Developer Contracts in East Sussex

Developer
South East > East Sussex

The median Developer daily rate in East Sussex is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 26 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 34.21% 16.28% 14.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 36.62% 16.28% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 22
10th Percentile £380 £369 £331
25th Percentile - £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £450 £650 £600
90th Percentile £598 - £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% +19.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 71 86 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 100.00% 96.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 48 121
10th Percentile £300 £340 £200
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £588 £745 £619
90th Percentile £638 - £700
South East median daily rate £510 £507 £500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +1.35% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £14.80 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £17.49 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.95 £12.48
Median % change year-on-year +119.21% +91.91% -42.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.09 -
90th Percentile - £30.99 -
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £50.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +15.59% +53.85% +30.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in East Sussex

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Developer in East Sussex

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in East Sussex over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in East Sussex

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in East Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in East Sussex

Developer
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Brighton +4 26 £400 -38.46% 11
Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 East Sussex region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
3 7 (26.92%) C#
4 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 6 (23.08%) MVC
4 6 (23.08%) Umbraco
4 6 (23.08%) CMS
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (23.08%) Software Architecture
4 6 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
6 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (15.38%) CSS
6 4 (15.38%) HTML
6 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (11.54%) VB.NET

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 6 (23.08%) CMS
1 6 (23.08%) Umbraco
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (11.54%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET
2 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Redux
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (23.08%) MVC
3 6 (23.08%) Software Architecture
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (11.54%) Chat Support
6 3 (11.54%) Coaching
6 3 (11.54%) Conversational UI
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) C#
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) VB.NET
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 3 (11.54%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Sitecore