Artificial Intelligence Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Artificial Intelligence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 26 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Artificial Intelligence 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.16% 1.32% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.55% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £494 - £710
25th Percentile £498 £313 £716
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £740
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -56.08% -
75th Percentile £513 £338 £760
90th Percentile £535 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Artificial Intelligence 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 150 129 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.08% 84.87% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 89 244
10th Percentile £170 £193 £200
25th Percentile £220 £351 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -8.72% -0.40%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £556
90th Percentile £711 £625 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 4
10th Percentile £12.63 £24.45 £15.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.84
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £35.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -20.85% +66.08%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £53.52
90th Percentile - £35.75 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Artificial Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Artificial Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Artificial Intelligence in West Sussex

Artificial Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Artificial Intelligence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence
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 Artificial Intelligence within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 - 4 £500 -
Artificial Intelligence
South East

Artificial Intelligence
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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (75.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (75.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow