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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 126 43 94
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 21.11% 13.31% 16.52%
As % of the Vendors category 40.38% 22.75% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 33 64
10th Percentile £197 - £203
25th Percentile £344 £204 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £250 £378
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -33.77% +11.85%
75th Percentile £521 £500 £498
90th Percentile £599 £562 £534
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.73 -
25th Percentile £13.56 £21.25 £11.71
Median hourly rate £14.50 £24.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% -46.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.25 £30.00 -
90th Percentile £21.80 £31.66 £58.70
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £17.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.18% -60.00% +142.86%

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 312 189 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 52.26% 58.51% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 148 206
10th Percentile £204 £204 £215
25th Percentile £395 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +13.57% -13.75%
75th Percentile £586 £550 £525
90th Percentile £656 £608 £619
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 18
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.90 -
25th Percentile £29.34 £22.63 £11.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -37.78% -
75th Percentile - £31.39 £51.00
90th Percentile - £93.15 £64.15
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +186.17% -67.10% +27.44%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +2 25 £510 +137.21% 11
Guildford -2 17 £420 +15.86% 28
Staines -8 10 £318 -25.29% 2
Egham - 9 £461 - 3
Redhill - 8 £400 - 13
Woking +2 5 £363 -34.09% 18
Thames Ditton - 2 £600 - 1
Warlingham 0 1 - -
Caterham 0 1 - - 1
Reigate -4 1 - - 14
Epsom - 1 - - 3
Weybridge - 1 £163 - 2
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 15 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (20.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (10.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.76%) MS Visio
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.17%) SAP Business One
2 4 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) Azure
2 32 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (18.25%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (6.35%) AWS
7 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.76%) SaaS
9 5 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.17%) GCP
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.38%) Sauce Labs
12 2 (1.59%) Azure AI
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.59%) Copilot Studio
12 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) DHCP
1 7 (5.56%) DNS
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (4.76%) VPN
3 4 (3.17%) Intranet
3 4 (3.17%) LAN
3 4 (3.17%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.17%) SMTP
3 4 (3.17%) VLAN
3 4 (3.17%) WAN
3 4 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.38%) Network Security
5 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.79%) DNSSEC
6 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) Power BI
2 7 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.97%) MySQL
3 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) Android Studio
2 3 (2.38%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 43 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.73%) Legal
4 10 (7.94%) Finance
5 8 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Marketing
6 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Arabic Language
7 5 (3.97%) French Language
7 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.17%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Analyst
2 14 (11.11%) Architect
2 14 (11.11%) Developer
3 12 (9.52%) Consultant
4 11 (8.73%) Support Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Administrator
5 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) IT Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Senior
7 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.56%) Content Manager
7 7 (5.56%) CRM Manager
7 7 (5.56%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) IT Support
7 7 (5.56%) Power Platform Consultant
7 7 (5.56%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Business IT Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (4.76%) React
3 5 (3.97%) .NET
4 4 (3.17%) CSS
4 4 (3.17%) REST
5 3 (2.38%) Ajax
5 3 (2.38%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.59%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.59%) Django
6 2 (1.59%) HTML
6 2 (1.59%) OAuth
6 2 (1.59%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.59%) OpenID
6 2 (1.59%) SPFx
7 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.79%) SAML
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
7 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.59%) CMDB
6 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.05%) Windows
2 12 (9.52%) Linux
3 7 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.17%) Unix
6 3 (2.38%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (20.63%) Agile
3 18 (14.29%) Analytics
4 17 (13.49%) ITIL
5 16 (12.70%) Migration
6 15 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 15 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.32%) Data Governance
8 13 (10.32%) ERP
9 12 (9.52%) Validation
10 11 (8.73%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (8.73%) Data Analysis
10 11 (8.73%) Project Management
10 11 (8.73%) Waterfall
11 10 (7.94%) Data Modelling
11 10 (7.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (7.94%) TOGAF
12 9 (7.14%) AI
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.35%) Python
1 8 (6.35%) SQL
2 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.17%) C#
5 4 (3.17%) Java
5 4 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.38%) Perl
7 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.59%) VBA
8 1 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) Degree
2 12 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.17%) ACCA
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.17%) CIMA
6 3 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) GDPR
2 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) QA
5 3 (2.38%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.17%) vSphere
3 1 (0.79%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (7.94%) Oracle
2 8 (6.35%) SAP
3 7 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.97%) Cisco
4 5 (3.97%) VMware
4 5 (3.97%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.17%) BT
5 4 (3.17%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.17%) Commvault
5 4 (3.17%) Google
5 4 (3.17%) Meraki
5 4 (3.17%) NetApp
5 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.17%) Veeam
5 4 (3.17%) Xerox
6 3 (2.38%) Splunk
7 2 (1.59%) Databricks
8 1 (0.79%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.79%) Okta
8 1 (0.79%) Snow