Java Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Java
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Java 9 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 3.85% 13.39% 7.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.52% 34.69% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £274 £409 £374
25th Percentile £290 £434 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £443 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% -23.08% -4.13%
75th Percentile £388 £600 £678
90th Percentile £596 £614 £686
South East median daily rate £425 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -26.09% +9.52% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 58 49 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 24.79% 38.58% 22.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 38 43
10th Percentile - £301 £374
25th Percentile £205 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.08% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £472 £600 £650
90th Percentile £564 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.67%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Java job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Java
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West Sussex over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Sussex

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java

Java
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 Java within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 November 2025. 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 6 £315 - 4
Worthing -9 3 £375 -13.62%
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) IntelliJ
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Toad
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) gRPC
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) EMV
2 1 (11.11%) Java Card
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) RAD
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Key Management
5 1 (11.11%) Personalization
5 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Go
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) webMethods
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) VMware