Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,906 1,985 2,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.21% 13.89% 13.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.41% 14.70% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,757 980 1,517
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,475 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,500 £70,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,237 13,500 18,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.30% 94.49% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,877 7,867 11,859
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the South East 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
Thames Valley +7 1,243 £42,960 -9.56% 343
Surrey +2 547 £47,500 -20.83% 112
Buckinghamshire +6 523 £45,000 +14.28% 107
Hampshire +10 505 £50,000 - 213
Berkshire +5 419 £42,000 -18.72% 137
Oxfordshire +13 301 £42,500 - 101
Kent -2 257 £40,000 -5.88% 73
West Sussex +8 181 £60,000 +14.29% 41
East Sussex +6 114 £52,500 +2.94% 35
Sussex +1 38 £50,000 - 2
Middlesex -9 12 £32,000 -61.21% 5
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 87 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 83 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (1.58%) CMS
4 31 (1.07%) Apache
5 23 (0.79%) WebLogic
5 23 (0.79%) WordPress
6 21 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.65%) Confluence
8 12 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.28%) Drupal
10 6 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.17%) Joomla!
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.14%) SAS
13 3 (0.10%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.069%) IIS
15 1 (0.034%) JBoss
Applications
1 297 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
2 241 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.20%) Simulink
4 29 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.28%) Sketch
8 7 (0.24%) Stateflow
9 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.14%) InDesign
11 3 (0.10%) ProjectWise
11 3 (0.10%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.069%) Trello
13 1 (0.034%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (1.41%) Siebel CRM
2 31 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.17%) Magento
7 5 (0.17%) Odoo
7 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
9 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.069%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.069%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 486 (16.72%) Azure
2 328 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
3 275 (9.46%) AWS
4 119 (4.09%) SaaS
5 106 (3.65%) GCP
6 74 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 69 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (1.72%) GitHub
8 50 (1.72%) IaaS
9 48 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
9 48 (1.65%) Serverless
10 44 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 40 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (1.03%) Power Automate
13 28 (0.96%) Amazon S3
14 23 (0.79%) Mimecast
14 23 (0.79%) PaaS
15 20 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 216 (7.43%) Firewall
2 123 (4.23%) DNS
3 92 (3.17%) DHCP
4 75 (2.58%) Wireless
5 66 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 62 (2.13%) LAN
7 55 (1.89%) VPN
8 45 (1.55%) VoIP
8 45 (1.55%) WAN
9 34 (1.17%) SAN
10 32 (1.10%) Internet
11 29 (1.00%) VLAN
12 26 (0.89%) Network Security
13 23 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (0.72%) 5G
14 21 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.69%) Broadband
16 17 (0.58%) 4G
17 16 (0.55%) Unified Communications
18 14 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 89 (3.06%) MySQL
3 84 (2.89%) BigQuery
3 84 (2.89%) Looker
4 74 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.72%) Power BI
7 44 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 41 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.41%) Power Query
10 40 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (1.14%) Oracle BI EE
11 33 (1.14%) Siebel EIM
12 26 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (0.69%) Redis
14 18 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.62%) Tableau
15 12 (0.41%) OLTP
15 12 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 132 (4.54%) Git
2 127 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 98 (3.37%) JIRA
4 48 (1.65%) GitLab
5 28 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.83%) Ant
7 22 (0.76%) Subversion
7 22 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 15 (0.52%) Selenium
10 13 (0.45%) Robot Framework
11 11 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.38%) Maven
11 11 (0.38%) TestRail
12 9 (0.31%) Gradle
12 9 (0.31%) JMeter
13 8 (0.28%) Hudson
13 8 (0.28%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.24%) CMake
14 7 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,487 (51.17%) Social Skills
2 832 (28.63%) Analytical Skills
3 378 (13.01%) Finance
4 279 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 185 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
6 138 (4.75%) Marketing
7 137 (4.71%) Retail
8 116 (3.99%) Legal
9 110 (3.79%) Aerospace
10 108 (3.72%) Manufacturing
11 84 (2.89%) Telecoms
12 75 (2.58%) Public Sector
13 62 (2.13%) Electronics
13 62 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (1.86%) Aviation
15 53 (1.82%) Billing
16 52 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (1.58%) Law
18 44 (1.51%) Automotive
18 44 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 354 (12.18%) Analyst
2 348 (11.98%) Senior
3 341 (11.73%) Developer
4 201 (6.92%) Lead
5 190 (6.54%) Architect
6 146 (5.02%) IT Support
7 140 (4.82%) Software Engineer
8 111 (3.82%) Consultant
9 106 (3.65%) Data Scientist
10 103 (3.54%) Support Analyst
11 100 (3.44%) Support Engineer
12 91 (3.13%) Coordinator
12 91 (3.13%) Senior Developer
13 86 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
14 85 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 81 (2.79%) Project Manager
16 73 (2.51%) Data Engineer
17 72 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
18 62 (2.13%) IT Engineer
19 60 (2.06%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (6.23%) .NET
2 135 (4.65%) HTML
3 106 (3.65%) CSS
4 80 (2.75%) React
5 53 (1.82%) Spring
6 50 (1.72%) AngularJS
7 47 (1.62%) XML
8 43 (1.48%) Web Services
9 41 (1.41%) RESTful
10 40 (1.38%) Hibernate
10 40 (1.38%) Node.js
11 39 (1.34%) HTML5
12 36 (1.24%) .NET Framework
12 36 (1.24%) REST
13 33 (1.14%) ASP.NET
14 28 (0.96%) CSS3
14 28 (0.96%) Java EE
15 27 (0.93%) .NET Core
15 27 (0.93%) SOAP
15 27 (0.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 358 (12.32%) Self-Motivation
2 239 (8.22%) Management Information System
3 212 (7.30%) Algorithms
4 98 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 86 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.58%) Driving Licence
7 70 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 56 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 52 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.79%) IoT
10 43 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.20%) Client/Server
12 33 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 26 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
14 26 (0.89%) NHS
15 25 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 24 (0.83%) Life Science
16 24 (0.83%) PMI
17 22 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 518 (17.83%) Windows
2 210 (7.23%) Linux
3 163 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 127 (4.37%) Windows 10
5 58 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 57 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 44 (1.51%) Windows 7
8 41 (1.41%) Apple iOS
9 40 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 39 (1.34%) Unix
11 32 (1.10%) Mac OS
12 28 (0.96%) Android
13 20 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
14 12 (0.41%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.28%) VMS
16 7 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
18 5 (0.17%) AIX
18 5 (0.17%) CentOS
19 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (17.17%) Agile
2 483 (16.62%) Mentoring
3 460 (15.83%) Customer Service
4 391 (13.45%) Computer Science
5 378 (13.01%) Project Management
6 360 (12.39%) Decision-Making
7 358 (12.32%) Coaching
8 357 (12.28%) DevOps
9 287 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
10 260 (8.95%) Mathematics
11 254 (8.74%) Software Engineering
12 249 (8.57%) ITIL
13 247 (8.50%) Collaborative Working
14 245 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 243 (8.36%) Actionable Insight
16 201 (6.92%) Data Analysis
17 200 (6.88%) Data Science
18 177 (6.09%) CI/CD
19 173 (5.95%) CRM
20 148 (5.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 312 (10.74%) SQL
2 270 (9.29%) Python
3 202 (6.95%) Java
4 194 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 192 (6.61%) C#
6 184 (6.33%) C++
7 143 (4.92%) C
8 122 (4.20%) PowerShell
9 80 (2.75%) Bash
10 54 (1.86%) PHP
11 49 (1.69%) Fortran
12 34 (1.17%) Perl
13 29 (1.00%) TypeScript
14 28 (0.96%) MATLAB
14 28 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 23 (0.79%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.62%) Go
17 16 (0.55%) R
18 15 (0.52%) Ruby
19 13 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 852 (29.32%) Degree
2 453 (15.59%) Security Cleared
3 301 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 199 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 114 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 99 (3.41%) DBS Check
8 87 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 61 (2.10%) PhD
10 53 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.45%) AWS Certification
12 40 (1.38%) NVQ Level 3
13 36 (1.24%) PMI Certification
14 34 (1.17%) CCNP
15 33 (1.14%) CCNA
16 32 (1.10%) MCP
17 30 (1.03%) MCSE
18 28 (0.96%) HNC
19 24 (0.83%) A+ Certification
20 23 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (7.23%) QA
2 144 (4.96%) GDPR
3 139 (4.78%) SLA
4 110 (3.79%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.37%) PMO
6 30 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 26 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.89%) ISO 9001
9 21 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
10 15 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 11 (0.38%) Automotive SPICE
12 11 (0.38%) COSHH
12 11 (0.38%) IFRS
12 11 (0.38%) ISO 26262
12 11 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 9 (0.31%) ISO 13485
14 8 (0.28%) ISO 14001
14 8 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 264 (9.08%) Active Directory
2 144 (4.96%) Docker
3 102 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 100 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 34 (1.17%) Firmware
6 27 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.48%) KVM
10 12 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.21%) vSphere
12 5 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
13 4 (0.14%) HDFS
13 4 (0.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.10%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.034%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.034%) NFS
15 1 (0.034%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 119 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 75 (2.58%) SCCM
3 60 (2.06%) Ansible
4 40 (1.38%) Terraform
5 36 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (1.14%) Puppet
7 30 (1.03%) SCOM
8 22 (0.76%) OpenSSO
8 22 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.58%) WSUS
10 15 (0.52%) ZABBIX
11 14 (0.48%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.41%) Consul
12 12 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 11 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.38%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.24%) Autotask
15 7 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 819 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.09%) Oracle
3 125 (4.30%) Google
3 125 (4.30%) VMware
4 95 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 83 (2.86%) Cisco
6 80 (2.75%) SAP
7 41 (1.41%) Siebel
8 32 (1.10%) HP
8 32 (1.10%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.00%) Juniper
10 25 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 25 (0.86%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.83%) Adobe
11 24 (0.83%) Dell
11 24 (0.83%) Remedy
12 23 (0.79%) Apple
13 22 (0.76%) Citrix
14 21 (0.72%) Xilinx
15 20 (0.69%) Veeam