Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Microsoft
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Burgess Hill requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 9.09% 3.03% 6.25%
As % of the Vendors category 30.77% 3.85% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £228 - -
25th Percentile £252 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 - £368
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.19%
75th Percentile £289 - £377
90th Percentile £293 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £380 £217 £380
% change year-on-year +75.12% -42.89% +28.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.00 £14.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

All Vendors
Burgess Hill

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13 26 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 29.55% 78.79% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £221 £268 £249
25th Percentile £255 £274 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £280 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -13.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £296 £288 £377
90th Percentile £346 £289 £391
West Sussex median daily rate £459 £388 £450
% change year-on-year +18.45% -13.89% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 0
Median hourly rate - £18.82 -
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.00 £18.82 £28.00
% change year-on-year -14.98% -32.79% +60.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Burgess Hill

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Burgess Hill

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

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

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

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Burgess Hill

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Burgess Hill citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google