Basic
Basic problem solving skills need to be taught. Not sure how things are in the UK, but I see a serious lack of critical thinking and problem solving skills in some of the younger IT crowd.
I may not be as technically skilled, but I know how to work my way through a problem, research it, come up with a theory, and find a solution for that theory. I may not always come up with the right theory, but I can learn something from the failure and move on.
I see a lot of trying one thing, and then giving up, and no research into the problem. Search engines are my best friend.
I do wish I had better programming skills, but I'm pretty much self-taught, and never had any computer classes until my senior year in highschool. The one thing I learned way back from college and still use today, are my old DOS commands that I use to write .bat files.
