Problem-Solving Job Trends in West Sussex

Problem Solving
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 59 32 170
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 10.10% 14.55% 24.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.40% 15.92% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53 21 97
10th Percentile £27,500 - £28,800
25th Percentile £47,500 £30,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -33.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £78,750 £68,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +13.26% -13.46%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 383 201 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 65.58% 91.36% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 251 128 391
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,025 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,325 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year - -7.66% -1.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West Sussex over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in West Sussex

Problem-Solving
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 Problem-Solving within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 5 April 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 +10 28 £57,500 -20.69% 9
Worthing +2 8 £70,000 +133.33% 4
Gatwick +1 6 £60,000 +1.69% 1
Horsham -2 6 £30,000 - 6
Haywards Heath - 3 £70,000 - 2
Burgess Hill -3 2 - - 1
Chichester -20 2 £43,983 +17.29%
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
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 (5.08%) CMS
1 3 (5.08%) OpenStack
1 3 (5.08%) WordPress
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (5.08%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (5.08%) Adobe XD
3 3 (5.08%) InDesign
3 3 (5.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
3 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.56%) Datadog
3 8 (13.56%) GitHub
3 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
4 6 (10.17%) IaaS
4 6 (10.17%) PaaS
5 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Figma
7 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) Intranet
2 6 (10.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.39%) Broadband
3 2 (3.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Power BI
2 10 (16.95%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) GitLab
2 8 (13.56%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
General
1 29 (49.15%) Finance
2 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
3 20 (33.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
5 10 (16.95%) Retail
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
7 3 (5.08%) Marketing
8 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (13.56%) Analyst
1 8 (13.56%) Data Analyst
1 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (13.56%) Project Engineer
1 8 (13.56%) Report Analyst
1 8 (13.56%) Senior
2 6 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (8.47%) CloudOps Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) E-Commerce Executive
4 4 (6.78%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) IT Support
4 4 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Designer
5 3 (5.08%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) OAuth
1 8 (13.56%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (13.56%) SAML
2 4 (6.78%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.08%) Bootstrap
3 3 (5.08%) CSS
3 3 (5.08%) HTML
3 3 (5.08%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (3.39%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.08%) Social Media
4 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.39%) CentOS
3 2 (3.39%) Debian
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.39%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
2 19 (32.20%) DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) Analytics
4 15 (25.42%) Containerisation
5 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (16.95%) Data Extraction
8 8 (13.56%) Batch Processing
8 8 (13.56%) Observability
9 6 (10.17%) Cloud Operations
9 6 (10.17%) FinOps
9 6 (10.17%) RBAC
10 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
10 5 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (6.78%) Agile
11 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (6.78%) E-Commerce
11 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (6.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) Bash
4 8 (13.56%) Python
5 6 (10.17%) Bicep
6 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) APMP
3 2 (3.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.69%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) NIST
2 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 19 (32.20%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.42%) Terraform
3 10 (16.95%) Grafana
4 8 (13.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) Ansible
5 3 (5.08%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) NEC
3 8 (13.56%) Dynatrace
3 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.08%) Adobe
5 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle