Lead Contracts in West Sussex

Leader
South East > West Sussex

The median Leader daily rate in West Sussex is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead 8 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.30% 3.66% 4.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% 3.87% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £284 £392 £475
25th Percentile £290 £456 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £775
90th Percentile £723 £575 -
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.50 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £68.50 £22.54 £60.84
% change year-on-year +203.90% -62.95% +23.19%

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 160 181 317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.02% 94.76% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 144 256
10th Percentile £201 £200 £200
25th Percentile £258 £358 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £537 £526 £535
90th Percentile £701 £588 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 5
10th Percentile - £24.45 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £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 £44.50 £35.75 £61.24
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +124.72%

Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings that featured Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Lead in West Sussex

Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Lead in West Sussex

Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead in West Sussex over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead in West Sussex

Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Lead in West Sussex

Lead
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 Lead within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 August 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 £550 - 3
Burgess Hill -4 2 £285 -28.75%
Chichester +4 1 - - 1
Lead
South East

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 2025, Lead 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 Lead in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) JBoss
3 2 (25.00%) RAD
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) PMO
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework

Lead 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 2 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Learning Management System
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) SCORM
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) RAD
2 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Instructional Design
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Alteryx
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore