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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 35 101 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 12.37% 15.96% 16.04%
As % of the Vendors category 22.73% 32.58% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 65 85
10th Percentile £188 £207 £176
25th Percentile £205 £263 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £243 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -39.38% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £525
90th Percentile £574 £525 £583
South East median daily rate £473 £470 £473
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 21 2
10th Percentile £17.73 - £28.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £11.71 £32.81
Median hourly rate £24.00 £16.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -61.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £30.00 £45.00 £50.31
90th Percentile £31.66 £53.00 £54.63
South East median hourly rate £15.63 £24.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -36.04% +25.28% +21.04%

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 154 310 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 54.42% 48.97% 45.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 225 238
10th Percentile £192 £250 £198
25th Percentile £303 £310 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £554 £525 £594
90th Percentile £621 £672 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 15
10th Percentile £19.49 - £27.55
25th Percentile £23.31 £11.71 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £16.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.56% -64.44% -
75th Percentile £30.69 £45.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £78.05 £56.60 £53.50
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £53.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -60.85% +17.78% +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 5 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Surrey

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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 5 July 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
Leatherhead 0 10 £215 -50.86% 27
Guildford -7 5 £450 +28.57% 100
Reigate +1 4 £500 +88.24% 23
Camberley - 2 £525 - 12
Staines +3 1 £425 +107.32% 9
Warlingham +1 1 £163 -18.75%
Woking 0 1 £550 +37.50% 61
Caterham 0 1 £163 -18.75% 2
Horley - 1 - - 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £235 - 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 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) AWS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Stack
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) VPN
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) LAN
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.71%) Wireless
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) FTP
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.86%) MySQL
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
1 3 (8.57%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.71%) Moq
2 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.86%) Android Studio
3 1 (2.86%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.86%) Toad
3 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.86%) Automotive
3 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.86%) Local Government
3 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Retail
3 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (25.71%) Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (17.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Desktop Support
2 6 (17.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) IT Support
3 4 (11.43%) Mobile Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Support Technician
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
1 3 (8.57%) CSS
1 3 (8.57%) YAML
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) JSON
2 2 (5.71%) RESTful
2 2 (5.71%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) Ajax
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Linux
5 1 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.86%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (17.14%) Patch Management
4 6 (17.14%) Service Management
5 5 (14.29%) Agile
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
5 5 (14.29%) Migration
5 5 (14.29%) User Experience
6 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.57%) OO
7 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
7 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.57%) Strategic Thinking
7 3 (8.57%) TOGAF
8 2 (5.71%) CRM
8 2 (5.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
1 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) C#
2 2 (5.71%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
3 1 (2.86%) Bicep
3 1 (2.86%) Korn
3 1 (2.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) A+ Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CCNA
4 1 (2.86%) CIPD
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.86%) MCP
4 1 (2.86%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) XenApp
2 1 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) SCCM
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.86%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Apple
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 2 (5.71%) Citrix
2 2 (5.71%) Meraki
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Dell KACE
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (2.86%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Workday