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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,942 11,488 19,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.96% 12.98% 14.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.59% 13.58% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,459 5,933 8,710
10th Percentile £26,131 £28,758 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £67,984 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,274 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.41% - +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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 3,269 £70,000 - 1,922
South East +5 2,907 £45,000 -14.29% 1,208
North of England +9 2,460 £45,000 - 1,116
Midlands +4 1,793 £41,250 -13.16% 879
South West +7 1,363 £47,500 -5.00% 530
North West +13 1,295 £45,000 -5.26% 602
West Midlands +3 1,144 £42,500 -15.00% 538
East of England +6 1,025 £42,500 -10.53% 550
Yorkshire +4 909 £43,000 - 387
East Midlands +8 626 £37,500 -16.67% 342
North East +14 255 £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
1 451 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 401 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 143 (1.10%) CMS
4 139 (1.07%) Confluence
5 136 (1.05%) Apache
6 106 (0.82%) WordPress
7 102 (0.79%) IIS
8 54 (0.42%) SAS
9 46 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 30 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
12 29 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 22 (0.17%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 14 (0.11%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.10%) JBoss
19 12 (0.093%) ArcGIS
19 12 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 1,218 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 903 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 282 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 56 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 48 (0.37%) Sketch
8 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 43 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 42 (0.32%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 21 (0.16%) Adobe XD
15 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
16 17 (0.13%) InDesign
17 14 (0.11%) SPSS
18 12 (0.093%) Chatbot
19 10 (0.077%) Revit
20 8 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 125 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 45 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 41 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
6 40 (0.31%) Magento
7 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) iTrent
10 17 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
11 16 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
12 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
12 13 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
12 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
12 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
13 11 (0.085%) Sage 50
13 11 (0.085%) Teamcenter
14 10 (0.077%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2,212 (17.09%) Azure
2 1,638 (12.66%) AWS
3 1,311 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 677 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 647 (5.00%) GCP
6 457 (3.53%) SaaS
7 346 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 287 (2.22%) Serverless
9 266 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 201 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 199 (1.54%) GitHub
12 194 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
13 184 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
14 171 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 152 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 145 (1.12%) PowerApps
17 114 (0.88%) Snowflake
18 110 (0.85%) IaaS
19 98 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
20 86 (0.66%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 762 (5.89%) Firewall
2 412 (3.18%) DNS
3 347 (2.68%) WAN
4 299 (2.31%) LAN
5 293 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 280 (2.16%) DHCP
7 241 (1.86%) Wireless
8 236 (1.82%) VPN
9 224 (1.73%) Network Security
10 191 (1.48%) Internet
11 185 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
12 141 (1.09%) VoIP
13 115 (0.89%) SAN
14 108 (0.83%) VLAN
15 80 (0.62%) SD-WAN
16 79 (0.61%) 5G
17 69 (0.53%) Broadband
18 67 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
19 55 (0.42%) SNMP
20 53 (0.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 803 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 561 (4.33%) Power BI
3 414 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 397 (3.07%) MySQL
5 367 (2.84%) Tableau
6 348 (2.69%) BigQuery
7 344 (2.66%) Looker
8 271 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 220 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
10 195 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 174 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 152 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 150 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
14 113 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 113 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 99 (0.76%) Redis
16 98 (0.76%) DynamoDB
17 90 (0.70%) Data Lake
18 89 (0.69%) RDBMS
19 86 (0.66%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 802 (6.20%) Git
2 457 (3.53%) JIRA
3 285 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 183 (1.41%) GitLab
5 108 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 72 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 55 (0.42%) Selenium
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 43 (0.33%) LabVIEW
10 42 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 42 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
11 39 (0.30%) Postman
12 37 (0.29%) Subversion
13 36 (0.28%) Cucumber
14 31 (0.24%) Metasploit
14 31 (0.24%) SpecFlow
15 30 (0.23%) JUnit
16 29 (0.22%) Ant
17 28 (0.22%) Burp Suite
18 26 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 6,884 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 4,422 (34.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2,421 (18.71%) Finance
4 1,046 (8.08%) Retail
5 974 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 792 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 719 (5.56%) Marketing
8 683 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 565 (4.37%) Legal
10 516 (3.99%) Manufacturing
11 513 (3.96%) Law
12 425 (3.28%) Public Sector
13 374 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
14 331 (2.56%) Banking
15 291 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 220 (1.70%) Billing
17 202 (1.56%) Aerospace
18 198 (1.53%) Electronics
19 178 (1.38%) Automotive
20 174 (1.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,952 (15.08%) Analyst
2 1,700 (13.14%) Senior
3 1,672 (12.92%) Developer
4 929 (7.18%) Lead
5 708 (5.47%) Architect
6 582 (4.50%) Software Engineer
7 576 (4.45%) IT Support
8 496 (3.83%) Consultant
8 496 (3.83%) Support Engineer
9 431 (3.33%) Project Manager
10 369 (2.85%) Data Engineer
11 366 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 353 (2.73%) Senior Developer
13 319 (2.46%) IT Engineer
14 304 (2.35%) Data Analyst
15 296 (2.29%) Support Analyst
16 289 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 274 (2.12%) IT Technician
18 266 (2.06%) Software Developer
19 263 (2.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 834 (6.44%) .NET
2 726 (5.61%) HTML
3 632 (4.88%) CSS
4 513 (3.96%) React
5 315 (2.43%) AngularJS
6 307 (2.37%) Node.js
7 280 (2.16%) RESTful
8 234 (1.81%) REST
9 215 (1.66%) Vue
10 214 (1.65%) ASP.NET
11 208 (1.61%) .NET Framework
12 195 (1.51%) Web Services
13 190 (1.47%) .NET Core
14 162 (1.25%) JSON
15 155 (1.20%) XML
16 153 (1.18%) Spring
17 143 (1.10%) HTML5
18 125 (0.97%) jQuery
19 122 (0.94%) SOAP
20 120 (0.93%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 1,237 (9.56%) Self-Motivation
2 701 (5.42%) Management Information System
3 435 (3.36%) Algorithms
4 419 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 375 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 313 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 252 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 226 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 196 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 183 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 175 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 152 (1.17%) IoT
13 145 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 136 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 123 (0.95%) Cloud Native
16 111 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
17 105 (0.81%) NHS
18 102 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
19 94 (0.73%) Life Science
20 84 (0.65%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,923 (14.86%) Windows
2 884 (6.83%) Linux
3 641 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 470 (3.63%) Windows 10
5 217 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 191 (1.48%) Android
7 139 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 138 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 136 (1.05%) Unix
10 130 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
11 125 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
12 101 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 39 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 38 (0.29%) VMS
15 37 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
16 36 (0.28%) Kali Linux
17 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
18 33 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
18 33 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 29 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,489 (19.23%) Agile
2 1,668 (12.89%) Customer Service
3 1,665 (12.87%) Computer Science
4 1,608 (12.42%) Mentoring
5 1,596 (12.33%) Project Management
6 1,348 (10.42%) DevOps
7 1,320 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,262 (9.75%) Decision-Making
9 1,187 (9.17%) Software Engineering
10 1,063 (8.21%) Analytics
11 1,044 (8.07%) Coaching
12 984 (7.60%) ITIL
13 965 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
14 877 (6.78%) Mathematics
15 841 (6.50%) Data Analysis
16 796 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
17 750 (5.80%) CI/CD
18 726 (5.61%) Roadmaps
19 722 (5.58%) Actionable Insight
20 719 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,018 (15.59%) SQL
2 1,561 (12.06%) Python
3 1,085 (8.38%) JavaScript
4 963 (7.44%) C#
5 776 (6.00%) Java
6 441 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 394 (3.04%) C++
8 338 (2.61%) C
9 330 (2.55%) TypeScript
10 299 (2.31%) PHP
11 266 (2.06%) Bash
12 163 (1.26%) T-SQL
13 132 (1.02%) R
14 112 (0.87%) MATLAB
15 96 (0.74%) Perl
16 95 (0.73%) Ruby
17 80 (0.62%) Go
18 72 (0.56%) VB
19 68 (0.53%) Scala
20 64 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,776 (29.18%) Degree
2 1,061 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 969 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 621 (4.80%) SC Cleared
5 469 (3.62%) DBS Check
6 443 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 367 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 198 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 189 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 185 (1.43%) CISSP
11 156 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 135 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 132 (1.02%) PMI Certification
14 131 (1.01%) CCNA
15 126 (0.97%) HNC
16 119 (0.92%) A+ Certification
17 114 (0.88%) ACCA
17 114 (0.88%) PhD
18 99 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
19 96 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 704 (5.44%) QA
2 546 (4.22%) GDPR
3 473 (3.65%) SLA
4 446 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 243 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 158 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 144 (1.11%) PMO
8 139 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
9 104 (0.80%) NIST
10 100 (0.77%) ISO 9001
11 95 (0.73%) IFRS
12 80 (0.62%) GAAP
13 64 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 40 (0.31%) WCAG
15 39 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 36 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 35 (0.27%) NCSC
18 30 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.22%) HIPAA
20 25 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,076 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 542 (4.19%) Docker
3 442 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 302 (2.33%) Hyper-V
5 106 (0.82%) Firmware
6 98 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 38 (0.29%) vSphere
10 30 (0.23%) KVM
11 29 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 23 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
13 20 (0.15%) 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
1 478 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 310 (2.40%) Terraform
3 220 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 192 (1.48%) Ansible
5 175 (1.35%) SCCM
6 82 (0.63%) Puppet
7 78 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 72 (0.56%) Grafana
9 71 (0.55%) vCenter Server
10 47 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 44 (0.34%) SCOM
12 39 (0.30%) WSUS
13 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
14 30 (0.23%) Progress Chef
15 29 (0.22%) FortiGate
16 24 (0.19%) EnCase
16 24 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 24 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
17 22 (0.17%) Consul
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,160 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 727 (5.62%) Google
3 630 (4.87%) VMware
4 445 (3.44%) Oracle
5 378 (2.92%) SAP
6 312 (2.41%) Cisco
7 268 (2.07%) Salesforce
8 200 (1.55%) Databricks
9 140 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 136 (1.05%) Apple
11 129 (1.00%) Adobe
12 125 (0.97%) IBM
13 120 (0.93%) Veeam
14 104 (0.80%) CA
15 103 (0.80%) Citrix
16 102 (0.79%) Juniper
17 99 (0.76%) HP
18 95 (0.73%) Meraki
19 92 (0.71%) Palo Alto
20 87 (0.67%) Dell