Public Sector Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Public Sector
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -29
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 38 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 11.45% 7.95% 4.12%
As % of the General category 19.90% 15.58% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 9
10th Percentile £378 £352 £358
25th Percentile £440 £419 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £481 £514 £563
90th Percentile £575 £515 -
South East median daily rate £500 £536 £455
% change year-on-year -6.72% +17.80% -6.67%

All General Skills
West Sussex

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 191 77 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 57.53% 50.99% 51.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 48 78
10th Percentile £170 £170 £283
25th Percentile £355 £254 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -3.95% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £698 £628 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 14
10th Percentile £40.98 £15.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £46.78 £16.60 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +178.96% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £21.68 £27.81
90th Percentile - £60.88 £29.00
South East median hourly rate £48.50 £19.96 £45.00
% change year-on-year +143.05% -55.66% -10.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in West Sussex over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in West Sussex

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Public Sector

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 June 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 +2 17 £469 -8.75% 5
Crawley +5 16 £550 +22.22%
Haywards Heath - 1 - -
Horsham - 1 - -
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.63%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (55.26%) SAP PSCD
2 10 (26.32%) SAP BRIM
2 10 (26.32%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (5.26%) SAP FI
3 2 (5.26%) SAP FI-CA
3 2 (5.26%) SAP HR
4 1 (2.63%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (2.63%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) Google Sheets
3 1 (2.63%) Serverless
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) BGP
2 1 (2.63%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.63%) Junos
2 1 (2.63%) LAN
2 1 (2.63%) OSPF
2 1 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) WAN
2 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Pentaho
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.63%) Git
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
1 1 (2.63%) TestRail
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 17 (44.74%) Finance
3 13 (34.21%) Telecoms
4 11 (28.95%) Billing
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Legal
5 3 (7.89%) Local Government
6 2 (5.26%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Consultant
2 19 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
3 18 (47.37%) Functional Consultant
4 17 (44.74%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
6 2 (5.26%) ABAP Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) SAP Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Digital Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Digital Performance Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Juniper Specialist
7 1 (2.63%) Lead
7 1 (2.63%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (5.26%) SAPUI5
2 2 (5.26%) SOAP
2 2 (5.26%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) Web Services
3 1 (2.63%) XML
3 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) NHS
2 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Revenue Management
2 10 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (13.16%) Agile
3 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.53%) Analytics
4 4 (10.53%) CRM
4 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.53%) User Research
5 3 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) Risk Management
5 3 (7.89%) Service Design
5 3 (7.89%) Workflow
6 2 (5.26%) Business Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.26%) Change Management
6 2 (5.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) ABAP
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) JNCIA
4 2 (5.26%) JNCIP
4 2 (5.26%) JNCIS
5 1 (2.63%) CCSK
5 1 (2.63%) CISM
5 1 (2.63%) CISSP
5 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (2.63%) NIST
1 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.63%) RMADS
1 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Ansible
1 1 (2.63%) Grafana
1 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.63%) Puppet
1 1 (2.63%) Salt
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) SAP
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Adobe
4 2 (5.26%) Juniper
4 2 (5.26%) Talend
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco
5 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) HP
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce