AI Job Trends in West Sussex

AI
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 42 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +59
Permanent jobs citing AI 14 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 3.35% 1.58% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 1.79% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile - £54,000 £50,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £107,500 £81,563 £73,313
90th Percentile - £86,625 £76,375
South East median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +12.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 280 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.44% 88.61% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 215 142 255
10th Percentile £27,600 £28,650 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,988 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,625 £76,600
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

AI job vacancy trend in West Sussex

AI
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in West Sussex

AI
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chichester - 5 - - 2
Horsham +10 3 £105,000 +100.00% 3
Gatwick - 1 £70,000 - 3
AI
South East

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Acrobat
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (7.14%) InDesign
2 1 (7.14%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure AI
2 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) ChatGPT
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
6 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
2 5 (35.71%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Data Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Junior
1 5 (35.71%) Junior Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Junior Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Trainer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Line Management
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Google