Software Engineering Contracts in West Sussex

Software Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -21
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 8 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.11% 3.58% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 4.07% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £253 £433 £494
25th Percentile £313 £547 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +16.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £575 - £544
90th Percentile - £584 £570
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.24% +16.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.08
25th Percentile - £22.23 £52.56
Median hourly rate - £24.46 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - -54.91% -1.36%
75th Percentile - £26.69 £55.19
90th Percentile - - £55.23
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £58.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.84% +11.43% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 270 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 91.05% 87.95% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 215 309
10th Percentile £313 £181 £162
25th Percentile £403 £301 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £585
90th Percentile £588 £698 £638
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 7
10th Percentile £13.63 £18.74 £14.82
25th Percentile £18.20 - £19.32
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -36.69% -20.00%
75th Percentile £22.25 £22.40 £55.13
90th Percentile £28.05 £24.19 £58.65
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Sussex over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 4 £313 - 3
Crawley +9 3 £550 +51.72% 4
Horsham - 1 £325 - 3
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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 (12.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) gRPC
3 2 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (62.50%) Kanban
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) OO
4 3 (37.50%) OOD
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) SOLID
4 3 (37.50%) Storyboarding
4 3 (37.50%) UML
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Go
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk