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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 14,822 13,264 22,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.94% 13.13% 14.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 13.73% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,453 6,749 9,765
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,474 £40,000 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.38% +4.44%

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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 10 May 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 10 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
England +7 12,946 £50,000 -9.09% 5,367
UK excluding London +6 10,978 £45,000 -10.00% 4,072
Work from Home +5 4,760 £54,500 -9.17% 1,977
London +3 3,247 £70,000 - 1,527
South East +5 2,905 £45,000 -14.29% 949
North of England +9 2,469 £45,000 - 1,060
Midlands +5 1,814 £42,000 -11.58% 784
South West +7 1,354 £47,500 -5.00% 518
North West +9 1,300 £45,000 -5.26% 594
West Midlands +6 1,160 £42,500 -15.00% 476
East of England +6 1,029 £42,500 -10.53% 501
Scotland -8 936 £45,000 -13.03% 252
Yorkshire +5 916 £43,000 -2.27% 340
East Midlands +5 632 £37,500 -16.67% 309
Wales +4 317 £41,200 +6.34% 120
North East +14 252 £45,000 +5.88% 139
Northern Ireland +18 140 £48,500 -3.00% 52
Isle of Man +2 20 £45,000 +50.00% 7

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
1 500 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 432 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 226 (1.52%) Apache
4 217 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 175 (1.18%) Confluence
6 147 (0.99%) CMS
7 137 (0.92%) IIS
8 120 (0.81%) WordPress
9 55 (0.37%) SAS
10 42 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 32 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 31 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
12 31 (0.21%) nginx
13 29 (0.20%) Umbraco
14 25 (0.17%) OpenEdge
15 19 (0.13%) Drupal
16 18 (0.12%) FileNet
16 18 (0.12%) JBoss
17 17 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
18 15 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1,313 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
2 990 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 333 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 72 (0.49%) Sketch
6 68 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 61 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.30%) AutoCAD
9 44 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 39 (0.26%) Simulink
11 29 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 29 (0.20%) Trello
12 23 (0.16%) Adobe XD
13 22 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
14 19 (0.13%) InDesign
15 18 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
16 14 (0.094%) SPSS
17 12 (0.081%) Chatbot
18 10 (0.067%) InVision
18 10 (0.067%) Revit
Business Applications
1 139 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.36%) Shopify
4 49 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.27%) Magento
5 40 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
6 22 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 20 (0.13%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 17 (0.11%) Endur
9 17 (0.11%) iTrent
9 17 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
10 14 (0.094%) SDL Web 8
10 14 (0.094%) Teamcenter
11 13 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.088%) SAP Business One
11 13 (0.088%) SAP CX
11 13 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
12 11 (0.074%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,574 (17.37%) Azure
2 1,993 (13.45%) AWS
3 1,460 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
4 779 (5.26%) GCP
5 775 (5.23%) Power Platform
6 534 (3.60%) SaaS
7 387 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 309 (2.08%) Serverless
9 306 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 289 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
11 266 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 240 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 211 (1.42%) GitHub
14 184 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 183 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 182 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
17 120 (0.81%) Snowflake
18 118 (0.80%) IaaS
19 102 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
20 100 (0.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 836 (5.64%) Firewall
2 446 (3.01%) DNS
3 397 (2.68%) WAN
4 327 (2.21%) LAN
5 311 (2.10%) DHCP
6 308 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 279 (1.88%) VPN
8 270 (1.82%) Network Security
9 257 (1.73%) Wireless
10 225 (1.52%) Internet
11 192 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
12 155 (1.05%) VoIP
13 134 (0.90%) SAN
14 126 (0.85%) VLAN
15 84 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 78 (0.53%) 5G
16 78 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
17 77 (0.52%) SNMP
18 74 (0.50%) Broadband
19 70 (0.47%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 912 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 624 (4.21%) Power BI
3 451 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 448 (3.02%) MySQL
5 375 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 373 (2.52%) Looker
7 359 (2.42%) Tableau
8 349 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 343 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 261 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
11 242 (1.63%) Big Data
12 226 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 226 (1.52%) MongoDB
13 148 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
14 130 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 127 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 125 (0.84%) Redis
17 116 (0.78%) RDBMS
18 112 (0.76%) Hadoop
19 105 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 865 (5.84%) Git
2 540 (3.64%) JIRA
3 342 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 189 (1.28%) GitLab
5 119 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 71 (0.48%) Selenium
6 71 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 61 (0.41%) LabVIEW
8 57 (0.38%) JUnit
9 54 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
10 51 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 50 (0.34%) Postman
12 47 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 47 (0.32%) Maven
13 39 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
14 37 (0.25%) Subversion
15 36 (0.24%) JDeveloper
16 34 (0.23%) Cypress.io
17 33 (0.22%) JMeter
18 31 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 7,703 (51.97%) Social Skills
2 4,842 (32.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3,070 (20.71%) Finance
4 1,500 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,093 (7.37%) Retail
6 1,013 (6.83%) Law
7 984 (6.64%) Marketing
8 846 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
9 773 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
10 710 (4.79%) Manufacturing
11 703 (4.74%) Legal
12 549 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
13 506 (3.41%) Public Sector
14 409 (2.76%) Banking
15 349 (2.35%) Telecoms
16 246 (1.66%) Electronics
17 239 (1.61%) Billing
18 200 (1.35%) Aerospace
18 200 (1.35%) Games
19 187 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,115 (14.27%) Analyst
2 2,086 (14.07%) Senior
3 1,953 (13.18%) Developer
4 1,161 (7.83%) Lead
5 975 (6.58%) Software Engineer
6 806 (5.44%) Architect
7 630 (4.25%) IT Support
8 549 (3.70%) Consultant
9 534 (3.60%) Support Engineer
10 489 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 453 (3.06%) Senior Developer
12 446 (3.01%) IT Engineer
13 430 (2.90%) Business Analyst
14 401 (2.71%) Data Engineer
15 345 (2.33%) Graduate
16 330 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
16 330 (2.23%) Support Analyst
17 319 (2.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 319 (2.15%) Software Developer
18 314 (2.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 944 (6.37%) .NET
2 842 (5.68%) HTML
3 740 (4.99%) CSS
4 686 (4.63%) React
5 416 (2.81%) AngularJS
6 413 (2.79%) Node.js
7 333 (2.25%) RESTful
8 295 (1.99%) REST
9 276 (1.86%) Spring
10 247 (1.67%) ASP.NET
10 247 (1.67%) Web Services
11 236 (1.59%) .NET Framework
12 235 (1.59%) Vue
13 212 (1.43%) .NET Core
14 210 (1.42%) JSON
15 173 (1.17%) GraphQL
16 165 (1.11%) XML
17 162 (1.09%) HTML5
18 154 (1.04%) Kafka
19 150 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,359 (9.17%) Self-Motivation
2 778 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 508 (3.43%) Algorithms
4 492 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 433 (2.92%) Driving Licence
6 405 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 280 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 274 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 226 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 217 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 187 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 187 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 183 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 170 (1.15%) FMCG
14 158 (1.07%) IoT
15 150 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 124 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 120 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
18 115 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
19 114 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,057 (13.88%) Windows
2 992 (6.69%) Linux
3 693 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 487 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 250 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 217 (1.46%) Android
7 173 (1.17%) Unix
8 148 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 141 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 134 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 127 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 108 (0.73%) Windows 7
13 55 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
14 45 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 40 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 38 (0.26%) VMS
17 37 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
18 35 (0.24%) Kali Linux
19 32 (0.22%) CentOS
19 32 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,118 (21.04%) Agile
2 1,871 (12.62%) Computer Science
3 1,808 (12.20%) Project Management
4 1,795 (12.11%) Customer Service
5 1,755 (11.84%) Mentoring
6 1,695 (11.44%) Software Engineering
7 1,655 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,534 (10.35%) DevOps
9 1,530 (10.32%) Decision-Making
10 1,167 (7.87%) Analytics
11 1,126 (7.60%) Coaching
12 1,082 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
13 1,070 (7.22%) ITIL
14 984 (6.64%) CI/CD
15 935 (6.31%) Mathematics
16 900 (6.07%) Collaborative Working
17 891 (6.01%) Data Analysis
18 883 (5.96%) Actionable Insight
19 834 (5.63%) SDLC
20 828 (5.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,424 (16.35%) SQL
2 1,852 (12.49%) Python
3 1,259 (8.49%) JavaScript
4 1,206 (8.14%) Java
5 1,151 (7.77%) C#
6 480 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 439 (2.96%) C++
8 422 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 404 (2.73%) C
10 340 (2.29%) PHP
11 322 (2.17%) Bash
12 199 (1.34%) Scala
12 199 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 139 (0.94%) Go
13 139 (0.94%) R
14 122 (0.82%) Perl
15 116 (0.78%) Ruby
16 110 (0.74%) MATLAB
17 85 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 81 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,214 (28.43%) Degree
2 1,292 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 1,062 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 792 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 507 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 454 (3.06%) DBS Check
7 387 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 218 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 201 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 196 (1.32%) CISSP
11 169 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 150 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 143 (0.96%) CCNA
14 141 (0.95%) PMI Certification
15 137 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
16 132 (0.89%) HNC
17 124 (0.84%) A+ Certification
18 122 (0.82%) PhD
19 115 (0.78%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
20 114 (0.77%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 812 (5.48%) QA
2 592 (3.99%) GDPR
3 498 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 492 (3.32%) SLA
5 285 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 235 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 169 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 154 (1.04%) PMO
9 119 (0.80%) NIST
10 111 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 94 (0.63%) IFRS
12 80 (0.54%) GAAP
13 68 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 67 (0.45%) WCAG
15 50 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 38 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 38 (0.26%) NCSC
17 37 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.20%) SOC 2
19 29 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1,170 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 630 (4.25%) Docker
3 501 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 315 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 131 (0.88%) Firmware
6 101 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 94 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 42 (0.28%) vSphere
10 31 (0.21%) KVM
10 31 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 30 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
12 15 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (0.088%) NFS
13 13 (0.088%) Terminal Services
13 13 (0.088%) XenApp
14 8 (0.054%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.047%) pfSense
16 6 (0.040%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 609 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 386 (2.60%) Terraform
3 237 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 233 (1.57%) Ansible
5 190 (1.28%) SCCM
6 101 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 92 (0.62%) vCenter Server
8 86 (0.58%) Grafana
9 82 (0.55%) Puppet
10 53 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 46 (0.31%) SCOM
12 39 (0.26%) WSUS
13 36 (0.24%) EnCase
14 35 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 34 (0.23%) Functional Safety
16 30 (0.20%) FortiGate
17 27 (0.18%) OpenSSO
18 26 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
19 25 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
20 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,479 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 837 (5.65%) Google
3 709 (4.78%) VMware
4 527 (3.56%) Oracle
5 418 (2.82%) SAP
6 349 (2.35%) Cisco
7 274 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 237 (1.60%) Databricks
9 154 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 142 (0.96%) Apple
11 140 (0.94%) Adobe
11 140 (0.94%) IBM
12 134 (0.90%) Veeam
13 119 (0.80%) Dell
14 116 (0.78%) Palo Alto
15 113 (0.76%) Citrix
16 110 (0.74%) HP
17 109 (0.74%) Juniper
18 104 (0.70%) CA
18 104 (0.70%) Meraki