Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 2.47% 13.64% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 25.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £416 £407
25th Percentile £463 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £415
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +26.51% -1.19%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £419
90th Percentile - - £420
South East median daily rate £323 £423 £225
% change year-on-year -23.72% +87.91% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £51.25 £21.98
Median hourly rate £19.00 £52.50 £23.95
Median % change year-on-year -63.81% +119.21% -
75th Percentile £19.50 £53.75 £25.93
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £31.25 £20.50
% change year-on-year -39.62% +52.44% +10.81%

All Cloud Skills
East Sussex

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21 48 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 25.93% 54.55% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 34 19
10th Percentile £307 £331 £404
25th Percentile £360 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +1.42% -11.67%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £578
90th Percentile £650 £701 £665
South East median daily rate £485 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 £51.25 £21.98
Median hourly rate £14.50 £52.50 £23.95
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +119.21% -
75th Percentile £17.63 £53.75 £25.93
90th Percentile £18.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £35.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year -46.85% +32.41% +32.61%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. 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
Bexhill-On-Sea - 1 £475 - 1
Hastings - 1 - -
Microsoft 365
South East

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (50.00%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft