Problem-Solving Jobs in the North West

Problem Solving
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 22 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,292 792 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.95% 10.28% 15.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.72% 10.76% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 890 446 626
10th Percentile £26,238 £23,750 £28,136
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,673 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,744
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.84% +1.65%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £79,375
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,221 7,360 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.40% 95.55% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,231 3,864 5,251
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,017 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Manchester +17 698 £48,000 -4.00% 291
Cheshire +11 252 £42,500 +13.33% 119
Merseyside +13 150 £40,000 -8.57% 79
Lancashire 0 135 £38,500 -14.44% 72
Cumbria +19 48 £36,000 -16.28% 33
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.78%) CMS
4 19 (1.47%) Apache
5 14 (1.08%) IIS
5 14 (1.08%) WordPress
6 11 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.70%) Confluence
7 9 (0.70%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.54%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.31%) SAS
9 4 (0.31%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.23%) Moodle
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.15%) JBoss
11 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 96 (7.43%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.08%) Sketch
5 8 (0.62%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.15%) InDesign
9 2 (0.15%) SPSS
9 2 (0.15%) Stata
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.077%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.077%) InVision
10 1 (0.077%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.077%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 19 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.16%) Magento
2 15 (1.16%) Shopify
3 13 (1.01%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (1.01%) iTrent
4 9 (0.70%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.54%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.31%) SAP APO
7 4 (0.31%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.31%) SAP PP
7 4 (0.31%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.31%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.077%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 214 (16.56%) Azure
2 119 (9.21%) AWS
3 78 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 62 (4.80%) GCP
6 53 (4.10%) SaaS
7 31 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.78%) GitHub
11 21 (1.63%) Snowflake
12 20 (1.55%) Serverless
13 16 (1.24%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (1.16%) Matillion
15 14 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (1.08%) Figma
16 13 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (1.01%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.80%) Firewall
2 40 (3.10%) LAN
3 32 (2.48%) DNS
3 32 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.17%) VPN
5 27 (2.09%) WAN
5 27 (2.09%) Wireless
6 26 (2.01%) Network Security
7 25 (1.93%) VoIP
8 23 (1.78%) PPP
9 22 (1.70%) DHCP
9 22 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.55%) Internet
11 17 (1.32%) IPsec
12 11 (0.85%) BGP
12 11 (0.85%) OSPF
12 11 (0.85%) SAN
13 10 (0.77%) SNMP
13 10 (0.77%) VLAN
14 8 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 60 (4.64%) MySQL
3 54 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (3.72%) Power BI
5 40 (3.10%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.02%) BigQuery
6 39 (3.02%) Looker
7 25 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (1.93%) Tableau
8 21 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 20 (1.55%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.47%) MS Access
10 19 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.16%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 96 (7.43%) Git
2 44 (3.41%) JIRA
3 19 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 17 (1.32%) GitLab
6 15 (1.16%) Postman
7 13 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.54%) Subversion
9 6 (0.46%) Dreamweaver
9 6 (0.46%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.46%) JDeveloper
9 6 (0.46%) PHPUnit
10 5 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.39%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.39%) JetBrains Rider
11 4 (0.31%) Jasmine
11 4 (0.31%) Selenium
11 4 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.23%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 674 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 407 (31.50%) Analytical Skills
3 226 (17.49%) Finance
4 103 (7.97%) Retail
5 90 (6.97%) Marketing
6 78 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (5.80%) Legal
8 61 (4.72%) Public Sector
9 52 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (3.25%) Law
12 35 (2.71%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.55%) Banking
14 20 (1.55%) Billing
15 14 (1.08%) Automotive
15 14 (1.08%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.08%) Local Government
16 12 (0.93%) Games
17 8 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 190 (14.71%) Developer
2 174 (13.47%) Analyst
3 167 (12.93%) Senior
4 81 (6.27%) Software Engineer
5 70 (5.42%) Lead
6 60 (4.64%) Data Engineer
7 58 (4.49%) IT Support
8 52 (4.02%) IT Engineer
9 50 (3.87%) Architect
10 46 (3.56%) Consultant
10 46 (3.56%) Project Manager
11 43 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 41 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 35 (2.71%) Administrator
14 33 (2.55%) Junior
14 33 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (2.55%) Senior Developer
15 32 (2.48%) Graduate
16 31 (2.40%) IT Manager
16 31 (2.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.98%) .NET
1 116 (8.98%) HTML
2 106 (8.20%) CSS
3 51 (3.95%) React
4 44 (3.41%) AngularJS
5 33 (2.55%) Node.js
5 33 (2.55%) Vue
6 30 (2.32%) HTML5
7 28 (2.17%) RESTful
8 27 (2.09%) .NET Framework
9 26 (2.01%) JSON
10 24 (1.86%) .NET Core
11 23 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (1.70%) REST
13 21 (1.63%) Spring
14 20 (1.55%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.39%) Web Services
16 17 (1.32%) Laravel
16 17 (1.32%) Sass
17 16 (1.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 66 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 41 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 35 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.93%) Data Structures
6 23 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.70%) NHS
8 21 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 20 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
11 18 (1.39%) EPoS
12 16 (1.24%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.08%) Housing Association
13 14 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.85%) CCTV
15 11 (0.85%) Cyberattack
15 11 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 172 (13.31%) Windows
2 77 (5.96%) Linux
3 41 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.32%) Android
5 28 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.39%) Windows Vista
8 10 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
8 10 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.70%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.70%) VMS
9 9 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.54%) Windows 8
12 6 (0.46%) Unix
12 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.077%) CentOS
15 1 (0.077%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (20.36%) Agile
2 198 (15.33%) Project Management
3 160 (12.38%) Customer Service
4 141 (10.91%) Computer Science
4 141 (10.91%) DevOps
5 140 (10.84%) Decision-Making
6 139 (10.76%) Analytics
6 139 (10.76%) Mentoring
7 135 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 121 (9.37%) Software Engineering
9 105 (8.13%) Collaborative Working
10 100 (7.74%) ITIL
11 97 (7.51%) User Experience
12 96 (7.43%) Coaching
13 95 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
14 91 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
15 89 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 84 (6.50%) Roadmaps
17 74 (5.73%) Time Management
18 73 (5.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 214 (16.56%) SQL
2 139 (10.76%) JavaScript
3 124 (9.60%) C#
4 113 (8.75%) Python
5 71 (5.50%) Java
6 47 (3.64%) PHP
7 30 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 20 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.32%) VB
10 16 (1.24%) Bash
10 16 (1.24%) Swift
11 15 (1.16%) TypeScript
12 14 (1.08%) C++
13 12 (0.93%) C
14 11 (0.85%) VBScript
15 10 (0.77%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.70%) R
17 8 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.62%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 334 (25.85%) Degree
2 92 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (4.33%) Security Cleared
4 48 (3.72%) SC Cleared
5 42 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.86%) ACCA
7 24 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.70%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.55%) CCNA
10 19 (1.47%) PMI Certification
11 18 (1.39%) HND
12 15 (1.16%) PMP
13 13 (1.01%) HNC
14 12 (0.93%) CCNP
15 11 (0.85%) CISA
16 9 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
17 8 (0.62%) CISSP
17 8 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
18 7 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.95%) GDPR
2 57 (4.41%) QA
3 46 (3.56%) SLA
4 40 (3.10%) Data Quality
5 38 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.70%) NIST
7 21 (1.63%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.39%) PMO
9 14 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (1.08%) GAAP
9 14 (1.08%) IFRS
10 12 (0.93%) WCAG
11 8 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.46%) NCSC
14 5 (0.39%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 9000
17 2 (0.15%) HL7
18 1 (0.077%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 56 (4.33%) Docker
3 38 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.70%) Terminal Services
6 8 (0.62%) Firmware
7 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.077%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.077%) Lustre
9 1 (0.077%) Postfix
9 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.077%) Snort
9 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.17%) Terraform
3 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.32%) Ansible
5 11 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.31%) Nessus
7 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.23%) SELinux
9 2 (0.15%) Icinga
9 2 (0.15%) SCCM
10 1 (0.077%) Grafana
10 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.077%) Nagios
10 1 (0.077%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.077%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.077%) WMI
Vendors
1 288 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.19%) Google
3 62 (4.80%) SAP
4 49 (3.79%) VMware
5 38 (2.94%) Oracle
6 34 (2.63%) Cisco
7 22 (1.70%) Adobe
7 22 (1.70%) CA
8 20 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.32%) NetApp
10 16 (1.24%) F5
10 16 (1.24%) IBM
11 15 (1.16%) HP
12 14 (1.08%) Facebook
13 13 (1.01%) Infor
13 13 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.77%) Progress
15 10 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.77%) Sophos