Distributed Systems Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Distributed Systems
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Distributed Systems in contract job vacancies in Burgess Hill. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Distributed Systems over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Distributed Systems 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 6.52% 6.25% 5.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.50% 10.53% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £231 £281 -
25th Percentile £239 £283 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £285 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -28.75% -
75th Percentile £272 £288 -
90th Percentile £281 £289 -
West Sussex median daily rate £272 £285 £400
% change year-on-year -4.74% -28.75% -

All Generic Skills
Burgess Hill

Distributed Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24 19 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 52.17% 59.38% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £214 £282 -
25th Percentile £225 £285 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 £290 £325
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -10.77% +15.04%
75th Percentile £299 £318 £369
90th Percentile £300 £334 £388
West Sussex median daily rate £400 £463 £400
% change year-on-year -13.51% +15.63% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +192.24% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £20.69 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £35.50 £18.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +88.63% -51.12% -45.05%

Distributed Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Distributed Systems job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Distributed Systems
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk