Problem-Solving Jobs in Kent

Problem Solving
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 255 204 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 15.61% 19.88% 16.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.83% 20.84% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 175 66 65
10th Percentile £23,950 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £38,041
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +11.72% +8.69%
75th Percentile £51,598 £58,438 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £67,285 £66,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,286 979 1,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 78.70% 95.42% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 915 491 711
10th Percentile £26,100 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £35,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £49,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.22% +8.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,850 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Kent over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Kent

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Kent region over the 6 months to 7 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
Maidstone +20 35 £33,000 -5.71% 10
Tonbridge +1 16 £35,000 - 2
Sevenoaks +2 13 £40,000 -15.79%
Gravesend -5 12 £50,723 -8.92%
Tunbridge Wells -14 12 £25,750 -15.57% 7
Chatham +16 9 £38,500 - 8
West Malling -5 9 £45,000 - 1
Canterbury -3 7 £31,250 - 1
Rochester -9 5 £61,000 +117.86% 4
Dartford -13 5 £45,000 - 7
Stansted - 3 £44,500 - 3
Margate - 2 - - 3
Aylesford - 1 £23,500 -
Broadstairs - 1 - - 1
Sittingbourne - 1 £27,500 - 3
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 22 (8.63%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (14.90%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.31%) Simulink
3 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.75%) Stateflow
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.39%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (15.29%) Azure
3 16 (6.27%) AWS
4 10 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (3.92%) IaaS
4 10 (3.92%) PaaS
4 10 (3.92%) Serverless
5 9 (3.53%) GCP
6 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (2.75%) Azure Functions
7 7 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.35%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.35%) SaaS
9 4 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.18%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (1.18%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.18%) GitHub
10 3 (1.18%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.78%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.94%) Firewall
2 21 (8.24%) DHCP
2 21 (8.24%) DNS
3 16 (6.27%) WAN
4 11 (4.31%) 5G
5 9 (3.53%) 4G
5 9 (3.53%) MPLS
5 9 (3.53%) VPN
6 8 (3.14%) LAN
7 7 (2.75%) FTP
7 7 (2.75%) HTTP
7 7 (2.75%) J1939
8 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.96%) VLAN
9 5 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.78%) Broadband
11 1 (0.39%) SSL
11 1 (0.39%) VoIP
11 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.33%) Power Query
2 23 (9.02%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.67%) MySQL
3 17 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.27%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.27%) Redis
5 14 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.75%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.75%) Looker
8 6 (2.35%) Power BI
9 5 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.96%) GIS
10 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.27%) Jenkins
1 16 (6.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 9 (3.53%) JIRA
3 7 (2.75%) Git
4 3 (1.18%) Babel
4 3 (1.18%) GitLab
4 3 (1.18%) webpack
5 1 (0.39%) eggPlant
General
1 117 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 92 (36.08%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (20.00%) Finance
4 15 (5.88%) Retail
5 11 (4.31%) Automotive
5 11 (4.31%) Marketing
6 10 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Electronics
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.18%) Analyst
2 44 (17.25%) Developer
3 28 (10.98%) Systems Engineer
4 25 (9.80%) 3rd Line Support
4 25 (9.80%) Support Analyst
5 21 (8.24%) Senior
6 19 (7.45%) Coordinator
6 19 (7.45%) Data Coordinator
7 17 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 17 (6.67%) Lead
8 16 (6.27%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (6.27%) C# Developer
8 16 (6.27%) Data Analyst
9 15 (5.88%) Help Desk Analyst
9 15 (5.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 14 (5.49%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (5.49%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 12 (4.71%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
11 12 (4.71%) First Line Help Desk Support
11 12 (4.71%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.12%) .NET
2 16 (6.27%) MSMQ
2 16 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (6.27%) REST
3 15 (5.88%) RESTful
4 13 (5.10%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.31%) CSS
5 11 (4.31%) HTML
6 8 (3.14%) Web Services
7 7 (2.75%) .NET Framework
7 7 (2.75%) gRPC
8 6 (2.35%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.35%) CSS3
8 6 (2.35%) HTML5
8 6 (2.35%) Vue
9 5 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (1.96%) React
10 4 (1.57%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.18%) Blazor
11 3 (1.18%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 74 (29.02%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (9.02%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.49%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.10%) IoT
5 12 (4.71%) Client/Server
5 12 (4.71%) Driving Licence
6 10 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.53%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (3.14%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.75%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.35%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.18%) Replication
13 2 (0.78%) Clustering
13 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.82%) Windows
2 14 (5.49%) Windows 10
3 11 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.35%) Android
4 6 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.18%) Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.24%) Customer Service
2 56 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (19.22%) Data Management
4 42 (16.47%) CRM
5 35 (13.73%) Project Management
6 33 (12.94%) Agile
7 29 (11.37%) Microservices
8 28 (10.98%) Performance Optimisation
9 27 (10.59%) Mentoring
10 26 (10.20%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (9.41%) ITIL
11 24 (9.41%) Process Improvement
12 23 (9.02%) Design Patterns
13 21 (8.24%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.24%) DevOps
14 20 (7.84%) MVC
15 18 (7.06%) Strategic Planning
15 18 (7.06%) Validation
16 17 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.33%) C#
2 14 (5.49%) JavaScript
2 14 (5.49%) SQL
3 12 (4.71%) MATLAB
4 8 (3.14%) C
4 8 (3.14%) Python
5 3 (1.18%) C++
5 3 (1.18%) Java
5 3 (1.18%) PHP
5 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (21.18%) Degree
2 24 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.45%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.10%) CCNP
6 13 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.10%) MCSE
7 12 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.71%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (1.57%) CESG Certified Professional
8 4 (1.57%) EMC Certification
9 2 (0.78%) HNC
9 2 (0.78%) MBA
10 1 (0.39%) CISA
10 1 (0.39%) CISM
10 1 (0.39%) ISEB
10 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.37%) GDPR
2 16 (6.27%) SLA
3 15 (5.88%) QA
4 11 (4.31%) Automotive SPICE
4 11 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (4.31%) ISO 26262
5 10 (3.92%) COSHH
5 10 (3.92%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (14.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.84%) Docker
2 20 (7.84%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.31%) Functional Safety
3 10 (3.92%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 78 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 30 (11.76%) Cisco
4 12 (4.71%) WatchGuard
5 11 (4.31%) Darktrace
5 11 (4.31%) Google
6 10 (3.92%) Meraki
7 9 (3.53%) HP
7 9 (3.53%) Mitel
7 9 (3.53%) NEC
7 9 (3.53%) Ribbon
7 9 (3.53%) VMware
8 5 (1.96%) Oracle
9 4 (1.57%) EMC
9 4 (1.57%) F5
10 3 (1.18%) Facebook
10 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.18%) Instagram
11 2 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.78%) Virgin Media