Customer Requirements Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Customer Requirements
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Customer Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 29 35
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.04% 1.63% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.89% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £361 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £373 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -35.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £385 £588
90th Percentile - £386 -
South East median daily rate £595 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -0.83% +20.00% +20.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Customer Requirements 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 327 159 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.72% 86.41% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 105 149
10th Percentile £225 £170 £275
25th Percentile £355 £274 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £525
90th Percentile £650 £638 £603
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 12
10th Percentile £13.13 - £18.20
25th Percentile £15.59 £15.50 £20.11
Median hourly rate £26.50 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.81% -12.47% -4.25%
75th Percentile £46.78 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £47.25 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

Customer Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Customer Requirements job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Customer Requirements

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Worthing -11 3 £358 -3.89%
Crawley - 1 - - 2
Customer Requirements
South East

Customer Requirements
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 (25.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle