Banking Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Banking
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Banking in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Banking over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Banking 17 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 4.22% - 1.18%
As % of the General category 7.11% - 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £213 - £481
25th Percentile £225 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.50%
75th Percentile £463 - £591
90th Percentile £575 - £604
South East median daily rate £515 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +16.06% -11.25% -12.28%

All General Skills
West Sussex

Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 239 98 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 59.31% 54.44% 57.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 62 62
10th Percentile £184 £153 £190
25th Percentile £241 £170 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -4.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £527
90th Percentile £650 £671 £575
South East median daily rate £525 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 5
10th Percentile £30.82 £13.15 £24.45
25th Percentile £47.50 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% -32.79% +18.62%
75th Percentile £58.13 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £33.18 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £18.85 £57.35
% change year-on-year +122.87% -67.14% +9.24%

Banking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Banking job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Banking
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Banking
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Banking in West Sussex over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Banking in West Sussex

Banking
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Banking
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 Banking within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
Burgess Hill - 9 £238 - 3
Crawley - 2 £550 -
Horsham - 2 - -
Banking
South East

Banking
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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (23.53%) Couchbase
2 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
2 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 6 (35.29%) JUnit
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) Gradle
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
5 1 (5.88%) ER Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Local Government
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
2 5 (29.41%) Java Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Java Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Director
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) JPA
2 4 (23.53%) jQuery
2 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 4 (23.53%) Spring MVC
3 3 (17.65%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) Vert.x
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) gRPC
5 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 7 (41.18%) AI
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) AOP
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) Digital Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) System Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Web Development
5 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk