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 9 December 2025, 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
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 68 55 107
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 16.92% 12.01% 15.71%
As % of the Vendors category 30.77% 22.92% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 86
10th Percentile £202 £203 £158
25th Percentile £204 £220 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £315 £293
Median % change year-on-year -34.13% +7.69% -41.50%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £581
90th Percentile £500 £505 £669
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £16.27 - -
25th Percentile £17.60 - -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £53.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.72% +41.33% +114.29%
75th Percentile £29.00 - -
90th Percentile £31.26 - -
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £32.71 £21.35
% change year-on-year -46.49% +53.19% +15.41%

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 221 240 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.98% 52.40% 51.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 165 282
10th Percentile £204 £203 £185
25th Percentile £212 £260 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £525 £600
90th Percentile £686 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 11
10th Percentile £18.88 £23.79 £37.50
25th Percentile £29.00 - £43.55
Median hourly rate £75.00 £24.18 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.17% -61.62% +40.00%
75th Percentile £90.09 £27.98 £76.53
90th Percentile - £54.50 -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £42.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -51.08% -22.02% +121.77%

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 9 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Surrey

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 9 December 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
Leatherhead +6 4 £523 -0.48% 3
Guildford -1 4 £275 +83.33% 11
Redhill +10 3 £475 +26.67% 5
Staines 0 3 - - 4
Camberley - 3 £443 - 7
Weybridge -3 2 £341 -31.80% 1
Epsom -4 2 £263 +25.00% 3
Esher - 2 £500 - 3
Egham - 2 - - 7
Woking +1 1 £475 +11.76% 5
Reigate 0 1 £250 -5.30% 14
Horley - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 £425 - 2
Caterham - 1 £163 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 2
Warlingham - 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 7 (10.29%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.29%) Skype for Business
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (19.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.88%) SaaS
2 19 (27.94%) Sauce Labs
3 16 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.59%) Azure
5 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.35%) AWS
7 2 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.94%) Wireless
2 7 (10.29%) Skype
3 4 (5.88%) DHCP
3 4 (5.88%) DNS
4 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) Firewall
5 2 (2.94%) VoIP
5 2 (2.94%) VPN
5 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.47%) Symposium
6 1 (1.47%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.47%) VLAN
6 1 (1.47%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) Relational Database
2 20 (29.41%) MySQL
3 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (29.41%) Browser DevTools
2 19 (27.94%) Android Studio
2 19 (27.94%) Eclipse
2 19 (27.94%) Xcode
General
1 45 (66.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
6 1 (1.47%) German Language
6 1 (1.47%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) Support Engineer
2 23 (33.82%) Technical Support
3 21 (30.88%) Technical Engineer
3 21 (30.88%) Technical Support Engineer
4 20 (29.41%) UX Engineer
5 18 (26.47%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 12 (17.65%) Analyst
7 8 (11.76%) Support Analyst
8 7 (10.29%) Messaging Analyst
8 7 (10.29%) Messaging Support
8 7 (10.29%) Messaging Support Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Desktop Support
9 4 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) IT Support
10 3 (4.41%) Accountant
10 3 (4.41%) Architect
10 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Management Accountant
11 2 (2.94%) Desktop Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) Ajax
1 20 (29.41%) AngularJS
1 20 (29.41%) CSS
1 20 (29.41%) GraphQL
1 20 (29.41%) React
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) ADO
3 1 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.41%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.94%) CMDB
3 2 (2.94%) Life Science
3 2 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.47%) FPGA
4 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) iPhone
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 35 (51.47%) Windows
2 29 (42.65%) Linux
3 22 (32.35%) Unix
4 19 (27.94%) Android
5 5 (7.35%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) User Experience
2 20 (29.41%) Mobile Application Development
3 19 (27.94%) OO
4 16 (23.53%) ITIL
5 12 (17.65%) ITSM
6 9 (13.24%) Customer Service
6 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.76%) Validation
8 7 (10.29%) B2B
8 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.29%) Information Security
8 7 (10.29%) Problem Management
8 7 (10.29%) Time Management
9 5 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (7.35%) Migration
9 5 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (5.88%) Accounts Payable
11 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (4.41%) Risk Management
11 3 (4.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) JavaScript
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 20 (29.41%) Java
2 20 (29.41%) Perl
3 10 (14.71%) SQL
4 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
5 1 (1.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (5.88%) ACCA
2 4 (5.88%) CIMA
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CCNA
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.47%) HNC
4 1 (1.47%) HND
4 1 (1.47%) MCSE
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.47%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.29%) SCOM
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.88%) SCCM
4 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.47%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Splunk
2 20 (29.41%) Oracle
2 20 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.76%) Cisco
4 7 (10.29%) Remedy
5 3 (4.41%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) Citrix
6 2 (2.94%) VMware
7 1 (1.47%) Adobe
7 1 (1.47%) Apple
7 1 (1.47%) Meraki
7 1 (1.47%) NetApp
7 1 (1.47%) Okta
7 1 (1.47%) Sage
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) SAP