Problem Solving
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 14,655 13,775 21,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 13.24% 14.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.37% 13.85% 14.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,427 6,936 9,787
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,256
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK

Problem-Solving
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +7 12,758 £50,000 -9.09% 5,465
UK excluding London +5 10,848 £45,000 -10.00% 4,160
Work from Home +5 4,752 £55,000 -8.33% 1,978
London +3 3,226 £70,000 - 1,607
South East +4 2,801 £45,000 -14.29% 953
North of England +9 2,474 £45,000 -1.10% 1,065
Midlands +4 1,784 £42,000 -16.00% 775
South West +7 1,339 £47,500 -5.00% 560
North West +10 1,295 £45,000 -5.26% 591
West Midlands +5 1,143 £42,500 -15.00% 463
East of England +5 1,025 £42,500 -11.46% 511
Scotland -4 944 £45,543 -17.19% 268
Yorkshire +6 932 £43,586 -3.14% 347
East Midlands +6 622 £37,500 -17.58% 311
Wales +6 322 £41,067 +9.51% 136
North East +12 246 £45,000 +5.88% 143
Northern Ireland +20 143 £50,000 - 74
Isle of Man +1 22 £45,000 +50.00% 6

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 501 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 430 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 225 (1.54%) Apache
4 215 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 178 (1.21%) Confluence
6 144 (0.98%) CMS
7 141 (0.96%) IIS
8 117 (0.80%) WordPress
9 50 (0.34%) SAS
10 44 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 34 (0.23%) JBoss
12 33 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 32 (0.22%) nginx
14 28 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
15 27 (0.18%) Umbraco
16 26 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
17 25 (0.17%) OpenEdge
18 19 (0.13%) Drupal
19 18 (0.12%) FileNet
20 17 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1,276 (8.71%) Microsoft Office
2 947 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 312 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 72 (0.49%) Sketch
6 68 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 59 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 48 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.31%) AutoCAD
10 34 (0.23%) Simulink
11 29 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 29 (0.20%) Trello
12 24 (0.16%) InDesign
13 23 (0.16%) Adobe XD
14 22 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
15 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
16 14 (0.096%) SPSS
17 12 (0.082%) Chatbot
18 10 (0.068%) InVision
19 9 (0.061%) Revit
Business Applications
1 138 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 57 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.37%) Shopify
4 44 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.27%) Magento
6 38 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
7 22 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 20 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 19 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 18 (0.12%) Endur
11 17 (0.12%) iTrent
11 17 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 14 (0.096%) SDL Web 8
12 14 (0.096%) Teamcenter
13 13 (0.089%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.089%) SAP Business One
13 13 (0.089%) SAP CX
13 13 (0.089%) Unit4 Business World
14 12 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
15 11 (0.075%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (17.53%) Azure
2 1,959 (13.37%) AWS
3 1,459 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
4 777 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 772 (5.27%) GCP
6 541 (3.69%) SaaS
7 380 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 336 (2.29%) Serverless
9 299 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 288 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
11 257 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 242 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 214 (1.46%) GitHub
14 190 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 180 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 176 (1.20%) Power Automate
17 122 (0.83%) IaaS
18 115 (0.78%) Snowflake
19 106 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
20 101 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 848 (5.79%) Firewall
2 446 (3.04%) DNS
3 399 (2.72%) WAN
4 334 (2.28%) LAN
5 317 (2.16%) DHCP
6 300 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 279 (1.90%) VPN
8 276 (1.88%) Network Security
9 263 (1.79%) Wireless
10 231 (1.58%) Internet
11 196 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
12 165 (1.13%) VoIP
13 141 (0.96%) SAN
14 132 (0.90%) VLAN
15 81 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
16 80 (0.55%) SD-WAN
17 77 (0.53%) SNMP
18 76 (0.52%) Broadband
19 75 (0.51%) 5G
20 70 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 931 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 627 (4.28%) Power BI
3 463 (3.16%) MySQL
4 445 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 372 (2.54%) Looker
6 370 (2.52%) BigQuery
7 349 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 338 (2.31%) NoSQL
9 331 (2.26%) Tableau
10 271 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
11 241 (1.64%) Big Data
12 238 (1.62%) MongoDB
13 225 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
14 155 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
15 137 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 136 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 123 (0.84%) Redis
18 116 (0.79%) RDBMS
19 113 (0.77%) Hadoop
20 102 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 865 (5.90%) Git
2 544 (3.71%) JIRA
3 343 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 182 (1.24%) GitLab
5 109 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 72 (0.49%) Selenium
7 71 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 63 (0.43%) LabVIEW
9 56 (0.38%) JUnit
10 55 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 52 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 49 (0.33%) Maven
13 48 (0.33%) Postman
14 47 (0.32%) IntelliJ
15 45 (0.31%) Cucumber
16 37 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
16 37 (0.25%) Subversion
17 36 (0.25%) JDeveloper
18 35 (0.24%) Cypress.io
19 33 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 7,552 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 4,805 (32.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3,071 (20.96%) Finance
4 1,405 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,041 (7.10%) Retail
6 979 (6.68%) Law
7 964 (6.58%) Marketing
8 800 (5.46%) Organisational Skills
9 730 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
10 701 (4.78%) Manufacturing
11 688 (4.69%) Legal
12 546 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
13 523 (3.57%) Public Sector
14 436 (2.98%) Banking
15 351 (2.40%) Telecoms
16 244 (1.66%) Electronics
17 243 (1.66%) Billing
18 197 (1.34%) Games
19 193 (1.32%) Aerospace
20 181 (1.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,081 (14.20%) Analyst
2 2,055 (14.02%) Senior
3 1,944 (13.27%) Developer
4 1,111 (7.58%) Lead
5 1,016 (6.93%) Software Engineer
6 751 (5.12%) Architect
7 630 (4.30%) IT Support
8 558 (3.81%) Consultant
9 539 (3.68%) Support Engineer
10 484 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 461 (3.15%) Senior Developer
12 450 (3.07%) IT Engineer
13 434 (2.96%) Business Analyst
14 406 (2.77%) Data Engineer
15 365 (2.49%) Graduate
16 332 (2.27%) Support Analyst
17 330 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
18 320 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 317 (2.16%) Software Developer
20 310 (2.12%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 921 (6.28%) .NET
2 844 (5.76%) HTML
3 748 (5.10%) CSS
4 727 (4.96%) React
5 457 (3.12%) AngularJS
6 430 (2.93%) Node.js
7 367 (2.50%) RESTful
8 318 (2.17%) Spring
9 311 (2.12%) REST
10 258 (1.76%) Web Services
11 241 (1.64%) ASP.NET
12 236 (1.61%) Vue
13 226 (1.54%) .NET Framework
14 224 (1.53%) JSON
15 209 (1.43%) .NET Core
16 180 (1.23%) GraphQL
17 176 (1.20%) XML
18 157 (1.07%) HTML5
18 157 (1.07%) Kafka
19 156 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1,320 (9.01%) Self-Motivation
2 770 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 503 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 488 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 449 (3.06%) Driving Licence
6 396 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 279 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 271 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 226 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 216 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 188 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 183 (1.25%) Client/Server
13 180 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 168 (1.15%) FMCG
15 163 (1.11%) IoT
16 148 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 122 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
17 122 (0.83%) Public Cloud
18 119 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
19 116 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,081 (14.20%) Windows
2 974 (6.65%) Linux
3 708 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 497 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 260 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 224 (1.53%) Android
7 171 (1.17%) Unix
8 157 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 147 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 135 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
11 130 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
12 110 (0.75%) Windows 7
13 55 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
14 39 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 39 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 39 (0.27%) VMS
15 38 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
16 35 (0.24%) Kali Linux
17 31 (0.21%) AIX
18 30 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,122 (21.30%) Agile
2 1,853 (12.64%) Computer Science
3 1,790 (12.21%) Customer Service
4 1,788 (12.20%) Project Management
5 1,739 (11.87%) Software Engineering
6 1,698 (11.59%) Mentoring
7 1,641 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,527 (10.42%) Decision-Making
9 1,526 (10.41%) DevOps
10 1,143 (7.80%) Analytics
11 1,073 (7.32%) ITIL
12 1,069 (7.29%) Coaching
13 1,068 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
14 980 (6.69%) CI/CD
15 916 (6.25%) Actionable Insight
16 883 (6.03%) Mathematics
17 882 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
18 852 (5.81%) Data Analysis
19 846 (5.77%) SDLC
20 828 (5.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,393 (16.33%) SQL
2 1,840 (12.56%) Python
3 1,258 (8.58%) JavaScript
4 1,243 (8.48%) Java
5 1,159 (7.91%) C#
6 475 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 421 (2.87%) C++
8 420 (2.87%) TypeScript
9 392 (2.67%) C
10 334 (2.28%) PHP
11 319 (2.18%) Bash
12 204 (1.39%) Scala
13 199 (1.36%) T-SQL
14 141 (0.96%) Go
15 138 (0.94%) Ruby
16 133 (0.91%) R
17 120 (0.82%) Perl
18 106 (0.72%) MATLAB
19 86 (0.59%) Shell Script
20 78 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,085 (27.87%) Degree
2 1,314 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 1,062 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 825 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 535 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 418 (2.85%) DBS Check
7 381 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 219 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 196 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 192 (1.31%) CISSP
11 166 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 152 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 147 (1.00%) CCNA
14 140 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 134 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
16 127 (0.87%) HNC
17 125 (0.85%) A+ Certification
18 122 (0.83%) PhD
19 115 (0.78%) ACCA
19 115 (0.78%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 810 (5.53%) QA
2 591 (4.03%) GDPR
3 503 (3.43%) SLA
4 487 (3.32%) Data Quality
5 280 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 234 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 167 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (1.05%) PMO
9 117 (0.80%) NIST
10 108 (0.74%) ISO 9001
11 94 (0.64%) IFRS
12 82 (0.56%) GAAP
13 68 (0.46%) WCAG
14 66 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 54 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 51 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 39 (0.27%) NCSC
18 38 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.20%) GRC
19 29 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1,186 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 642 (4.38%) Docker
3 512 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 318 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 131 (0.89%) Firmware
6 100 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 93 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 44 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 44 (0.30%) vSphere
10 34 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 30 (0.20%) KVM
12 29 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
13 15 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
14 13 (0.089%) Terminal Services
14 13 (0.089%) XenApp
15 11 (0.075%) NFS
16 8 (0.055%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 7 (0.048%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 617 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 384 (2.62%) Terraform
3 239 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 227 (1.55%) Ansible
5 193 (1.32%) SCCM
6 92 (0.63%) vCenter Server
7 89 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 76 (0.52%) Puppet
9 75 (0.51%) Grafana
10 55 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
11 43 (0.29%) SCOM
12 40 (0.27%) WSUS
13 37 (0.25%) EnCase
14 34 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 34 (0.23%) Functional Safety
15 32 (0.22%) Progress Chef
16 29 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
16 29 (0.20%) OpenSSO
17 27 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
18 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,441 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 836 (5.70%) Google
3 723 (4.93%) VMware
4 514 (3.51%) Oracle
5 407 (2.78%) SAP
6 351 (2.40%) Cisco
7 268 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 206 (1.41%) Databricks
9 148 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 147 (1.00%) Adobe
11 143 (0.98%) Apple
11 143 (0.98%) IBM
12 136 (0.93%) Veeam
13 121 (0.83%) Dell
13 121 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 116 (0.79%) Citrix
15 110 (0.75%) HP
16 107 (0.73%) Juniper
17 106 (0.72%) CA
18 104 (0.71%) Meraki