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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 68 68 121
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 16.27% 21.52% 28.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.15% 24.29% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 60 30 65
10th Percentile £27,725 £31,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,900 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% -7.11%

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 307 280 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.44% 88.61% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 215 142 255
10th Percentile £27,600 £28,650 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,988 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,625 £76,600
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +7 26 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Gatwick +4 11 £60,000 +60.00% 3
Horsham -3 9 £35,000 -26.32% 2
Worthing -1 7 £29,000 -58.57% 3
Haywards Heath - 6 £56,250 -
Burgess Hill -2 3 £70,000 +12.00% 3
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 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.41%) CMS
2 3 (4.41%) WordPress
3 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (4.41%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (4.41%) Adobe XD
3 3 (4.41%) InDesign
3 3 (4.41%) Photoshop
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.24%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.29%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.82%) Azure
5 5 (7.35%) AWS
6 4 (5.88%) Nutanix
7 3 (4.41%) Figma
7 3 (4.41%) IaaS
7 3 (4.41%) PaaS
7 3 (4.41%) SaaS
8 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.94%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) Intranet
2 7 (10.29%) VPN
3 2 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (2.94%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (2.94%) DHCP
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) Firewall
3 2 (2.94%) IP Telephony
3 2 (2.94%) IPsec
3 2 (2.94%) LAN
3 2 (2.94%) MPLS
3 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) VLAN
3 2 (2.94%) WAN
3 2 (2.94%) Wireless
3 2 (2.94%) Wireless Security
3 2 (2.94%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.24%) Power BI
1 9 (13.24%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) Appium
3 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.47%) JUnit
3 1 (1.47%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.47%) Selenium
3 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.47%) TestNG
3 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (51.47%) Finance
2 34 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (32.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (19.12%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (8.82%) Legal
7 6 (8.82%) Retail
8 4 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (4.41%) Electronics
9 3 (4.41%) Marketing
9 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Project Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Analyst
2 11 (16.18%) Senior
3 9 (13.24%) Project Manager
4 8 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.76%) IT Support
4 8 (11.76%) Report Analyst
5 6 (8.82%) Consultant
6 4 (5.88%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Automation Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Designer
7 3 (4.41%) Graphic Designer
7 3 (4.41%) Linux Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Sales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Bootstrap
1 3 (4.41%) CSS
1 3 (4.41%) HTML
1 3 (4.41%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.94%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.94%) Kafka
2 2 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Middleware
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.47%) Playwright
3 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.41%) Social Media
2 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) CCTV
3 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
1 8 (11.76%) Windows 10
2 5 (7.35%) Linux
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (22.06%) Agile
3 13 (19.12%) Analytics
4 10 (14.71%) Project Delivery
5 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 8 (11.76%) Data Extraction
6 8 (11.76%) Project Management
7 7 (10.29%) Coaching
7 7 (10.29%) DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.82%) Scrum
9 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.35%) Programme Management
9 5 (7.35%) Risk Management
10 4 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (5.88%) Contract Negotiation
10 4 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) SQL
2 5 (7.35%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) R
4 3 (4.41%) Bicep
4 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (1.47%) Bash
6 1 (1.47%) Java
6 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.94%) APMP
4 2 (2.94%) CCNA
4 2 (2.94%) CCNP
4 2 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.47%) ACCA
5 1 (1.47%) CEH
5 1 (1.47%) CIMA
5 1 (1.47%) CISM
5 1 (1.47%) CISSP
5 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.47%) LPIC
5 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) NIST
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Terraform
2 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.88%) Ansible
3 4 (5.88%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (26.47%) NEC
3 4 (5.88%) Cisco
4 3 (4.41%) Adobe
5 2 (2.94%) Meraki
5 2 (2.94%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.47%) Databricks
6 1 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.47%) Netskope
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle
6 1 (1.47%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.47%) VMware