Architect Contracts in West Sussex

Architect
South East > West Sussex

The median Architect daily rate in West Sussex is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 27 7
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 18 12 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 12.33% 4.60% 15.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.74% 4.78% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 37
10th Percentile £437 £463 £588
25th Percentile £470 £571 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £750 £678
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +10.62% +10.24%
75th Percentile £634 £775 £698
90th Percentile £638 £795 £748
South East median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.50 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £87.46 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.24% +24.94% +18.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 131 251 266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 96.17% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 188 210
10th Percentile £244 £258 £181
25th Percentile £350 £400 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £537 £515 £588
90th Percentile £629 £588 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 7
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.69 £17.60
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% +24.85%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.75 £22.64
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.53 £24.55
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West Sussex

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Architect in West Sussex

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in West Sussex

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in West Sussex

Architect
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worthing +19 9 £623 - 2
Burgess Hill +3 4 £325 -31.58%
Crawley - 3 £625 - 30
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 6 (33.33%) SAP PI
4 6 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (33.33%) ABAP
4 6 (33.33%) SAP
4 6 (33.33%) CRM
4 6 (33.33%) ERP
4 6 (33.33%) Ariba
4 6 (33.33%) NetWeaver
4 6 (33.33%) SAP CRM
4 6 (33.33%) SAP EP
4 6 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (33.33%) SAPUI5
4 6 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (16.67%) Azure

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) NetWeaver
1 6 (33.33%) SAP EP
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) EngageOne
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
2 2 (11.11%) NewSQL
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GCC
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Billing
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (33.33%) SAP PI
1 6 (33.33%) SAPUI5
2 2 (11.11%) Qt
3 1 (5.56%) QML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) e-Learning
3 2 (11.11%) Learning Management System
3 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) SCORM
4 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (33.33%) CRM
1 6 (33.33%) ERP
1 6 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
1 6 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Data Security
4 3 (16.67%) ETL
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) ETRM
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Use Case
5 2 (11.11%) User Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) ABAP
3 3 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Ariba
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks