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 14 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 76 47 102
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 17.55% 12.18% 15.81%
As % of the Vendors category 33.63% 22.93% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 30 80
10th Percentile £196 £210 £158
25th Percentile £204 £254 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 £334 £311
Median % change year-on-year -26.97% +7.23% -30.83%
75th Percentile £484 £434 £531
90th Percentile £501 £525 £613
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £18.74 £20.50 £10.85
25th Percentile £20.45 £21.25 £11.38
Median hourly rate £23.30 £22.50 £12.54
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +79.50% -28.37%
75th Percentile £26.15 £23.75 £25.15
90th Percentile £27.86 £24.50 £32.56
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £21.68
% change year-on-year -30.00% +15.34% +17.16%

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 226 205 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 52.19% 53.11% 50.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 139 265
10th Percentile £204 £199 £188
25th Percentile £224 £261 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £598 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.59% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 11
10th Percentile £34.20 £20.30 £12.27
25th Percentile £60.00 - £41.05
Median hourly rate £75.00 £24.18 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.17% -61.62% +40.00%
75th Percentile £90.09 £24.59 £76.53
90th Percentile - £29.25 -
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.50 £55.40
% change year-on-year -52.63% -14.26% +61.75%

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 14 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 14 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 +10 8 £500 -4.76% 3
Weybridge -1 7 £207 -58.60% 1
Epsom 0 6 £425 +102.38% 6
Redhill +4 4 £475 +35.71% 4
Staines -1 3 - -
Guildford -5 3 £200 - 34
Camberley - 3 £443 - 2
Egham - 3 - - 3
Esher - 2 £500 -
Reigate +2 1 £250 -17.56% 6
Woking -1 1 £475 +46.15% 13
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Horley - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 £425 - 4
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 (9.21%) Mattermost
1 7 (9.21%) Skype for Business
2 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.63%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) SaaS
3 19 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
4 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.58%) AWS
5 5 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
5 5 (6.58%) Serverless
6 4 (5.26%) Azure API Management
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 4 (5.26%) GitHub
7 2 (2.63%) GCP
7 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.37%) Wireless
2 7 (9.21%) Skype
3 6 (7.89%) DHCP
3 6 (7.89%) DNS
4 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.63%) VLAN
5 2 (2.63%) WebEx
6 1 (1.32%) Firewall
6 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.32%) Symposium
6 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.95%) Relational Database
2 20 (26.32%) MySQL
3 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) Metadata
7 1 (1.32%) Power BI
7 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Browser DevTools
2 19 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 19 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 19 (25.00%) Xcode
3 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 44 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) German Language
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (40.79%) Support Engineer
2 22 (28.95%) Technical Support
3 21 (27.63%) Technical Engineer
3 21 (27.63%) Technical Support Engineer
4 20 (26.32%) UX Engineer
5 16 (21.05%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 13 (17.11%) Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Messaging Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Messaging Support
7 7 (9.21%) Messaging Support Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Support Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) IT Support
9 4 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Azure Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Desktop Support
9 4 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) IT Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) Ajax
1 20 (26.32%) AngularJS
1 20 (26.32%) CSS
1 20 (26.32%) GraphQL
1 20 (26.32%) React
2 6 (7.89%) .NET
3 4 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 4 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) ADO
4 1 (1.32%) LDAP
4 1 (1.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.32%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) CMDB
4 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.63%) Life Science
4 2 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) iPhone
5 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.32%) Replication
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 38 (50.00%) Windows
2 29 (38.16%) Linux
3 22 (28.95%) Unix
4 19 (25.00%) Android
5 8 (10.53%) Windows 10
6 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) User Experience
2 20 (26.32%) Mobile Application Development
3 19 (25.00%) OO
4 14 (18.42%) ITIL
5 12 (15.79%) ITSM
6 10 (13.16%) Customer Service
6 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.16%) Validation
7 7 (9.21%) B2B
7 7 (9.21%) Information Security
7 7 (9.21%) Problem Management
7 7 (9.21%) Time Management
8 6 (7.89%) Change Control
8 6 (7.89%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (7.89%) DevOps
8 6 (7.89%) Software Engineering
9 5 (6.58%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (6.58%) ETL
9 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 25 (32.89%) JavaScript
3 20 (26.32%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) Perl
4 15 (19.74%) SQL
5 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.58%) C#
7 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (5.26%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) ACCA
3 3 (3.95%) CIMA
3 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CCNA
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) MCSE
5 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PMP
5 1 (1.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (9.21%) SCOM
2 6 (7.89%) SCCM
3 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.32%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Splunk
2 20 (26.32%) Oracle
3 18 (23.68%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.21%) Cisco
4 7 (9.21%) Remedy
5 5 (6.58%) Databricks
6 3 (3.95%) Citrix
7 2 (2.63%) Google
8 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.32%) Informatica
8 1 (1.32%) NetApp
8 1 (1.32%) Okta
8 1 (1.32%) Sage
8 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.32%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) VMware