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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 53 49 153
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 11.32% 19.29% 26.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.41% 21.59% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 47 28 90
10th Percentile £27,500 - £29,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £30,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -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 323 227 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 69.02% 89.37% 87.87%
Number of salaries quoted 219 121 361
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,800 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +9 23 £60,000 -17.24% 11
Worthing +2 10 £70,000 +133.33% 4
Gatwick +4 8 £60,000 +24.35% 2
Horsham 0 7 £30,000 -36.84% 1
Burgess Hill -3 3 £70,000 +12.00%
Haywards Heath - 2 £56,250 - 2
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 (5.66%) CMS
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.66%) WordPress
2 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (5.66%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (5.66%) Adobe XD
2 3 (5.66%) InDesign
2 3 (5.66%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
1 10 (18.87%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.32%) IaaS
2 6 (11.32%) PaaS
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) Figma
6 2 (3.77%) AWS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) Datadog
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Intranet
2 7 (13.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Power BI
2 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Appium
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) JUnit
3 1 (1.89%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.89%) TestNG
3 1 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (60.38%) Finance
2 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
3 17 (32.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.98%) Manufacturing
6 6 (11.32%) Retail
7 4 (7.55%) Legal
8 3 (5.66%) Marketing
9 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Project Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Data Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Report Analyst
2 8 (15.09%) Senior
3 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) CloudOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) IT Support
5 4 (7.55%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Designer
6 3 (5.66%) Graphic Designer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.66%) Bootstrap
2 3 (5.66%) CSS
2 3 (5.66%) HTML
2 3 (5.66%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (3.77%) Kafka
3 2 (3.77%) OAuth
3 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.77%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) SAML
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.89%) Playwright
4 1 (1.89%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.66%) Social Media
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) CCTV
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
1 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (28.30%) Analytics
3 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.75%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.98%) Data Extraction
6 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.32%) Cloud Operations
7 6 (11.32%) FinOps
7 6 (11.32%) RBAC
7 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (9.43%) Agile
8 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (7.55%) Project Planning
9 4 (7.55%) Risk Management
9 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (7.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) SQL
2 8 (15.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.09%) Python
3 6 (11.32%) Bicep
4 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Go
6 1 (1.89%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) APMP
3 2 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.89%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) NIST
2 4 (7.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.87%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.77%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.30%) NEC
3 3 (5.66%) Adobe
4 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Databricks
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle