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 12 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 105 31 99
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 18.45% 11.36% 15.71%
As % of the Vendors category 38.60% 21.99% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 20 61
10th Percentile £199 £188 £243
25th Percentile £331 £208 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -15.63% -
75th Percentile £538 £528 £500
90th Percentile £563 £575 £525
South East median daily rate £475 £469 £466
% change year-on-year +1.35% +0.58% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 20
10th Percentile £19.40 £17.23 £11.59
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.00 £11.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +57.70% -65.41%
75th Percentile £23.38 £25.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £23.60 £28.00 £51.25
South East median hourly rate £29.07 £15.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +87.55% -33.23% +19.05%

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 272 141 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 47.80% 51.65% 45.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 107 207
10th Percentile £204 £195 £254
25th Percentile £353 £290 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £543 £531
90th Percentile £650 £588 £672
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £18.61 -
25th Percentile £50.31 £20.94 £11.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.83 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +161.78% +55.19% -64.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £28.50 £45.00
90th Percentile - £76.11 £56.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £51.25
% change year-on-year +92.62% -51.88% +5.89%

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 12 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 12 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% 5
Guildford -6 12 £420 -6.67% 12
Egham - 10 £461 - 4
Redhill - 8 £400 - 2
Staines -13 6 £308 -27.65% 4
Weybridge - 6 £165 -
Epsom - 5 £425 - 4
Woking +2 1 £525 -4.55% 10
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 (10.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (17.14%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (12.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (5.71%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) SAP Business One
1 4 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.62%) Azure
2 22 (20.95%) Entra ID
3 21 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (15.24%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (5.71%) GitHub
6 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (4.76%) AWS
7 5 (4.76%) Azure API Management
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 5 (4.76%) SaaS
7 5 (4.76%) Serverless
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.81%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.81%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.19%) DHCP
1 17 (16.19%) DNS
2 12 (11.43%) Kerberos
3 5 (4.76%) Firewall
3 5 (4.76%) VPN
3 5 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.81%) LAN
4 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.81%) VLAN
4 4 (3.81%) WAN
5 3 (2.86%) Network Security
5 3 (2.86%) SMTP
6 1 (0.95%) Intranet
6 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.95%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) Power BI
2 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.76%) MySQL
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Android Studio
2 4 (3.81%) Browser DevTools
2 4 (3.81%) Eclipse
2 4 (3.81%) Xcode
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.67%) Finance
2 7 (6.67%) Legal
2 7 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Arabic Language
3 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (4.76%) French Language
4 4 (3.81%) General Ledger
4 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Automotive
7 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Publishing
7 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (12.38%) Analyst
2 12 (11.43%) Consultant
3 11 (10.48%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
6 7 (6.67%) Senior
7 6 (5.71%) IT Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Technical Support
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) IT Business Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) IT Support
8 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) LDAP
2 9 (8.57%) .NET
3 8 (7.62%) AngularJS
3 8 (7.62%) CSS
4 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (5.71%) REST
5 5 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.76%) React
6 4 (3.81%) Ajax
6 4 (3.81%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.95%) CSS3
7 1 (0.95%) Django
7 1 (0.95%) HTML
7 1 (0.95%) MDX
7 1 (0.95%) Node.js
7 1 (0.95%) OAuth
7 1 (0.95%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.95%) PySpark
7 1 (0.95%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Replication
2 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.95%) CMDB
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.90%) Windows
2 6 (5.71%) Linux
2 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.76%) Unix
3 5 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.81%) Android
4 4 (3.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.00%) Migration
1 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.10%) Agile
3 17 (16.19%) Analytics
4 16 (15.24%) ITIL
5 12 (11.43%) Digital Identity
6 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.48%) DevOps
7 10 (9.52%) AI
7 10 (9.52%) Computer Science
7 10 (9.52%) Data Analysis
7 10 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (9.52%) Project Delivery
7 10 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (9.52%) Validation
8 9 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (8.57%) ETL
8 9 (8.57%) Project Management
8 9 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 13 (12.38%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (8.57%) SQL
5 8 (7.62%) C#
6 5 (4.76%) Java
7 4 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (3.81%) Perl
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (19.05%) Degree
1 20 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.81%) ACCA
4 4 (3.81%) CIMA
5 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.86%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 25 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.81%) vSphere
3 1 (0.95%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.81%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.86%) SCCM
5 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.67%) Databricks
2 7 (6.67%) SAP
3 5 (4.76%) Cisco
4 4 (3.81%) BT
4 4 (3.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (3.81%) Commvault
4 4 (3.81%) Meraki
4 4 (3.81%) NetApp
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.81%) Splunk
4 4 (3.81%) Veeam
4 4 (3.81%) VMware
4 4 (3.81%) Xerox
4 4 (3.81%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.90%) Citrix
5 2 (1.90%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.95%) Informatica