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

6 months to
17 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 80 80 109
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 9.05% 19.56% 23.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.27% 22.16% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 61 62 55
10th Percentile £15,600 £37,500 £35,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -15.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £66,125
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% -0.99%

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 652 361 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.76% 88.26% 79.39%
Number of salaries quoted 473 240 214
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% -2.73% -3.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
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 17 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 17 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 23 £68,750 +36.14% 11
Crawley -16 16 £36,000 -40.00% 25
Horsham -10 12 £15,600 -61.00% 16
East Grinstead +7 5 - -
Bognor Regis - 5 - -
Chichester - 5 £47,500 - 5
Burgess Hill -2 4 £51,250 +70.83% 12
Haywards Heath -5 4 £57,500 - 21
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.50%) SAS
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) IaaS
2 8 (10.00%) PaaS
3 7 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Databricks
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.75%) AWS
6 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
6 3 (3.75%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.50%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) VPN
2 3 (3.75%) Broadband
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) VoIP
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.75%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.50%) GIS
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (1.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) PHPUnit
2 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 52 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (26.25%) Finance
4 10 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 7 (8.75%) Law
5 7 (8.75%) Military
6 6 (7.50%) Aerospace
7 5 (6.25%) Retail
7 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.75%) Aviation
8 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Back Office
9 2 (2.50%) Electronics
9 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (12.50%) Senior
2 9 (11.25%) Analyst
3 7 (8.75%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) IT Support
4 6 (7.50%) Lead
4 6 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) CloudOps Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Team Leader
6 4 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.75%) CSS
3 3 (3.75%) HTML
3 3 (3.75%) LAMP
3 3 (3.75%) Sass
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.75%) Hackathon
4 6 (7.50%) Driving Licence
5 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (6.25%) SCADA
6 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.25%) IoT
9 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Debian
2 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) CentOS
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (23.75%) Customer Service
2 19 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (22.50%) DevOps
4 15 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (16.25%) Analytics
6 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.50%) AI
7 10 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.50%) RBAC
7 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 9 (11.25%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (10.00%) Code Quality
9 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (10.00%) SDLC
9 8 (10.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) Python
1 11 (13.75%) SQL
2 7 (8.75%) Bicep
2 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.75%) PHP
4 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) HND
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.25%) IIBA
5 1 (1.25%) MCITP
5 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.25%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) QA
2 12 (15.00%) PCI DSS
3 7 (8.75%) NIST
4 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 5 (6.25%) SLA
5 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Puppet
3 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) Grafana
3 2 (2.50%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Thales
2 5 (6.25%) VMware
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.75%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.75%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Workday
5 1 (1.25%) YouTube