Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Copilot
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.16% 0.33% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -
75th Percentile £532 £538 -
90th Percentile £594 - -
South East median daily rate £505 £513 -
% change year-on-year -1.46% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

Microsoft Copilot 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 197 79 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 38.03% 26.07% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 52 121
10th Percentile £204 £215 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - -11.33%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £586 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 8
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +17.15% +19.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £37.75
South East median hourly rate £51.25 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +79.82% +22.77% +0.61%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in Surrey

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in Surrey over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in Surrey

Microsoft Copilot
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 Microsoft Copilot within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Leatherhead 0 4 £510 -2.86%
Egham - 1 £525 - 5
Microsoft Copilot
South East

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 2 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
4 1 (16.67%) Google Gemini
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Zscaler
3 1 (16.67%) Foundry
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Tenable