Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Problem Solving
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 12 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 38.71% 8.33% 22.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 44.44% 10.00% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £335 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
75th Percentile £345 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median daily rate £300 £463 £430
% change year-on-year -35.14% +7.56% -13.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.05 - -
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 87.10% 83.33% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 9
10th Percentile £261 £259 £209
25th Percentile £274 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £287 £350 £290
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +20.69% +61.11%
75th Percentile £304 £397 £310
90th Percentile £359 £438 £558
West Sussex median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.05 - -
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (41.67%) Service Desk Support
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (8.33%) gRPC
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) iPad
1 10 (83.33%) iPhone
2 5 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Apple iOS
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Customer Service
2 10 (83.33%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) BDD
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) TDD
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Go
1 1 (8.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Google
1 11 (91.67%) ServiceNow
2 10 (83.33%) MobileIron
2 10 (83.33%) Nexthink