Data Sovereignty Job Trends in West Sussex

Data Sovereignty
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Sovereignty in permanent job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Sovereignty over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	70	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Data Sovereignty	2	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex	0.20%	-	-
As % of the General category	0.38%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£125,000	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£130,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	£135,000	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South East median annual salary	£130,000	-	-

All General Skills
West Sussex

Data Sovereignty falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in West Sussex.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills	530	234	246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex	53.11%	61.26%	59.56%
Number of salaries quoted	338	145	105
10^th Percentile	£27,750	£27,000	£32,000
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£31,250	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£50,500	£54,835
Median % change year-on-year	+8.91%	-7.91%	-0.30%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£61,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£79,000	£72,500
South East median annual salary	£50,000	£45,000	£53,818
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-16.38%	+2.51%

Data Sovereignty 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 Data Sovereignty within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Crawley	-	2	£130,000	-
Data Sovereignty South East

Data Sovereignty Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing Data Sovereignty also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Sussex region with a requirement for Data Sovereignty.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	2
1	Architecture Governance	100.0%	2
1	AWS	100.0%	2
1	Capacity Planning	100.0%	2
1	Computer Science	100.0%	2
1	Contingency Planning	100.0%	2
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	2
1	Degree	100.0%	2
1	FinOps	100.0%	2
1	Firmware	100.0%	2
1	GCP	100.0%	2
1	ISO/IEC 27001	100.0%	2
1	Line Management	100.0%	2
1	Machine Learning	100.0%	2
1	Mentoring	100.0%	2
1	MLOps	100.0%	2
1	NVIDIA	100.0%	2
1	Performance Management	100.0%	2
1	Physics	100.0%	2
1	Project Delivery	100.0%	2
1	Resource Allocation	100.0%	2
1	Roadmaps	100.0%	2
1	Technical Debt	100.0%	2
1	VPN	100.0%	2
1	Weka	100.0%	2

Data Sovereignty Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

General

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Finance	100.0%	2
1	Social Skills	100.0%	2