Problem-Solving Jobs in the Thames Valley

Problem Solving
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,305 750 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.80% 13.33% 15.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.45% 14.07% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 724 369 566
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,850 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -6.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £94,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,084 5,331 7,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.00% 94.77% 93.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 2,987 3,948
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Buckinghamshire +6 539 £45,000 +12.50% 106
Berkshire +2 443 £42,250 -23.18% 143
Oxfordshire +13 323 £42,500 -15.00% 107
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.61%) CMS
2 21 (1.61%) WebLogic
3 18 (1.38%) Apache
3 18 (1.38%) WordPress
4 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.07%) Confluence
6 12 (0.92%) nginx
7 11 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.46%) Drupal
8 6 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.38%) Joomla!
10 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.077%) SAS
11 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 123 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.61%) Sketch
6 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.38%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.31%) InDesign
9 4 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.23%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.077%) Revit
11 1 (0.077%) Solid Edge
11 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.23%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.077%) Primavera
7 1 (0.077%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.077%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.077%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 184 (14.10%) Azure
2 113 (8.66%) AWS
3 92 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (4.60%) GCP
5 41 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (3.14%) SaaS
6 36 (2.76%) Power Platform
7 31 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.84%) Power Automate
9 16 (1.23%) OCI
10 14 (1.07%) GitHub
11 13 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (0.92%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.84%) IaaS
13 11 (0.84%) PowerApps
14 9 (0.69%) WhatsApp
15 8 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.61%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.61%) Figma
15 8 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 79 (6.05%) Firewall
2 43 (3.30%) DNS
3 29 (2.22%) DHCP
4 21 (1.61%) SAN
5 20 (1.53%) Wireless
6 17 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (1.30%) LAN
7 14 (1.07%) Internet
7 14 (1.07%) VoIP
8 13 (1.00%) SSL
8 13 (1.00%) VPN
9 12 (0.92%) VLAN
9 12 (0.92%) WAN
10 10 (0.77%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.61%) Broadband
11 8 (0.61%) Network Security
12 7 (0.54%) NAS
12 7 (0.54%) SNMP
13 6 (0.46%) 5G
13 6 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.98%) BigQuery
1 52 (3.98%) Looker
2 51 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (2.68%) MySQL
4 34 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.84%) Power BI
7 14 (1.07%) OLTP
8 13 (1.00%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.61%) CouchDB
10 8 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.54%) Data Mining
11 7 (0.54%) MariaDB
11 7 (0.54%) MS Access
11 7 (0.54%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.54%) Tableau
12 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (3.07%) JIRA
2 23 (1.76%) Git
3 19 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.69%) Gradle
4 9 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.54%) GitLab
6 6 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.46%) Selenium
7 5 (0.38%) Eclipse
7 5 (0.38%) PowerBuilder
8 4 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.31%) Postman
8 4 (0.31%) Subversion
9 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.23%) IntelliJ
9 3 (0.23%) JMeter
9 3 (0.23%) JUnit
9 3 (0.23%) TestRail
10 2 (0.15%) ERwin
10 2 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 691 (52.95%) Social Skills
2 399 (30.57%) Analytical Skills
3 225 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (10.11%) Finance
5 68 (5.21%) Marketing
6 62 (4.75%) Retail
7 61 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.91%) Legal
9 47 (3.60%) Public Sector
10 46 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 39 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 39 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.76%) Billing
13 26 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.76%) Police
15 21 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.53%) Law
17 16 (1.23%) Automotive
17 16 (1.23%) Electronics
18 15 (1.15%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 183 (14.02%) Senior
2 174 (13.33%) Analyst
3 105 (8.05%) Data Scientist
4 97 (7.43%) Architect
5 92 (7.05%) Developer
6 70 (5.36%) Lead
7 64 (4.90%) IT Support
8 62 (4.75%) Support Analyst
9 59 (4.52%) Consultant
10 56 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 53 (4.06%) Data Engineer
11 53 (4.06%) Project Manager
11 53 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
12 39 (2.99%) Applications Support
13 38 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (2.84%) Applications Support Analyst
14 37 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 33 (2.53%) Data Manager
15 33 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.06%) .NET
2 52 (3.98%) HTML
3 33 (2.53%) CSS
4 31 (2.38%) Spring
5 28 (2.15%) XML
6 21 (1.61%) J2EE
6 21 (1.61%) Java EE
7 18 (1.38%) ASP.NET
8 15 (1.15%) SOAP
9 14 (1.07%) JSON
10 12 (0.92%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.92%) Kafka
10 12 (0.92%) React
11 11 (0.84%) Web Services
12 10 (0.77%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.69%) Hibernate
13 9 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.54%) Node.js
15 6 (0.46%) .NET Framework
15 6 (0.46%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (11.72%) Algorithms
2 136 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (8.58%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 39 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.61%) Driving Licence
7 33 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 31 (2.38%) Life Science
9 24 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
10 22 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.61%) Client/Server
12 17 (1.30%) Biopharmaceutical
12 17 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.84%) IoT
15 11 (0.84%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (0.69%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 172 (13.18%) Windows
2 85 (6.51%) Linux
3 61 (4.67%) Windows 10
4 39 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 38 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 38 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (2.61%) Unix
6 34 (2.61%) Windows 7
7 22 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 14 (1.07%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.92%) Windows XP
10 7 (0.54%) Android
11 6 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.38%) CentOS
12 5 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.31%) VMS
14 2 (0.15%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (27.59%) Mentoring
2 273 (20.92%) Coaching
3 258 (19.77%) Decision-Making
4 205 (15.71%) Project Management
5 204 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 199 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
7 176 (13.49%) Data Science
8 173 (13.26%) Customer Service
9 165 (12.64%) Mathematics
10 155 (11.88%) Data Analysis
11 154 (11.80%) Agile
12 134 (10.27%) Red Team
13 130 (9.96%) Collaborative Working
14 126 (9.66%) ITIL
15 114 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 112 (8.58%) Data Modelling
17 108 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
18 103 (7.89%) Statistical Modelling
19 102 (7.82%) Digital Forensics
20 94 (7.20%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 113 (8.66%) SQL
2 106 (8.12%) Python
3 65 (4.98%) Java
4 60 (4.60%) C#
4 60 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 55 (4.21%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.45%) C++
7 39 (2.99%) Fortran
8 38 (2.91%) C
9 28 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 25 (1.92%) Bash
10 25 (1.92%) PHP
11 22 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.07%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.84%) Perl
14 10 (0.77%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.69%) Ruby
15 9 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.61%) Scala
17 7 (0.54%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 484 (37.09%) Degree
2 186 (14.25%) Security Cleared
3 105 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.22%) PhD
8 35 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (2.07%) HNC
10 21 (1.61%) CCNA
10 21 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.61%) NVQ Level 3
11 19 (1.46%) MCP
12 17 (1.30%) CISSP
12 17 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 17 (1.30%) DBS Check
13 16 (1.23%) A+ Certification
14 15 (1.15%) ACCA
15 13 (1.00%) CCNP
16 11 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.13%) SLA
2 79 (6.05%) QA
3 64 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 55 (4.21%) GDPR
5 54 (4.14%) PMO
6 22 (1.69%) Good Clinical Practice
7 14 (1.07%) IFRS
8 12 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.61%) GxP
10 8 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.54%) ISO 14001
11 7 (0.54%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.54%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.31%) WCAG
13 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 66 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 32 (2.45%) Docker
5 18 (1.38%) Firmware
6 12 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.84%) KVM
8 8 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.46%) vSphere
10 5 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.31%) HDFS
12 1 (0.077%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (4.44%) SCCM
2 29 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.15%) SCOM
4 21 (1.61%) OpenSSO
4 21 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.53%) Ansible
6 17 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.07%) NetBackup
8 12 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
8 12 (0.92%) WSUS
9 10 (0.77%) Terraform
10 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.38%) Puppet
11 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 4 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.31%) PaperCut
13 2 (0.15%) Nagios
13 2 (0.15%) Netcool
13 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 313 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 79 (6.05%) Oracle
3 68 (5.21%) Google
4 67 (5.13%) VMware
5 39 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.84%) Cisco
6 24 (1.84%) Juniper
7 21 (1.61%) HP
7 21 (1.61%) Remedy
8 19 (1.46%) SAP
9 18 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
10 17 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.23%) Veeam
12 14 (1.07%) CA
12 14 (1.07%) Dell
13 13 (1.00%) 3PAR
14 12 (0.92%) Adobe
14 12 (0.92%) EMC
14 12 (0.92%) Symantec