Computer Science Job Trends in West Sussex

Computer Science
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5 24 39
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.17% 7.50% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 8.48% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 27
10th Percentile £61,250 £36,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £39,063 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £58,750 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -2.89% +49.38%
75th Percentile £76,738 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,115 £79,375 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -0.83% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 312 283 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.24% 88.44% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 222 144 253
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,950 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,363 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,375 £77,050
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Computer Science
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in West Sussex over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in West Sussex

Computer Science
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 Computer Science within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worthing 0 2 £71,250 +137.50%
Haywards Heath -3 1 £60,000 +26.32%
Burgess Hill -6 1 - - 1
Chichester - 1 £85,700 -
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Memcached
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) FinOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk