Developer Contracts in West Sussex

Developer
South East > West Sussex

The median Developer daily rate in West Sussex is £412 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 33 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 12.64% 13.38% 8.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.15% 14.45% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 27
10th Percentile £353 £363 £303
25th Percentile £359 £414 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £434 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -19.72% +16.44%
75th Percentile £421 £583 £566
90th Percentile £468 £600 £622
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 251 263 423
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.17% 92.61% 97.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 207 315
10th Percentile £213 £181 £168
25th Percentile £394 £287 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% +10.99%
75th Percentile £517 £588 £588
90th Percentile £588 £679 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 22
10th Percentile £13.69 £16.46 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +24.85% -21.11%
75th Percentile £22.75 - £31.13
90th Percentile £28.53 £24.43 £57.28
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 -6 14 £412 -20.77% 3
Burgess Hill - 10 £394 -
Crawley +5 4 £475 +18.75% 6
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 21 (63.64%) Agile
2 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (30.30%) Process Improvement
4 10 (30.30%) Test Strategy
4 10 (30.30%) Web Dynpro
4 10 (30.30%) Migration
4 10 (30.30%) Data Migration
4 10 (30.30%) ABAP
4 10 (30.30%) SAP
4 10 (30.30%) Adobe
5 9 (27.27%) Git
6 8 (24.24%) Java
6 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 7 (21.21%) Finance
8 6 (18.18%) Spring
8 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
8 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
8 6 (18.18%) Couchbase
8 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
9 5 (15.15%) Go
9 5 (15.15%) Kafka
9 5 (15.15%) REST
10 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (12.12%) GitLab
10 4 (12.12%) CLIST
10 4 (12.12%) JIRA
10 4 (12.12%) IDMS
10 4 (12.12%) IBM Mainframe

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 4 (12.12%) CICS
1 4 (12.12%) SAS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.09%) Azure
1 3 (9.09%) GitHub
2 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (18.18%) Couchbase
3 4 (12.12%) DB2
3 4 (12.12%) IDMS
4 2 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.06%) VersionOne
4 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.03%) Android Studio
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Aviation
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Web Dynpro
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) CSS
4 3 (9.09%) HTML
4 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.06%) React
5 2 (6.06%) Redux
5 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.03%) Android SDK
6 1 (3.03%) DOM
6 1 (3.03%) JWT
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
6 1 (3.03%) OpenID
6 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.03%) RxJava
6 1 (3.03%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (12.12%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) zOS
2 2 (6.06%) Android
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (63.64%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (30.30%) Data Migration
3 10 (30.30%) Migration
3 10 (30.30%) Process Improvement
3 10 (30.30%) Test Strategy
4 7 (21.21%) Scrum
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (12.12%) TDD
6 3 (9.09%) Analytics
6 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.06%) Android Development
7 2 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.06%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.06%) Front End Development
7 2 (6.06%) Microservices
7 2 (6.06%) Unit Testing
7 2 (6.06%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) ABAP
2 8 (24.24%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) Go
4 4 (12.12%) CLIST
4 4 (12.12%) COBOL
4 4 (12.12%) REXX
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.09%) SELCOPY
6 2 (6.06%) C
6 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) ProC
7 1 (3.03%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Adobe
1 10 (30.30%) SAP
2 4 (12.12%) IBM
2 4 (12.12%) Syncsort
3 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle