37%) CSS3
8 6 (2.37%) HTML5
8 6 (2.37%) Vue
9 5 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (1.98%) React
10 4 (1.58%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.19%) Blazor
11 3 (1.19%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 72 (28.46%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.53%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.14%) IoT
5 12 (4.74%) Client/Server
5 12 (4.74%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.56%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.77%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.37%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.19%) Replication
13 2 (0.79%) Clustering
13 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.97%) Windows
2 14 (5.53%) Windows 10
3 11 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.37%) Android
4 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.19%) Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.46%) Customer Service
2 54 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (18.58%) Data Management
4 40 (15.81%) CRM
5 35 (13.83%) Project Management
6 33 (13.04%) Agile
7 29 (11.46%) Microservices
8 28 (11.07%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (10.67%) Mentoring
10 26 (10.28%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (9.49%) ITIL
11 24 (9.49%) Process Improvement
12 23 (9.09%) Design Patterns
13 21 (8.30%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.30%) DevOps
14 20 (7.91%) MVC
15 18 (7.11%) Strategic Planning
15 18 (7.11%) Validation
16 17 (6.72%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.44%) C#
2 14 (5.53%) JavaScript
2 14 (5.53%) SQL
3 12 (4.74%) MATLAB
4 8 (3.16%) C
4 8 (3.16%) Python
5 3 (1.19%) C++
5 3 (1.19%) Java
5 3 (1.19%) PHP
5 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (21.34%) Degree
2 24 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.51%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.72%) DBS Check
5 14 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.14%) CCNP
6 13 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.14%) MCSE
7 12 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.74%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.58%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (1.58%) EMC Certification
9 2 (0.79%) HNC
9 2 (0.79%) MBA
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) ISEB
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.46%) GDPR
2 16 (6.32%) SLA
3 15 (5.93%) QA
4 11 (4.35%) Automotive SPICE
4 11 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (4.35%) ISO 26262
5 10 (3.95%) COSHH
5 10 (3.95%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (15.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.91%) Docker
2 20 (7.91%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.77%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (7.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.35%) Functional Safety
3 10 (3.95%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 78 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.65%) Salesforce
3 30 (11.86%) Cisco
4 12 (4.74%) WatchGuard
5 11 (4.35%) Darktrace
5 11 (4.35%) Google
6 10 (3.95%) Meraki
7 9 (3.56%) HP
7 9 (3.56%) Mitel
7 9 (3.56%) NEC
7 9 (3.56%) Ribbon
7 9 (3.56%) VMware
8 5 (1.98%) Oracle
9 4 (1.58%) EMC
9 4 (1.58%) F5
10 3 (1.19%) Facebook
10 3 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.19%) Instagram
11 2 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.79%) Virgin Media