Backend Developer Job Trends in West Sussex

Backend Developer
South East > West Sussex

The median Backend Developer salary in West Sussex is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Sussex with a recognized job title 650 213 687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 78.02% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 430 141 495
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +12.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,874 £72,500
South East median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in West Sussex

Backend Developer
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backend Developer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Burgess Hill - 2 £67,500 - 2
Backend Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, Backend Developer 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 permanent job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Vert.x
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Backend 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 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk