Developer Contracts in Brighton

Developer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Developer daily rate in Brighton is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 10 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brighton 16.39% 30.77% 19.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.41% 31.37% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 5
10th Percentile £286 £306 £340
25th Percentile £319 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £538
90th Percentile £588 £490 £575
East Sussex median daily rate £550 £365 £450
% change year-on-year +50.68% -18.89% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brighton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Brighton with a recognized job title 49 51 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.33% 98.08% 98.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 60
10th Percentile £316 £306 £247
25th Percentile £435 £325 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +8.37%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £681
90th Percentile £638 £648 £820
East Sussex median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £16.89 - £52.38
25th Percentile £17.75 £23.63 £54.06
Median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.34% -57.02% +167.05%
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 £64.06
90th Percentile £21.59 - £66.13
East Sussex median hourly rate £19.36 £25.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.34% -51.90% +138.64%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Brighton.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Brighton

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Brighton.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Brighton

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Brighton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Brighton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Brighton

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Brighton.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Brighton

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brighton region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) React Native
3 3 (30.00%) Redux
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Umbraco
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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 2 (20.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) CSS
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) React Native
2 3 (30.00%) Redux
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Rackspace