Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Software Engineering
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Crawley requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 5.63% - 9.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £333 - £306
25th Percentile £344 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £363
75th Percentile £438 - £458
90th Percentile £468 - £488
West Sussex median daily rate £314 £325 £363
% change year-on-year -3.38% -10.34% -33.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Crawley

Software Engineering 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 Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 24 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 77.46% 75.00% 98.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 50
10th Percentile £181 £202 £245
25th Percentile £205 £308 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +7.95% -9.74%
75th Percentile £455 £499 £537
90th Percentile £575 £564 £678
West Sussex median daily rate £450 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -1.10% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.51
25th Percentile £15.50 - £66.27
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £67.54
75th Percentile £29.25 - £68.80
90th Percentile £52.20 - £69.56
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% -41.67% +136.74%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in Crawley

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Software Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Software Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley 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 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker