Problem-Solving Contracts in East Sussex

Problem Solving
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 19 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 16.67% 11.76% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.59% 13.33% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 10
10th Percentile £333 £269 £470
25th Percentile £450 £306 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £313 £650
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -51.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £575 £380 £763
90th Percentile £638 £460 £863
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £19.38 £56.99
% change year-on-year -2.86% -66.00% +26.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 75 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 94.74% 88.24% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 75
10th Percentile £319 £304 £201
25th Percentile £413 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £700
90th Percentile £656 £743 £820
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £27.28
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £42.69
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -53.02% -
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in East Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in East Sussex

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in East Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in East Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in East Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in East Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Brighton +1 18 £475 +52.00% 183
Eastbourne - 1 £625 - 14
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (5.26%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.79%) CloudFront
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) BGP
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
1 1 (5.26%) OSPF
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) React Native
1 3 (15.79%) Redux
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
1 6 (31.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) E-Commerce
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Database Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Database Security
4 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.79%) Edge Computing
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CCNP
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Meraki