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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 4 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 52 55 181
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 7.40% 17.97% 23.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.90% 18.71% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 45 37 103
10th Percentile £19,660 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £38,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £66,900
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

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 477 294 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 67.85% 96.08% 80.76%
Number of salaries quoted 317 181 417
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -1 13 £50,000 +7.53% 5
Worthing -9 12 £70,000 +38.61% 7
Horsham -10 7 £15,600 -79.20% 5
Haywards Heath -7 5 £70,000 - 1
Bognor Regis - 5 - - 1
Burgess Hill -2 2 £70,000 +33.33% 2
Chichester - 2 £43,983 -
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 (5.77%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (9.62%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (15.38%) Datadog
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub
3 8 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 5 (9.62%) IaaS
4 5 (9.62%) PaaS
5 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) VPN
2 3 (5.77%) Broadband
2 3 (5.77%) VoIP
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) Intranet
3 2 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
1 8 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 35 (67.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (9.62%) Law
4 5 (9.62%) Military
5 4 (7.69%) Retail
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) CloudOps Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (9.62%) Senior
3 4 (7.69%) Analyst
3 4 (7.69%) Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 4 (7.69%) E-Commerce Executive
3 4 (7.69%) IT Support
3 4 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (5.77%) Lead
4 3 (5.77%) Team Leader
5 2 (3.85%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) OAuth
1 8 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (15.38%) SAML
2 4 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (13.46%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Hackathon
4 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) CentOS
2 3 (5.77%) Debian
2 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (5.77%) VMS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (34.62%) DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.85%) Customer Service
5 13 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (15.38%) Batch Processing
7 8 (15.38%) Observability
8 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.54%) Analytics
9 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (11.54%) SDLC
9 6 (11.54%) Security Operations
10 5 (9.62%) Agile
10 5 (9.62%) Cloud Operations
10 5 (9.62%) FinOps
10 5 (9.62%) RBAC
10 5 (9.62%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 8 (15.38%) Bash
3 8 (15.38%) SQL
4 5 (9.62%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.54%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.62%) SLA
4 4 (7.69%) NIST
5 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 13 (25.00%) Terraform
3 11 (21.15%) Grafana
4 8 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.77%) Ansible
5 3 (5.77%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce