Backend Developer Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Backend Developer
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The median Backend Developer salary in Burgess Hill is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Backend Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Burgess Hill 3.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Burgess Hill

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Burgess Hill. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Burgess Hill with a recognized job title 50 17 43
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 65.38% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 22
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £62,188 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £70,000 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £40,000 £72,813 £35,000
90th Percentile £65,750 £74,875 £70,000
West Sussex median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +12.63% -13.64%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Backend Developer
Salary Trend in Burgess Hill

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Burgess Hill.

Salary distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Burgess Hill

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, Backend Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Burgess Hill region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Vert.x
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Backend Developer Skill Set
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 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk