Problem-Solving Jobs in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,472 2,284 2,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.12% 13.28% 14.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.93% 13.71% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,780 992 1,263
10th Percentile £25,125 £24,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,334 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,675
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,600 16,661 16,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.41% 96.86% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,214 7,977 10,636
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +11 1,302 £45,000 -5.26% 589
Yorkshire +5 917 £43,293 -1.61% 340
North East +15 252 £45,000 +5.88% 136
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 99 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.54%) Apache
4 32 (1.29%) CMS
5 24 (0.97%) IIS
6 20 (0.81%) WordPress
7 17 (0.69%) Confluence
8 15 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 11 (0.44%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.28%) OpenEdge
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.16%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.12%) JBoss
13 3 (0.12%) Moodle
13 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 225 (9.10%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.81%) Sketch
5 12 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 10 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.16%) InDesign
10 4 (0.16%) Solid Edge
10 4 (0.16%) Trello
11 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.12%) SPSS
12 2 (0.081%) Stata
13 1 (0.040%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.040%) InVision
13 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 30 (1.21%) Shopify
2 26 (1.05%) Magento
3 13 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
3 13 (0.53%) iTrent
4 10 (0.40%) SAP Business One
4 10 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.36%) SAP CX
6 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.24%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.20%) Sage 50
7 5 (0.20%) Sage CRM
7 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.16%) SAP PP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 462 (18.69%) Azure
2 287 (11.61%) AWS
3 283 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (5.78%) GCP
5 141 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.24%) SaaS
7 58 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
8 56 (2.27%) Entra ID
9 51 (2.06%) Serverless
10 50 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (1.74%) Amazon S3
11 43 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
11 43 (1.74%) GitHub
12 34 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (1.13%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.05%) Power Automate
15 24 (0.97%) Snowflake
16 23 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 23 (0.93%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 148 (5.99%) Firewall
2 85 (3.44%) LAN
3 70 (2.83%) WAN
4 63 (2.55%) Network Security
5 62 (2.51%) VPN
6 61 (2.47%) DNS
7 56 (2.27%) Wireless
8 50 (2.02%) TCP/IP
9 49 (1.98%) DHCP
9 49 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (1.58%) VoIP
11 38 (1.54%) Internet
12 33 (1.33%) SAN
13 31 (1.25%) VLAN
14 23 (0.93%) PPP
15 22 (0.89%) IPsec
16 15 (0.61%) SNMP
17 13 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 11 (0.44%) Ethernet
18 11 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 122 (4.94%) MySQL
3 121 (4.89%) Power BI
4 103 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 97 (3.92%) Looker
7 54 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 51 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
10 47 (1.90%) Tableau
11 41 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 34 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 30 (1.21%) Redis
14 29 (1.17%) Data Lake
14 29 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 28 (1.13%) RDBMS
15 28 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 24 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (0.85%) MS Access
18 19 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 173 (7.00%) Git
2 88 (3.56%) JIRA
3 29 (1.17%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.17%) TeamCity
4 24 (0.97%) GitLab
5 20 (0.81%) Postman
6 15 (0.61%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (0.36%) JDeveloper
9 8 (0.32%) Selenium
10 7 (0.28%) LabVIEW
10 7 (0.28%) Subversion
11 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.24%) Dreamweaver
11 6 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.24%) PHPUnit
12 5 (0.20%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.20%) JetBrains Rider
12 5 (0.20%) Sourcetree
12 5 (0.20%) Xcode
General
1 1,284 (51.94%) Social Skills
2 778 (31.47%) Analytical Skills
3 458 (18.53%) Finance
4 178 (7.20%) Retail
5 136 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 133 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
7 130 (5.26%) Marketing
8 110 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 102 (4.13%) Law
10 101 (4.09%) Legal
11 89 (3.60%) Manufacturing
12 79 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (2.02%) Banking
14 47 (1.90%) Games
15 36 (1.46%) Billing
16 32 (1.29%) Local Government
17 30 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 22 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.77%) Tech for Good
20 18 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 353 (14.28%) Developer
2 315 (12.74%) Senior
3 308 (12.46%) Analyst
4 187 (7.56%) Lead
5 142 (5.74%) Architect
6 135 (5.46%) Software Engineer
7 111 (4.49%) IT Support
8 105 (4.25%) Data Engineer
9 93 (3.76%) Project Manager
10 91 (3.68%) Support Engineer
11 86 (3.48%) Consultant
12 84 (3.40%) IT Engineer
13 77 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
14 73 (2.95%) Administrator
15 72 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 63 (2.55%) Senior Developer
17 61 (2.47%) Data Architect
18 59 (2.39%) IT Technician
18 59 (2.39%) Principal Data Engineer
18 59 (2.39%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (9.47%) .NET
2 187 (7.56%) HTML
3 177 (7.16%) CSS
4 100 (4.05%) React
5 92 (3.72%) Node.js
6 89 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 81 (3.28%) Vue
8 72 (2.91%) .NET Core
9 70 (2.83%) RESTful
10 68 (2.75%) .NET Framework
11 65 (2.63%) ASP.NET
12 52 (2.10%) JSON
13 49 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 45 (1.82%) HTML5
15 43 (1.74%) Web Services
16 40 (1.62%) REST
17 38 (1.54%) jQuery
18 33 (1.33%) Entity Framework
19 31 (1.25%) XML
20 30 (1.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 195 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 103 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 98 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 68 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 46 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 41 (1.66%) NHS
7 37 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 35 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 34 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 30 (1.21%) Housing Association
12 28 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 28 (1.13%) IoT
13 27 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
14 26 (1.05%) Cyberattack
15 25 (1.01%) EPoS
16 24 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 24 (0.97%) Life Science
17 23 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
18 22 (0.89%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 408 (16.50%) Windows
2 135 (5.46%) Linux
2 135 (5.46%) Windows Server
3 98 (3.96%) Windows 10
4 45 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 44 (1.78%) Android
6 32 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 30 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 24 (0.97%) Mac OS
10 23 (0.93%) Windows 7
11 18 (0.73%) Windows Vista
12 16 (0.65%) Unix
12 16 (0.65%) Windows 8
13 15 (0.61%) Data ONTAP
13 15 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
14 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
14 10 (0.40%) VMS
15 6 (0.24%) AIX
16 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (19.54%) Agile
2 351 (14.20%) Customer Service
3 320 (12.94%) Project Management
4 307 (12.42%) Mentoring
5 297 (12.01%) Computer Science
6 290 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (10.40%) DevOps
8 248 (10.03%) ITIL
9 213 (8.62%) Software Engineering
10 207 (8.37%) Analytics
10 207 (8.37%) Decision-Making
11 192 (7.77%) Collaborative Working
12 182 (7.36%) Coaching
13 172 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
14 171 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 168 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
16 166 (6.72%) User Experience
17 155 (6.27%) Time Management
18 140 (5.66%) Change Management
18 140 (5.66%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 415 (16.79%) SQL
2 272 (11.00%) JavaScript
3 269 (10.88%) C#
4 191 (7.73%) Python
5 111 (4.49%) Java
6 93 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 91 (3.68%) PHP
8 64 (2.59%) TypeScript
9 45 (1.82%) Bash
10 42 (1.70%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.13%) VB
12 27 (1.09%) C++
13 25 (1.01%) C
14 24 (0.97%) Swift
15 23 (0.93%) Ruby
16 21 (0.85%) VB.NET
17 15 (0.61%) Go
18 14 (0.57%) VBScript
19 12 (0.49%) Embedded C
20 11 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 607 (24.56%) Degree
2 194 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 111 (4.49%) Security Cleared
4 84 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 82 (3.32%) SC Cleared
6 65 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 55 (2.22%) DBS Check
8 44 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (1.54%) ACCA
9 38 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
10 37 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 32 (1.29%) CCNA
11 32 (1.29%) PMI Certification
12 29 (1.17%) HNC
12 29 (1.17%) HND
13 28 (1.13%) PMP
14 21 (0.85%) CISSP
15 19 (0.77%) CCNP
15 19 (0.77%) CISA
16 18 (0.73%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.42%) GDPR
2 116 (4.69%) SLA
3 89 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 87 (3.52%) QA
5 54 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.17%) GAAP
8 28 (1.13%) NIST
9 27 (1.09%) IFRS
10 20 (0.81%) PMO
11 16 (0.65%) WCAG
12 15 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 13 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.36%) NCSC
15 8 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.20%) COBIT
17 4 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 224 (9.06%) Active Directory
2 101 (4.09%) Docker
3 81 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (2.71%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.36%) Firmware
6 9 (0.36%) Terminal Services
7 8 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.28%) XenApp
8 7 (0.28%) XenDesktop
9 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.24%) vSphere
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.040%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.040%) Lustre
12 1 (0.040%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.040%) Varnish
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 76 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (2.99%) Terraform
3 73 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 38 (1.54%) SCCM
5 30 (1.21%) Ansible
6 26 (1.05%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 13 (0.53%) Grafana
9 11 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
9 11 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.40%) Puppet
11 9 (0.36%) Nessus
11 9 (0.36%) SCOM
12 6 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.20%) Autotask
14 4 (0.16%) Cacti
14 4 (0.16%) Istio
14 4 (0.16%) WSUS
15 3 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 650 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.72%) Google
3 124 (5.02%) VMware
4 97 (3.92%) SAP
5 82 (3.32%) Oracle
6 73 (2.95%) Cisco
7 44 (1.78%) Citrix
8 42 (1.70%) Apple
9 40 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.46%) CA
11 30 (1.21%) Adobe
12 27 (1.09%) F5
13 26 (1.05%) Veeam
14 21 (0.85%) IBM
14 21 (0.85%) NetApp
14 21 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 21 (0.85%) Splunk
15 19 (0.77%) Epicor
15 19 (0.77%) HP
15 19 (0.77%) Palo Alto