Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,922 11,765 19,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.07% 13.06% 14.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.64% 13.66% 14.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,477 6,031 8,633
10th Percentile £26,133 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,914 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.25% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,254 86,133 128,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 53,821 51,154 73,474
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +3 3,243 £70,000 - 1,667
South East +5 2,895 £45,000 -14.29% 977
North of England +9 2,466 £45,000 - 1,117
Midlands +5 1,807 £42,000 -11.58% 829
South West +7 1,352 £47,500 -5.00% 532
North West +11 1,296 £45,000 -5.26% 624
West Midlands +6 1,154 £42,500 -15.00% 511
East of England +6 1,031 £42,500 -10.53% 504
Yorkshire +5 916 £43,293 -1.61% 365
East Midlands +6 631 £37,500 -16.67% 319
North East +15 253 £45,000 +5.88% 141
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 457 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 402 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 140 (1.08%) Confluence
4 139 (1.08%) CMS
5 136 (1.05%) Apache
6 105 (0.81%) WordPress
7 103 (0.80%) IIS
8 53 (0.41%) SAS
9 47 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 31 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 29 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 23 (0.18%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 14 (0.11%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 13 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
18 13 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,246 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
2 917 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 299 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 78 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 56 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 47 (0.36%) Sketch
8 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 43 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 39 (0.30%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 20 (0.15%) Adobe XD
15 19 (0.15%) InDesign
16 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
17 14 (0.11%) SPSS
18 12 (0.093%) Chatbot
19 10 (0.077%) Revit
20 8 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 126 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 44 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.31%) Magento
5 40 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
6 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.13%) iTrent
9 17 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
11 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
11 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
12 11 (0.085%) Sage 50
12 11 (0.085%) Teamcenter
13 10 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,211 (17.11%) Azure
2 1,595 (12.34%) AWS
3 1,311 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
4 670 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 646 (5.00%) GCP
6 463 (3.58%) SaaS
7 346 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 279 (2.16%) Serverless
9 270 (2.09%) Entra ID
10 202 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 195 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
12 191 (1.48%) GitHub
13 176 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
14 172 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 152 (1.18%) Power Automate
16 144 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 115 (0.89%) Snowflake
18 112 (0.87%) IaaS
19 98 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
20 88 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 762 (5.90%) Firewall
2 414 (3.20%) DNS
3 358 (2.77%) WAN
4 309 (2.39%) LAN
5 294 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 281 (2.17%) DHCP
7 244 (1.89%) Wireless
8 238 (1.84%) VPN
9 227 (1.76%) Network Security
10 190 (1.47%) Internet
11 181 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
12 143 (1.11%) VoIP
13 115 (0.89%) SAN
14 108 (0.84%) VLAN
15 81 (0.63%) SD-WAN
16 79 (0.61%) 5G
17 71 (0.55%) Broadband
18 69 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 57 (0.44%) SNMP
20 54 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 801 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 553 (4.28%) Power BI
3 408 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 396 (3.06%) MySQL
5 348 (2.69%) BigQuery
6 345 (2.67%) Looker
7 343 (2.65%) Tableau
8 265 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 220 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
10 194 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 166 (1.28%) NoSQL
12 153 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 142 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
14 116 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 114 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 98 (0.76%) Redis
17 91 (0.70%) Data Lake
18 89 (0.69%) RDBMS
19 86 (0.67%) Big Data
19 86 (0.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 778 (6.02%) Git
2 453 (3.51%) JIRA
3 279 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 166 (1.28%) GitLab
5 103 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 70 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 55 (0.43%) Selenium
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 45 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 44 (0.34%) LabVIEW
11 39 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 38 (0.29%) Postman
13 37 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.29%) Subversion
14 31 (0.24%) Metasploit
15 30 (0.23%) JUnit
16 29 (0.22%) Ant
17 28 (0.22%) Burp Suite
17 28 (0.22%) SpecFlow
18 25 (0.19%) Eclipse
General
1 6,860 (53.09%) Social Skills
2 4,403 (34.07%) Analytical Skills
3 2,412 (18.67%) Finance
4 1,031 (7.98%) Retail
5 969 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 797 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
7 717 (5.55%) Marketing
8 645 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 571 (4.42%) Legal
10 515 (3.99%) Manufacturing
11 513 (3.97%) Law
12 432 (3.34%) Public Sector
13 379 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 328 (2.54%) Banking
15 296 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 221 (1.71%) Billing
17 200 (1.55%) Electronics
18 197 (1.52%) Aerospace
19 176 (1.36%) Automotive
19 176 (1.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,938 (15.00%) Analyst
2 1,661 (12.85%) Senior
3 1,659 (12.84%) Developer
4 916 (7.09%) Lead
5 701 (5.42%) Architect
6 570 (4.41%) IT Support
7 565 (4.37%) Software Engineer
8 494 (3.82%) Support Engineer
9 489 (3.78%) Consultant
10 442 (3.42%) Project Manager
11 371 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 369 (2.86%) Business Analyst
13 345 (2.67%) Senior Developer
14 312 (2.41%) IT Engineer
15 295 (2.28%) Support Analyst
16 290 (2.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 288 (2.23%) Data Analyst
18 271 (2.10%) IT Technician
19 264 (2.04%) IT Manager
20 263 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 824 (6.38%) .NET
2 710 (5.49%) HTML
3 622 (4.81%) CSS
4 513 (3.97%) React
5 312 (2.41%) AngularJS
6 309 (2.39%) Node.js
7 272 (2.10%) RESTful
8 225 (1.74%) REST
9 212 (1.64%) Vue
10 211 (1.63%) ASP.NET
11 204 (1.58%) .NET Framework
12 190 (1.47%) .NET Core
13 189 (1.46%) Web Services
14 168 (1.30%) JSON
15 149 (1.15%) Spring
16 148 (1.15%) XML
17 144 (1.11%) HTML5
18 120 (0.93%) SOAP
19 119 (0.92%) Laravel
20 117 (0.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1,257 (9.73%) Self-Motivation
2 708 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 432 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 422 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 396 (3.06%) Driving Licence
6 317 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 250 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 227 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 196 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 183 (1.42%) Client/Server
11 172 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 152 (1.18%) IoT
13 138 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 136 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 123 (0.95%) Cloud Native
16 110 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
17 107 (0.83%) NHS
18 103 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
19 88 (0.68%) Life Science
20 87 (0.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,910 (14.78%) Windows
2 883 (6.83%) Linux
3 639 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 471 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 217 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 189 (1.46%) Android
7 142 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 138 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 136 (1.05%) Unix
10 128 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 124 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
12 102 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 40 (0.31%) Ubuntu
14 38 (0.29%) VMS
15 36 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 36 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
16 35 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 32 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
18 29 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,475 (19.15%) Agile
2 1,665 (12.89%) Customer Service
3 1,648 (12.75%) Computer Science
4 1,610 (12.46%) Project Management
5 1,602 (12.40%) Mentoring
6 1,328 (10.28%) DevOps
7 1,323 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,264 (9.78%) Decision-Making
9 1,171 (9.06%) Software Engineering
10 1,047 (8.10%) Coaching
11 1,040 (8.05%) Analytics
12 991 (7.67%) ITIL
13 982 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
14 856 (6.62%) Mathematics
15 820 (6.35%) Data Analysis
16 788 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
17 734 (5.68%) Roadmaps
18 728 (5.63%) CI/CD
19 717 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
20 699 (5.41%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,986 (15.37%) SQL
2 1,537 (11.89%) Python
3 1,070 (8.28%) JavaScript
4 963 (7.45%) C#
5 767 (5.94%) Java
6 445 (3.44%) PowerShell
7 392 (3.03%) C++
8 338 (2.62%) C
9 331 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 298 (2.31%) PHP
11 268 (2.07%) Bash
12 161 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 131 (1.01%) R
14 110 (0.85%) MATLAB
15 99 (0.77%) Perl
16 97 (0.75%) Ruby
17 80 (0.62%) Go
18 72 (0.56%) VB
19 68 (0.53%) Scala
20 62 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,756 (29.07%) Degree
2 1,064 (8.23%) Security Cleared
3 961 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 616 (4.77%) SC Cleared
5 462 (3.58%) Master's Degree
6 439 (3.40%) DBS Check
7 364 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 202 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 188 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 183 (1.42%) CISSP
11 156 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 134 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 132 (1.02%) CCNA
14 129 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 127 (0.98%) HNC
16 117 (0.91%) A+ Certification
17 113 (0.87%) ACCA
18 112 (0.87%) PhD
19 97 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
20 96 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 694 (5.37%) QA
2 544 (4.21%) GDPR
3 470 (3.64%) SLA
4 441 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 250 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 148 (1.15%) PMO
8 147 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 106 (0.82%) ISO 9001
10 105 (0.81%) NIST
11 94 (0.73%) IFRS
12 80 (0.62%) GAAP
13 64 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 45 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 40 (0.31%) WCAG
16 36 (0.28%) NCSC
17 35 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 30 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.22%) HIPAA
20 25 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,079 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 539 (4.17%) Docker
3 448 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 303 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 104 (0.80%) Firmware
6 99 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 38 (0.29%) vSphere
10 31 (0.24%) KVM
11 29 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 23 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
13 21 (0.16%) VMware NSX
14 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
15 13 (0.10%) NFS
15 13 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 13 (0.10%) XenApp
16 8 (0.062%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.054%) pfSense
18 6 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 477 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 305 (2.36%) Terraform
3 222 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 185 (1.43%) Ansible
5 177 (1.37%) SCCM
6 82 (0.63%) Puppet
7 78 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 73 (0.56%) Grafana
9 72 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 48 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 45 (0.35%) SCOM
12 39 (0.30%) WSUS
13 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
14 31 (0.24%) EnCase
15 29 (0.22%) FortiGate
15 29 (0.22%) Progress Chef
16 25 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
17 24 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
18 23 (0.18%) Nagios
19 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,172 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 726 (5.62%) Google
3 638 (4.94%) VMware
4 440 (3.41%) Oracle
5 379 (2.93%) SAP
6 319 (2.47%) Cisco
7 266 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 185 (1.43%) Databricks
9 137 (1.06%) Apple
10 136 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 129 (1.00%) Adobe
12 127 (0.98%) IBM
13 120 (0.93%) Veeam
14 104 (0.80%) Juniper
15 103 (0.80%) CA
15 103 (0.80%) Citrix
15 103 (0.80%) HP
16 98 (0.76%) Meraki
17 92 (0.71%) Palo Alto
18 86 (0.67%) Dell