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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 71 68 141
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 8.90% 18.38% 20.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 20.30% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 60 46 93
10th Percentile £15,600 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -22.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £66,300
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -12.37%

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 573 335 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 71.80% 90.54% 80.20%
Number of salaries quoted 394 211 390
10th Percentile £29,225 £29,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £75,874 £72,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -8 19 £70,000 +38.61% 2
Crawley -6 16 £50,000 +7.53% 8
Horsham -9 10 £15,600 -61.00% 4
Haywards Heath -6 5 £70,000 - 3
Bognor Regis - 5 - -
East Grinstead +6 4 - - 2
Chichester - 4 £47,500 - 2
Burgess Hill -3 2 £70,000 +33.33% 6
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 (5.63%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.82%) SAS
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.04%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Magento
2 2 (2.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) Azure
2 13 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (11.27%) Datadog
3 8 (11.27%) GitHub
3 8 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (11.27%) IaaS
3 8 (11.27%) OpenShift
3 8 (11.27%) PaaS
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.82%) AWS
7 2 (2.82%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.82%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) VPN
2 3 (4.23%) Broadband
2 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) VoIP
3 2 (2.82%) Intranet
3 2 (2.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.82%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.82%) Power BI
2 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Git
1 8 (11.27%) GitLab
2 2 (2.82%) PHPUnit
General
1 42 (59.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (28.17%) Finance
4 7 (9.86%) Law
4 7 (9.86%) Military
5 4 (5.63%) Retail
6 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.41%) Back Office
8 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (12.68%) Senior
2 8 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) IT Support
4 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) CloudOps Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Team Leader
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Support
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) ARM Templates
1 8 (11.27%) OAuth
1 8 (11.27%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (11.27%) SAML
2 2 (2.82%) CSS
2 2 (2.82%) HTML
2 2 (2.82%) LAMP
2 2 (2.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Analytical Mindset
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Hackathon
2 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.45%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.63%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (5.63%) SCADA
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Windows
2 5 (7.04%) Debian
2 5 (7.04%) Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.23%) CentOS
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (36.62%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 17 (23.94%) Customer Service
5 16 (22.54%) Containerisation
5 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (16.90%) Analytics
9 11 (15.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (12.68%) RBAC
10 9 (12.68%) SDLC
10 9 (12.68%) Security Operations
10 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
11 8 (11.27%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.27%) FinOps
11 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (11.27%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (11.27%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.54%) PowerShell
2 12 (16.90%) Python
2 12 (16.90%) SQL
3 8 (11.27%) Bash
3 8 (11.27%) Bicep
4 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (15.49%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.90%) PCI DSS
2 11 (15.49%) QA
3 8 (11.27%) NIST
4 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
5 5 (7.04%) SLA
6 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (26.76%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 18 (25.35%) Terraform
3 11 (15.49%) Grafana
4 8 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.04%) Puppet
6 3 (4.23%) Ansible
6 3 (4.23%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.27%) Dynatrace
2 8 (11.27%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.63%) Databricks
4 3 (4.23%) VMware
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) MobileIron
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Workday