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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 14 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 12.28% 16.25% 10.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.08% 19.12% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 9
10th Percentile £283 £301 £361
25th Percentile £406 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -41.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £488 £400 -
90th Percentile £575 - £835
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +7.37%
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 £20.24 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.99% -64.81% +21.05%

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 107 68 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 93.86% 85.00% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 62
10th Percentile £284 £306 £250
25th Percentile £372 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £700
90th Percentile £656 £814 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £16.89 £11.00 £13.11
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.38 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% +2.02% -
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £54.69
90th Percentile £21.59 £51.50 £60.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.80%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 14 £450 +18.42% 52
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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) CloudFront
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) DBA
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (21.43%) SQL DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) React Native
1 3 (21.43%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Database Security
3 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Edge Computing
3 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow