Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,942 8,102 10,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.27% 13.70% 14.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.29% 14.33% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6,874 3,687 5,225
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,274 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.41% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London 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
South East +5 2,907 £45,000 -14.29% 1,202
North of England +9 2,460 £45,000 - 1,119
Midlands +4 1,793 £41,250 -13.16% 880
South West +7 1,363 £47,500 -5.00% 534
North West +13 1,295 £45,000 -5.26% 605
West Midlands +3 1,144 £42,500 -15.00% 540
East of England +6 1,025 £42,500 -10.53% 543
Scotland -7 928 £45,000 -10.89% 293
Yorkshire +4 909 £43,000 - 388
East Midlands +8 626 £37,500 -16.67% 341
Wales +5 315 £42,000 +8.40% 127
North East +14 255 £45,000 +5.88% 140
Northern Ireland +19 139 £47,500 -11.63% 54
Isle of Man +1 19 £41,000 +36.67% 5
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 374 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 341 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 189 (1.73%) Apache
4 179 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 113 (1.03%) CMS
6 106 (0.97%) WordPress
7 103 (0.94%) IIS
8 89 (0.81%) Confluence
9 36 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 29 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 29 (0.27%) Umbraco
11 25 (0.23%) nginx
12 20 (0.18%) SAS
13 18 (0.16%) FileNet
14 17 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
14 17 (0.16%) OpenEdge
15 12 (0.11%) ArcGIS
16 11 (0.10%) Jupyter
17 10 (0.091%) Drupal
17 10 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1,008 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
2 689 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 253 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 59 (0.54%) Sketch
6 57 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 52 (0.48%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 42 (0.38%) Simulink
10 23 (0.21%) Trello
11 22 (0.20%) Adobe XD
12 21 (0.19%) Photoshop
13 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 18 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 14 (0.13%) InDesign
17 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
18 10 (0.091%) Revit
19 8 (0.073%) GNU Octave
19 8 (0.073%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 113 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.46%) Shopify
3 41 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
4 40 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 39 (0.36%) Magento
6 27 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.16%) iTrent
9 17 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
11 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
12 11 (0.10%) Endur
12 11 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.10%) SAP Business One
12 11 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
13 10 (0.091%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.082%) SAP CX
14 9 (0.082%) SAP MM
15 7 (0.064%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,818 (16.61%) Azure
2 1,288 (11.77%) AWS
3 1,132 (10.35%) Microsoft 365
4 543 (4.96%) GCP
5 511 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 350 (3.20%) SaaS
7 266 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
8 211 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 200 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 177 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 173 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 159 (1.45%) Serverless
13 146 (1.33%) GitHub
14 113 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 95 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (0.82%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.69%) Figma
18 69 (0.63%) OneDrive
19 68 (0.62%) Miro
20 65 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 645 (5.89%) Firewall
2 328 (3.00%) DNS
3 308 (2.81%) WAN
4 255 (2.33%) DHCP
5 247 (2.26%) LAN
6 233 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 224 (2.05%) VPN
8 210 (1.92%) Wireless
9 183 (1.67%) Network Security
10 158 (1.44%) Internet
11 134 (1.22%) VoIP
12 131 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
13 120 (1.10%) SAN
14 102 (0.93%) VLAN
15 77 (0.70%) 5G
16 64 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 60 (0.55%) IPsec
18 58 (0.53%) Ethernet
19 56 (0.51%) Broadband
20 55 (0.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 436 (3.98%) Power BI
3 342 (3.13%) Looker
4 339 (3.10%) BigQuery
5 337 (3.08%) MySQL
6 336 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 256 (2.34%) NoSQL
8 234 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 190 (1.74%) Big Data
10 184 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 167 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
12 161 (1.47%) Tableau
13 159 (1.45%) MongoDB
14 92 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
15 89 (0.81%) Redis
16 86 (0.79%) Hadoop
17 83 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 80 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 76 (0.69%) Data Lake
20 73 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 556 (5.08%) Git
2 373 (3.41%) JIRA
3 233 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 105 (0.96%) GitLab
5 89 (0.81%) Visual Studio
6 58 (0.53%) LabVIEW
7 54 (0.49%) Selenium
8 52 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 44 (0.40%) Maven
11 39 (0.36%) JUnit
12 38 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.32%) Postman
14 32 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.27%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.27%) JMeter
17 24 (0.22%) Ant
17 24 (0.22%) Cypress.io
17 24 (0.22%) IntelliJ
18 23 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5,441 (49.73%) Social Skills
2 3,403 (31.10%) Analytical Skills
3 2,041 (18.65%) Finance
4 1,184 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 805 (7.36%) Law
6 798 (7.29%) Retail
7 696 (6.36%) Marketing
8 676 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
9 569 (5.20%) Manufacturing
10 458 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
11 451 (4.12%) Legal
12 393 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
13 348 (3.18%) Public Sector
14 288 (2.63%) Banking
15 256 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 224 (2.05%) Electronics
17 192 (1.75%) Aerospace
18 164 (1.50%) Investment Banking
19 155 (1.42%) Automotive
20 152 (1.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,582 (14.46%) Analyst
2 1,423 (13.00%) Senior
3 1,376 (12.58%) Developer
4 856 (7.82%) Software Engineer
5 826 (7.55%) Lead
6 553 (5.05%) IT Support
7 532 (4.86%) Architect
8 428 (3.91%) Support Engineer
9 415 (3.79%) Consultant
10 365 (3.34%) Project Manager
11 363 (3.32%) IT Engineer
12 335 (3.06%) Business Analyst
13 314 (2.87%) Senior Developer
14 310 (2.83%) Data Engineer
15 294 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 274 (2.50%) IT Technician
17 272 (2.49%) Software Developer
18 260 (2.38%) Support Analyst
19 258 (2.36%) Graduate
20 257 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 713 (6.52%) .NET
2 621 (5.68%) HTML
3 544 (4.97%) CSS
4 483 (4.41%) React
5 343 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 282 (2.58%) Node.js
7 226 (2.07%) Spring
8 206 (1.88%) REST
9 191 (1.75%) Vue
10 189 (1.73%) RESTful
11 186 (1.70%) .NET Framework
12 173 (1.58%) ASP.NET
13 172 (1.57%) .NET Core
14 145 (1.33%) Web Services
15 138 (1.26%) JSON
16 133 (1.22%) jQuery
17 131 (1.20%) HTML5
18 126 (1.15%) XML
19 112 (1.02%) Laravel
20 111 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,028 (9.39%) Self-Motivation
2 559 (5.11%) Management Information System
3 402 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 374 (3.42%) Driving Licence
5 339 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 245 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 229 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 172 (1.57%) Cloud Native
9 160 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 160 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 147 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 140 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 136 (1.24%) IoT
13 110 (1.01%) FMCG
14 106 (0.97%) NHS
15 101 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 100 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 88 (0.80%) Clustering
18 82 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
19 76 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,703 (15.56%) Windows
2 753 (6.88%) Linux
3 562 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 395 (3.61%) Windows 10
5 187 (1.71%) Apple iOS
6 167 (1.53%) Android
7 133 (1.22%) Unix
8 112 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 112 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 106 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
10 102 (0.93%) Mac OS
11 100 (0.91%) Windows 7
12 50 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
13 39 (0.36%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.31%) VMS
15 33 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
16 32 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 29 (0.27%) Windows 8
18 28 (0.26%) CentOS
19 27 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,196 (20.07%) Agile
2 1,523 (13.92%) Customer Service
3 1,344 (12.28%) Project Management
4 1,334 (12.19%) Mentoring
5 1,311 (11.98%) Software Engineering
6 1,282 (11.72%) Computer Science
7 1,225 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,175 (10.74%) Decision-Making
9 1,096 (10.02%) DevOps
10 900 (8.23%) Coaching
11 879 (8.03%) ITIL
12 807 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
13 733 (6.70%) Analytics
14 721 (6.59%) Mathematics
15 676 (6.18%) Collaborative Working
16 675 (6.17%) SDLC
17 669 (6.11%) CI/CD
18 638 (5.83%) Change Management
19 619 (5.66%) Actionable Insight
20 611 (5.58%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1,660 (15.17%) SQL
2 1,119 (10.23%) Python
3 926 (8.46%) JavaScript
4 897 (8.20%) Java
5 879 (8.03%) C#
6 372 (3.40%) C++
7 363 (3.32%) C
8 330 (3.02%) PowerShell
9 291 (2.66%) PHP
10 286 (2.61%) TypeScript
11 225 (2.06%) Bash
12 151 (1.38%) Scala
13 117 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 94 (0.86%) MATLAB
15 86 (0.79%) Perl
16 80 (0.73%) Go
17 70 (0.64%) Ruby
18 69 (0.63%) VB
19 67 (0.61%) R
20 64 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,958 (27.03%) Degree
2 1,030 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 661 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 652 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 316 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 312 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 261 (2.39%) DBS Check
8 169 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
9 159 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 119 (1.09%) CCNA
11 118 (1.08%) HNC
12 113 (1.03%) A+ Certification
13 102 (0.93%) CISSP
13 102 (0.93%) PhD
14 101 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 100 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
16 95 (0.87%) HND
17 94 (0.86%) Azure Certification
18 81 (0.74%) MCSE
19 78 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (5.52%) QA
2 479 (4.38%) GDPR
3 401 (3.66%) SLA
4 361 (3.30%) Data Quality
5 167 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 137 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 133 (1.22%) PMO
8 120 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 86 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 66 (0.60%) NIST
11 51 (0.47%) WCAG
12 42 (0.38%) IFRS
13 39 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 33 (0.30%) GAAP
15 27 (0.25%) NCSC
16 23 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
16 23 (0.21%) PCI DSS
17 22 (0.20%) ISO 13485
17 22 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 21 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 918 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 399 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 395 (3.61%) Docker
4 289 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 127 (1.16%) Firmware
6 80 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 66 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.35%) vSphere
9 34 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 26 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
11 24 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 19 (0.17%) KVM
13 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
14 12 (0.11%) XenApp
15 11 (0.10%) NFS
16 8 (0.073%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
17 6 (0.055%) pfSense
18 5 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 385 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 219 (2.00%) Terraform
3 192 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 177 (1.62%) Ansible
5 163 (1.49%) SCCM
6 67 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 56 (0.51%) Puppet
8 44 (0.40%) SCOM
9 36 (0.33%) WSUS
10 30 (0.27%) Grafana
11 29 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (0.24%) OpenSSO
13 25 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 24 (0.22%) EnCase
14 24 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
15 23 (0.21%) Progress Chef
16 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
18 17 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,632 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 614 (5.61%) Google
3 557 (5.09%) VMware
4 385 (3.52%) Oracle
5 292 (2.67%) SAP
6 266 (2.43%) Cisco
7 176 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 121 (1.11%) Veeam
9 110 (1.01%) Databricks
9 110 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 105 (0.96%) Apple
11 99 (0.90%) IBM
12 96 (0.88%) Citrix
13 94 (0.86%) Dell
14 91 (0.83%) HP
14 91 (0.83%) Palo Alto
15 90 (0.82%) Adobe
16 77 (0.70%) Meraki
17 75 (0.69%) Red Hat
18 72 (0.66%) Sophos