Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Leatherhead

Microsoft
Surrey > Leatherhead

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leatherhead 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 17 April 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 14 4 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leatherhead 53.85% 12.50% 24.14%
As % of the Vendors category 77.78% 25.00% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 16
10th Percentile £463 - £173
25th Percentile £476 £188 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £373 £425
Median % change year-on-year +36.91% -12.35% -8.60%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £503
90th Percentile £572 £645 £531
Surrey median daily rate £438 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
Surrey median hourly rate £25.75 £22.50 £12.54
% change year-on-year +14.44% +79.50% -77.21%

All Vendors
Leatherhead

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 Leatherhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18 16 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead 69.23% 50.00% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 24
10th Percentile £463 £188 £158
25th Percentile £468 £453 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +11.76% -11.92%
75th Percentile £545 £597 £481
90th Percentile £569 £669 £534
Surrey median daily rate £500 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 £24.18 £14.27
% change year-on-year +168.82% +69.48% -68.29%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Leatherhead

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Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leatherhead citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leatherhead

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leatherhead over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Leatherhead

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leatherhead citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leatherhead 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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (35.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) SMTP
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) VoIP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business IT Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) IT Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) IT Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Project Management
2 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (35.71%) Validation
2 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
3 4 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
3 4 (28.57%) Change Control
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Management
3 4 (28.57%) Swim Lanes
3 4 (28.57%) Wireframes
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
4 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
3 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Citrix
1 3 (21.43%) Zscaler
2 2 (14.29%) NetApp
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) BT
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Commvault
3 1 (7.14%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) Xerox