Software Engineer Jobs in West Sussex

Software Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Software Engineer salary in West Sussex is £56,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 77 35
Rank change year-on-year +26 -42 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Engineer 22 23 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.94% 2.36% 7.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 2.89% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18 17 10
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £43,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -5.88% +54.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,813
90th Percentile - - £80,625
South East median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +13.64% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 707 796 1,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 81.72% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 514 435 682
10th Percentile £24,375 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings that featured Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineer in West Sussex

Software Engineer
Salary Trend in West Sussex

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

Salary trend for Software Engineer in West Sussex

Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineer in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineer in West Sussex

Software Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Burgess Hill - 12 £70,000 - 8
Crawley +6 7 £46,000 -21.70% 4
Pulborough - 2 £45,000 -
Chichester - 1 £58,000 - 1
Software Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (95.45%) Software Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) C
3 7 (31.82%) Manufacturing
4 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Degree
6 4 (18.18%) Git
6 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 4 (18.18%) Firmware
6 4 (18.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (13.64%) Java
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 2 (9.09%) Law
8 2 (9.09%) CMS
8 2 (9.09%) SCADA
8 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Subversion
8 2 (9.09%) Electronics
8 2 (9.09%) Wireless
8 2 (9.09%) CSS
8 2 (9.09%) MATLAB
8 2 (9.09%) Simulink
8 2 (9.09%) SQL
8 2 (9.09%) Linux
8 2 (9.09%) Spring
8 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving

Software Engineer 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 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Modbus
1 2 (9.09%) RS-485
1 2 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Subversion
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JMeter
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
General
1 7 (31.82%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Electronics
2 2 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) CSS
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Ajax
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) HTML5
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) LAMP
2 1 (4.55%) Laravel
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Symfony
2 1 (4.55%) Vert.x
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XHTML
2 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) SCADA
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Graphic Design
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Software Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 4 (18.18%) Validation
3 4 (18.18%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) SDLC
5 2 (9.09%) Analytics
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Control Theory
5 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (9.09%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
6 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) C
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) MATLAB
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (18.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle
1 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.55%) Splunk