Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Computer Science Degree
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 2.86% 1.54% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.33% 6.90% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £274 - -
25th Percentile £275 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 - -
75th Percentile £293 - -
90th Percentile £440 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Sussex

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 75 29 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 30.61% 22.31% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 29
10th Percentile £180 £423 £393
25th Percentile £300 £444 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £593 £738 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £65.51
25th Percentile £21.50 - £66.27
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £67.54
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -77.79% +204.76%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £68.80
90th Percentile - - £69.56
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in West Sussex over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in West Sussex

Computer Science Degree
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 Computer Science Degree within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 29 December 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 7 £282 - 1
Computer Science Degree
South East

Computer Science Degree
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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MGCP
1 1 (14.29%) SCCP
1 1 (14.29%) Telepresence
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Couchbase
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
2 2 (28.57%) Gradle
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Android Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (28.57%) Dagger
2 2 (28.57%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) OkHttp
2 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (28.57%) RAML
2 2 (28.57%) RxJava
2 2 (28.57%) WireMock
3 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 1 (14.29%) gRPC
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Code
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) EMV
2 1 (14.29%) Java Card
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Android Development
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Time Management
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) iOS Development
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft