Azure Contracts in Surrey

Microsoft Azure
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 9 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure 34 59 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 11.41% 10.05% 19.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.98% 39.07% 47.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 40 100
10th Percentile £274 £355 £350
25th Percentile £319 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £564 £635 £675
90th Percentile £588 £675 £762
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.74% +6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - - £17.84
25th Percentile - £17.80 £18.02
Median hourly rate - £23.90 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year - +23.35% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 £29.38
90th Percentile - £37.75 £46.25
South East median hourly rate £52.75 £38.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +37.01% -42.96% +26.17%

All Cloud Skills
Surrey

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 81 151 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.18% 25.72% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 119 219
10th Percentile £210 £249 £250
25th Percentile £319 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -12.62% +12.57%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £597
90th Percentile £586 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - - £17.88
25th Percentile - £17.80 £18.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.90 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% +19.50% -
75th Percentile - £32.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £37.75 £86.15
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in Surrey

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Azure in Surrey

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in Surrey

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in Surrey

Azure
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reigate +5 10 - - 21
Guildford +7 6 £558 +13.78% 77
Staines +1 4 £368 -43.46% 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 4 - -
Woking +1 3 £550 +22.22% 74
Leatherhead -3 1 £475 +8.57% 14
Addlestone - 1 £290 - 1
Camberley - 1 £525 - 2
Azure
South East

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.94%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (26.47%) SaaS
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 5 (14.71%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.94%) Akamai
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.94%) Datadog
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.94%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (8.82%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) WAN
2 3 (8.82%) Wireless
3 2 (5.88%) DHCP
3 2 (5.88%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) IP Telephony
3 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (2.94%) Intranet
4 1 (2.94%) LAN
4 1 (2.94%) MPLS
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 6 (17.65%) Selenium
3 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
4 4 (11.76%) Appium
4 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 4 (11.76%) JUnit
4 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (8.82%) JMeter
5 3 (8.82%) SpecFlow
6 2 (5.88%) Moq
6 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.94%) Mocha
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 4 (11.76%) Product Manager
3 4 (11.76%) QA Manager
3 4 (11.76%) QA Test Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Strategy Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Test Strategy Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) IT Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
1 5 (14.71%) React
1 5 (14.71%) RESTful
1 5 (14.71%) YAML
2 4 (11.76%) CSS
2 4 (11.76%) HTML
3 3 (8.82%) JSON
3 3 (8.82%) XML
4 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.88%) Bootstrap
4 2 (5.88%) Vue
5 1 (2.94%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.94%) Playwright
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) Struts
5 1 (2.94%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 13 (38.24%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
4 7 (20.59%) Data Analysis
4 7 (20.59%) Data Science
4 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
4 7 (20.59%) Test Strategy
5 6 (17.65%) Analytics
5 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) User Experience
6 5 (14.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (14.71%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
6 5 (14.71%) Insurtech
6 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
6 5 (14.71%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 9 (26.47%) TypeScript
3 8 (23.53%) C#
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.88%) R
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) CCNA
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) HP APS
4 2 (5.88%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) MCSE
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) OCP
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
5 1 (2.94%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Databricks
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco
3 4 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.82%) HP
4 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
5 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.88%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) Apple
6 1 (2.94%) Dell
6 1 (2.94%) Dell KACE
6 1 (2.94%) Meraki
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) Ubiquiti