Microsoft Contracts 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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 7.89% 6.41% 15.57%
As % of the Vendors category 47.37% 17.24% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile - £313 £155
25th Percentile £263 £331 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -21.05% -6.40%
75th Percentile £656 £494 £638
90th Percentile - £558 £975
South East median daily rate £459 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -1.34% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £13.40
25th Percentile - £11.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile - £12.00 £17.50
90th Percentile - - £18.40
South East median hourly rate £14.90 £23.82 £19.50
% change year-on-year -37.45% +22.17% +18.18%

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 19 29 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 16.67% 37.18% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 28
10th Percentile £263 £363 £156
25th Percentile £397 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £556 £525
90th Percentile £656 £825 £775
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £13.80
25th Percentile - £11.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £12.00 £36.38
90th Percentile - - £46.80
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £51.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year -51.88% +5.89% +147.95%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in East Sussex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in East Sussex

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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 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in East Sussex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in East Sussex

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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 9 June 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
Brighton +2 5 £275 -26.67% 37
Hove - 3 £638 - 3
Microsoft
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Asset Management
2 2 (22.22%) BDD
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) User Stories
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) Email Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) VMware