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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 75 81 109
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 8.64% 19.71% 23.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.81% 22.25% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 59 62 56
10th Percentile £15,600 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -10.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £66,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £74,875 £69,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -1.96%

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 635 364 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.16% 88.56% 79.01%
Number of salaries quoted 467 241 220
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% -2.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 14 September 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 14 September 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
Worthing -2 20 £70,000 +38.61% 9
Crawley -15 17 £36,750 -38.75% 29
Horsham -13 9 £15,600 -61.00% 14
East Grinstead +6 5 - - 1
Haywards Heath -4 5 £70,000 - 15
Bognor Regis - 5 - -
Burgess Hill -1 4 £51,250 +70.83% 11
Chichester - 4 £47,500 - 4
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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.67%) SAS
4 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.33%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) IaaS
2 8 (10.67%) PaaS
3 7 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Databricks
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.00%) AWS
6 3 (4.00%) Cloudflare
6 3 (4.00%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.33%) Datadog
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub
8 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) VPN
2 3 (4.00%) Broadband
2 3 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) VoIP
3 2 (2.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.33%) Big Data
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 46 (61.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (22.67%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.33%) Law
5 7 (9.33%) Military
6 6 (8.00%) Aerospace
7 5 (6.67%) Retail
8 3 (4.00%) Aviation
8 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.67%) Electronics
9 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.33%) Back Office
10 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (12.00%) Senior
2 8 (10.67%) Analyst
3 7 (9.33%) Lead
4 6 (8.00%) IT Support
4 6 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) CloudOps Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.67%) Team Leader
5 5 (6.67%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.00%) CSS
3 3 (4.00%) HTML
3 3 (4.00%) LAMP
3 3 (4.00%) Sass
4 1 (1.33%) OAuth
4 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Hackathon
3 6 (8.00%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (6.67%) SCADA
5 4 (5.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.33%) IoT
8 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.00%) Windows
2 6 (8.00%) Debian
2 6 (8.00%) Linux
3 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.00%) CentOS
4 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (25.33%) DevOps
3 17 (22.67%) Customer Service
3 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (16.00%) Analytics
6 11 (14.67%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (12.00%) Service Delivery
9 8 (10.67%) Agile
9 8 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.67%) ITIL
9 8 (10.67%) RBAC
9 8 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (10.67%) SDLC
9 8 (10.67%) Security Operations
10 7 (9.33%) FinOps
10 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) Python
1 11 (14.67%) SQL
2 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.33%) Bicep
4 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.00%) PHP
5 1 (1.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) HND
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) CCNP
5 1 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.33%) MCITP
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.67%) QA
2 12 (16.00%) PCI DSS
3 7 (9.33%) NIST
4 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 5 (6.67%) SLA
5 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.00%) Puppet
3 4 (5.33%) Grafana
4 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 3 (4.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Thales
2 5 (6.67%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.33%) YouTube