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 31 March 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
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 18 4
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 74 24 82
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.68% 8.16% 14.14%
As % of the Vendors category 31.90% 16.78% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 14 50
10th Percentile £200 £194 £170
25th Percentile £205 £229 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £383
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +14.38% -15.00%
75th Percentile £559 £519 £469
90th Percentile £563 £560 £526
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.50% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 15
10th Percentile £22.03 £20.25 £10.99
25th Percentile £23.19 £20.63 £11.71
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.50 £12.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% +79.50% -77.21%
75th Percentile £27.69 £24.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £28.48 £24.75 £45.00
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% -31.11% +15.38%

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 232 143 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 49.15% 48.64% 49.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 104 216
10th Percentile £204 £175 £215
25th Percentile £400 £218 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £555
90th Percentile £678 £639 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 16
10th Percentile £20.78 £20.58 £11.11
25th Percentile £58.75 - £11.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.18 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +168.82% +69.48% -68.29%
75th Percentile £90.09 £24.92 £45.00
90th Percentile - £28.88 £47.50
South East median hourly rate £37.69 £25.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +50.74% -47.37% +5.56%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +6 13 £510 +36.91% 3
Weybridge 0 9 £165 -67.00%
Epsom +1 7 £425 +102.38% 7
Redhill 0 5 £475 +115.91% 5
Guildford -9 3 £200 -55.56% 15
Egham - 3 - - 4
Esher - 2 £500 - 1
Farnham - 1 £425 - 2
Horley - 1 - - 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 1
Woking - 1 £475 - 7
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 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.05%) Azure
2 25 (33.78%) Entra ID
3 19 (25.68%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (10.81%) SaaS
4 8 (10.81%) Sauce Labs
5 6 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.11%) Azure Functions
5 6 (8.11%) Serverless
6 5 (6.76%) Azure API Management
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
6 5 (6.76%) GitHub
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.70%) AWS
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.35%) IaaS
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.97%) DHCP
1 17 (22.97%) DNS
2 12 (16.22%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.76%) Wireless
4 4 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.70%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.70%) VLAN
6 2 (2.70%) WebEx
7 1 (1.35%) Firewall
7 1 (1.35%) SMTP
7 1 (1.35%) VoIP
7 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.81%) MySQL
3 6 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.05%) Power BI
6 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.35%) Metadata
7 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Android Studio
1 8 (10.81%) Browser DevTools
1 8 (10.81%) Eclipse
1 8 (10.81%) Xcode
2 4 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 27 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) German Language
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.35%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.35%) Publishing
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Support Engineer
2 12 (16.22%) Analyst
3 8 (10.81%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) Technical Support
3 8 (10.81%) Technical Support Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) UX Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (6.76%) IT Support
6 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Coordinator
7 4 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Junior
7 4 (5.41%) Junior IT Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Junior IT Support
7 4 (5.41%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.22%) LDAP
2 11 (14.86%) CSS
3 8 (10.81%) Ajax
3 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
3 8 (10.81%) GraphQL
3 8 (10.81%) React
4 7 (9.46%) .NET
5 5 (6.76%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.76%) REST
6 1 (1.35%) ADO
6 1 (1.35%) MDX
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Replication
2 8 (10.81%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) iPhone
5 1 (1.35%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.35%) Life Science
5 1 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (35.14%) Windows
2 8 (10.81%) Android
2 8 (10.81%) Linux
2 8 (10.81%) Unix
3 7 (9.46%) Windows 10
3 7 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.62%) Migration
2 12 (16.22%) Digital Identity
3 10 (13.51%) Analytics
4 9 (12.16%) Agile
4 9 (12.16%) Customer Service
4 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
4 9 (12.16%) Project Management
4 9 (12.16%) Time Management
4 9 (12.16%) User Experience
5 8 (10.81%) Mobile Application Development
5 8 (10.81%) OO
5 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.46%) Change Control
6 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
6 7 (9.46%) DevOps
6 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (9.46%) ITIL
7 6 (8.11%) AI
7 6 (8.11%) Data Analysis
7 6 (8.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) PowerShell
2 15 (20.27%) Python
3 14 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.51%) SQL
5 8 (10.81%) Java
5 8 (10.81%) Perl
6 6 (8.11%) C#
7 3 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) Degree
4 4 (5.41%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.41%) PMP
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (39.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.35%) Firmware
2 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.11%) SCCM
3 4 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.81%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) Splunk
3 6 (8.11%) Databricks
4 3 (4.05%) Citrix
5 2 (2.70%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.35%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.35%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) Informatica
6 1 (1.35%) NetApp
6 1 (1.35%) Qualys
6 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.35%) Tenable
6 1 (1.35%) VMware