Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Microsoft
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Crawley 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 5 November 2025, 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 26 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 36.62% 28.13% 25.42%
As % of the Vendors category 74.29% 52.94% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 11
10th Percentile £182 - £200
25th Percentile £200 £200 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £338 £370
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -8.78% +85.00%
75th Percentile £215 £508 £591
90th Percentile £238 £563 £706
West Sussex median daily rate £210 £434 £370
% change year-on-year -51.63% +17.33% -12.94%

All Vendors
Crawley

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 Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 35 17 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 49.30% 53.13% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 18
10th Percentile £179 £176 £187
25th Percentile £205 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £450 £469
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% -4.00% +5.63%
75th Percentile £285 £488 £530
90th Percentile £523 £521 £706
West Sussex median daily rate £450 £455 £493
% change year-on-year -1.10% -7.71% +1.65%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Crawley

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley 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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) Oracle Database
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (19.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Applications Support
2 15 (57.69%) ERP Support
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Power BI Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Support
4 3 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Support Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support
6 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
1 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) ERP
2 5 (19.23%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (19.23%) CRM
3 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.69%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 2 (7.69%) Data Validation
4 2 (7.69%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (7.69%) Validation
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (3.85%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (3.85%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) SAP