AI Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

AI
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 26.09% - 12.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.09% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £210 - -
25th Percentile £213 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £325
75th Percentile £285 - £338
90th Percentile £360 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £375 £550 £325
% change year-on-year -31.82% +69.23% -55.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 29 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 100.00% 90.63% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 6
10th Percentile £213 £271 £259
25th Percentile £231 £274 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £288 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -17.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £293 £290 £397
90th Percentile £307 £339 £438
West Sussex median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -7.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.06% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £20.69 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year +62.06% -32.79% +14.47%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill.

AI job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

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Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing AI

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Daily Rate Histogram in Burgess Hill

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI in Burgess Hill over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI in Burgess Hill

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) JPA
1 3 (25.00%) jQuery
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) CrewAI
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
3 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
3 1 (8.33%) pgvector
3 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) LLM
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) AOP
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (25.00%) MVC
5 3 (25.00%) System Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAI