Open Source Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Open Source
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring Open Source skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 8.33% 17.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% 20.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
West Sussex median daily rate £275 £325 £500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -35.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

Open Source 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 20 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 83.33% 88.24% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £251 £191 £208
25th Percentile £270 £201 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 £269 £291
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -7.65% -
75th Percentile £321 £338 £353
90th Percentile £359 - £532
West Sussex median daily rate £475 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £14.30 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile £22.98 - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £17.41 £15.00 £46.96
% change year-on-year +16.07% -68.06% +116.11%

Open Source
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Open Source job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Open Source

Open Source
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (50.00%) Dagger
2 1 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) RAML
2 1 (50.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian