Software Engineering Jobs in West Sussex

Software Engineering
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 23 56 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.57% 7.56% 10.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 9.08% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15 47 17
10th Percentile - £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £69,375 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,500 £73,750 £83,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Software Engineering 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 291 617 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 95.72% 83.27% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 179 418 423
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,175 £73,750 £78,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in West Sussex over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in West Sussex

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Crawley +9 9 £57,500 -3.36% 7
Worthing +8 6 £30,000 -53.85% 5
Burgess Hill -1 5 £70,000 - 3
Chichester -5 2 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
Software Engineering
South East

Software Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
2 7 (30.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Advertising
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Development Manager
2 7 (30.43%) Java Development Manager
3 6 (26.09%) Mobile Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Development Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Software Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) React
2 6 (26.09%) Flutter
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka
3 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) .NET
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) gRPC
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) Pandas
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 6 (26.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.70%) Acoustics
4 1 (4.35%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
1 11 (47.83%) Microservices
2 10 (43.48%) Computer Science
2 10 (43.48%) Scrum
3 8 (34.78%) Multithreaded Programming
3 8 (34.78%) Multithreading
3 8 (34.78%) Waterfall
4 7 (30.43%) Analytics
4 7 (30.43%) Data Analytics
4 7 (30.43%) People Management
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Process Improvement
4 7 (30.43%) Software Delivery
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (26.09%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.70%) Kanban
7 2 (8.70%) SDLC
7 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
8 1 (4.35%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (26.09%) Kotlin
4 3 (13.04%) C++
4 3 (13.04%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Ada
5 2 (8.70%) C
5 2 (8.70%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 8 (34.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (56.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Cisco
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central