Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Software Testing
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 7.89% 7.14% 12.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 7.14% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £353 £281 £359
25th Percentile £354 £283 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £285 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.09% -28.75% -
75th Percentile £364 £288 £413
90th Percentile £368 £289 £420
West Sussex median daily rate £357 £285 £400
% change year-on-year +25.09% -28.75% +6.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

Software Testing 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 38 28 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 100.00% 100.00% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 10
10th Percentile £275 £280 £341
25th Percentile £280 £288 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £300 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -27.27% +53.49%
75th Percentile £323 £344 £466
90th Percentile £370 £550 £488
West Sussex median daily rate £469 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +17.25% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 4
10th Percentile - £15.50 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.26 £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 £26.50 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +40.81% -12.47% -2.98%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Software Testing

Software Testing
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 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk