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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 11,463 7,676 11,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.61% 13.71% 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.99% 14.36% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,982 3,637 5,399
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £34,736
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £48,950 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.00% - +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 63,715 53,455 71,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.19% 95.50% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 28,495 41,629
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 7 June 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 7 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
South East +4 3,001 £45,000 -14.29% 957
North of England +6 2,759 £45,000 - 1,064
Midlands +1 1,844 £40,000 -15.28% 785
North West +11 1,515 £45,000 -7.16% 556
South West +7 1,429 £47,500 -5.00% 536
West Midlands +1 1,172 £42,500 -11.55% 460
East of England +6 1,051 £42,500 -10.53% 454
Yorkshire +3 937 £42,500 -3.41% 370
Scotland -5 909 £45,543 -8.91% 259
East Midlands +9 649 £37,500 -16.67% 328
Wales +7 318 £42,000 +5.00% 97
North East +14 306 £41,500 -2.35% 162
Northern Ireland +12 139 £47,500 -20.83% 40
Isle of Man +4 20 £37,000 +23.33% 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
1 381 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 343 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 182 (1.59%) Apache
4 156 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 113 (0.99%) CMS
6 107 (0.93%) WordPress
7 101 (0.88%) IIS
8 82 (0.72%) Confluence
9 35 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 32 (0.28%) Umbraco
11 30 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 25 (0.22%) nginx
13 20 (0.17%) SAS
14 18 (0.16%) FileNet
15 17 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
15 17 (0.15%) OpenEdge
16 16 (0.14%) ArcGIS
17 11 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
17 11 (0.096%) Jupyter
18 10 (0.087%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,018 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
2 723 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 258 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 65 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 59 (0.51%) Sketch
7 53 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.39%) AutoCAD
9 44 (0.38%) Simulink
10 24 (0.21%) Adobe XD
11 23 (0.20%) Trello
12 22 (0.19%) Photoshop
13 20 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 17 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 14 (0.12%) InDesign
17 12 (0.10%) Chatbot
17 12 (0.10%) Revit
18 8 (0.070%) GNU Octave
18 8 (0.070%) InVision
Business Applications
1 120 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.45%) Shopify
3 43 (0.38%) Magento
4 41 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
5 36 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 29 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 19 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.16%) iTrent
9 17 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 15 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
12 13 (0.11%) Infor SunSystems
13 11 (0.096%) Endur
13 11 (0.096%) SAP Business One
13 11 (0.096%) Unit4 Business World
14 10 (0.087%) Misys Midas
15 9 (0.079%) SAP CX
15 9 (0.079%) SAP MM
16 8 (0.070%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,871 (16.32%) Azure
2 1,295 (11.30%) AWS
3 1,164 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
4 551 (4.81%) GCP
5 528 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 345 (3.01%) SaaS
7 271 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 213 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 191 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
9 191 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
10 165 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 150 (1.31%) GitHub
12 136 (1.19%) Serverless
13 113 (0.99%) Power Automate
14 95 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
15 93 (0.81%) PowerApps
16 77 (0.67%) Figma
17 68 (0.59%) OneDrive
18 65 (0.57%) IaaS
19 64 (0.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 660 (5.76%) Firewall
2 333 (2.90%) DNS
3 304 (2.65%) WAN
4 255 (2.22%) DHCP
4 255 (2.22%) LAN
5 246 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 232 (2.02%) VPN
7 219 (1.91%) Wireless
8 190 (1.66%) Network Security
9 162 (1.41%) Internet
10 140 (1.22%) VoIP
11 131 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
12 123 (1.07%) SAN
13 111 (0.97%) VLAN
14 75 (0.65%) 5G
15 62 (0.54%) IPsec
16 59 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 56 (0.49%) Broadband
18 55 (0.48%) Ethernet
18 55 (0.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 451 (3.93%) Power BI
3 345 (3.01%) MySQL
4 341 (2.97%) Looker
5 340 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 339 (2.96%) BigQuery
7 247 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 210 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 178 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
10 175 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
11 172 (1.50%) Big Data
12 170 (1.48%) Tableau
13 168 (1.47%) MongoDB
14 91 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
15 86 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 85 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 84 (0.73%) Redis
18 76 (0.66%) Hadoop
19 72 (0.63%) Data Lake
20 55 (0.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 537 (4.68%) Git
2 368 (3.21%) JIRA
3 224 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 102 (0.89%) GitLab
5 95 (0.83%) Visual Studio
6 59 (0.51%) LabVIEW
7 54 (0.47%) Selenium
8 52 (0.45%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 42 (0.37%) Maven
11 37 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 36 (0.31%) JUnit
13 35 (0.31%) Postman
14 33 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.26%) JMeter
16 24 (0.21%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
17 23 (0.20%) Cypress.io
18 21 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
18 21 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,623 (49.05%) Social Skills
2 3,482 (30.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2,031 (17.72%) Finance
4 1,393 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 829 (7.23%) Retail
6 791 (6.90%) Law
7 711 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
8 688 (6.00%) Marketing
9 588 (5.13%) Manufacturing
10 485 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
11 447 (3.90%) Legal
12 389 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
13 334 (2.91%) Public Sector
14 270 (2.36%) Banking
15 256 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 234 (2.04%) Electronics
17 195 (1.70%) Aerospace
18 164 (1.43%) Investment Banking
19 160 (1.40%) Automotive
20 152 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,615 (14.09%) Analyst
2 1,470 (12.82%) Developer
3 1,431 (12.48%) Senior
4 908 (7.92%) Lead
5 874 (7.62%) Software Engineer
6 641 (5.59%) Architect
7 576 (5.02%) IT Support
8 440 (3.84%) Consultant
9 432 (3.77%) Support Engineer
10 378 (3.30%) Project Manager
11 371 (3.24%) IT Engineer
12 335 (2.92%) Business Analyst
13 331 (2.89%) Senior Developer
14 308 (2.69%) Data Engineer
15 294 (2.56%) IT Technician
16 276 (2.41%) Software Developer
17 269 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
18 267 (2.33%) Support Analyst
19 262 (2.29%) Administrator
20 261 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 756 (6.60%) .NET
2 661 (5.77%) HTML
3 584 (5.09%) CSS
4 473 (4.13%) React
5 345 (3.01%) AngularJS
6 258 (2.25%) Node.js
7 205 (1.79%) Spring
8 204 (1.78%) Vue
9 200 (1.74%) REST
10 194 (1.69%) .NET Framework
11 188 (1.64%) ASP.NET
12 182 (1.59%) .NET Core
13 181 (1.58%) RESTful
14 150 (1.31%) Web Services
15 143 (1.25%) HTML5
16 137 (1.20%) jQuery
17 133 (1.16%) JSON
18 123 (1.07%) XML
19 116 (1.01%) Laravel
20 109 (0.95%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,056 (9.21%) Self-Motivation
2 562 (4.90%) Management Information System
3 399 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 365 (3.18%) Driving Licence
5 340 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 255 (2.22%) Cyberattack
7 248 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 232 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 162 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 162 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 151 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 150 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 140 (1.22%) IoT
13 138 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 110 (0.96%) FMCG
15 106 (0.92%) NHS
16 104 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 91 (0.79%) Public Cloud
18 84 (0.73%) Clustering
19 83 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1,725 (15.05%) Windows
2 771 (6.73%) Linux
3 568 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 388 (3.38%) Windows 10
5 189 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 173 (1.51%) Android
7 134 (1.17%) Unix
8 116 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 113 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 109 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
11 108 (0.94%) Mac OS
12 90 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 49 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
14 42 (0.37%) Ubuntu
15 40 (0.35%) VMS
16 34 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
17 32 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 30 (0.26%) CentOS
19 28 (0.24%) AIX
20 24 (0.21%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,423 (21.14%) Agile
2 1,606 (14.01%) Mentoring
3 1,545 (13.48%) Customer Service
4 1,486 (12.96%) Software Engineering
5 1,368 (11.93%) Project Management
6 1,336 (11.65%) Computer Science
7 1,265 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,174 (10.24%) Decision-Making
9 1,096 (9.56%) DevOps
10 902 (7.87%) Coaching
11 870 (7.59%) ITIL
12 843 (7.35%) User Experience
13 799 (6.97%) Cybersecurity
14 747 (6.52%) Analytics
15 732 (6.39%) Mathematics
16 712 (6.21%) Data Engineering
17 692 (6.04%) Collaborative Working
18 667 (5.82%) SDLC
19 653 (5.70%) CI/CD
20 646 (5.64%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,689 (14.73%) SQL
2 1,100 (9.60%) Python
3 954 (8.32%) JavaScript
4 932 (8.13%) C#
5 829 (7.23%) Java
6 384 (3.35%) C++
7 366 (3.19%) C
8 337 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 305 (2.66%) PHP
10 297 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 192 (1.67%) Bash
12 134 (1.17%) Scala
13 110 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 91 (0.79%) MATLAB
15 72 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 70 (0.61%) VB
17 67 (0.58%) R
18 63 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 61 (0.53%) Perl
20 57 (0.50%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 3,066 (26.75%) Degree
2 1,023 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 707 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 642 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 329 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 312 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 276 (2.41%) DBS Check
8 172 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 161 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 124 (1.08%) HNC
11 120 (1.05%) A+ Certification
12 117 (1.02%) CCNA
13 113 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
14 109 (0.95%) CISSP
15 105 (0.92%) PhD
16 102 (0.89%) PMI Certification
17 100 (0.87%) HND
18 98 (0.85%) Azure Certification
19 78 (0.68%) MCSE
20 77 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (5.07%) QA
2 490 (4.27%) GDPR
3 436 (3.80%) SLA
4 373 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 168 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 144 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.19%) PMO
8 121 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 87 (0.76%) ISO 9001
10 65 (0.57%) NIST
11 51 (0.44%) WCAG
12 44 (0.38%) IFRS
13 35 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 33 (0.29%) GAAP
15 27 (0.24%) NCSC
16 25 (0.22%) PCI DSS
17 22 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
17 22 (0.19%) ISO 13485
18 21 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 20 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 930 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 407 (3.55%) Docker
3 406 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 294 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 131 (1.14%) Firmware
6 86 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 67 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 39 (0.34%) vSphere
9 37 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 30 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 28 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 25 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 17 (0.15%) KVM
14 15 (0.13%) Terminal Services
15 11 (0.096%) NFS
15 11 (0.096%) XenApp
16 7 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 7 (0.061%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.052%) pfSense
18 5 (0.044%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 387 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 236 (2.06%) Terraform
3 194 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 186 (1.62%) Ansible
5 160 (1.40%) SCCM
6 69 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 67 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 55 (0.48%) Puppet
9 47 (0.41%) SCOM
10 38 (0.33%) WSUS
11 29 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (0.24%) Grafana
13 26 (0.23%) OpenSSO
14 24 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
14 24 (0.21%) FortiGate
14 24 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 23 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
16 22 (0.19%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.17%) EnCase
18 17 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,705 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 611 (5.33%) Google
3 564 (4.92%) VMware
4 375 (3.27%) Oracle
5 288 (2.51%) SAP
6 272 (2.37%) Cisco
7 173 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 119 (1.04%) Veeam
9 112 (0.98%) Apple
10 110 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 108 (0.94%) Databricks
12 102 (0.89%) IBM
13 93 (0.81%) Citrix
14 92 (0.80%) HP
15 89 (0.78%) Adobe
15 89 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 88 (0.77%) Dell
17 78 (0.68%) Red Hat
18 77 (0.67%) Meraki
19 74 (0.65%) NetApp