Problem-Solving Jobs in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 10,976 8,247 10,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.46% 13.77% 14.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.41% 14.41% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,903 3,724 5,108
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London 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
South East +5 2,900 £45,000 -14.29% 974
North of England +9 2,472 £45,000 - 1,052
Midlands +5 1,814 £42,000 -11.58% 798
South West +8 1,353 £47,500 -5.00% 530
North West +11 1,302 £45,000 -5.26% 589
West Midlands +6 1,159 £42,500 -15.00% 491
East of England +6 1,031 £42,500 -10.53% 508
Scotland -7 936 £45,000 -13.03% 256
Yorkshire +5 917 £43,293 -1.61% 340
East Midlands +5 633 £37,500 -16.67% 308
Wales +5 316 £41,200 +6.34% 119
North East +15 252 £45,000 +5.88% 136
Northern Ireland +19 140 £48,500 -3.00% 53
Isle of Man +2 20 £45,000 +50.00% 7
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 375 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 341 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 189 (1.72%) Apache
4 181 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 111 (1.01%) CMS
5 111 (1.01%) IIS
6 105 (0.96%) WordPress
7 90 (0.82%) Confluence
8 36 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 29 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 29 (0.26%) Umbraco
10 26 (0.24%) nginx
11 20 (0.18%) SAS
12 18 (0.16%) FileNet
13 17 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
13 17 (0.15%) OpenEdge
14 12 (0.11%) ArcGIS
15 11 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 11 (0.10%) Jupyter
16 10 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1,043 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 710 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 273 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 59 (0.54%) Sketch
6 57 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 52 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 45 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 39 (0.36%) Simulink
10 23 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 23 (0.21%) Trello
11 22 (0.20%) Adobe XD
12 19 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
13 18 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
14 16 (0.15%) InDesign
15 15 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
16 12 (0.11%) Chatbot
17 10 (0.091%) Revit
18 8 (0.073%) InfoPath
18 8 (0.073%) InVision
Business Applications
1 113 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 50 (0.46%) Shopify
3 40 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 40 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
4 39 (0.36%) Magento
5 27 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 19 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 18 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 17 (0.15%) iTrent
8 17 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
9 15 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 13 (0.12%) Infor SunSystems
11 11 (0.10%) Endur
11 11 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
11 11 (0.10%) SAP Business One
11 11 (0.10%) Unit4 Business World
12 10 (0.091%) Misys Midas
13 9 (0.082%) SAP CX
13 9 (0.082%) SAP MM
14 7 (0.064%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,817 (16.55%) Azure
2 1,287 (11.73%) AWS
3 1,125 (10.25%) Microsoft 365
4 545 (4.97%) GCP
5 503 (4.58%) Power Platform
6 353 (3.22%) SaaS
7 269 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (1.93%) Entra ID
9 203 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
10 178 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
11 175 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 165 (1.50%) Serverless
13 142 (1.29%) GitHub
14 112 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 101 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
16 90 (0.82%) PowerApps
17 75 (0.68%) Figma
18 69 (0.63%) Miro
18 69 (0.63%) OneDrive
19 67 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 643 (5.86%) Firewall
2 329 (3.00%) DNS
3 323 (2.94%) WAN
4 256 (2.33%) DHCP
5 254 (2.31%) LAN
6 231 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 226 (2.06%) VPN
8 209 (1.90%) Wireless
9 185 (1.69%) Network Security
10 155 (1.41%) Internet
11 137 (1.25%) VoIP
12 129 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
13 120 (1.09%) SAN
14 102 (0.93%) VLAN
15 75 (0.68%) 5G
16 63 (0.57%) SD-WAN
17 60 (0.55%) IPsec
18 58 (0.53%) Ethernet
19 57 (0.52%) Broadband
20 56 (0.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 427 (3.89%) Power BI
3 343 (3.13%) Looker
4 339 (3.09%) BigQuery
5 337 (3.07%) MySQL
6 328 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
7 257 (2.34%) NoSQL
8 231 (2.10%) Relational Database
9 194 (1.77%) Big Data
10 188 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 170 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
12 158 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 152 (1.38%) Tableau
14 93 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
15 89 (0.81%) Hadoop
16 88 (0.80%) Redis
17 85 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 79 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 77 (0.70%) Data Lake
20 73 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 555 (5.06%) Git
2 373 (3.40%) JIRA
3 226 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 103 (0.94%) GitLab
5 86 (0.78%) Visual Studio
6 59 (0.54%) LabVIEW
7 55 (0.50%) Selenium
8 52 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 49 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 43 (0.39%) Maven
11 39 (0.36%) JUnit
12 38 (0.35%) Cucumber
13 35 (0.32%) Postman
14 32 (0.29%) Subversion
15 30 (0.27%) JDeveloper
16 29 (0.26%) JMeter
17 28 (0.26%) Cypress.io
18 25 (0.23%) IntelliJ
19 24 (0.22%) Ant
20 22 (0.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5,467 (49.81%) Social Skills
2 3,409 (31.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2,043 (18.61%) Finance
4 1,190 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 815 (7.43%) Law
6 798 (7.27%) Retail
7 695 (6.33%) Marketing
8 682 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
9 572 (5.21%) Manufacturing
10 453 (4.13%) Legal
11 437 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
12 394 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
13 362 (3.30%) Public Sector
14 293 (2.67%) Banking
15 259 (2.36%) Telecoms
16 225 (2.05%) Electronics
17 185 (1.69%) Aerospace
18 166 (1.51%) Investment Banking
19 152 (1.38%) Automotive
19 152 (1.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,582 (14.41%) Analyst
2 1,424 (12.97%) Senior
3 1,367 (12.45%) Developer
4 852 (7.76%) Software Engineer
5 820 (7.47%) Lead
6 546 (4.97%) IT Support
7 536 (4.88%) Architect
8 425 (3.87%) Support Engineer
9 415 (3.78%) Consultant
10 377 (3.43%) Project Manager
11 356 (3.24%) IT Engineer
12 339 (3.09%) Business Analyst
13 313 (2.85%) Senior Developer
14 311 (2.83%) Data Engineer
15 290 (2.64%) Senior Software Engineer
16 271 (2.47%) IT Technician
17 270 (2.46%) Graduate
18 268 (2.44%) Software Developer
19 261 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 261 (2.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 706 (6.43%) .NET
2 613 (5.58%) HTML
3 538 (4.90%) CSS
4 490 (4.46%) React
5 346 (3.15%) AngularJS
6 282 (2.57%) Node.js
7 227 (2.07%) Spring
8 208 (1.90%) REST
9 194 (1.77%) RESTful
10 189 (1.72%) Vue
11 184 (1.68%) .NET Framework
12 174 (1.59%) ASP.NET
13 173 (1.58%) .NET Core
14 146 (1.33%) Web Services
15 144 (1.31%) JSON
16 132 (1.20%) HTML5
17 128 (1.17%) jQuery
18 125 (1.14%) XML
19 112 (1.02%) Spring Boot
20 110 (1.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1,042 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
2 570 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 400 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 396 (3.61%) Driving Licence
5 341 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 249 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 229 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 173 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 161 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 161 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 143 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 138 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 135 (1.23%) IoT
13 110 (1.00%) FMCG
14 109 (0.99%) Public Cloud
15 108 (0.98%) NHS
16 100 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 98 (0.89%) Clustering
18 82 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
19 74 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,686 (15.36%) Windows
2 747 (6.81%) Linux
3 561 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 395 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 185 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 166 (1.51%) Android
7 136 (1.24%) Unix
8 111 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 110 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 106 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
11 103 (0.94%) Mac OS
12 101 (0.92%) Windows 7
13 50 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
14 39 (0.36%) Ubuntu
15 34 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (0.31%) VMS
16 32 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
17 30 (0.27%) Windows 8
18 29 (0.26%) CentOS
19 27 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,214 (20.17%) Agile
2 1,517 (13.82%) Customer Service
3 1,357 (12.36%) Project Management
4 1,331 (12.13%) Mentoring
5 1,307 (11.91%) Software Engineering
6 1,270 (11.57%) Computer Science
7 1,226 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,182 (10.77%) Decision-Making
9 1,086 (9.89%) DevOps
10 900 (8.20%) Coaching
11 874 (7.96%) ITIL
12 823 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
13 726 (6.61%) Analytics
14 716 (6.52%) Mathematics
15 677 (6.17%) SDLC
16 673 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
17 672 (6.12%) CI/CD
18 641 (5.84%) Change Management
19 635 (5.79%) Actionable Insight
20 592 (5.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,664 (15.16%) SQL
2 1,123 (10.23%) Python
3 922 (8.40%) JavaScript
4 905 (8.25%) Java
5 878 (8.00%) C#
6 369 (3.36%) C++
7 362 (3.30%) C
8 328 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 290 (2.64%) PHP
10 283 (2.58%) TypeScript
11 225 (2.05%) Bash
12 155 (1.41%) Scala
13 117 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 93 (0.85%) MATLAB
15 89 (0.81%) Perl
16 81 (0.74%) Go
17 72 (0.66%) Ruby
18 69 (0.63%) VB
19 68 (0.62%) R
20 64 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,945 (26.83%) Degree
2 1,071 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 665 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 652 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 326 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 309 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 255 (2.32%) DBS Check
8 171 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 168 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 119 (1.08%) CCNA
10 119 (1.08%) HNC
11 111 (1.01%) A+ Certification
12 103 (0.94%) PhD
13 100 (0.91%) CISSP
14 98 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 97 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 96 (0.87%) HND
17 93 (0.85%) Azure Certification
18 81 (0.74%) MCSE
19 77 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (5.50%) QA
2 479 (4.36%) GDPR
3 398 (3.63%) SLA
4 361 (3.29%) Data Quality
5 177 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 151 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 136 (1.24%) PMO
8 132 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 96 (0.87%) ISO 9001
10 66 (0.60%) NIST
11 51 (0.46%) WCAG
12 49 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 41 (0.37%) IFRS
14 34 (0.31%) GAAP
15 28 (0.26%) NCSC
16 25 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 23 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
17 23 (0.21%) PCI DSS
18 21 (0.19%) ISO 13485
18 21 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 917 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 406 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 397 (3.62%) Docker
4 289 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 125 (1.14%) Firmware
6 80 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 65 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 42 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 38 (0.35%) vSphere
10 32 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
12 24 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 20 (0.18%) KVM
14 13 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.11%) XenApp
16 11 (0.10%) NFS
17 8 (0.073%) XenDesktop
18 7 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
19 6 (0.055%) pfSense
20 5 (0.046%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 386 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 220 (2.00%) Terraform
3 192 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 171 (1.56%) Ansible
5 164 (1.49%) SCCM
6 67 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 67 (0.61%) vCenter Server
7 56 (0.51%) Puppet
8 45 (0.41%) SCOM
9 36 (0.33%) WSUS
10 35 (0.32%) EnCase
11 31 (0.28%) Grafana
11 31 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (0.25%) OpenSSO
13 25 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
13 25 (0.23%) FortiGate
14 23 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 22 (0.20%) ZABBIX
16 19 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
17 17 (0.15%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,650 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 614 (5.59%) Google
3 568 (5.17%) VMware
4 386 (3.52%) Oracle
5 295 (2.69%) SAP
6 271 (2.47%) Cisco
7 180 (1.64%) Salesforce
8 120 (1.09%) Veeam
9 109 (0.99%) Databricks
10 107 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 104 (0.95%) Apple
12 100 (0.91%) IBM
13 96 (0.87%) Citrix
14 95 (0.87%) Dell
15 94 (0.86%) Adobe
15 94 (0.86%) HP
16 90 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 77 (0.70%) Meraki
18 76 (0.69%) Red Hat
19 71 (0.65%) Sophos