Software Engineering Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Software Engineering
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Software Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 4.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £321 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 - -
75th Percentile £324 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% -4.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 86 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 91.89% 95.56% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 57
10th Percentile £344 £300 £285
25th Percentile £429 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £588
90th Percentile £748 £656 £705
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% +2.30% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile £15.05 - £11.00
25th Percentile £15.50 - £15.38
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -54.09%
75th Percentile £18.19 - £26.88
90th Percentile £60.99 - £51.50
South East median hourly rate £33.75 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% -16.67%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Software Engineering job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Software Engineering

Software Engineering
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Hastings - 2 - -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) gRPC
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Ada
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central