Computer Science Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Computer Science
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Computer Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 10 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.41% 7.28% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 8.59% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £271 £338 -
25th Percentile £274 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% - -
75th Percentile £290 £490 -
90th Percentile £618 £627 -
South East median daily rate £388 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -13.89% -10.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Computer Science 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 128 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 81.08% 84.77% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 88 243
10th Percentile £170 £198 £200
25th Percentile £220 £356 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -8.72% -0.40%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £544
90th Percentile £711 £627 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 4
10th Percentile £12.63 £24.45 £15.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.84
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.00 £35.38
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -20.85% +66.08%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £53.52
90th Percentile - £35.75 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +70.14%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in West Sussex

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in West Sussex over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in West Sussex

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Computer Science
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 within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +1 8 £280 -30.00% 1
Crawley - 1 £550 - 5
Worthing - 1 £775 -
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) ThingWorx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (60.00%) gRPC
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) TDD
3 6 (60.00%) BDD
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (60.00%) Kanban
3 6 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) RAD
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk