Microsoft Contracts in West Sussex

Microsoft
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 52 44 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 20.31% 15.28% 14.32%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 23.78% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 35
10th Percentile £200 £174 £155
25th Percentile £419 £181 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £200 £505
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -60.40% +44.29%
75th Percentile £504 £438 £573
90th Percentile £585 £468 £770
South East median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.15
25th Percentile £13.19 - £34.50
Median hourly rate £13.37 £22.16 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% -58.58% -
75th Percentile £13.56 - £56.38
90th Percentile - - £57.05
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £20.47 £16.50
% change year-on-year +2.59% +24.06% -8.33%

All Vendors
West Sussex

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 156 185 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 60.94% 64.24% 52.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 151 169
10th Percentile £350 £181 £213
25th Percentile £412 £286 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £515 £587 £600
90th Percentile £588 £678 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £13.15 - £12.24
25th Percentile £20.75 - £14.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -36.69% +176.03%
75th Percentile £24.25 £22.64 £55.13
90th Percentile £31.25 £22.93 £56.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in West Sussex

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in West Sussex

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in West Sussex over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in West Sussex

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in West Sussex

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worthing +10 23 £450 +12.50% 4
Crawley +13 12 £200 -36.00% 11
East Grinstead -4 2 £425 - 3
Burgess Hill -8 1 £368 +33.82% 2
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.92%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
3 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.85%) GCP
3 2 (3.85%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) IaaS
4 1 (1.92%) OCI
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Network Security
2 6 (11.54%) NAS
2 6 (11.54%) SAN
3 4 (7.69%) LAN
4 3 (5.77%) DNS
4 3 (5.77%) VPN
5 2 (3.85%) CTI
5 2 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (3.85%) DMZ
5 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.85%) VLAN
6 1 (1.92%) VoIP
6 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Couchbase
2 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (1.92%) Yeoman
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Electronics
4 1 (1.92%) Front Office
4 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.92%) Marketing
4 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Senior
2 9 (17.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) IT Security Specialist
3 8 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 8 (15.38%) Security Operations Specialist
3 8 (15.38%) Security Specialist
4 6 (11.54%) Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) SOC Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) Middleware
2 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) CMDB
3 2 (3.85%) Tandem
4 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.92%) iPhone
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 5 (9.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (7.69%) Windows 7
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.85%) Android
6 2 (3.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.92%) Linux
7 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.92%) Unix
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Data Loss Prevention
1 18 (34.62%) Data Security
2 16 (30.77%) Incident Response
2 16 (30.77%) Security Operations
2 16 (30.77%) SIEM
2 16 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
3 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (21.15%) Migration
5 6 (11.54%) PRINCE2
5 6 (11.54%) Project Management
6 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
6 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.69%) Agile
7 4 (7.69%) DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) ITIL
7 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.69%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.69%) Waterfall
8 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (5.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
1 5 (9.62%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Bash
3 2 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (1.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (13.46%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) PMP
3 5 (9.62%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) APMP
6 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) SLA
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) vSphere
3 4 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Forcepoint
1 16 (30.77%) LogRhythm
1 16 (30.77%) Qualys
1 16 (30.77%) Varonis
2 10 (19.23%) VMware
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
4 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) SonicWALL
5 1 (1.92%) Adobe