Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Woking

Microsoft
Surrey > Woking

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Woking 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 30 December 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Woking 8.33% 10.34% 33.33%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 20.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £261 £178
25th Percentile £463 £318 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £225
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +88.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £303
90th Percentile - - £421
Surrey median daily rate £208 £320 £310
% change year-on-year -35.16% +3.23% -31.11%

All Vendors
Woking

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 Woking.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3 15 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Woking 25.00% 51.72% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £270 £313 £188
25th Percentile £342 £403 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £414 £325
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +27.38% +62.50%
75th Percentile £569 £438 £484
90th Percentile £618 £581 £604
Surrey median daily rate £486 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +9.58% -11.25% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Woking

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Woking.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Woking

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Woking

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Woking

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Woking citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Woking 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL