Problem-Solving Jobs in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 3,020 1,779 3,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 16.20% 13.40% 14.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.76% 14.21% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,796 942 1,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £63,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,900 £78,750
England median annual salary £49,838 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,283 12,518 20,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 81.98% 94.30% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 10,406 7,566 11,829
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley +6 1,303 £45,000 -10.00% 351
Surrey +4 590 £49,500 -15.74% 114
Buckinghamshire +4 534 £45,000 +12.50% 98
Hampshire +12 531 £50,000 - 200
Berkshire +3 442 £42,500 -23.02% 143
Oxfordshire +14 327 £42,750 -14.50% 112
Kent +1 253 £40,000 -5.88% 72
West Sussex +10 181 £60,000 +14.29% 52
East Sussex +5 109 £52,500 +2.94% 41
Sussex -1 36 £50,000 - 1
Middlesex -16 10 £28,000 -66.06% 11
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 89 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 82 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (1.46%) CMS
4 29 (0.96%) Apache
5 23 (0.76%) WordPress
6 22 (0.73%) Confluence
7 21 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.70%) WebLogic
8 12 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.26%) Drupal
10 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.20%) SAS
11 5 (0.17%) Joomla!
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.099%) Orchard CMS
13 3 (0.099%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.033%) IIS
14 1 (0.033%) Mule
Applications
1 309 (10.23%) Microsoft Office
2 275 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.42%) Simulink
4 30 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 19 (0.63%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.26%) Sketch
10 7 (0.23%) Stateflow
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.13%) InDesign
13 3 (0.099%) ProjectWise
13 3 (0.099%) Siemens NX
14 2 (0.066%) OrCAD
14 2 (0.066%) Trello
15 1 (0.033%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 39 (1.29%) Siebel CRM
2 32 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
5 11 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.17%) Magento
8 5 (0.17%) Odoo
8 5 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
9 4 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
10 3 (0.099%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.099%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.066%) Primavera
11 2 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
11 2 (0.066%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.066%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.066%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 516 (17.09%) Azure
2 333 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
3 302 (10.00%) AWS
4 123 (4.07%) SaaS
5 116 (3.84%) GCP
6 77 (2.55%) Power Platform
7 68 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (1.75%) IaaS
9 52 (1.72%) GitHub
10 44 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
10 44 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.42%) Serverless
12 41 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
13 37 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (0.96%) Power Automate
15 27 (0.89%) Amazon S3
16 25 (0.83%) PaaS
17 23 (0.76%) Mimecast
17 23 (0.76%) Nutanix
18 20 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 231 (7.65%) Firewall
2 133 (4.40%) DNS
3 93 (3.08%) DHCP
4 76 (2.52%) Wireless
5 67 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 61 (2.02%) LAN
7 58 (1.92%) VPN
8 50 (1.66%) WAN
9 48 (1.59%) VoIP
10 33 (1.09%) SAN
10 33 (1.09%) VLAN
11 31 (1.03%) Internet
12 27 (0.89%) Network Security
13 23 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (0.70%) 5G
15 20 (0.66%) Broadband
15 20 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
16 17 (0.56%) 4G
17 16 (0.53%) Unified Communications
18 14 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 93 (3.08%) MySQL
3 84 (2.78%) BigQuery
3 84 (2.78%) Looker
4 82 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (1.75%) Power BI
6 51 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 48 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 48 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
9 36 (1.19%) Siebel EIM
10 34 (1.13%) Power Query
11 25 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.70%) Redis
12 21 (0.70%) Tableau
13 16 (0.53%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.43%) OLTP
15 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 138 (4.57%) Git
2 120 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 105 (3.48%) JIRA
4 44 (1.46%) GitLab
5 31 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 23 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 22 (0.73%) Subversion
8 19 (0.63%) Ant
9 17 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (0.46%) Selenium
10 14 (0.46%) TestRail
11 13 (0.43%) Robot Framework
12 10 (0.33%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.30%) Gradle
13 9 (0.30%) Maven
14 8 (0.26%) CMake
14 8 (0.26%) Hudson
15 7 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.23%) PowerBuilder
15 7 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 1,559 (51.62%) Social Skills
2 863 (28.58%) Analytical Skills
3 396 (13.11%) Finance
4 290 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 147 (4.87%) Retail
7 145 (4.80%) Marketing
8 115 (3.81%) Aerospace
9 113 (3.74%) Manufacturing
10 110 (3.64%) Legal
11 93 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 84 (2.78%) Public Sector
13 76 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
14 71 (2.35%) Electronics
15 53 (1.75%) Billing
16 52 (1.72%) Aviation
17 50 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.56%) Automotive
19 42 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 377 (12.48%) Developer
2 368 (12.19%) Senior
3 324 (10.73%) Analyst
4 214 (7.09%) Lead
5 193 (6.39%) Architect
6 152 (5.03%) IT Support
7 140 (4.64%) Software Engineer
8 128 (4.24%) Consultant
9 121 (4.01%) Coordinator
10 106 (3.51%) Data Scientist
11 99 (3.28%) Support Engineer
12 95 (3.15%) Support Analyst
13 94 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 88 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 83 (2.75%) Project Manager
15 83 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
17 72 (2.38%) Data Engineer
18 67 (2.22%) IT Engineer
19 63 (2.09%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (6.42%) .NET
2 162 (5.36%) HTML
3 138 (4.57%) CSS
4 97 (3.21%) React
5 53 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 51 (1.69%) XML
7 50 (1.66%) Spring
7 50 (1.66%) Web Services
8 47 (1.56%) RESTful
9 43 (1.42%) Node.js
10 42 (1.39%) HTML5
11 38 (1.26%) .NET Framework
11 38 (1.26%) ASP.NET
12 36 (1.19%) REST
13 34 (1.13%) Hibernate
14 33 (1.09%) .NET Core
15 30 (0.99%) SOAP
15 30 (0.99%) Vue
16 29 (0.96%) CSS3
17 26 (0.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 399 (13.21%) Self-Motivation
2 241 (7.98%) Management Information System
3 215 (7.12%) Algorithms
4 100 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 88 (2.91%) Product Ownership
6 79 (2.62%) Driving Licence
7 71 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 59 (1.95%) IoT
9 57 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 48 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 44 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.19%) Client/Server
14 31 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (1.03%) Life Science
15 28 (0.93%) Cloud Native
16 26 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
17 25 (0.83%) NHS
18 24 (0.79%) PMI
19 23 (0.76%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 509 (16.85%) Windows
2 205 (6.79%) Linux
3 163 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 119 (3.94%) Windows 10
5 58 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 39 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 38 (1.26%) Unix
10 36 (1.19%) Mac OS
10 36 (1.19%) Windows 7
11 30 (0.99%) Android
12 24 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
13 12 (0.40%) Windows XP
14 8 (0.26%) VMS
15 6 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.17%) AIX
16 5 (0.17%) CentOS
16 5 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
17 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (17.22%) Agile
2 503 (16.66%) Mentoring
3 447 (14.80%) Customer Service
4 407 (13.48%) Computer Science
5 384 (12.72%) Project Management
6 372 (12.32%) Decision-Making
7 364 (12.05%) DevOps
8 363 (12.02%) Coaching
9 293 (9.70%) Cybersecurity
10 270 (8.94%) Mathematics
11 269 (8.91%) Software Engineering
12 264 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 263 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
14 231 (7.65%) ITIL
15 219 (7.25%) Data Analysis
16 214 (7.09%) Actionable Insight
17 208 (6.89%) Data Science
18 176 (5.83%) CI/CD
19 163 (5.40%) CRM
20 151 (5.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 324 (10.73%) SQL
2 295 (9.77%) Python
3 223 (7.38%) JavaScript
4 216 (7.15%) C#
5 209 (6.92%) Java
6 179 (5.93%) C++
7 147 (4.87%) C
8 130 (4.30%) PowerShell
9 87 (2.88%) Bash
10 63 (2.09%) PHP
11 44 (1.46%) Fortran
12 40 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 37 (1.23%) Perl
13 37 (1.23%) PL/SQL
14 31 (1.03%) MATLAB
15 24 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.63%) Go
17 18 (0.60%) R
18 16 (0.53%) VB.NET
19 12 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 909 (30.10%) Degree
2 419 (13.87%) Security Cleared
3 278 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 215 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 120 (3.97%) Master's Degree
6 101 (3.34%) DBS Check
7 95 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 90 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 60 (1.99%) PhD
10 55 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 36 (1.19%) PMI Certification
13 35 (1.16%) CCNA
14 34 (1.13%) CCNP
14 34 (1.13%) MCP
15 30 (0.99%) HNC
16 29 (0.96%) MCSE
17 25 (0.83%) A+ Certification
18 24 (0.79%) Azure Certification
19 22 (0.73%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.92%) QA
2 145 (4.80%) GDPR
3 144 (4.77%) SLA
4 121 (4.01%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.28%) PMO
6 32 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.86%) ISO 9001
9 21 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
10 16 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
11 14 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.46%) IFRS
12 11 (0.36%) Automotive SPICE
12 11 (0.36%) COSHH
12 11 (0.36%) ISO 26262
12 11 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 9 (0.30%) ISO 13485
14 8 (0.26%) GxP
14 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 276 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 139 (4.60%) Docker
3 108 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 103 (3.41%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.19%) Firmware
6 32 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.33%) KVM
11 6 (0.20%) vSphere
12 5 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.17%) XenApp
13 4 (0.13%) HDFS
13 4 (0.13%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.099%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.033%) NFS
15 1 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 116 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 70 (2.32%) SCCM
3 60 (1.99%) Ansible
4 40 (1.32%) Terraform
5 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (1.03%) Puppet
6 31 (1.03%) SCOM
7 20 (0.66%) OpenSSO
7 20 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 17 (0.56%) WSUS
9 16 (0.53%) ZABBIX
10 13 (0.43%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
12 11 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 11 (0.36%) Functional Safety
13 8 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.26%) Consul
14 7 (0.23%) Prometheus
15 6 (0.20%) Autotask
Vendors
1 840 (27.81%) Microsoft
2 155 (5.13%) Oracle
3 132 (4.37%) VMware
4 131 (4.34%) Google
5 88 (2.91%) Cisco
6 86 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 80 (2.65%) SAP
8 39 (1.29%) Siebel
9 31 (1.03%) Juniper
10 30 (0.99%) HP
11 29 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 29 (0.96%) Xilinx
12 26 (0.86%) Dell
13 25 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.79%) Adobe
14 24 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 24 (0.79%) IBM
15 23 (0.76%) Apple
15 23 (0.76%) Citrix
16 22 (0.73%) Remedy