Java Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sussex

Java Engineer
South East > Sussex

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Sussex is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sussex 4.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £365 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -43.85% +13.04% +3.37%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sussex. 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 Sussex with a recognized job title 20 18 9
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £388 £391 £401
25th Percentile £409 £437 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £531 £526 £475
90th Percentile £719 £607 -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -75.24% - -
75th Percentile £13.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -40.82% -12.19% +14.11%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Sussex

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex

For the 6 months to 23 January 2026, Java Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sussex region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL