Developer Jobs in West Sussex

Developer
South East > West Sussex

The median Developer salary in West Sussex is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 7 17
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer 11 104 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.37% 13.65% 12.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 14.46% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 97 66
10th Percentile £27,336 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £30,272 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £67,126
90th Percentile £71,500 £70,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 257 719 745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.83% 94.36% 80.89%
Number of salaries quoted 176 526 436
10th Percentile £29,500 £24,438 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £73,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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
Salary Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Developer in West Sussex.

Salary trend for Developer in West Sussex

Developer
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Developer in West Sussex over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Developer in West Sussex

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 Developer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Burgess Hill +5 3 £72,500 +3.57% 3
Crawley -8 3 £40,000 -30.43% 8
Chichester -7 2 £56,000 +40.00%
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 2025, Developer 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 permanent job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Statistics
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) Figma
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
4 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
4 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
4 2 (18.18%) Confluence
4 2 (18.18%) HTML5
4 2 (18.18%) CSS3
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) Sass
4 2 (18.18%) Docker
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps

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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (9.09%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (9.09%) Couchbase
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) MagicDraw
2 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Sourcetree
General
1 3 (27.27%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Sass
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) GreenSock GSAP
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Animation
2 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
1 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Statistics
1 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
2 2 (18.18%) Kanban
2 2 (18.18%) Microservices
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) SysML
2 2 (18.18%) TDD
2 2 (18.18%) Time Management
2 2 (18.18%) UML
2 2 (18.18%) User Experience
3 1 (9.09%) B2B
3 1 (9.09%) OO
3 1 (9.09%) OOP
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Rust
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk