Degree Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Academic Degree
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Degree 17 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 7.26% 8.20% 5.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.37% 38.46% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 6
10th Percentile - £417 £271
25th Percentile £275 £446 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +35.38%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £598
90th Percentile £583 £565 £621
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -78.59% +216.20%
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £41.75 £60.50
% change year-on-year -29.08% -30.99% +34.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Sussex

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 76 26 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 32.48% 21.31% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 19 27
10th Percentile £181 £421 £385
25th Percentile £300 £444 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -1.38% +2.42%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £556
90th Percentile £602 £738 £665
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 £45.06 £60.00
% change year-on-year -44.19% -24.90% +33.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Degree job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in West Sussex over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in West Sussex

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

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 Degree within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 11 January 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 +4 9 £278 - 1
Crawley -4 6 £525 +6.60% 72
Gatwick -2 1 - - 3
Worthing - 1 £475 - 1
Degree
South East

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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MGCP
1 1 (5.88%) SCCP
1 1 (5.88%) Telepresence
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
1 1 (5.88%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) Couchbase
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) CircleCI
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Gradle
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Android Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Project Planner
3 2 (11.76%) Android Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) Android Jetpack
2 3 (17.65%) Dagger
2 3 (17.65%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (17.65%) OkHttp
2 3 (17.65%) RAML
2 3 (17.65%) RxJava
2 3 (17.65%) WireMock
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) gRPC
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Code
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) EMV
3 1 (5.88%) Java Card
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.88%) Smartcard
3 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Computer Science
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Open Source
4 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Android Development
5 3 (17.65%) Contract Management
5 3 (17.65%) Critical Path Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Earned Value Management
5 3 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) Monte Carlo Method
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) Budget Management
6 2 (11.76%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Kotlin
2 2 (11.76%) Go
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
2 3 (17.65%) PMP
3 1 (5.88%) ISEB
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft