Test Automation Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Automated Testing
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring Test Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 18.18% 7.69% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 8.33% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £353 - £357
25th Percentile £354 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 - £378
75th Percentile £364 - £408
90th Percentile £368 - £418
West Sussex median daily rate £362 £725 £400
% change year-on-year -50.07% +81.25% -26.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

Test Automation 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 19 12 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 86.36% 92.31% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 14
10th Percentile £253 £197 £213
25th Percentile £275 £214 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £286 £245 £340
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% -27.94% -
75th Percentile £356 £274 £434
90th Percentile £367 £290 £473
West Sussex median daily rate £480 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.76% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -30.23% -
75th Percentile £24.50 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £30.00 £19.83 £20.44
% change year-on-year +51.29% -2.97% -7.77%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Test Automation job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Test Automation

Test Automation
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Gradle
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Vert.x
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian