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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 42 14 39
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 16.67% 11.48% 17.11%
As % of the General category 26.25% 21.88% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 36
10th Percentile £400 £357 £331
25th Percentile £428 £373 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £492 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% -4.96% -11.60%
75th Percentile £514 £515 £591
90th Percentile £518 £516 £703
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%

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 160 64 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 63.49% 52.46% 53.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 48 83
10th Percentile £146 £189 £198
25th Percentile £281 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +2.63% -10.38%
75th Percentile £531 £631 £550
90th Percentile £693 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 10
10th Percentile £12.63 - £15.16
25th Percentile £12.72 - £18.20
Median hourly rate £18.12 £24.66 £20.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +20.66% -7.77%
75th Percentile £46.25 - £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 - £22.92
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £42.69 £37.50
% change year-on-year -47.84% +13.84% -11.03%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -1 22 £485 -5.75% 4
Crawley - 13 £400 - 1
Haywards Heath - 1 - - 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 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.38%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (47.62%) SAP PSCD
2 18 (42.86%) SAP BRIM
2 18 (42.86%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (4.76%) SAP HR
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.38%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) Collibra
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.38%) AWS
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) BGP
2 3 (7.14%) Junos
2 3 (7.14%) OSPF
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
3 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.38%) WAN
3 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Metadata
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) GitLab
1 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 27 (64.29%) Finance
2 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (57.14%) Telecoms
3 18 (42.86%) Billing
4 6 (14.29%) Electronics
4 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 6 (14.29%) Marketing
5 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Local Government
8 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Consultant
2 20 (47.62%) SAP Consultant
3 14 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
4 13 (30.95%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 5 (11.90%) Juniper Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Juniper Specialist
6 4 (9.52%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Data Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Data Quality Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Quality Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) HR Consultant
8 1 (2.38%) Scala Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) .NET
3 1 (2.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.38%) Play Framework
3 1 (2.38%) PySpark
3 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.38%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.38%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (2.38%) XML
3 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) NHS
2 2 (4.76%) CMDB
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) BYOD
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
1 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Revenue Management
2 18 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (14.29%) Programme Management
6 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.52%) High Availability
6 4 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (7.14%) Agile
7 3 (7.14%) Analytics
7 3 (7.14%) CRM
7 3 (7.14%) Data Architecture
7 3 (7.14%) Data Governance
7 3 (7.14%) Data Management
7 3 (7.14%) DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (7.14%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (2.38%) ABAP
2 1 (2.38%) Bash
2 1 (2.38%) C#
2 1 (2.38%) Scala
2 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (9.52%) JNCIA
2 4 (9.52%) JNCIP
2 4 (9.52%) JNCIS
3 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Grafana
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.38%) Puppet
1 1 (2.38%) Salt
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (66.67%) SAP
2 5 (11.90%) Juniper
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco
4 3 (7.14%) Databricks
5 2 (4.76%) Informatica
5 2 (4.76%) Talend
6 1 (2.38%) Adobe
6 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow