Java Contracts in West Sussex

Java
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Java 18 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.53% 4.64% 10.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.73% 12.50% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 31
10th Percentile £305 £359 £325
25th Percentile £348 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -27.27% +0.92%
75th Percentile £574 £425 £678
90th Percentile £629 £445 -
South East median daily rate £475 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 55 88 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 32.16% 37.13% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 67 81
10th Percentile £234 £300 £303
25th Percentile £288 £369 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £450 £414
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +8.70% -17.20%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £620 £588 £678
South East median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £24.03 £22.17
25th Percentile £61.25 £25.94 £22.20
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year +123.21% +14.47% -54.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £29.00 £37.35
90th Percentile - - £43.74
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +20.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West Sussex over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Sussex

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
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 within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 - 13 £519 - 1
Burgess Hill -10 4 £290 -27.50% 6
Crawley - 1 £328 - 41
Java
South East

Java
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 8 (44.44%) NetWeaver
2 6 (33.33%) SAP EP
3 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
4 2 (11.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
2 2 (11.11%) NewSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Toad
2 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) SAP Architect
2 6 (33.33%) SAP Technical Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Architect
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (33.33%) SAP PI
1 6 (33.33%) SAPUI5
2 3 (16.67%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Basis
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.56%) gRPC
4 1 (5.56%) J2EE
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CRM
2 6 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (33.33%) ERP
2 6 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (27.78%) Validation
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.11%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) ABAP
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) SAP
2 6 (33.33%) Ariba
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) webMethods
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) Sybase