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 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 7 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 14,784 13,260 23,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.93% 13.10% 14.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 13.70% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,420 6,771 9,846
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,094 £40,000 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,914 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% - +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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 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 13 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 12,922 £50,000 -9.09% 5,657
UK excluding London +6 10,944 £45,000 -10.00% 4,200
Work from Home +5 4,748 £54,000 -10.00% 2,054
London +3 3,243 £70,000 - 1,680
South East +5 2,895 £45,000 -14.29% 979
North of England +9 2,466 £45,000 - 1,102
Midlands +5 1,807 £42,000 -11.58% 824
South West +7 1,352 £47,500 -5.00% 526
North West +11 1,296 £45,000 -5.26% 620
West Midlands +6 1,154 £42,500 -15.00% 512
East of England +6 1,031 £42,500 -10.53% 499
Scotland -7 927 £45,000 -11.32% 260
Yorkshire +5 916 £43,293 -1.61% 359
East Midlands +6 631 £37,500 -16.67% 313
Wales +5 314 £41,200 +6.34% 120
North East +15 253 £45,000 +5.88% 136
Northern Ireland +18 138 £48,500 -3.00% 54
Isle of Man +2 20 £45,000 +50.00% 5

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 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 429 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 226 (1.53%) Apache
4 217 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 175 (1.18%) Confluence
6 147 (0.99%) CMS
7 131 (0.89%) IIS
8 120 (0.81%) WordPress
9 56 (0.38%) SAS
10 41 (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 1,304 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 984 (6.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 331 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 80 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 72 (0.49%) Sketch
6 68 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 60 (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 15 (0.10%) SPSS
17 12 (0.081%) Chatbot
18 10 (0.068%) InVision
18 10 (0.068%) Revit
Business Applications
1 139 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.37%) Shopify
4 50 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.27%) Magento
5 40 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
6 22 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
7 20 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 19 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 18 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 17 (0.11%) iTrent
11 16 (0.11%) Endur
12 14 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
12 14 (0.095%) SDL Web 8
12 14 (0.095%) Teamcenter
13 13 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
13 13 (0.088%) SAP Business One
13 13 (0.088%) SAP CX
13 13 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
14 11 (0.074%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (17.38%) Azure
2 1,993 (13.48%) AWS
3 1,456 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
4 776 (5.25%) GCP
4 776 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 532 (3.60%) SaaS
6 389 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 308 (2.08%) Serverless
8 305 (2.06%) Entra ID
9 285 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
10 265 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
11 241 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 211 (1.43%) GitHub
13 185 (1.25%) Power Automate
14 184 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 180 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
16 119 (0.80%) Snowflake
17 118 (0.80%) IaaS
18 102 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
19 100 (0.68%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 832 (5.63%) Firewall
2 444 (3.00%) DNS
3 390 (2.64%) WAN
4 325 (2.20%) LAN
5 310 (2.10%) DHCP
6 307 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 277 (1.87%) VPN
8 268 (1.81%) Network Security
9 258 (1.75%) Wireless
10 224 (1.52%) Internet
11 192 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
12 154 (1.04%) VoIP
13 133 (0.90%) SAN
14 125 (0.85%) VLAN
15 85 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 79 (0.53%) 5G
17 78 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 77 (0.52%) SNMP
19 74 (0.50%) Broadband
20 70 (0.47%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 906 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 623 (4.21%) Power BI
3 447 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 446 (3.02%) MySQL
5 375 (2.54%) BigQuery
6 373 (2.52%) Looker
7 361 (2.44%) Tableau
8 347 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 341 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 260 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
11 240 (1.62%) Big Data
12 226 (1.53%) MongoDB
13 225 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 149 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
15 130 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 127 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 125 (0.85%) Redis
18 114 (0.77%) RDBMS
19 111 (0.75%) Hadoop
20 105 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 868 (5.87%) Git
2 540 (3.65%) JIRA
3 341 (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 (0.39%) JUnit
9 54 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
10 50 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 50 (0.34%) Postman
11 47 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 46 (0.31%) Maven
13 39 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
14 37 (0.25%) Subversion
15 36 (0.24%) JDeveloper
16 33 (0.22%) JMeter
17 32 (0.22%) Cypress.io
18 31 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 7,677 (51.93%) Social Skills
2 4,832 (32.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3,057 (20.68%) Finance
4 1,494 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,103 (7.46%) Retail
6 1,005 (6.80%) Law
7 991 (6.70%) Marketing
8 846 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
9 783 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
10 706 (4.78%) Legal
11 700 (4.73%) Manufacturing
12 553 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
13 501 (3.39%) Public Sector
14 410 (2.77%) Banking
15 349 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 247 (1.67%) Electronics
17 238 (1.61%) Billing
18 201 (1.36%) Aerospace
19 198 (1.34%) Games
20 186 (1.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2,113 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2,089 (14.13%) Senior
3 1,949 (13.18%) Developer
4 1,159 (7.84%) Lead
5 978 (6.62%) Software Engineer
6 794 (5.37%) Architect
7 628 (4.25%) IT Support
8 546 (3.69%) Consultant
9 533 (3.61%) Support Engineer
10 487 (3.29%) Project Manager
11 451 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 446 (3.02%) IT Engineer
13 426 (2.88%) Business Analyst
14 400 (2.71%) Data Engineer
15 345 (2.33%) Graduate
16 327 (2.21%) Support Analyst
17 321 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
18 319 (2.16%) Software Developer
19 318 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
20 312 (2.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 948 (6.41%) .NET
2 841 (5.69%) HTML
3 740 (5.01%) CSS
4 681 (4.61%) React
5 414 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 410 (2.77%) Node.js
7 333 (2.25%) RESTful
8 290 (1.96%) REST
9 274 (1.85%) Spring
10 247 (1.67%) ASP.NET
11 246 (1.66%) Web Services
12 236 (1.60%) .NET Framework
13 235 (1.59%) Vue
14 211 (1.43%) .NET Core
15 208 (1.41%) JSON
16 172 (1.16%) GraphQL
17 164 (1.11%) XML
18 163 (1.10%) HTML5
19 153 (1.03%) Kafka
20 150 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1,363 (9.22%) Self-Motivation
2 775 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 509 (3.44%) Algorithms
4 493 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 428 (2.90%) Driving Licence
6 407 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 280 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 280 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 227 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 218 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 187 (1.26%) Client/Server
10 187 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 182 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 170 (1.15%) FMCG
13 161 (1.09%) IoT
14 154 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 120 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 119 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
17 115 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
18 114 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2,053 (13.89%) Windows
2 991 (6.70%) Linux
3 691 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 486 (3.29%) Windows 10
5 251 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 218 (1.47%) Android
7 172 (1.16%) Unix
8 147 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 141 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 134 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
11 126 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
12 107 (0.72%) 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 36 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
18 35 (0.24%) Kali Linux
19 32 (0.22%) CentOS
19 32 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,117 (21.08%) Agile
2 1,870 (12.65%) Computer Science
3 1,802 (12.19%) Project Management
4 1,795 (12.14%) Customer Service
5 1,758 (11.89%) Mentoring
6 1,694 (11.46%) Software Engineering
7 1,661 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,536 (10.39%) Decision-Making
9 1,533 (10.37%) DevOps
10 1,165 (7.88%) Analytics
11 1,125 (7.61%) Coaching
12 1,076 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
13 1,072 (7.25%) ITIL
14 979 (6.62%) CI/CD
15 944 (6.39%) Mathematics
16 900 (6.09%) Data Analysis
17 894 (6.05%) Collaborative Working
18 866 (5.86%) Actionable Insight
19 831 (5.62%) SDLC
20 823 (5.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2,427 (16.42%) SQL
2 1,854 (12.54%) Python
3 1,256 (8.50%) JavaScript
4 1,197 (8.10%) Java
5 1,152 (7.79%) C#
6 479 (3.24%) PowerShell
7 439 (2.97%) C++
8 420 (2.84%) TypeScript
9 405 (2.74%) C
10 339 (2.29%) PHP
11 321 (2.17%) Bash
12 199 (1.35%) Scala
12 199 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 140 (0.95%) Go
14 139 (0.94%) R
15 122 (0.83%) Perl
16 117 (0.79%) Ruby
17 111 (0.75%) MATLAB
18 85 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 80 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,221 (28.55%) Degree
2 1,258 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 1,061 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 775 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 506 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 460 (3.11%) DBS Check
7 388 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 217 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 195 (1.32%) CISSP
10 194 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 169 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 150 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 142 (0.96%) CCNA
13 142 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 137 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 132 (0.89%) HNC
16 124 (0.84%) A+ Certification
17 122 (0.83%) PhD
18 115 (0.78%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
19 114 (0.77%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 810 (5.48%) QA
2 591 (4.00%) GDPR
3 497 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 490 (3.31%) SLA
5 279 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 219 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 164 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 153 (1.03%) PMO
9 118 (0.80%) NIST
10 106 (0.72%) ISO 9001
11 94 (0.64%) IFRS
12 80 (0.54%) GAAP
13 69 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 66 (0.45%) WCAG
15 45 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 38 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 38 (0.26%) NCSC
17 34 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 30 (0.20%) SOC 2
19 29 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 1,166 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 626 (4.23%) Docker
3 498 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 315 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 131 (0.89%) Firmware
6 100 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 94 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 47 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (0.28%) vSphere
10 37 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 31 (0.21%) KVM
11 31 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 30 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
13 15 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
14 13 (0.088%) NFS
14 13 (0.088%) Terminal Services
14 13 (0.088%) XenApp
15 8 (0.054%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.047%) pfSense
17 6 (0.041%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 608 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 385 (2.60%) Terraform
3 237 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 235 (1.59%) Ansible
5 189 (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 52 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 46 (0.31%) SCOM
12 39 (0.26%) WSUS
13 35 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.23%) Functional Safety
15 31 (0.21%) EnCase
16 29 (0.20%) FortiGate
17 26 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
17 26 (0.18%) OpenSSO
18 25 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
19 24 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3,466 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 834 (5.64%) Google
3 701 (4.74%) VMware
4 523 (3.54%) Oracle
5 419 (2.83%) SAP
6 348 (2.35%) Cisco
7 278 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 244 (1.65%) Databricks
9 154 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 141 (0.95%) Apple
11 140 (0.95%) Adobe
12 139 (0.94%) IBM
13 134 (0.91%) Veeam
14 119 (0.80%) Dell
15 115 (0.78%) Palo Alto
16 113 (0.76%) Citrix
17 110 (0.74%) HP
18 107 (0.72%) Juniper
19 104 (0.70%) CA
19 104 (0.70%) Meraki