Microsoft Certification Contracts in Surrey

Microsoft Certification
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.18% 0.87% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.96% 3.29% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £416 - £409
25th Percentile £422 £350 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £531
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -29.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £447 £438 £614
90th Percentile £449 £490 £658
South East median daily rate £600 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +23.71% -3.00% +5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Surrey.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 152 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.88% 26.48% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 109 153
10th Percentile £204 £283 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year - -16.32% +8.64%
75th Percentile £548 £611 £700
90th Percentile £600 £688 £838
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 9
10th Percentile £25.15 - £48.50
25th Percentile £25.86 £11.71 £50.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.08 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +54.91% -70.67% +36.96%
75th Percentile £47.31 £46.43 -
90th Percentile £54.63 £67.45 £69.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% -4.42% +33.33%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Certification in Surrey

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
DemandTrendContract 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 Microsoft Certification within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford 0 2 £438 +16.67% 1
Horley - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk