SDLC Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring SDLC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing SDLC 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 6.67% 3.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £243 - -
25th Percentile £251 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.91% - -
75th Percentile £285 - -
90th Percentile £291 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £463 £550 £445
% change year-on-year -15.91% +23.60% -8.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

SDLC 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 45 30 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 100.00% 96.77% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 7
10th Percentile £225 £272 £270
25th Percentile £250 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £288 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -23.20% +36.36%
75th Percentile £297 £326 £438
90th Percentile £314 £366 £480
West Sussex median daily rate £438 £431 £450
% change year-on-year +1.57% -4.17% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 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%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

SDLC job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

SDLC
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

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

SDLC
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%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft