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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure 29 67 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 9.54% 11.36% 13.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.87% 43.23% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 49 83
10th Percentile £325 £203 £350
25th Percentile £413 £310 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £688 £685 £838
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.80 £52.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £23.90 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.11% -56.55% -
75th Percentile - £50.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £63.35 -
South East median hourly rate £32.14 £38.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -16.53% -45.00% +150.00%

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 91 155 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.93% 26.27% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 123 233
10th Percentile £204 £250 £200
25th Percentile £250 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £685 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile - - £32.75
25th Percentile £28.00 £17.80 £42.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.90 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.34% -52.20% +96.08%
75th Percentile £30.69 £50.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £31.94 £63.35 £86.15
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -33.96% +5.56% +35.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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
Guildford +5 7 £558 +13.78% 25
Staines +2 4 £396 +93.29%
Woking +6 3 £550 -4.35% 11
Leatherhead +4 3 £525 +10.53% 7
Epsom +1 3 £550 -21.43% 3
Warlingham 0 1 £163 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 1
Caterham - 1 £163 -
Horley - 1 - -
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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.24%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
1 4 (13.79%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.45%) DHCP
4 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) MPLS
4 1 (3.45%) NGFW
4 1 (3.45%) VoIP
4 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) MLflow
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.45%) Toad
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Architect
1 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
1 4 (13.79%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
3 2 (6.90%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Logic Apps Developer
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) IT Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
1 3 (10.34%) React
2 2 (6.90%) WebAssembly
3 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) ADO
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.45%) Blazor
3 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) Next.js
3 1 (3.45%) NgRx
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps
1 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Analytics
5 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) TDD
6 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (13.79%) Data Science
6 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (10.34%) ITIL
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (10.34%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Korn
5 2 (6.90%) R
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MCSE
3 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.45%) ITGC
2 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
4 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Databricks
3 4 (13.79%) Cisco
4 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.90%) Meraki
5 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) Adobe
6 1 (3.45%) Apple
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) Dell KACE
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (3.45%) VMware