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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +8
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 50 44 180
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 7.65% 16.18% 24.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 16.73% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 41 29 105
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £47,125 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 433 263 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 66.21% 96.69% 84.48%
Number of salaries quoted 268 161 417
10th Percentile £28,700 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,449 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £75,874 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +4 21 £50,000 +7.53% 5
Worthing -6 7 £70,000 +75.00% 8
Horsham -9 5 £15,600 - 2
Bognor Regis - 5 - -
Haywards Heath -10 4 £70,000 -
Gatwick +1 2 £74,500 +21.63%
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 4 (8.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (16.00%) Datadog
2 8 (16.00%) GitHub
2 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
3 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.00%) IaaS
4 6 (12.00%) PaaS
5 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Intranet
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 3 (6.00%) Broadband
3 3 (6.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Power BI
2 6 (12.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) GitLab
2 8 (16.00%) Git
General
1 29 (58.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Finance
3 16 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.00%) Retail
6 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
7 2 (4.00%) Military
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (16.00%) Senior
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) CloudOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) E-Commerce Executive
4 4 (8.00%) Report Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (6.00%) IT Support
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
5 3 (6.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) OAuth
1 8 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (16.00%) SAML
2 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.00%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) CentOS
2 3 (6.00%) Debian
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.00%) VMS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (36.00%) DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (24.00%) Customer Service
6 10 (20.00%) Analytics
7 8 (16.00%) Batch Processing
7 8 (16.00%) Observability
8 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (12.00%) Cloud Operations
9 6 (12.00%) Data Extraction
9 6 (12.00%) FinOps
9 6 (12.00%) RBAC
10 5 (10.00%) Coaching
10 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 5 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 5 (10.00%) ITIL
10 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (18.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) Python
4 6 (12.00%) Bicep
4 6 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.00%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.00%) SLA
3 4 (8.00%) NIST
3 4 (8.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (6.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.00%) Terraform
3 11 (22.00%) Grafana
4 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Ansible
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (16.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) NEC
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle