Problem-Solving Jobs in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 8 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,433 805 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.81% 12.39% 13.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.24% 13.10% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 846 437 594
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,075 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,466 £81,750 £73,675
England median annual salary £49,838 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% - +4.76%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,314 6,144 8,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 80.15% 94.60% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,890 3,499 5,021
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,186 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,700 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +5 431 £50,000 -13.04% 158
Gloucestershire +8 273 £46,750 -15.00% 87
Dorset +16 264 £46,250 -11.90% 45
Wiltshire +12 180 £45,000 -10.00% 72
Devon +11 135 £37,500 - 70
Somerset +24 100 £46,250 +8.82% 107
Cornwall -4 36 £31,250 -30.56% 18
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 32 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (1.47%) Apache
4 13 (0.91%) Confluence
5 12 (0.84%) CMS
6 10 (0.70%) WordPress
7 8 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.49%) SAS
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.35%) Luigi
10 5 (0.35%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.28%) IIS
11 4 (0.28%) Site Server
12 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.14%) nginx
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.070%) JOnAS
14 1 (0.070%) Moodle
Applications
1 99 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.56%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
6 6 (0.42%) Trello
7 5 (0.35%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.28%) Sketch
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.070%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) HFM
2 6 (0.42%) Hyperion Planning
3 5 (0.35%) Shopify
4 4 (0.28%) Magento
5 3 (0.21%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) iTrent
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.070%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.070%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 232 (16.19%) Azure
2 152 (10.61%) AWS
3 97 (6.77%) GCP
4 81 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (4.68%) Power Platform
7 36 (2.51%) SaaS
8 23 (1.61%) GitHub
9 17 (1.19%) Entra ID
10 16 (1.12%) Power Automate
11 12 (0.84%) Serverless
12 10 (0.70%) Amazon S3
12 10 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (0.70%) Snowflake
13 9 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.63%) npm
13 9 (0.63%) OneDrive
14 8 (0.56%) Miro
15 7 (0.49%) Figma
15 7 (0.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.05%) Firewall
2 50 (3.49%) WAN
3 36 (2.51%) 5G
3 36 (2.51%) SD-WAN
4 35 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.09%) Network Security
6 27 (1.88%) Internet
7 25 (1.74%) DNS
8 24 (1.67%) VPN
9 19 (1.33%) Wireless
10 18 (1.26%) LAN
11 16 (1.12%) DHCP
12 15 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
13 14 (0.98%) VLAN
14 11 (0.77%) Ethernet
14 11 (0.77%) HTTP
14 11 (0.77%) RS-232
15 9 (0.63%) SMTP
15 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.61%) BigQuery
3 65 (4.54%) Looker
4 56 (3.91%) Power BI
5 49 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (2.44%) Tableau
7 32 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.02%) MySQL
9 28 (1.95%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (1.33%) Big Data
12 15 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (0.84%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.63%) Redis
16 8 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.56%) Star Schema
17 7 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
17 7 (0.49%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 91 (6.35%) Git
2 54 (3.77%) JIRA
3 25 (1.74%) LabVIEW
4 24 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 17 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 15 (1.05%) Rational Rhapsody
7 14 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
8 13 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.84%) Selenium
10 11 (0.77%) Storybook
11 8 (0.56%) Eclipse
11 8 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.49%) IDA Disassembler
12 7 (0.49%) NetBeans
12 7 (0.49%) webpack
13 5 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.28%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.28%) JMeter
14 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 662 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 468 (32.66%) Analytical Skills
3 302 (21.07%) Finance
4 186 (12.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 160 (11.17%) Law
6 140 (9.77%) Banking
7 116 (8.09%) Investment Banking
8 103 (7.19%) Retail
9 88 (6.14%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
11 67 (4.68%) Marketing
12 59 (4.12%) Electronics
13 56 (3.91%) Legal
14 50 (3.49%) Manufacturing
15 46 (3.21%) Telecoms
16 40 (2.79%) Billing
17 33 (2.30%) Aerospace
18 32 (2.23%) Public Sector
19 28 (1.95%) Military
20 27 (1.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 236 (16.47%) Developer
2 215 (15.00%) Senior
3 175 (12.21%) Analyst
4 102 (7.12%) Software Engineer
5 74 (5.16%) Software Developer
6 71 (4.95%) Lead
7 70 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 67 (4.68%) Architect
9 60 (4.19%) IT Support
9 60 (4.19%) Project Manager
10 53 (3.70%) Consultant
11 51 (3.56%) Support Engineer
12 48 (3.35%) Data Manager
12 48 (3.35%) IT Technician
13 43 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
14 40 (2.79%) Technical Support
15 39 (2.72%) Engineering Manager
16 35 (2.44%) .NET Developer
17 34 (2.37%) Senior Manager
18 33 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (7.75%) .NET
2 93 (6.49%) HTML
3 87 (6.07%) React
4 85 (5.93%) CSS
5 70 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 45 (3.14%) Vue
7 38 (2.65%) .NET Framework
7 38 (2.65%) Node.js
8 28 (1.95%) .NET Core
8 28 (1.95%) ASP.NET
9 22 (1.54%) Entity Framework
10 20 (1.40%) RESTful
11 17 (1.19%) Laravel
12 16 (1.12%) LESS
12 16 (1.12%) SOAP
12 16 (1.12%) WPF
13 15 (1.05%) Spring
13 15 (1.05%) XML
14 14 (0.98%) jQuery
15 13 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 150 (10.47%) Self-Motivation
2 73 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 53 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 44 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 29 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (1.74%) FPGA
9 24 (1.67%) GNSS
9 24 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.67%) Robotics
10 22 (1.54%) Derivative
11 20 (1.40%) Credit Risk
12 19 (1.33%) Cyberattack
12 19 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.19%) VHDL
15 16 (1.12%) Replication
16 15 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 210 (14.65%) Windows
2 131 (9.14%) Linux
3 44 (3.07%) Windows 10
4 38 (2.65%) Apple iOS
5 37 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 29 (2.02%) Unix
7 17 (1.19%) Android
8 14 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.84%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.56%) Debian
13 7 (0.49%) AIX
13 7 (0.49%) CentOS
13 7 (0.49%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.42%) VMS
15 5 (0.35%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (22.40%) Agile
2 205 (14.31%) Project Management
3 193 (13.47%) Software Engineering
4 184 (12.84%) Mentoring
5 181 (12.63%) DevOps
6 176 (12.28%) Customer Service
7 167 (11.65%) Computer Science
8 122 (8.51%) Analytics
9 114 (7.96%) Test Automation
10 110 (7.68%) CI/CD
11 108 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (7.05%) ITIL
13 100 (6.98%) User Experience
14 92 (6.42%) Project Delivery
15 91 (6.35%) Decision-Making
16 89 (6.21%) Full Stack Development
16 89 (6.21%) SDLC
17 84 (5.86%) Data Engineering
18 82 (5.72%) Collaborative Working
18 82 (5.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 199 (13.89%) Python
2 173 (12.07%) JavaScript
3 148 (10.33%) SQL
4 146 (10.19%) C#
5 118 (8.23%) Java
6 77 (5.37%) C++
7 65 (4.54%) C
8 61 (4.26%) TypeScript
9 43 (3.00%) PHP
10 38 (2.65%) MATLAB
11 34 (2.37%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.61%) R
13 20 (1.40%) VB
14 18 (1.26%) Bash
15 17 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.70%) Scala
16 10 (0.70%) Swift
17 9 (0.63%) Ada
17 9 (0.63%) Perl
17 9 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 415 (28.96%) Degree
2 211 (14.72%) Security Cleared
3 102 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 71 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (2.58%) A+ Certification
6 37 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.30%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.40%) CISSP
11 19 (1.33%) HND
12 17 (1.19%) HNC
13 15 (1.05%) CEH
14 14 (0.98%) MCP
15 13 (0.91%) CCNP
16 12 (0.84%) CCNA
16 12 (0.84%) CISM
16 12 (0.84%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.03%) QA
2 48 (3.35%) GDPR
3 47 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.67%) PMO
4 24 (1.67%) SLA
5 17 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.12%) NIST
7 12 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 11 (0.77%) IEC 61508
9 8 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 6 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.42%) SEPA
11 6 (0.42%) TickIT
12 5 (0.35%) TARGET2
12 5 (0.35%) WCAG
13 4 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 90 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 61 (4.26%) Docker
3 44 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.88%) Firmware
5 21 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
7 13 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.35%) vSphere
10 4 (0.28%) NFS
10 4 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.21%) KVM
12 2 (0.14%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.070%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (1.95%) Ansible
3 25 (1.74%) Terraform
4 13 (0.91%) SCCM
5 7 (0.49%) WSUS
6 6 (0.42%) Puppet
7 5 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.35%) Graphite
7 5 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.28%) Grafana
8 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.28%) Nagios
9 3 (0.21%) SCOM
10 2 (0.14%) CASB
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.070%) Consul
11 1 (0.070%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 319 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.21%) Google
3 57 (3.98%) VMware
4 34 (2.37%) Oracle
5 27 (1.88%) Cisco
6 21 (1.47%) IBM
7 17 (1.19%) Databricks
7 17 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.12%) Apple
8 16 (1.12%) Xamarin
9 13 (0.91%) Atlassian
10 11 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 11 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.70%) Sophos
11 10 (0.70%) Veeam
12 9 (0.63%) Adobe
12 9 (0.63%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.63%) SAP
12 9 (0.63%) UiPath
13 8 (0.56%) Motorola