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 20 February 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 82 36 92
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 18.55% 10.17% 14.65%
As % of the Vendors category 37.79% 20.57% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 16 69
10th Percentile £176 £199 £166
25th Percentile £204 £219 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £526 £453 £488
90th Percentile £563 £525 £591
South East median daily rate £475 £480 £463
% change year-on-year -1.04% +3.78% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £18.33 £20.25 £10.50
25th Percentile £19.43 £20.63 £11.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.63% +23.08%
75th Percentile £26.38 £24.38 £26.75
90th Percentile £27.95 £24.75 £42.50
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £23.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -26.32% +2.30% +16.08%

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 217 175 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 49.10% 49.44% 49.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 111 247
10th Percentile £204 £175 £200
25th Percentile £350 £220 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £581 £525 £564
90th Percentile £678 £600 £647
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £25.13 £20.39 £11.21
25th Percentile £58.75 £23.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +168.82% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.09 £24.30 £74.21
90th Percentile - £24.97 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £26.97 £29.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.00% -38.95% +5.56%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +7 10 £505 +158.97% 4
Weybridge 0 9 £165 -67.00% 4
Epsom +1 7 £425 +102.38% 6
Redhill -1 5 £475 +18.75% 2
Egham - 4 - - 2
Guildford -3 3 £200 - 16
Staines - 3 - - 2
Esher - 2 £500 -
Woking 0 1 £475 +111.11% 27
Farnham - 1 £425 - 5
Horley - 1 - - 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 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 4 (4.88%) Mattermost
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.88%) Skype for Business
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.66%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.12%) Azure
2 24 (29.27%) Entra ID
3 18 (21.95%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (18.29%) SaaS
5 14 (17.07%) Sauce Labs
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.32%) Azure Functions
6 6 (7.32%) Serverless
7 5 (6.10%) Azure API Management
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Storage
7 5 (6.10%) GitHub
8 4 (4.88%) AWS
9 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.73%) DHCP
1 17 (20.73%) DNS
2 12 (14.63%) Kerberos
3 11 (13.41%) Wireless
4 4 (4.88%) Skype
4 4 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.66%) WebEx
6 2 (2.44%) Firewall
6 2 (2.44%) VLAN
7 1 (1.22%) Symposium
7 1 (1.22%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.22%) VoIP
7 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.73%) Relational Database
2 15 (18.29%) MySQL
3 6 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.44%) Power BI
7 1 (1.22%) Big Data
7 1 (1.22%) Metadata
7 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (18.29%) Browser DevTools
2 14 (17.07%) Android Studio
2 14 (17.07%) Eclipse
2 14 (17.07%) Xcode
3 2 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 36 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Finance
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) German Language
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Publishing
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Support Engineer
2 16 (19.51%) Technical Engineer
2 16 (19.51%) Technical Support
2 16 (19.51%) Technical Support Engineer
3 15 (18.29%) UX Engineer
4 12 (14.63%) Analyst
5 11 (13.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) IT Support
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Azure Software Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Coordinator
8 4 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Junior
8 4 (4.88%) Junior IT Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Messaging Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Messaging Support Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.95%) CSS
2 15 (18.29%) Ajax
2 15 (18.29%) AngularJS
2 15 (18.29%) GraphQL
2 15 (18.29%) React
3 12 (14.63%) LDAP
4 7 (8.54%) .NET
5 5 (6.10%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.10%) REST
6 1 (1.22%) ADO
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Mobile App
2 12 (14.63%) Replication
3 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) CMDB
5 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.22%) iPhone
5 1 (1.22%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.22%) Life Science
5 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.22%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (40.24%) Windows
2 20 (24.39%) Linux
3 16 (19.51%) Unix
4 14 (17.07%) Android
5 8 (9.76%) Windows 10
6 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
7 4 (4.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.51%) Migration
1 16 (19.51%) User Experience
2 15 (18.29%) Mobile Application Development
3 14 (17.07%) OO
4 12 (14.63%) Digital Identity
4 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.41%) ITIL
6 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 10 (12.20%) Time Management
7 8 (9.76%) ITSM
8 7 (8.54%) Agile
8 7 (8.54%) Change Control
8 7 (8.54%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.54%) DevOps
8 7 (8.54%) Project Delivery
8 7 (8.54%) Project Management
8 7 (8.54%) Validation
9 6 (7.32%) Analytics
9 6 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) Python
2 21 (25.61%) JavaScript
2 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
3 15 (18.29%) Java
3 15 (18.29%) Perl
4 13 (15.85%) SQL
5 6 (7.32%) C#
6 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (4.88%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.88%) PMP
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.22%) ACCA
6 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.22%) CCNA
6 1 (1.22%) CIMA
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (40.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.32%) SCCM
4 4 (4.88%) HP SiteScope
4 4 (4.88%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (4.88%) SCOM
5 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Splunk
2 16 (19.51%) ServiceNow
3 15 (18.29%) Oracle
4 6 (7.32%) Databricks
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco
5 4 (4.88%) Remedy
6 3 (3.66%) Citrix
7 1 (1.22%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.22%) Google
7 1 (1.22%) Informatica
7 1 (1.22%) NetApp
7 1 (1.22%) Okta
7 1 (1.22%) Qualys
7 1 (1.22%) Sage
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.22%) Tenable
7 1 (1.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.22%) Zscaler