Software Delivery Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Software Delivery
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Software Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.50% - 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% - 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - -
75th Percentile £278 - -
90th Percentile £284 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £528 £596
% change year-on-year +9.00% -11.53% -17.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 150 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.14% 81.08% 84.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 106 88
10th Percentile £191 £170 £198
25th Percentile £274 £220 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -2.50% -8.72%
75th Percentile £492 £525 £533
90th Percentile £636 £711 £627
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 5
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.63 £24.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £16.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -42.86% -20.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile - - £35.75
South East median hourly rate £51.75 £20.73 £57.35
% change year-on-year +149.64% -63.85% +8.21%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Software Delivery job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Software Delivery

Software Delivery
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 Software Delivery within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 - 2 £268 - 2
Software Delivery
South East

Software Delivery
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft