Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Technical Leadership
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.79% 5.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 6.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £543 £540 -
25th Percentile £588 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -
75th Percentile £680 £638 -
90th Percentile £722 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -24.00% +19.05% -5.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Technical Leadership 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 182 109 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.61% 85.83% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 80 193
10th Percentile £170 £199 £213
25th Percentile £206 £379 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £591 £588
90th Percentile £703 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 5
10th Percentile £12.63 - £18.92
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £28.92
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.04
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +39.47%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in West Sussex over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in West Sussex

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
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 Technical Leadership within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 November 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 -9 3 £625 - 2
Crawley -7 1 £638 +31.44% 1
Technical Leadership
South East

Technical Leadership
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
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (25.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) Symantec
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas
1 1 (25.00%) VMware