Architect Contracts in West Sussex

Architect
South East > West Sussex

The median Architect daily rate in West Sussex is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 July 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
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +24
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 19 13 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.11% 6.57% 14.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.10% 6.91% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 43
10th Percentile £469 £463 £650
25th Percentile £611 £556 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £698
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -10.46% +11.68%
75th Percentile £720 £775 £740
90th Percentile £761 £798 £772
South East median daily rate £600 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +2.36%
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 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.24% +16.61% -6.25%

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 157 188 321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.51% 94.95% 97.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 142 261
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £282 £375 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.12% -3.10%
75th Percentile £537 £527 £538
90th Percentile £641 £611 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 7 5
10th Percentile - £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.75 £22.23
Median hourly rate £18.82 £28.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +14.47% +35.89%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £48.00
90th Percentile £47.25 £33.50 £61.24
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +134.74%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 - 12 £650 - 2
Horsham -1 2 £800 +16.36%
Burgess Hill -9 1 £325 -31.58%
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
4 5 (26.32%) ArcGIS
4 5 (26.32%) Maximo
4 5 (26.32%) IBM
4 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
5 4 (21.05%) Azure
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (21.05%) ETL
5 4 (21.05%) Java
5 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 4 (21.05%) Python
5 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (21.05%) Data Security
5 4 (21.05%) ESRI
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Capacity Management
7 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (10.53%) ThingWorx
7 2 (10.53%) GDPR
7 2 (10.53%) Industrial Internet of Things

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 5 (26.32%) ArcGIS
2 2 (10.53%) NetWeaver
2 2 (10.53%) SAP EP
2 2 (10.53%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Maximo
2 2 (10.53%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (10.53%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) 4G
1 2 (10.53%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) GIS
2 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 2 (10.53%) NewSQL
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (10.53%) SAP PI
1 2 (10.53%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) e-Learning
2 2 (10.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Learning Management System
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) SCADA
2 2 (10.53%) SCORM
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
4 4 (21.05%) Data Security
4 4 (21.05%) ETL
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (15.79%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (10.53%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (10.53%) Instructional Design
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.53%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) ABAP
2 2 (10.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) IBM
2 4 (21.05%) ESRI
3 2 (10.53%) Adobe
3 2 (10.53%) Ariba
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) SAP