Java Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Java
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 5 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.70% 12.00% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.42% 30.51% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 25
10th Percentile £284 £360 £343
25th Percentile £290 £390 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £423 £430
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% -1.57% -28.33%
75th Percentile £519 £469 £678
90th Percentile £590 £600 -
South East median daily rate £456 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.10% - -4.55%

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 48 59 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 25.95% 39.33% 27.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 74
10th Percentile £191 £293 £312
25th Percentile £205 £359 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £442 £414
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +6.79% -23.33%
75th Percentile £425 £494 £584
90th Percentile £525 £600 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -10.28%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £69.69 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.08% +26.70% -8.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in West Sussex over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Sussex

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

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 21 September 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
Burgess Hill -8 3 £290 -25.06% 9
Worthing -6 2 £572 +35.14%
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 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) gRPC
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) RAD
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Fit Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) VMware