Microsoft Contracts 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 25 87 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 8.39% 14.82% 13.72%
As % of the Vendors category 16.34% 29.90% 31.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 53 65
10th Percentile £197 £213 £194
25th Percentile £293 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £425 £423
Median % change year-on-year +13.18% +0.59% +16.55%
75th Percentile £547 £500 £554
90th Percentile £575 £525 £588
South East median daily rate £492 £465 £473
% change year-on-year +5.70% -1.59% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 1
10th Percentile £20.25 £11.35 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £52.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.48 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.29% -77.31% +480.47%
75th Percentile £24.38 £45.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £24.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year -28.57% +2.59% +24.06%

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 153 291 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 51.34% 49.57% 43.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 219 198
10th Percentile £176 £250 £171
25th Percentile £285 £323 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £594
90th Percentile £644 £653 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 22
10th Percentile £21.84 - £30.80
25th Percentile - £11.71 £42.50
Median hourly rate £24.18 £16.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.13% -64.44% +130.77%
75th Percentile £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £29.00 £50.00 -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Surrey

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Surrey

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Surrey

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Surrey

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 1 May 2025. 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
Reigate +2 6 £500 +18.69% 12
Guildford -5 5 £450 +24.14% 20
Leatherhead -4 4 £373 -12.35% 10
Camberley - 2 £525 - 4
Weybridge +7 1 £500 - 4
Staines 0 1 £425 -15.00% 5
Epsom -1 1 £210 -67.69% 3
Woking -3 1 £550 +37.50% 19
Addlestone - 1 £290 - 1
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) Akamai
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (12.00%) WAN
3 3 (12.00%) Wireless
4 2 (8.00%) DHCP
4 2 (8.00%) DNS
4 2 (8.00%) IP Telephony
4 2 (8.00%) LAN
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
4 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security
5 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) Power Query
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.00%) Moq
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Automotive
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
1 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (16.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Support
4 2 (8.00%) IT Technician
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Network Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Support Technician
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) YAML
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
2 2 (8.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.00%) ADO
3 1 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) ITIL
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (8.00%) ITSM
7 2 (8.00%) OO
7 2 (8.00%) OWASP
7 2 (8.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.00%) Service Management
7 2 (8.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CCNA
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (8.00%) HP APS
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) MCSE
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco
1 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (12.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) Infoblox
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Dell KACE
3 1 (4.00%) Meraki
3 1 (4.00%) Okta
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (4.00%) VMware