Problem-Solving Jobs in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 8 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 575 415 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.74% 15.71% 12.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.35% 16.52% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 181 261 365
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £65,775 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £78,750
North West median annual salary £45,628 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +0.53% +2.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,134 2,512 5,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.79% 95.12% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 1,835 3,473
10th Percentile £31,675 £34,400 £32,331
25th Percentile £41,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,556 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +8.28% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,225 £84,474 £86,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Salford +4 34 £63,465 - 10
Stockport 0 20 £52,500 +31.25% 10
Oldham +8 17 £43,250 -13.50% 7
Bolton -14 17 £60,000 +103.39% 7
Ashton-under-Lyne +1 14 - -
Sale - 13 £29,000 - 1
Dukinfield - 11 - -
Wigan - 10 £27,500 - 8
Rochdale - 4 £52,500 - 2
Altrincham -10 1 £52,500 - 5
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 17 (2.96%) IIS
2 6 (1.04%) Apache
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.87%) SAS
4 4 (0.70%) nginx
4 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.52%) CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Drupal
5 3 (0.52%) Mule
5 3 (0.52%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Moodle
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) Totara
Applications
1 22 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.17%) Marvel
6 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (3.30%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.22%) Magento
2 7 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.22%) Shopify
3 3 (0.52%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.52%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Odoo
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (15.30%) Azure
2 70 (12.17%) AWS
3 29 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.30%) Power Platform
4 19 (3.30%) SaaS
5 17 (2.96%) GCP
6 12 (2.09%) Serverless
7 8 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.22%) GitHub
8 7 (1.22%) OCI
9 6 (1.04%) Entra ID
10 5 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.70%) Azure AKS
11 4 (0.70%) Datadog
11 4 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.48%) Internet
2 17 (2.96%) Intrusion Detection
2 17 (2.96%) SSL
3 8 (1.39%) DNS
3 8 (1.39%) Firewall
4 6 (1.04%) DHCP
4 6 (1.04%) LAN
5 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.70%) WAN
6 3 (0.52%) Network Security
6 3 (0.52%) VLAN
7 2 (0.35%) VPN
7 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.17%) HTTP
8 1 (0.17%) NAS
8 1 (0.17%) SAN
8 1 (0.17%) SMTP
8 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (2.96%) MySQL
3 15 (2.61%) Power BI
4 13 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.74%) Big Data
6 9 (1.57%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.57%) Tableau
7 6 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.52%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.52%) Redis
10 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.96%) Git
2 12 (2.09%) JIRA
3 5 (0.87%) GitLab
3 5 (0.87%) PHPUnit
4 3 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.52%) Postman
5 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.17%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.17%) JUnit
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) Selenium
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 254 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 182 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 145 (25.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 126 (21.91%) Finance
5 38 (6.61%) Legal
6 32 (5.57%) Retail
7 22 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.78%) Banking
12 14 (2.43%) Law
13 13 (2.26%) Marketing
14 12 (2.09%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.39%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.04%) Wholesale Banking
17 5 (0.87%) Automotive
17 5 (0.87%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.70%) Electronics
19 2 (0.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 81 (14.09%) Analyst
2 69 (12.00%) Software Engineer
3 67 (11.65%) Lead
4 66 (11.48%) Developer
5 59 (10.26%) Senior
6 47 (8.17%) Architect
7 36 (6.26%) Programmer
7 36 (6.26%) Software Architect
7 36 (6.26%) Software Programmer
8 34 (5.91%) Lead Software Engineer
9 33 (5.74%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (4.35%) Consultant
11 17 (2.96%) Business Manager
11 17 (2.96%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.61%) Service Analyst
13 14 (2.43%) Project Manager
13 14 (2.43%) Senior Manager
14 13 (2.26%) Senior Developer
15 12 (2.09%) IT Manager
15 12 (2.09%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.65%) .NET
2 36 (6.26%) HTML
3 25 (4.35%) CSS
4 19 (3.30%) ASP.NET
5 17 (2.96%) React
5 17 (2.96%) RESTful
6 14 (2.43%) Node.js
6 14 (2.43%) Web Services
7 12 (2.09%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.57%) Laravel
8 9 (1.57%) Vue
9 8 (1.39%) SOAP
10 6 (1.04%) Restlet
10 6 (1.04%) XML
11 5 (0.87%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.87%) Jest
11 5 (0.87%) JWT
11 5 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.87%) Spring
12 4 (0.70%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 132 (22.96%) Cyberattack
2 28 (4.87%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.48%) Mobile App
5 15 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
6 13 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.91%) ASIC
8 11 (1.91%) FPGA
8 11 (1.91%) Verilog
8 11 (1.91%) VHDL
9 10 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.74%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.22%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.22%) IoT
12 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.61%) Windows
2 32 (5.57%) Windows Server
3 29 (5.04%) Linux
4 11 (1.91%) Unix
5 9 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.39%) Android
7 7 (1.22%) Windows Vista
8 6 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.35%) CentOS
9 2 (0.35%) Debian
9 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (39.30%) Agile
2 215 (37.39%) Mentoring
3 180 (31.30%) Software Engineering
4 162 (28.17%) User Experience
5 146 (25.39%) Creative Thinking
6 141 (24.52%) Machine Learning
7 138 (24.00%) Data Engineering
8 129 (22.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 66 (11.48%) Project Management
10 65 (11.30%) DevOps
11 56 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (7.30%) Decision-Making
13 40 (6.96%) Collaborative Working
14 39 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (6.78%) Computer Science
15 38 (6.61%) Customer Service
16 35 (6.09%) Coaching
17 32 (5.57%) Analytics
18 27 (4.70%) ERP
18 27 (4.70%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.35%) Python
2 41 (7.13%) SQL
3 40 (6.96%) JavaScript
4 38 (6.61%) Java
5 28 (4.87%) C++
6 27 (4.70%) C#
7 21 (3.65%) PHP
8 16 (2.78%) C
9 14 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.91%) Assembly Language
10 11 (1.91%) Go
10 11 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.91%) SystemVerilog
10 11 (1.91%) Tcl
11 6 (1.04%) Perl
11 6 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.04%) Swift
12 4 (0.70%) Bicep
12 4 (0.70%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 87 (15.13%) Degree
2 27 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (3.30%) ACCA
3 19 (3.30%) Azure Certification
3 19 (3.30%) CIMA
4 17 (2.96%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.26%) CFA
5 13 (2.26%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.09%) PMP
7 7 (1.22%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.22%) CISSP
7 7 (1.22%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.87%) CSSLP
8 5 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
9 4 (0.70%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.87%) QA
2 22 (3.83%) SLA
3 15 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.87%) GDPR
5 5 (0.87%) ISO 9001
5 5 (0.87%) NIST
6 4 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.35%) EMIR
8 2 (0.35%) MiFID
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.00%) Docker
3 7 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.70%) Firmware
6 3 (0.52%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) XenApp
7 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.35%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.61%) Terraform
3 11 (1.91%) Ansible
4 8 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.22%) Autotask
5 7 (1.22%) Grafana
6 4 (0.70%) SCCM
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.35%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 78 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.96%) Salesforce
3 13 (2.26%) ServiceNow
3 13 (2.26%) VMware
4 11 (1.91%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.57%) Oracle
6 7 (1.22%) Datto
6 7 (1.22%) Google
6 7 (1.22%) SAP
7 5 (0.87%) Citrix
7 5 (0.87%) QAD
8 4 (0.70%) Cisco
8 4 (0.70%) Databricks
9 3 (0.52%) Dell
9 3 (0.52%) IBM
9 3 (0.52%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.35%) Apple
10 2 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.35%) CA
10 2 (0.35%) Sage