Microsoft Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Microsoft
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 13 January 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
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 8 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 24 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 32.00% 17.98% 5.56%
As % of the Vendors category 61.54% 42.11% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 4
10th Percentile £173 £263 £393
25th Percentile £294 £384 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £408
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +28.83% -32.08%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £518
90th Percentile £670 £725 £695
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £12.56 - -
25th Percentile £14.53 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £21.68
% change year-on-year -30.00% +15.34% +17.16%

All Vendors
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 39 38 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 52.00% 42.70% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 20
10th Percentile £160 £296 £400
25th Percentile £278 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% +11.58%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £586
90th Percentile £790 £690 £825
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.39% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £12.56 - -
25th Percentile £14.53 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £15.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% - -
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £40.25 £55.80
% change year-on-year -44.72% -27.87% +71.69%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in East Sussex over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in East Sussex

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

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

Microsoft
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 within the East Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Brighton +5 11 £600 +14.29% 39
Lewes - 3 - -
Hove +2 2 - -
Crowborough - 2 £130 -
Hastings -1 1 - - 1
Bexhill-On-Sea - 1 £475 -
St Leonards-on-Sea - 1 £190 -
Microsoft
South East

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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 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Google Workspace
2 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) MPLS
2 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
2 1 (4.17%) WLAN
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) IT Support
2 7 (29.17%) Support Officer
3 5 (20.83%) IT Support Technician
3 5 (20.83%) IT Technician
3 5 (20.83%) Support Technician
4 4 (16.67%) Project Officer
4 4 (16.67%) Project Support Officer
5 3 (12.50%) Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) IT Assistant
5 3 (12.50%) IT Support Assistant
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Support Assistant
6 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior IT Support
6 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Business Case
3 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) Project Governance
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) AI
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 2 (8.33%) Filmmaking
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (4.17%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Yealink
2 1 (4.17%) Blue Prism
2 1 (4.17%) VMware