Problem-Solving Contracts in West Sussex

Problem Solving
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 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 11 11 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 30 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 12.50% 13.00% 12.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.70% 14.39% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 36
10th Percentile £148 £200 £405
25th Percentile £200 £256 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £414 £540
Median % change year-on-year +11.71% -23.33% +19.73%
75th Percentile £538 - £566
90th Percentile £571 £482 £614
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.20 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.38 £22.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +26.63% +18.00%
75th Percentile £22.25 - £17.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -62.61% +21.05% +153.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 271 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 91.25% 90.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 222 310
10th Percentile £313 £183 £175
25th Percentile £400 £276 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.60% +6.94%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £588
90th Percentile £588 £698 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 5
10th Percentile £14.07 £16.46 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.20 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +3.60% -56.12%
75th Percentile £26.63 £22.88 £55.25
90th Percentile £29.00 £24.91 £60.35
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West Sussex over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Sussex 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Crawley +19 16 £325 +62.50% 19
Chichester +1 4 £525 - 4
Burgess Hill -4 3 £355 +32.09% 5
Worthing -12 3 - - 3
East Grinstead -5 1 £130 -13.33% 1
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.33%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) NAS
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) VoIP
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.33%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Local Government
4 3 (10.00%) Police
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Billing
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) IT Support
1 6 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
2 5 (16.67%) IT Technician
2 5 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Support Technician
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Decision-Making
2 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (16.67%) Office Automation
3 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Budget Management
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
4 4 (13.33%) People Management
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Management
4 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 4 (13.33%) Project Management
4 4 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) OO
5 3 (10.00%) OOD
5 3 (10.00%) Scrum
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Bash
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) C#
3 3 (10.00%) Perl
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (3.33%) ProC
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Dell Certification
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) VMware
2 4 (13.33%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Toshiba
5 1 (3.33%) Xerox