Developer Contracts in West Sussex

Developer
South East > West Sussex

The median Developer daily rate in West Sussex is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 14 23 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 9.40% 9.31% 16.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.77% 9.75% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 44
10th Percentile £288 £351 £356
25th Percentile £306 £358 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £381 £414
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -7.97% -23.33%
75th Percentile £425 £438 -
90th Percentile £448 £463 £575
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £505
% change year-on-year - -5.94% +1.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West Sussex with a recognized job title 130 236 289
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.25% 95.55% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 179 231
10th Percentile £220 £210 £181
25th Percentile £325 £386 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £414
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -17.20%
75th Percentile £525 £508 £587
90th Percentile £613 £588 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 7
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.69 £17.60
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% +23.11%
75th Percentile £24.66 £27.81 £22.64
90th Percentile £72.45 £29.00 £24.55
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £48.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -31.15% -4.00% +150.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in West Sussex

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in West Sussex

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in West Sussex

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in West Sussex

Developer
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 Developer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Crawley +7 4 £400 -15.79% 272
Burgess Hill -6 3 £288 -26.81% 1
Worthing +5 2 £450 +25.70% 3
Developer
South East

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 1 June 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) ERP
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 4 (28.57%) Power BI
4 4 (28.57%) OCI
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle
4 4 (28.57%) XML
4 4 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Supply Chain Management
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Subversion
5 3 (21.43%) BDD
5 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (21.43%) Git
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration

Developer Skill Set
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) OCI
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) OLAP
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
1 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (28.57%) XML
2 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 3 (21.43%) gRPC
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (21.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) ERP
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Data Extraction
4 3 (21.43%) Kanban
4 3 (21.43%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Physical Data Model
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Cognos
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow