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 3 June 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
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 103 29 96
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 19.11% 10.94% 15.74%
As % of the Vendors category 39.92% 21.01% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 18 59
10th Percentile £187 £188 £237
25th Percentile £319 £208 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 £415
Median % change year-on-year - +5.42% +3.75%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £500
90th Percentile £563 £575 £528
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £465
% change year-on-year +2.70% -0.54% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 20
10th Percentile £19.40 £20.38 £11.59
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.94 £11.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.75 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +66.46% -65.41%
75th Percentile £23.38 £26.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £23.60 £28.50 £51.25
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £14.90 £23.22
% change year-on-year +84.56% -35.82% +25.49%

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 258 138 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 47.87% 52.08% 46.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 106 202
10th Percentile £204 £193 £255
25th Percentile £350 £280 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £529
90th Percentile £650 £588 £672
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 22
10th Percentile £18.00 £20.75 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.96 £11.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +160.00% +56.25% -64.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £29.00 £45.00
90th Percentile - £91.49 £56.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £50.00
% change year-on-year +92.62% -50.68% +8.11%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 0 18 £505 +134.88% 4
Egham - 11 £461 - 2
Guildford -5 10 £400 -11.11% 16
Redhill - 8 £400 - 5
Weybridge - 7 £165 -
Epsom - 5 £425 - 5
Staines -12 3 £305 -28.24% 3
Woking +2 1 £525 -4.55% 8
Horley - 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 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.77%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (22.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (10.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (5.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) SAP Business One
1 4 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (47.57%) Azure
2 23 (22.33%) Entra ID
2 23 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (5.83%) GitHub
5 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.85%) Azure API Management
6 5 (4.85%) Azure Functions
6 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
6 5 (4.85%) SaaS
6 5 (4.85%) Sauce Labs
6 5 (4.85%) Serverless
7 4 (3.88%) AWS
7 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.88%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.48%) DHCP
1 18 (17.48%) DNS
2 12 (11.65%) Kerberos
3 6 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (4.85%) Firewall
4 5 (4.85%) VLAN
4 5 (4.85%) VPN
5 4 (3.88%) LAN
5 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.88%) WAN
6 3 (2.91%) Network Security
6 3 (2.91%) SMTP
7 2 (1.94%) WebEx
8 1 (0.97%) Intranet
8 1 (0.97%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Power BI
2 5 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.85%) MySQL
2 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.97%) Metadata
5 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) JIRA
2 5 (4.85%) Android Studio
2 5 (4.85%) Browser DevTools
2 5 (4.85%) Eclipse
2 5 (4.85%) Xcode
General
1 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Finance
3 7 (6.80%) Legal
4 4 (3.88%) Arabic Language
4 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (3.88%) French Language
4 4 (3.88%) General Ledger
5 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Automotive
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing
7 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Publishing
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (12.62%) Analyst
1 13 (12.62%) Support Engineer
2 12 (11.65%) Consultant
3 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (6.80%) Business Analyst
4 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 7 (6.80%) Power Platform Consultant
4 7 (6.80%) Technical Support
5 6 (5.83%) Developer
5 6 (5.83%) IT Support
5 6 (5.83%) Senior
5 6 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (5.83%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) IT Analyst
6 5 (4.85%) IT Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.85%) UX Engineer
7 4 (3.88%) Junior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.65%) LDAP
2 8 (7.77%) .NET
2 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
2 8 (7.77%) CSS
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (4.85%) Ajax
4 5 (4.85%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.85%) GraphQL
4 5 (4.85%) React
4 5 (4.85%) REST
5 1 (0.97%) Django
5 1 (0.97%) MDX
5 1 (0.97%) OAuth
5 1 (0.97%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.97%) OpenID
5 1 (0.97%) PySpark
5 1 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) Replication
2 7 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.97%) CMDB
6 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.97%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.24%) Windows
2 7 (6.80%) Linux
3 6 (5.83%) Unix
3 6 (5.83%) Windows 10
3 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.85%) Android
5 4 (3.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.39%) Migration
2 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.48%) Agile
4 16 (15.53%) Analytics
4 16 (15.53%) ITIL
5 12 (11.65%) Digital Identity
6 10 (9.71%) CI/CD
6 10 (9.71%) Data Analysis
6 10 (9.71%) DevOps
6 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (9.71%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (9.71%) User Experience
6 10 (9.71%) Validation
7 9 (8.74%) AI
7 9 (8.74%) Computer Science
7 9 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (8.74%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.74%) Project Management
8 8 (7.77%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (7.77%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.45%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.62%) Python
3 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.74%) SQL
5 8 (7.77%) C#
6 5 (4.85%) Java
6 5 (4.85%) Perl
7 4 (3.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Degree
1 18 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) ACCA
3 4 (3.88%) CIMA
3 4 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.91%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.91%) PMP
5 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (26.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.88%) vSphere
3 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.97%) Firmware
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (11.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.91%) SCCM
4 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (7.77%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.80%) Databricks
3 6 (5.83%) SAP
4 5 (4.85%) Cisco
4 5 (4.85%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) Splunk
5 4 (3.88%) BT
5 4 (3.88%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.88%) Commvault
5 4 (3.88%) Meraki
5 4 (3.88%) NetApp
5 4 (3.88%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.88%) Veeam
5 4 (3.88%) VMware
5 4 (3.88%) Xerox
5 4 (3.88%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.94%) Citrix
6 2 (1.94%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.97%) Informatica