Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 7 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 117 41 89
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 19.66% 13.40% 15.08%
As % of the Vendors category 38.87% 22.53% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 30 57
10th Percentile £204 £202 £203
25th Percentile £325 £205 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £263 £400
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -34.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £526 £500 £500
90th Percentile £563 £569 £530
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £19.40 £17.73 -
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £11.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -46.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £23.38 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £23.60 £31.66 £56.80
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £16.36 £25.29
% change year-on-year +98.66% -35.31% +36.70%

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 301 182 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 50.59% 59.48% 48.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 143 202
10th Percentile £204 £193 £219
25th Percentile £379 £280 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +9.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £525
90th Percentile £654 £600 £648
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 20
10th Percentile £20.20 £19.49 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £23.31 £11.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.86% -41.49% -
75th Percentile - £30.69 £50.75
90th Percentile - £78.05 £63.05
South East median hourly rate £57.87 £19.91 £55.80
% change year-on-year +190.65% -64.32% +24.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Surrey

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Surrey

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +1 19 £510 +137.21% 12
Guildford -5 17 £420 +15.86% 12
Egham - 10 £461 - 3
Staines -4 9 £310 -27.06% 1
Redhill - 9 £413 - 6
Woking +1 4 £363 -34.09% 18
Thames Ditton - 1 £600 - 2
Weybridge - 1 £163 -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
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 13 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (25.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (18.80%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (12.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (5.98%) MS Visio
5 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.42%) SAP Business One
2 4 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.56%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.48%) Azure
2 23 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (17.95%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.55%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (6.84%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (5.13%) AWS
7 6 (5.13%) SaaS
8 5 (4.27%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.56%) GCP
10 3 (2.56%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (1.71%) Azure AI
11 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.71%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
12 1 (0.85%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) DHCP
1 10 (8.55%) DNS
2 7 (5.98%) Firewall
3 6 (5.13%) VPN
4 5 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.42%) LAN
5 4 (3.42%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.42%) VLAN
5 4 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.56%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.56%) Network Security
6 3 (2.56%) SMTP
7 2 (1.71%) Intranet
7 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.85%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.85%) WebEx
8 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Power BI
2 5 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.27%) MySQL
2 5 (4.27%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) Android Studio
2 3 (2.56%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.56%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.56%) Xcode
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Finance
5 8 (6.84%) Marketing
5 8 (6.84%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Legal
7 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.27%) Arabic Language
8 5 (4.27%) French Language
9 4 (3.42%) General Ledger
9 4 (3.42%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Automotive
12 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (15.38%) Analyst
2 12 (10.26%) Consultant
2 12 (10.26%) Developer
3 10 (8.55%) Support Engineer
4 8 (6.84%) Architect
4 8 (6.84%) Business Analyst
4 8 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (6.84%) IT Analyst
5 7 (5.98%) Content Manager
5 7 (5.98%) CRM Manager
5 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 7 (5.98%) Power Platform Consultant
5 7 (5.98%) Senior
6 6 (5.13%) Business IT Analyst
6 6 (5.13%) IT Business Analyst
6 6 (5.13%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.13%) IT Support
7 5 (4.27%) Administrator
7 5 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (4.27%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
1 7 (5.98%) CSS
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (4.27%) .NET
2 5 (4.27%) React
3 3 (2.56%) Ajax
3 3 (2.56%) GraphQL
3 3 (2.56%) LDAP
4 2 (1.71%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.71%) OAuth
4 2 (1.71%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.71%) OpenID
4 2 (1.71%) REST
5 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.85%) CSS3
5 1 (0.85%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (0.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.85%) HTML5
5 1 (0.85%) Node.js
5 1 (0.85%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) Replication
6 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.66%) Windows
2 10 (8.55%) Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) Unix
5 3 (2.56%) Android
6 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (23.08%) Agile
3 20 (17.09%) Analytics
4 16 (13.68%) ITIL
4 16 (13.68%) Migration
5 15 (12.82%) Computer Science
5 15 (12.82%) Project Delivery
5 15 (12.82%) Project Management
6 13 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 13 (11.11%) ERP
6 13 (11.11%) Validation
7 12 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (10.26%) Data Governance
8 11 (9.40%) AI
8 11 (9.40%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (8.55%) Waterfall
10 9 (7.69%) Customer Service
10 9 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.98%) Python
2 7 (5.98%) SQL
3 5 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.42%) C#
4 4 (3.42%) Java
4 4 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (2.56%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) Bash
6 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Degree
2 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.42%) ACCA
5 4 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.42%) CIMA
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.56%) PMP
6 3 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) GDPR
2 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (2.56%) QA
4 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.71%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.42%) vSphere
3 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.85%) Firmware
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.84%) Oracle
2 8 (6.84%) SAP
3 5 (4.27%) Cisco
3 5 (4.27%) VMware
4 4 (3.42%) BT
4 4 (3.42%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.42%) Commvault
4 4 (3.42%) Google
4 4 (3.42%) Meraki
4 4 (3.42%) NetApp
4 4 (3.42%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.42%) Veeam
4 4 (3.42%) Xerox
4 4 (3.42%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) Foundry
6 1 (0.85%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.85%) Okta
6 1 (0.85%) Qualys