Problem-Solving Jobs in England

Problem Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 13 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 12,953 11,783 18,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.07% 13.07% 14.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.64% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,507 6,032 8,567
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,834 £40,000 £38,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £91,100
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in England.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +3 3,258 £70,000 - 1,640
South East +5 2,902 £45,000 -14.29% 985
North of England +9 2,472 £45,000 - 1,091
Midlands +5 1,812 £42,000 -11.58% 813
South West +8 1,351 £47,500 -5.00% 530
North West +10 1,302 £45,000 -5.26% 618
West Midlands +6 1,158 £42,500 -15.00% 503
East of England +6 1,030 £42,500 -10.53% 513
Yorkshire +5 916 £43,293 -1.61% 348
East Midlands +5 632 £37,500 -16.67% 311
North East +15 253 £45,000 +5.88% 138
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 457 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 404 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 141 (1.09%) Confluence
4 139 (1.07%) CMS
5 136 (1.05%) Apache
6 106 (0.82%) IIS
7 105 (0.81%) WordPress
8 53 (0.41%) SAS
9 47 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 36 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 31 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 29 (0.22%) Umbraco
13 25 (0.19%) OpenStack
14 23 (0.18%) nginx
15 21 (0.16%) OpenEdge
16 18 (0.14%) Drupal
17 15 (0.12%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 13 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
18 13 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 1,250 (9.65%) Microsoft Office
2 922 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 300 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 78 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 62 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 57 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 47 (0.36%) Sketch
8 45 (0.35%) AutoCAD
9 43 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 39 (0.30%) Simulink
11 29 (0.22%) Trello
12 27 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 22 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
14 20 (0.15%) Adobe XD
15 19 (0.15%) InDesign
16 18 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
17 14 (0.11%) SPSS
18 12 (0.093%) Chatbot
19 10 (0.077%) Revit
20 8 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 126 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 55 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 54 (0.42%) Shopify
4 43 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 40 (0.31%) Magento
5 40 (0.31%) Siebel CRM
6 20 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 19 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 17 (0.13%) iTrent
9 17 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
11 13 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
11 13 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 13 (0.10%) SAP Business One
11 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
11 13 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
12 11 (0.085%) Sage 50
12 11 (0.085%) Teamcenter
13 10 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2,214 (17.09%) Azure
2 1,596 (12.32%) AWS
3 1,312 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 672 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 649 (5.01%) GCP
6 465 (3.59%) SaaS
7 346 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 280 (2.16%) Serverless
9 271 (2.09%) Entra ID
10 204 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 196 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
12 192 (1.48%) GitHub
13 177 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
14 171 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 152 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 144 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 116 (0.90%) Snowflake
18 112 (0.86%) IaaS
19 98 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
20 88 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 765 (5.91%) Firewall
2 415 (3.20%) DNS
3 361 (2.79%) WAN
4 310 (2.39%) LAN
5 294 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 281 (2.17%) DHCP
7 244 (1.88%) Wireless
8 239 (1.85%) VPN
9 227 (1.75%) Network Security
10 191 (1.47%) Internet
11 181 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
12 143 (1.10%) VoIP
13 116 (0.90%) SAN
14 109 (0.84%) VLAN
15 80 (0.62%) SD-WAN
16 78 (0.60%) 5G
17 71 (0.55%) Broadband
18 69 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 57 (0.44%) SNMP
20 54 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 807 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 555 (4.28%) Power BI
3 411 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 399 (3.08%) MySQL
5 348 (2.69%) BigQuery
6 345 (2.66%) Looker
7 343 (2.65%) Tableau
8 267 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 221 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
10 194 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 167 (1.29%) NoSQL
12 153 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 141 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
14 116 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 114 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 98 (0.76%) Redis
17 91 (0.70%) Data Lake
17 91 (0.70%) RDBMS
18 87 (0.67%) DynamoDB
19 86 (0.66%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 778 (6.01%) Git
2 453 (3.50%) JIRA
3 280 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 165 (1.27%) GitLab
5 103 (0.80%) Visual Studio
6 70 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 55 (0.42%) Selenium
8 53 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 46 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 44 (0.34%) LabVIEW
11 39 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 38 (0.29%) Postman
13 37 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.29%) Subversion
14 31 (0.24%) Metasploit
15 30 (0.23%) JUnit
16 29 (0.22%) Ant
17 28 (0.22%) Burp Suite
17 28 (0.22%) SpecFlow
18 24 (0.19%) Eclipse
General
1 6,879 (53.11%) Social Skills
2 4,412 (34.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2,428 (18.74%) Finance
4 1,028 (7.94%) Retail
5 975 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 797 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 715 (5.52%) Marketing
8 641 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
9 571 (4.41%) Legal
10 521 (4.02%) Manufacturing
11 520 (4.01%) Law
12 435 (3.36%) Public Sector
13 379 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 327 (2.52%) Banking
15 296 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 222 (1.71%) Billing
17 199 (1.54%) Electronics
18 196 (1.51%) Aerospace
19 177 (1.37%) Games
20 175 (1.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,942 (14.99%) Analyst
2 1,667 (12.87%) Senior
3 1,665 (12.85%) Developer
4 920 (7.10%) Lead
5 701 (5.41%) Architect
6 570 (4.40%) IT Support
7 564 (4.35%) Software Engineer
8 496 (3.83%) Support Engineer
9 492 (3.80%) Consultant
10 445 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 372 (2.87%) Business Analyst
11 372 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 348 (2.69%) Senior Developer
13 312 (2.41%) IT Engineer
14 295 (2.28%) Support Analyst
15 291 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 285 (2.20%) Data Analyst
17 271 (2.09%) IT Technician
18 266 (2.05%) IT Manager
19 263 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 825 (6.37%) .NET
2 712 (5.50%) HTML
3 623 (4.81%) CSS
4 517 (3.99%) React
5 313 (2.42%) AngularJS
6 312 (2.41%) Node.js
7 273 (2.11%) RESTful
8 229 (1.77%) REST
9 212 (1.64%) Vue
10 211 (1.63%) ASP.NET
11 204 (1.57%) .NET Framework
12 191 (1.47%) .NET Core
12 191 (1.47%) Web Services
13 170 (1.31%) JSON
14 150 (1.16%) Spring
15 149 (1.15%) XML
16 144 (1.11%) HTML5
17 120 (0.93%) SOAP
18 119 (0.92%) Laravel
19 118 (0.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1,255 (9.69%) Self-Motivation
2 711 (5.49%) Management Information System
3 433 (3.34%) Algorithms
4 423 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 399 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 316 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 248 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 227 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 196 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 183 (1.41%) Client/Server
11 172 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 151 (1.17%) IoT
13 137 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 136 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
15 122 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 110 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
17 107 (0.83%) NHS
18 103 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
19 90 (0.69%) Clustering
20 87 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1,912 (14.76%) Windows
2 885 (6.83%) Linux
3 640 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 471 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 217 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 189 (1.46%) Android
7 143 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 138 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 136 (1.05%) Unix
10 128 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 124 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
12 102 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 40 (0.31%) Ubuntu
14 38 (0.29%) VMS
15 36 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 36 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 35 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
16 35 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 32 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
18 29 (0.22%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,481 (19.15%) Agile
2 1,664 (12.85%) Customer Service
3 1,654 (12.77%) Computer Science
4 1,619 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1,602 (12.37%) Mentoring
6 1,329 (10.26%) DevOps
7 1,323 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,264 (9.76%) Decision-Making
9 1,174 (9.06%) Software Engineering
10 1,048 (8.09%) Coaching
11 1,038 (8.01%) Analytics
12 990 (7.64%) ITIL
13 985 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
14 852 (6.58%) Mathematics
15 816 (6.30%) Data Analysis
16 791 (6.11%) Collaborative Working
17 740 (5.71%) Roadmaps
18 732 (5.65%) CI/CD
19 719 (5.55%) Business Intelligence
20 704 (5.44%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,988 (15.35%) SQL
2 1,536 (11.86%) Python
3 1,072 (8.28%) JavaScript
4 965 (7.45%) C#
5 772 (5.96%) Java
6 446 (3.44%) PowerShell
7 392 (3.03%) C++
8 337 (2.60%) C
9 333 (2.57%) TypeScript
10 299 (2.31%) PHP
11 268 (2.07%) Bash
12 161 (1.24%) T-SQL
13 131 (1.01%) R
14 110 (0.85%) MATLAB
15 99 (0.76%) Perl
16 97 (0.75%) Ruby
17 80 (0.62%) Go
18 73 (0.56%) VB
19 68 (0.52%) Scala
20 63 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3,759 (29.02%) Degree
2 1,077 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 964 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 617 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 463 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 437 (3.37%) DBS Check
7 364 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 203 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 195 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 184 (1.42%) CISSP
11 156 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 134 (1.03%) AWS Certification
13 133 (1.03%) CCNA
14 129 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 127 (0.98%) HNC
16 117 (0.90%) A+ Certification
17 113 (0.87%) ACCA
18 112 (0.86%) PhD
19 97 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
20 96 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 696 (5.37%) QA
2 545 (4.21%) GDPR
3 471 (3.64%) SLA
4 442 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 254 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 168 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 150 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 149 (1.15%) PMO
9 109 (0.84%) ISO 9001
10 106 (0.82%) NIST
11 94 (0.73%) IFRS
12 80 (0.62%) GAAP
13 64 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 48 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 41 (0.32%) WCAG
16 36 (0.28%) NCSC
17 35 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
18 31 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 29 (0.22%) HIPAA
20 25 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,081 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 541 (4.18%) Docker
3 450 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 303 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 104 (0.80%) Firmware
6 100 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 92 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 43 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 38 (0.29%) vSphere
10 31 (0.24%) KVM
11 29 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 23 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 23 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 13 (0.10%) NFS
14 13 (0.10%) Terminal Services
14 13 (0.10%) XenApp
15 8 (0.062%) XenDesktop
16 7 (0.054%) pfSense
17 6 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 477 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 305 (2.35%) Terraform
3 222 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 184 (1.42%) Ansible
5 178 (1.37%) SCCM
6 82 (0.63%) Puppet
7 78 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 73 (0.56%) Grafana
9 72 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 48 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 45 (0.35%) SCOM
12 39 (0.30%) WSUS
13 34 (0.26%) EnCase
13 34 (0.26%) Functional Safety
14 29 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 29 (0.22%) Progress Chef
15 25 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
16 24 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
16 24 (0.19%) Nagios
17 22 (0.17%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 3,181 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 729 (5.63%) Google
3 643 (4.96%) VMware
4 444 (3.43%) Oracle
5 378 (2.92%) SAP
6 319 (2.46%) Cisco
7 265 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 182 (1.41%) Databricks
9 137 (1.06%) Apple
10 136 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 129 (1.00%) Adobe
12 127 (0.98%) IBM
13 120 (0.93%) Veeam
14 105 (0.81%) Juniper
15 103 (0.80%) CA
15 103 (0.80%) Citrix
15 103 (0.80%) HP
16 98 (0.76%) Meraki
17 93 (0.72%) Palo Alto
18 86 (0.66%) Dell