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 30 January 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 81 43 111
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 18.49% 11.62% 16.62%
As % of the Vendors category 37.85% 22.75% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 24 86
10th Percentile £193 £210 £160
25th Percentile £204 £244 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £333 £383
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -13.07% -4.38%
75th Percentile £503 £439 £498
90th Percentile £563 £525 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £18.74 £20.50 £10.50
25th Percentile £20.45 £21.25 £10.94
Median hourly rate £23.30 £22.50 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +57.70% -18.47%
75th Percentile £26.15 £23.75 £16.00
90th Percentile £27.86 £24.50 £26.75
South East median hourly rate £17.44 £25.00 £23.82
% change year-on-year -30.26% +4.94% +28.77%

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 214 189 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 48.86% 51.08% 51.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 122 279
10th Percentile £204 £188 £188
25th Percentile £281 £253 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £525 £586
90th Percentile £678 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile £34.20 £20.27 £11.03
25th Percentile £60.00 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £24.18 £51.20
Median % change year-on-year +210.17% -52.77% +13.77%
75th Percentile £90.09 - £75.37
90th Percentile - £25.43 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £36.46 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.97% -30.56% +45.83%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +8 8 £500 +156.41% 4
Weybridge -1 8 £186 -62.80% 2
Epsom 0 7 £425 +102.38% 12
Redhill +4 4 £475 +18.75% 2
Staines -1 3 - - 1
Guildford -4 3 £200 - 20
Egham - 3 - - 3
Esher - 2 £500 -
Reigate +4 1 £250 -50.00% 3
Woking 0 1 £475 +111.11% 14
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Horley - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 £425 - 1
Camberley - 1 - - 1
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 (8.64%) Mattermost
1 7 (8.64%) Skype for Business
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (44.44%) Azure
2 23 (28.40%) Entra ID
3 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (20.99%) SaaS
4 16 (19.75%) Sauce Labs
5 6 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 6 (7.41%) Serverless
6 5 (6.17%) AWS
6 5 (6.17%) Azure API Management
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Storage
6 5 (6.17%) GitHub
7 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.47%) GCP
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.23%) IaaS
9 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) DHCP
1 17 (20.99%) DNS
2 14 (17.28%) Wireless
3 12 (14.81%) Kerberos
4 7 (8.64%) Skype
5 4 (4.94%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.47%) Firewall
7 2 (2.47%) VLAN
7 2 (2.47%) WebEx
8 1 (1.23%) Symposium
8 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.23%) VoIP
8 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.46%) Relational Database
2 17 (20.99%) MySQL
3 6 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.47%) Power BI
7 1 (1.23%) Big Data
7 1 (1.23%) Metadata
7 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) Browser DevTools
2 16 (19.75%) Android Studio
2 16 (19.75%) Eclipse
2 16 (19.75%) Xcode
3 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 37 (45.68%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.23%) German Language
5 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.23%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Support Engineer
2 19 (23.46%) Technical Support
3 18 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
3 18 (22.22%) Technical Support Engineer
4 17 (20.99%) UX Engineer
5 13 (16.05%) Analyst
5 13 (16.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 7 (8.64%) Messaging Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Messaging Support
6 7 (8.64%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Software Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) IT Support
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.22%) CSS
2 17 (20.99%) Ajax
2 17 (20.99%) AngularJS
2 17 (20.99%) GraphQL
2 17 (20.99%) React
3 12 (14.81%) LDAP
4 7 (8.64%) .NET
5 5 (6.17%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.17%) REST
6 1 (1.23%) ADO
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) Mobile App
2 12 (14.81%) Replication
3 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
5 2 (2.47%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) iPhone
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.98%) Windows
2 26 (32.10%) Linux
3 19 (23.46%) Unix
4 16 (19.75%) Android
5 8 (9.88%) Windows 10
6 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.22%) User Experience
2 17 (20.99%) Mobile Application Development
3 16 (19.75%) Migration
3 16 (19.75%) OO
4 15 (18.52%) ITIL
5 12 (14.81%) Digital Identity
5 12 (14.81%) ITSM
6 9 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 9 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.11%) Validation
7 7 (8.64%) B2B
7 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.64%) DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) Information Security
7 7 (8.64%) Problem Management
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
7 7 (8.64%) Time Management
8 6 (7.41%) Change Control
8 6 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (7.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) JavaScript
2 23 (28.40%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.99%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) Perl
4 16 (19.75%) SQL
5 6 (7.41%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.94%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.23%) ACCA
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CCNA
7 1 (1.23%) CIMA
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (43.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.64%) HP SiteScope
3 7 (8.64%) SCOM
4 6 (7.41%) SCCM
5 3 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.23%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Splunk
2 17 (20.99%) Oracle
3 16 (19.75%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.64%) Cisco
4 7 (8.64%) Remedy
5 6 (7.41%) Databricks
6 3 (3.70%) Citrix
7 2 (2.47%) Google
8 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.23%) Informatica
8 1 (1.23%) NetApp
8 1 (1.23%) Okta
8 1 (1.23%) Sage
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.23%) VMware