Problem-Solving Jobs in Somerset

Problem Solving
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +19 -14 +10
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 98 46 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 12.61% 8.19% 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.53% 9.02% 17.74%
Number of salaries quoted 71 27 66
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,087 £33,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -17.07% +46.43%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £57,725 £64,375
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 529 510 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 68.08% 90.75% 84.56%
Number of salaries quoted 428 331 352
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,800 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,250
South West median annual salary £50,952 £53,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% +6.65% +9.89%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Somerset over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Somerset

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bath +17 42 £47,500 -2.56% 19
Taunton +10 24 £35,000 -0.59% 8
Portishead - 6 £50,000 -
Street +5 3 £35,750 - 49
Shepton Mallet - 3 £34,000 - 2
Templecombe - 3 - -
Weston-super-Mare -3 1 £35,000 - 2
Yeovil -13 1 £42,500 +93.18% 9
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.02%) JOnAS
2 1 (1.02%) Moodle
2 1 (1.02%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.16%) GNU Octave
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.02%) iTrent
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.39%) Azure
1 19 (19.39%) GCP
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.27%) AWS
4 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.06%) SaaS
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.04%) dbt
7 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.04%) Firebase
7 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.02%) PaaS
8 1 (1.02%) Serverless
8 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) OFDM
2 6 (6.12%) LAN
2 6 (6.12%) Network Security
2 6 (6.12%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (5.10%) Wireless
4 2 (2.04%) Internet
5 1 (1.02%) BGP
5 1 (1.02%) Firewall
5 1 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.02%) MPLS
5 1 (1.02%) OSPF
5 1 (1.02%) Skype
5 1 (1.02%) VLAN
5 1 (1.02%) VPN
5 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) BigQuery
1 15 (15.31%) Looker
2 8 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.08%) Power BI
3 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.04%) Metabase
4 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.04%) Redis
5 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.02%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) gulp
2 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 49 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (44.90%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Finance
4 10 (10.20%) Electronics
5 8 (8.16%) Billing
6 5 (5.10%) Games
6 5 (5.10%) Law
7 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (14.29%) Developer
2 12 (12.24%) Analyst
3 9 (9.18%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (9.18%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (8.16%) Data Manager
4 8 (8.16%) DSP Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Electronics Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.14%) IT Support
5 7 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Consultant
6 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Service Desk Manager
6 6 (6.12%) Service Manager
7 5 (5.10%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (5.10%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Vue
2 7 (7.14%) CSS
2 7 (7.14%) HTML
2 7 (7.14%) Node.js
3 3 (3.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.06%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (3.06%) React
4 2 (2.04%) D3.js
5 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.02%) EDI
5 1 (1.02%) REST
5 1 (1.02%) SOAP
5 1 (1.02%) Web Services
5 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (10.20%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.16%) FPGA
3 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.16%) VHDL
4 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.08%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.04%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) BBC
7 1 (1.02%) Clustering
7 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.02%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.24%) Windows
2 6 (6.12%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.08%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.02%) Linux
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.55%) Customer Service
2 18 (18.37%) DevOps
3 16 (16.33%) Agile
3 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (15.31%) Data Engineering
5 14 (14.29%) Change Management
5 14 (14.29%) Line Management
5 14 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 12 (12.24%) Business Strategy
6 12 (12.24%) SDLC
7 11 (11.22%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.22%) Data Science
8 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
8 10 (10.20%) Process Improvement
8 10 (10.20%) Project Management
9 9 (9.18%) ETL
9 9 (9.18%) Scrum
10 8 (8.16%) Decision-Making
10 8 (8.16%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.20%) C
2 10 (10.20%) C++
2 10 (10.20%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) MATLAB
3 8 (8.16%) Python
4 4 (4.08%) C#
4 4 (4.08%) Java
4 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.04%) Embedded C
5 2 (2.04%) Embedded C++
5 2 (2.04%) Lisp
6 1 (1.02%) Bash
6 1 (1.02%) PHP
6 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (22.45%) Degree
2 9 (9.18%) A+ Certification
2 9 (9.18%) MCP
2 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.16%) DBS Check
3 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) CCNP
4 1 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.02%) HND
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.22%) GDPR
1 11 (11.22%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.06%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) Firmware
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.02%) SCCM
2 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.35%) Google
3 3 (3.06%) SAP
3 3 (3.06%) Thales
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco
5 1 (1.02%) Concur
5 1 (1.02%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.02%) HP
5 1 (1.02%) Juniper
5 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.02%) Workday