Architect Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Architect
West Sussex > Crawley

The median Architect daily rate in Crawley is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 3.85% 9.09% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.84% 11.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
West Sussex median daily rate £664 £623 £750
% change year-on-year +6.67% -17.00% +10.62%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Crawley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Crawley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Crawley with a recognized job title 62 26 63
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.49% 78.79% 96.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 45
10th Percentile £355 £214 £200
25th Percentile £456 £328 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -5.13%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £563
90th Percentile £600 £738 £588
West Sussex median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £55.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £43.56 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +131.46% -12.47% -2.98%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Architect job vacancy trend in Crawley

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Crawley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Crawley

Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley

For the 6 months to 18 April 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Crawley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) MLflow
1 3 (100.00%) MLOps
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) MLOps
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
Architect jobs