Java Developer Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Java Developer
South East > West Sussex

The median Java Developer daily rate in West Sussex is £359, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 2.34% 1.68% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.73% 1.80% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £332 £565 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £590 £430
Median % change year-on-year -39.19% +37.21% -24.33%
75th Percentile £487 £615 £445
90th Percentile £547 - -
South East median daily rate £423 £420 £475
% change year-on-year +0.60% -11.58% -9.52%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 220 111 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.94% 93.28% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 78 151
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £352 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £720 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 11
10th Percentile £12.63 £15.97 £13.19
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.42 £18.20
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.83 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -7.77% -2.98%
75th Percentile £51.88 £22.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £23.69 £28.92
South East median hourly rate £25.46 £42.69 £45.11
% change year-on-year -40.36% -5.35% +0.23%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in West Sussex

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in West Sussex over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in West Sussex

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in West Sussex

Java 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 Java Developer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 5 February 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 £339 - 1
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
3 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Gradle
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) Maven
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Go
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) JUnit
5 2 (33.33%) Kafka
5 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (33.33%) OOP
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Splunk

Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Gradle
1 3 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Vert.x
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk