Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Worthing

Microsoft
West Sussex > Worthing

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worthing 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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 10 26
As % of all contract jobs in Worthing 7.14% 25.64% 23.01%
As % of the Vendors category 11.76% 29.41% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £494 - £468
25th Percentile £498 £170 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £394 £491
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -19.74% +0.12%
75th Percentile £534 £434 £492
90th Percentile £596 £435 £495
West Sussex median daily rate £210 £423 £450
% change year-on-year -50.38% -5.94% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.25
West Sussex median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.25
% change year-on-year - - -42.49%

All Vendors
Worthing

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 Worthing.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 34 34 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worthing 60.71% 87.18% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 84
10th Percentile £475 £188 £414
25th Percentile £502 £391 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £563 £518 £518
90th Percentile £720 £638 £666
West Sussex median daily rate £325 £450 £493
% change year-on-year -27.78% -8.72% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £12.25
West Sussex median hourly rate £16.02 £28.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -42.78% +60.00% -17.84%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Worthing

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Worthing

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Daily Rate Trend in Worthing

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worthing citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Worthing

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Worthing over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Worthing

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Hourly Rate Trend in Worthing

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worthing citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worthing 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Engagement Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (75.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (75.00%) Resource Allocation
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Fit Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) VMware