Problem-Solving Jobs with Work from Home Options

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 4,748 5,303 9,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.08% 12.82% 13.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.41% 13.35% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,234 3,117 4,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,615 £45,000 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,666 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,914 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.25% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Problem-Solving salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 137 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 106 (2.23%) Apache
3 96 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 58 (1.22%) WordPress
5 50 (1.05%) CMS
6 46 (0.97%) IIS
7 44 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 41 (0.86%) Confluence
9 26 (0.55%) nginx
10 24 (0.51%) OpenStack
11 20 (0.42%) OpenEdge
12 18 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
13 17 (0.36%) SAS
14 11 (0.23%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
16 7 (0.15%) WebLogic
17 5 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 5 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 5 (0.11%) Tomcat
18 4 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 300 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 285 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 23 (0.48%) Simulink
6 21 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.32%) Sketch
8 14 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 10 (0.21%) InDesign
10 10 (0.21%) Trello
11 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
13 6 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
13 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
13 6 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
13 6 (0.13%) UserZoom
14 5 (0.11%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 63 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (0.65%) Shopify
3 21 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 11 (0.23%) iTrent
5 11 (0.23%) SAP CX
6 10 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 8 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
8 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.15%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 6 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.13%) Sage CRM
9 6 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.11%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 944 (19.88%) Azure
2 784 (16.51%) AWS
3 340 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
4 335 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 274 (5.77%) SaaS
6 194 (4.09%) Serverless
7 189 (3.98%) GCP
8 134 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
9 133 (2.80%) Entra ID
10 132 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 129 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 113 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (1.90%) GitHub
14 89 (1.87%) PowerApps
15 85 (1.79%) Snowflake
16 83 (1.75%) Power Automate
17 69 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
18 52 (1.10%) IaaS
19 46 (0.97%) WhatsApp
20 43 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 290 (6.11%) Firewall
2 146 (3.07%) DNS
3 112 (2.36%) Internet
4 105 (2.21%) VPN
5 99 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 83 (1.75%) DHCP
7 77 (1.62%) WAN
8 67 (1.41%) SNMP
9 65 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 61 (1.28%) LAN
11 58 (1.22%) Network Security
11 58 (1.22%) Wireless
12 57 (1.20%) IPsec
13 51 (1.07%) SAN
14 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 35 (0.74%) NAS
15 35 (0.74%) VLAN
16 28 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
17 25 (0.53%) VoIP
18 22 (0.46%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 264 (5.56%) Power BI
3 224 (4.72%) Tableau
4 211 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 199 (4.19%) MySQL
6 165 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
7 152 (3.20%) MongoDB
8 112 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 76 (1.60%) RDBMS
11 74 (1.56%) Redis
12 68 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 67 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 65 (1.37%) Big Data
15 59 (1.24%) Oracle Database
16 53 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
17 52 (1.10%) Data Lake
18 43 (0.91%) DynamoDB
19 40 (0.84%) Hadoop
20 36 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 442 (9.31%) Git
2 199 (4.19%) JIRA
3 108 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.83%) GitLab
5 45 (0.95%) Visual Studio
6 36 (0.76%) JDeveloper
7 32 (0.67%) Selenium
7 32 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 31 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 29 (0.61%) Maven
10 21 (0.44%) JUnit
11 19 (0.40%) LabVIEW
12 18 (0.38%) Cucumber
12 18 (0.38%) JMeter
13 17 (0.36%) Eclipse
14 15 (0.32%) SpecFlow
15 14 (0.29%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.29%) Cypress.io
15 14 (0.29%) webpack
16 13 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 2,519 (53.05%) Social Skills
2 1,434 (30.20%) Analytical Skills
3 997 (21.00%) Finance
4 466 (9.81%) Retail
5 325 (6.84%) Marketing
6 291 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 284 (5.98%) Legal
8 281 (5.92%) Presentation Skills
9 200 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 194 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
11 143 (3.01%) Law
12 122 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 96 (2.02%) Banking
14 89 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
15 75 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 74 (1.56%) Electronics
16 74 (1.56%) Games
17 62 (1.31%) Automotive
18 50 (1.05%) Advertising
19 47 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 896 (18.87%) Developer
2 808 (17.02%) Senior
3 726 (15.29%) Analyst
4 411 (8.66%) Lead
5 353 (7.43%) Software Engineer
6 256 (5.39%) Architect
7 239 (5.03%) Consultant
8 238 (5.01%) Senior Developer
9 181 (3.81%) Software Developer
10 173 (3.64%) Data Analyst
11 160 (3.37%) Project Manager
11 160 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 148 (3.12%) Business Analyst
13 142 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 134 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 132 (2.78%) Support Engineer
16 126 (2.65%) .NET Developer
17 108 (2.27%) IT Support
18 101 (2.13%) Full Stack Developer
19 98 (2.06%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (9.86%) .NET
2 324 (6.82%) React
3 315 (6.63%) HTML
4 294 (6.19%) CSS
5 255 (5.37%) Node.js
6 205 (4.32%) AngularJS
7 184 (3.88%) RESTful
8 132 (2.78%) .NET Core
9 129 (2.72%) Vue
10 122 (2.57%) .NET Framework
11 118 (2.49%) ASP.NET
12 99 (2.09%) Web Services
13 96 (2.02%) GraphQL
14 92 (1.94%) REST
15 81 (1.71%) Spring
16 79 (1.66%) Kafka
17 78 (1.64%) YAML
18 75 (1.58%) Django
19 72 (1.52%) JSON
20 70 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 315 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
2 216 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 170 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 159 (3.35%) Client/Server
4 159 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 149 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 146 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 107 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 75 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 71 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 69 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 61 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 59 (1.24%) IoT
13 52 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 49 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 43 (0.91%) Life Science
16 40 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.80%) PropTech
18 34 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
19 32 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 515 (10.85%) Windows
2 361 (7.60%) Linux
3 197 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 114 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 106 (2.23%) Android
6 75 (1.58%) Windows 10
7 54 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
8 44 (0.93%) Unix
9 38 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 28 (0.59%) AIX
11 22 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.40%) Windows 8
13 18 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
13 18 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 15 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.27%) Windows 7
16 12 (0.25%) CentOS
17 11 (0.23%) VMS
18 8 (0.17%) Windows Vista
18 8 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (25.29%) Agile
2 700 (14.74%) Software Engineering
3 591 (12.45%) DevOps
4 574 (12.09%) Analytics
5 539 (11.35%) Project Management
6 507 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
7 495 (10.43%) Computer Science
8 490 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 485 (10.21%) Mentoring
10 420 (8.85%) Decision-Making
11 418 (8.80%) Customer Service
12 355 (7.48%) User Experience
13 344 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
14 342 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 339 (7.14%) Data Analysis
16 333 (7.01%) CI/CD
17 319 (6.72%) Full Stack Development
18 312 (6.57%) Roadmaps
19 309 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
20 296 (6.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 911 (19.19%) SQL
2 901 (18.98%) Python
3 571 (12.03%) JavaScript
4 552 (11.63%) C#
5 440 (9.27%) Java
6 226 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 161 (3.39%) C
8 150 (3.16%) Bash
9 142 (2.99%) PHP
10 135 (2.84%) C++
11 124 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 118 (2.49%) Go
13 106 (2.23%) T-SQL
14 70 (1.47%) Ruby
15 68 (1.43%) Perl
16 57 (1.20%) Scala
17 50 (1.05%) R
18 38 (0.80%) VB
19 32 (0.67%) Groovy
20 29 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,174 (24.73%) Degree
2 556 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 359 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 310 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 260 (5.48%) DBS Check
6 129 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 97 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 77 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 75 (1.58%) CISSP
10 68 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 68 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
11 66 (1.39%) AWS Certification
12 60 (1.26%) PMI Certification
13 52 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 52 (1.10%) CCNA
14 38 (0.80%) MCSE
15 35 (0.74%) CEH
15 35 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
16 33 (0.70%) PMP
17 32 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (7.41%) QA
2 114 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 110 (2.32%) SLA
4 94 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 73 (1.54%) GDPR
6 63 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.97%) NIST
8 45 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 32 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 27 (0.57%) NCSC
12 23 (0.48%) IFRS
13 22 (0.46%) PMO
14 21 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
15 20 (0.42%) SOC 2
16 16 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
17 15 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.25%) WCAG
19 11 (0.23%) GRC
19 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 329 (6.93%) Docker
2 273 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 171 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 42 (0.88%) Firmware
6 34 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 31 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 7 (0.15%) NFS
13 6 (0.13%) KVM
14 4 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.063%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.042%) Apache Flume
16 2 (0.042%) Kamailio
16 2 (0.042%) Varnish
16 2 (0.042%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 293 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 180 (3.79%) Terraform
3 132 (2.78%) Ansible
4 80 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 78 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.60%) vCenter Server
7 38 (0.80%) Puppet
8 36 (0.76%) Grafana
9 33 (0.70%) SCCM
10 18 (0.38%) SCOM
11 16 (0.34%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.25%) Consul
12 12 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.23%) Nagios
14 10 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.21%) Graphite
14 10 (0.21%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.21%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.19%) Data Guard
15 9 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,062 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 217 (4.57%) VMware
3 190 (4.00%) Google
4 175 (3.69%) Oracle
5 148 (3.12%) Databricks
6 141 (2.97%) SAP
7 92 (1.94%) Cisco
8 76 (1.60%) Palo Alto
9 74 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 63 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 57 (1.20%) NetApp
13 55 (1.16%) Adobe
14 54 (1.14%) SolidFire
15 48 (1.01%) Dell
16 43 (0.91%) IBM
17 40 (0.84%) Meraki
18 34 (0.72%) Splunk
19 27 (0.57%) Facebook
20 26 (0.55%) Apple