Generative AI Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Generative AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Generative AI 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £362 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £526 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Generative AI 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 225 127 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.51% 87.59% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 77 174
10th Percentile £275 £217 £304
25th Percentile £352 £350 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £523
90th Percentile £700 £632 £588
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.05% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 13
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.39 £13.63
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 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £81.15 £28.05
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

Generative AI
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Generative AI job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Generative AI
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Generative AI in West Sussex over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Generative AI in West Sussex

Generative AI
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 Generative AI within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 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 - 3 £550 -
Burgess Hill - 1 £307 - 1
Generative AI
South East

Generative AI
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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAI