Finance Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Financial
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Burgess Hill. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Finance 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 19.51% 8.57% 8.70%
As % of the General category 57.14% 16.67% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £266 - £364
25th Percentile £300 - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £550 £397
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% +38.71% -16.53%
75th Percentile £367 - £422
90th Percentile £414 - £431
West Sussex median daily rate £492 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +1.18% -2.75% -3.47%

All General Skills
Burgess Hill

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 14 18 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 34.15% 51.43% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £243 £360 £271
25th Percentile £250 £431 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +46.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £357 - £438
90th Percentile £388 - £460
West Sussex median daily rate £470 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +6.82% -7.37% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile - £14.12 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.95 £20.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.24% -12.47% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £20.69 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +178.96% -12.47% -2.98%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Finance 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 Finance.

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Burgess Hill

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in Burgess Hill over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in Burgess Hill

Finance
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 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (37.50%) Couchbase
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JUnit
2 6 (75.00%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Gradle
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) Maven
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Java Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) JPA
3 3 (37.50%) jQuery
3 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
3 3 (37.50%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) AOP
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
3 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) System Testing
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
Finance jobs