Degree Contracts 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 8 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -23
Contract jobs citing Degree 12 40 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 8.39% 16.00% 2.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.57% 57.97% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 2
10th Percentile £277 £255 £285
25th Percentile £289 £425 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £356
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +33.33% -28.03%
75th Percentile £375 £575 £404
90th Percentile £540 £588 £424
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £14.17
25th Percentile - - £19.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £22.16
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.33
South East median hourly rate £58.38 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +27.44% +11.11%

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 42 69 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 29.37% 27.60% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 49
10th Percentile £279 £353 £374
25th Percentile £325 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £537 £588 £585
90th Percentile £631 - £602
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £521
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.57% +4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £15.97 - £14.17
25th Percentile £17.42 £20.75 £19.31
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -2.98% -47.17%
75th Percentile £22.25 £22.25 £23.29
90th Percentile £23.69 - £25.33
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £59.45
% change year-on-year -1.05% -3.54% +32.12%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in West Sussex

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Degree in West Sussex

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in West Sussex over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in West Sussex

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in West Sussex

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 20 May 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
Worthing +10 5 £775 +55.00% 2
Burgess Hill +2 5 £289 -18.59% 12
Crawley -6 2 £350 -26.32% 21
Degree
South East

Degree
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 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.33%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Aviation
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Bid Manager
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Support
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Support Technician
2 1 (8.33%) ICT Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (25.00%) gRPC
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) BDD
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Kanban
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk