Problem-Solving Jobs in the West Midlands

Problem Solving
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,154 896 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.41% 15.38% 13.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.85% 15.90% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 734 389 563
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £33,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,575 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +7.94% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,850 £70,000 £73,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +3 340 £45,750 -12.86% 133
Warwickshire +2 195 £45,000 -15.09% 71
Staffordshire +6 140 £35,000 -9.68% 86
Worcestershire +6 86 £30,000 -29.41% 47
Shropshire +10 59 £41,250 -10.81% 33
Coventry +27 43 £42,500 -13.31% 42
Solihull +5 36 £50,000 +51.52% 14
Wolverhampton +35 35 £25,500 -16.39% 13
Sutton Coldfield +1 15 £45,000 +66.67% 1
Herefordshire +4 14 £27,500 -37.50% 8
Dudley - 12 £25,000 - 5
Tipton - 11 £25,000 - 6
Wednesbury +3 6 - - 5
Walsall +1 6 £34,409 -31.18% 8
West Bromwich - 5 - - 3
Brierley Hill -5 4 - -
Halesowen -11 4 - - 3
Rowley Regis - 4 - -
Smethwick - 4 - - 3
Willenhall - 4 - -
Bilston - 4 - -
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 77 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (2.86%) IIS
4 20 (1.73%) WordPress
5 9 (0.78%) Confluence
6 4 (0.35%) CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) IBM Notes
8 2 (0.17%) MTS
9 1 (0.087%) Apache
9 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.087%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 224 (19.41%) Microsoft Office
2 121 (10.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.78%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.43%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.35%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.35%) EPLAN
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.35%) Trello
8 3 (0.26%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.26%) InDesign
8 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.26%) Revit
8 3 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.087%) Maya
9 1 (0.087%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 20 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.21%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.61%) Shopify
4 4 (0.35%) Magento
4 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.087%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.087%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 183 (15.86%) Azure
2 157 (13.60%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (9.01%) Power Platform
4 72 (6.24%) AWS
5 51 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 41 (3.55%) SaaS
7 33 (2.86%) GCP
8 24 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 22 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.65%) GitHub
12 14 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (1.21%) OneDrive
13 11 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (0.95%) Matillion
13 11 (0.95%) Snowflake
14 10 (0.87%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.87%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 78 (6.76%) WAN
2 73 (6.33%) Firewall
3 45 (3.90%) LAN
4 29 (2.51%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.17%) DHCP
6 25 (2.17%) DNS
7 17 (1.47%) Intranet
8 15 (1.30%) VPN
9 13 (1.13%) Wireless
10 12 (1.04%) PBX
10 12 (1.04%) VoIP
11 11 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.95%) VLAN
12 10 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
12 10 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (0.87%) iSCSI
12 10 (0.87%) Network Security
13 9 (0.78%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (8.41%) Power BI
2 93 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 41 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.43%) MySQL
5 25 (2.17%) Looker
6 20 (1.73%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.47%) Tableau
8 16 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.21%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (0.87%) Star Schema
13 7 (0.61%) Metadata
13 7 (0.61%) Redis
14 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (3.64%) JIRA
2 36 (3.12%) Git
3 12 (1.04%) GitLab
4 10 (0.87%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (0.61%) TeamCity
6 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (0.43%) CANoe
7 5 (0.43%) ESLint
7 5 (0.43%) Postman
8 4 (0.35%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.26%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.26%) Toad
10 2 (0.17%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.17%) gulp
10 2 (0.17%) Snyk
10 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.087%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.087%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 651 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 439 (38.04%) Analytical Skills
3 183 (15.86%) Finance
4 165 (14.30%) Organisational Skills
5 132 (11.44%) Influencing Skills
6 97 (8.41%) Retail
7 82 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (7.02%) Manufacturing
9 47 (4.07%) Marketing
10 41 (3.55%) Public Sector
11 35 (3.03%) Automotive
12 26 (2.25%) Legal
13 25 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.17%) Local Government
14 23 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.82%) Law
17 12 (1.04%) Back Office
17 12 (1.04%) Electronics
18 10 (0.87%) French Language
Job Titles
1 282 (24.44%) Analyst
2 126 (10.92%) Developer
3 120 (10.40%) Product Analyst
4 116 (10.05%) Sales Analyst
5 107 (9.27%) Senior
6 58 (5.03%) Lead
7 56 (4.85%) Consultant
8 54 (4.68%) IT Support
9 53 (4.59%) IT Manager
10 46 (3.99%) Support Engineer
11 42 (3.64%) Project Manager
12 37 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
13 33 (2.86%) Software Engineer
14 31 (2.69%) IT Engineer
15 30 (2.60%) Administrator
15 30 (2.60%) Data Engineer
15 30 (2.60%) Software Developer
16 29 (2.51%) IT Technician
17 25 (2.17%) Data Scientist
18 23 (1.99%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (5.55%) .NET
2 57 (4.94%) HTML
3 50 (4.33%) CSS
4 25 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 24 (2.08%) REST
6 20 (1.73%) React
7 18 (1.56%) .NET Core
8 15 (1.30%) ASP.NET
8 15 (1.30%) WebRTC
9 14 (1.21%) XML
10 13 (1.13%) HTML5
10 13 (1.13%) Node.js
10 13 (1.13%) Vue
11 12 (1.04%) jQuery
11 12 (1.04%) Laravel
11 12 (1.04%) RESTful
11 12 (1.04%) Yocto
12 8 (0.69%) Kafka
13 7 (0.61%) Sass
13 7 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
2 52 (4.51%) Driving Licence
3 36 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 29 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.34%) Clustering
7 27 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 20 (1.73%) Replication
9 17 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 16 (1.39%) NHS
11 14 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.21%) IoT
12 13 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.04%) Smartcard
13 12 (1.04%) Wiki
14 11 (0.95%) AS400
14 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 164 (14.21%) Windows
2 64 (5.55%) Windows 10
3 62 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 48 (4.16%) Linux
5 29 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 24 (2.08%) Windows 7
7 12 (1.04%) Windows 8
8 11 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
8 11 (0.95%) VMS
9 10 (0.87%) Android
10 6 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.35%) CentOS
11 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.35%) Unix
12 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (20.36%) Customer Service
2 233 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 185 (16.03%) Agile
3 185 (16.03%) Mathematics
4 137 (11.87%) Computer Science
5 132 (11.44%) Project Management
6 130 (11.27%) Customer Requirements
7 123 (10.66%) Mentoring
8 113 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (8.49%) ITIL
10 97 (8.41%) Decision-Making
11 96 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
12 91 (7.89%) Data Analysis
13 89 (7.71%) Analytics
14 87 (7.54%) User Experience
15 71 (6.15%) Software Engineering
16 70 (6.07%) CRM
17 61 (5.29%) Data Science
18 60 (5.20%) DevOps
19 58 (5.03%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 202 (17.50%) SQL
2 76 (6.59%) JavaScript
3 64 (5.55%) C#
4 60 (5.20%) Python
5 40 (3.47%) Java
6 27 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 27 (2.34%) TypeScript
7 26 (2.25%) PHP
8 17 (1.47%) C
9 16 (1.39%) C++
10 11 (0.95%) RPG
10 11 (0.95%) RPG IV
10 11 (0.95%) RPG/400
11 10 (0.87%) Perl
12 9 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.52%) VB
14 5 (0.43%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.35%) Bash
16 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 404 (35.01%) Degree
2 71 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 33 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (2.69%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.13%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.13%) HNC
9 10 (0.87%) MCSE
10 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.78%) HND
10 9 (0.78%) PhD
11 8 (0.69%) PMP
12 7 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.61%) CCNA
12 7 (0.61%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.85%) GDPR
2 52 (4.51%) QA
3 51 (4.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 39 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 35 (3.03%) SLA
6 27 (2.34%) ISO 9001
6 27 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (2.08%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.43%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.35%) GAAP
11 4 (0.35%) IFRS
11 4 (0.35%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.35%) PMO
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.17%) COSHH
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 2 (0.17%) NIST
14 1 (0.087%) ITGC
System Software
1 98 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 62 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.38%) Hyper-V
4 22 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.78%) vSphere
7 7 (0.61%) Docker
8 6 (0.52%) NFS
9 5 (0.43%) Firmware
9 5 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.35%) pfSense
10 4 (0.35%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 32 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (2.25%) SCCM
3 22 (1.91%) EnCase
4 14 (1.21%) Terraform
5 9 (0.78%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.43%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.43%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.35%) AirWatch
7 4 (0.35%) Autotask
7 4 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.17%) Grafana
9 2 (0.17%) Kibana
9 2 (0.17%) WSUS
10 1 (0.087%) Nessus
10 1 (0.087%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.087%) SCOM
10 1 (0.087%) VxRail
Vendors
1 322 (27.90%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.63%) VMware
3 46 (3.99%) Google
4 32 (2.77%) Cisco
5 27 (2.34%) SAP
6 25 (2.17%) Veeam
7 20 (1.73%) IBM
8 19 (1.65%) Sophos
9 17 (1.47%) HP
9 17 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.39%) Sage
11 14 (1.21%) CheckPoint
12 13 (1.13%) Oracle
13 12 (1.04%) Meraki
14 11 (0.95%) Adobe
14 11 (0.95%) Dell
14 11 (0.95%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.87%) Juniper
16 9 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.78%) Xero