Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Horsham

Microsoft
West Sussex > Horsham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Horsham 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 May 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
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Horsham 14.29% 63.64% -
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 87.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £422 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% - -
75th Percentile £319 £423 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median daily rate £478 £385 £450
% change year-on-year +24.03% -14.44% +67.44%

All Vendors
Horsham

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 Horsham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Horsham 42.86% 72.73% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £348 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £422 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% - -
75th Percentile £597 £423 -
90th Percentile £614 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -8.16%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Horsham

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Horsham

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Daily Rate Trend in Horsham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Horsham citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Horsham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Horsham citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Horsham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) UX Design
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA