Architectural Patterns Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Architectural Patterns
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Architectural Patterns skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Architectural Patterns 1 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.36% 0.70% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.79% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £725 - £825
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £700 £750
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Architectural Patterns falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 127 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.06% 88.81% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 81 166
10th Percentile £206 £213 £213
25th Percentile £354 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £523
90th Percentile £720 £638 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £23.53 £16.95 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.56 £18.82 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year +131.46% -7.91% -7.77%
75th Percentile £61.88 £50.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.50 £28.25
South East median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% -16.67%

Architectural Patterns
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Patterns relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Architectural Patterns job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Architectural Patterns
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Architectural Patterns.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Architectural Patterns

Architectural Patterns
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 Architectural Patterns within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worthing -11 1 £700 -12.50%
Architectural Patterns
South East

Architectural Patterns
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fit Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware