Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Public Sector
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Crawley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 11 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 13.58% - 23.81%
As % of the General category 25.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £154 - £500
25th Percentile £216 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.52%
75th Percentile - - £706
90th Percentile £494 - £720
West Sussex median daily rate £501 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.67% -0.58% -5.30%

All General Skills
Crawley

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 44 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 54.32% 47.37% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 14 14
10th Percentile - £179 £389
25th Percentile £135 £251 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -65.26% -24.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £400 £525 £705
90th Percentile £475 £738 £715
West Sussex median daily rate £463 £460 £518
% change year-on-year +0.54% -11.20% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.07
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.41 - £28.92
% change year-on-year - - +33.09%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Crawley

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Crawley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Crawley over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Crawley

Public Sector
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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) BGP
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) Junos
1 3 (27.27%) OSPF
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
3 3 (27.27%) Electronics
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Juniper Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Juniper Specialist
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Network Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (27.27%) High Availability
1 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (27.27%) Programme Management
2 2 (18.18%) CRM
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (9.09%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
3 1 (9.09%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) LLM
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) JNCIA
2 3 (27.27%) JNCIP
2 3 (27.27%) JNCIS
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Juniper
1 4 (36.36%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAI