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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 81 96 107
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 21.09% 23.19% 20.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.47% 28.32% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 66 38 63
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £42,625 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £69,300 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and 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 331 339 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.20% 81.88% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 223 172 338
10th Percentile £27,550 £31,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,375 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,853 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 2025. 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 +1 23 £60,000 +20.00% 23
Horsham -1 19 £40,000 -15.79% 23
Worthing +1 14 £50,500 -15.83% 12
Gatwick +1 6 £60,000 +60.00% 1
Haywards Heath +7 5 £52,500 +32.91% 1
Burgess Hill +7 3 £50,000 -20.00% 8
East Grinstead -6 1 £24,000 - 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 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 2 (2.47%) WordPress
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.47%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.47%) Adobe XD
2 2 (2.47%) InDesign
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.47%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 7 (8.64%) AWS
4 6 (7.41%) Nutanix
5 3 (3.70%) Azure
5 3 (3.70%) Contentsquare
5 3 (3.70%) Google Analytics
5 3 (3.70%) SaaS
6 2 (2.47%) Figma
6 2 (2.47%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (2.47%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (2.47%) DHCP
3 2 (2.47%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.47%) IP Telephony
3 2 (2.47%) IPsec
3 2 (2.47%) LAN
3 2 (2.47%) MPLS
3 2 (2.47%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) VLAN
3 2 (2.47%) WAN
3 2 (2.47%) Wireless
3 2 (2.47%) Wireless Security
3 2 (2.47%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.23%) MySQL
1 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.23%) Power BI
1 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.23%) Appium
3 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) JUnit
3 1 (1.23%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.23%) Selenium
3 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.23%) TestNG
3 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.16%) Finance
3 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.94%) Electronics
5 4 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.70%) Marketing
6 3 (3.70%) Retail
6 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) IT Support
2 13 (16.05%) 3rd Line Support
3 10 (12.35%) Consultant
3 10 (12.35%) Project Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Lead
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (6.17%) Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Workday Specialist
7 4 (4.94%) Automation Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Linux Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Linux Consultant
7 4 (4.94%) Workday Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) IT Support Technician
8 3 (3.70%) IT Technician
8 3 (3.70%) Sales Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) HTML
2 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.47%) Bootstrap
2 2 (2.47%) CSS
2 2 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) Playwright
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.70%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.70%) Learning Management System
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Social Media
4 1 (1.23%) CCTV
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.86%) Windows
2 16 (19.75%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (19.75%) Agile
3 9 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 9 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 7 (8.64%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (8.64%) Mentoring
4 7 (8.64%) Process Improvement
4 7 (8.64%) Project Delivery
4 7 (8.64%) Risk Management
5 6 (7.41%) Coaching
5 6 (7.41%) Project Management
5 6 (7.41%) Scrum
6 5 (6.17%) Analytics
6 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (6.17%) User Experience
6 5 (6.17%) UX Design
7 4 (4.94%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (4.94%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (4.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.17%) SQL
2 4 (4.94%) R
3 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) Go
4 1 (1.23%) Java
4 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.47%) CCNA
3 2 (2.47%) CCNP
3 2 (2.47%) CEH
3 2 (2.47%) CISM
3 2 (2.47%) CISSP
4 1 (1.23%) ACCA
4 1 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.23%) CIMA
4 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.94%) GDPR
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (6.17%) ZABBIX
3 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) Cisco
3 10 (12.35%) Meraki
3 10 (12.35%) NEC
4 9 (11.11%) Workday
5 3 (3.70%) Google
5 3 (3.70%) Hotjar
6 2 (2.47%) Adobe
6 2 (2.47%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.47%) Netskope
6 2 (2.47%) Rapid7
6 2 (2.47%) Riverbed
6 2 (2.47%) VMware
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle