Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Digital Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Digital Engineering 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 225 126 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.79% 85.71% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 78 173
10th Percentile £275 £218 £213
25th Percentile £356 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +4.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £720 £635 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 15
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.39 £14.07
25th Percentile £27.00 £16.95 £18.20
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.25 £26.59
90th Percentile £67.50 £81.15 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -37.78% -5.26%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Digital Engineering
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 Digital Engineering within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 April 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
Crawley - 1 - - 1
Digital Engineering
South East

Digital Engineering
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
1 1 (100.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Async-Await
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift