Problem-Solving Jobs in South Wales

Problem Solving
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 11 12 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 178 170 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 11.68% 14.66% 11.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.19% 15.23% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 107 61 98
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £33,435
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £52,101 £62,500 £57,693
90th Percentile £62,320 £77,500 £71,625
Wales median annual salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,172 1,116 1,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 76.90% 96.21% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 765 555 868
10th Percentile £28,290 £26,474 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,700 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,898 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -6.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.87%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in South Wales

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

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in South Wales

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the South Wales 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
Cardiff +17 86 £43,500 +11.54% 46
Bridgend -21 40 £44,886 - 9
Newport +9 16 £52,101 -23.94% 14
Glamorgan +8 16 £35,500 -11.25% 19
Gwent +2 11 £39,750 - 7
Caerphilly +7 8 £25,047 -65.45% 4
Vale of Glamorgan - 1 £24,500 -
Problem-Solving
Wales

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 11 (6.18%) WordPress
2 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.81%) Apache
4 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.25%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.69%) CMS
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) SAS
7 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.56%) Drupal
7 1 (0.56%) IIS
7 1 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.25%) Sketch
3 2 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Primavera
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.60%) Azure
2 30 (16.85%) AWS
3 14 (7.87%) GCP
4 9 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.93%) Slack
6 7 (3.93%) WhatsApp
7 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.25%) Figma
8 4 (2.25%) Heroku
8 4 (2.25%) iPaaS
8 4 (2.25%) Miro
8 4 (2.25%) PaaS
8 4 (2.25%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.25%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.67%) Firewall
2 11 (6.18%) VPN
3 7 (3.93%) Network Security
3 7 (3.93%) SAN
3 7 (3.93%) Wireless
4 6 (3.37%) LAN
4 6 (3.37%) WAN
5 5 (2.81%) Internet
5 5 (2.81%) IPsec
5 5 (2.81%) MPLS
5 5 (2.81%) SNMP
5 5 (2.81%) VLAN
5 5 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.81%) WLAN
6 4 (2.25%) DNS
6 4 (2.25%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.69%) DHCP
8 2 (1.12%) DSL
8 2 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.37%) RDBMS
4 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.81%) Looker
5 5 (2.81%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.81%) Power BI
6 4 (2.25%) MySQL
7 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.69%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.69%) Tableau
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.56%) GIS
9 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (13.48%) Git
2 12 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.18%) Selenium
4 10 (5.62%) JIRA
5 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.12%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.12%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.12%) Postman
6 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 103 (57.87%) Social Skills
2 49 (27.53%) Finance
3 48 (26.97%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (9.55%) Influencing Skills
5 17 (9.55%) Manufacturing
6 13 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.30%) Law
7 12 (6.74%) Games
7 12 (6.74%) Public Sector
8 11 (6.18%) Welsh Language
9 8 (4.49%) Legal
9 8 (4.49%) Local Government
9 8 (4.49%) Marketing
9 8 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.49%) Police
10 5 (2.81%) Retail
11 4 (2.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (29.78%) Senior
2 46 (25.84%) Developer
3 28 (15.73%) Analyst
4 18 (10.11%) Senior Developer
5 16 (8.99%) IT Engineer
6 14 (7.87%) Graduate
7 13 (7.30%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (7.30%) Graduate IT Engineer
7 13 (7.30%) IT Graduate
8 12 (6.74%) Architect
9 11 (6.18%) Business Analyst
9 11 (6.18%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) Consultant
11 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.49%) WordPress Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.93%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.61%) React
2 19 (10.67%) HTML
3 16 (8.99%) CSS
3 16 (8.99%) Spring
4 15 (8.43%) AngularJS
5 14 (7.87%) REST
5 14 (7.87%) RESTful
6 11 (6.18%) .NET
6 11 (6.18%) Node.js
6 11 (6.18%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.93%) jQuery
8 6 (3.37%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.37%) Web Services
9 5 (2.81%) Java EE
9 5 (2.81%) Laravel
9 5 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.81%) YAML
10 4 (2.25%) J2EE
10 4 (2.25%) JSON
10 4 (2.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) FMCG
2 13 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.62%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.49%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.93%) CMDB
6 7 (3.93%) Housing Association
7 6 (3.37%) Social Media
8 5 (2.81%) NHS
9 4 (2.25%) Blog
9 4 (2.25%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.25%) Replication
9 4 (2.25%) Tandem
10 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.11%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Android
2 10 (5.62%) Windows
3 7 (3.93%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.81%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (2.81%) Unix
5 3 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.03%) Agile
2 27 (15.17%) Actionable Insight
2 27 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (11.80%) DevOps
4 20 (11.24%) Customer Service
4 20 (11.24%) Roadmaps
5 18 (10.11%) Containerisation
6 17 (9.55%) Line Management
6 17 (9.55%) User Experience
7 15 (8.43%) Change Management
8 14 (7.87%) Decision-Making
8 14 (7.87%) Lean Six Sigma
8 14 (7.87%) Six Sigma
9 13 (7.30%) Benchmarking
9 13 (7.30%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (7.30%) Fintech
9 13 (7.30%) Lean Manufacturing
9 13 (7.30%) Project Management
9 13 (7.30%) Software Engineering
9 13 (7.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.29%) SQL
2 18 (10.11%) C#
2 18 (10.11%) Java
3 15 (8.43%) PHP
3 15 (8.43%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.62%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.62%) Python
5 4 (2.25%) C
5 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.69%) Bash
6 3 (1.69%) Go
6 3 (1.69%) Ruby
7 2 (1.12%) Perl
8 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (20.79%) Degree
2 31 (17.42%) SC Cleared
2 31 (17.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.30%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.12%) CCNA
6 2 (1.12%) CCNP
6 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CISMP
7 1 (0.56%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.56%) PMP
7 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) SLA
2 8 (4.49%) GDPR
3 7 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.81%) QA
5 4 (2.25%) WCAG
6 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.12%) PMO
8 1 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (9.55%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) Varnish
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.30%) Ansible
2 10 (5.62%) Terraform
3 6 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.37%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.81%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.25%) OpenSSO
5 4 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.55%) Oracle
3 9 (5.06%) WooCommerce
4 8 (4.49%) Cisco
5 6 (3.37%) Facebook
5 6 (3.37%) Xamarin
6 5 (2.81%) Google
6 5 (2.81%) NetApp
6 5 (2.81%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.81%) SolidFire
6 5 (2.81%) Veeam
6 5 (2.81%) VMware
7 4 (2.25%) Asigra
7 4 (2.25%) Datto
7 4 (2.25%) Remedy
7 4 (2.25%) Sage
7 4 (2.25%) Sophos
7 4 (2.25%) YouTube
8 3 (1.69%) Adobe