Problem-Solving Jobs in Somerset

Problem Solving
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 5 29 12
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 100 34 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 11.35% 6.28% 13.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.64% 6.91% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 72 27 67
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,600 £27,368
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,087 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -1.16% +22.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £59,837 £64,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.82% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 567 492 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 64.36% 90.94% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 442 337 340
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,813 £36,000 £35,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,250
South West median annual salary £51,186 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +8.00% +8.70%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Somerset

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Somerset 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
Bath +23 44 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Taunton +8 24 £35,000 -0.59% 4
Portishead - 6 £50,000 - 1
Street +7 3 £35,750 - 46
Templecombe -2 3 - - 1
Shepton Mallet - 3 £34,000 - 2
Yeovil -18 1 £42,500 +93.18% 6
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £35,000 - 3
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.00%) JOnAS
2 1 (1.00%) Moodle
2 1 (1.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.00%) GNU Octave
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.00%) iTrent
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.00%) Azure
2 19 (19.00%) GCP
3 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (13.00%) AWS
5 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.00%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.00%) dbt
8 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.00%) Firebase
8 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.00%) PaaS
9 1 (1.00%) Serverless
9 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) OFDM
2 6 (6.00%) LAN
2 6 (6.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (5.00%) Network Security
3 5 (5.00%) Wireless
4 2 (2.00%) Internet
5 1 (1.00%) MPLS
5 1 (1.00%) Skype
5 1 (1.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.00%) BigQuery
1 15 (15.00%) Looker
2 8 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.00%) Power BI
3 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.00%) Metabase
4 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.00%) Redis
5 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) gulp
2 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 51 (51.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (42.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 10 (10.00%) Electronics
5 8 (8.00%) Billing
6 5 (5.00%) Games
6 5 (5.00%) Law
7 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.00%) Marketing
9 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.00%) Back Office
10 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Legal
10 1 (1.00%) Military
10 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Developer
2 11 (11.00%) Analyst
3 9 (9.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (9.00%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (8.00%) Data Manager
4 8 (8.00%) DSP Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.00%) IT Support
5 7 (7.00%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Consultant
6 6 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Service Desk Manager
6 6 (6.00%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Field Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) Vue
2 8 (8.00%) CSS
2 8 (8.00%) HTML
3 7 (7.00%) Node.js
4 4 (4.00%) React
5 3 (3.00%) .NET
5 3 (3.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.00%) D3.js
6 2 (2.00%) REST
6 2 (2.00%) SOAP
6 2 (2.00%) Web Services
6 2 (2.00%) XML
7 1 (1.00%) CSS3
7 1 (1.00%) EDI
7 1 (1.00%) HTML5
7 1 (1.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.00%) FPGA
3 8 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.00%) VHDL
4 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.00%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) BBC
7 1 (1.00%) Clustering
7 1 (1.00%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.00%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.00%) Linux
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) Customer Service
2 19 (19.00%) DevOps
3 17 (17.00%) Agile
4 16 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (15.00%) Data Engineering
6 14 (14.00%) Change Management
6 14 (14.00%) Line Management
6 14 (14.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (12.00%) Business Strategy
7 12 (12.00%) SDLC
8 11 (11.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (11.00%) Computer Science
8 11 (11.00%) Data Science
9 10 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 10 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 10 (10.00%) Project Management
10 9 (9.00%) ETL
10 9 (9.00%) Scrum
11 8 (8.00%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (11.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) C
3 10 (10.00%) C++
4 8 (8.00%) MATLAB
4 8 (8.00%) Python
5 5 (5.00%) C#
5 5 (5.00%) Java
6 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.00%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.00%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.00%) Lisp
7 2 (2.00%) PHP
7 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Degree
2 9 (9.00%) A+ Certification
2 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.00%) MCP
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) GDPR
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.00%) Docker
3 2 (2.00%) Firmware
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.00%) SCCM
2 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) SAP
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Thales
5 1 (1.00%) Concur
5 1 (1.00%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.00%) HP
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) Workday