Java Contracts in West Sussex

Java
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing Java 12 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.62% 11.64% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.88% 38.20% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 17
10th Percentile £359 £410 £390
25th Percentile £363 £542 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £608 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.16% +21.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £425 £678 £560
90th Percentile £445 - £594
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -5.17%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 101 89 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 38.85% 30.48% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 70 64
10th Percentile £293 £303 £375
25th Percentile £362 £378 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £493 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +8.24% +1.11%
75th Percentile £488 £618 £558
90th Percentile £588 £678 £602
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £23.18 - £52.40
25th Percentile £23.81 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -59.71% -
75th Percentile £27.81 £23.29 £62.63
90th Percentile £28.53 £25.33 £67.05
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +9.35% +26.68% +2.15%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
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 Java within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Burgess Hill - 9 £400 - 3
Java
South East

Java
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 1 (8.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Couchbase
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Perl Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
2 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (41.67%) Kafka
4 2 (16.67%) Jest
4 2 (16.67%) React
4 2 (16.67%) Redux
4 2 (16.67%) Vert.x
5 1 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (8.33%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) SEO
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (8.33%) Android Development
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kibana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk