Microsoft Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 9 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 334 218 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.91% 12.02% 14.90%
As % of the Vendors category 34.22% 23.27% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 121 262
10th Percentile £200 £300 £150
25th Percentile £213 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +20.56% +2.21%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £550
90th Percentile £608 £725 £638
South East median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 2
10th Percentile £13.53 £16.78 £64.50
25th Percentile £48.75 £19.50 £67.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £25.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.20% -66.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £61.60 £57.50 £82.50
90th Percentile £62.00 £67.87 £85.50
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £20.47 £16.50
% change year-on-year +2.59% +24.06% -8.33%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 976 937 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.42% 51.65% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 598 670
10th Percentile £213 £350 £208
25th Percentile £361 £431 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £644 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 36 11
10th Percentile £17.42 £19.00 £25.50
25th Percentile £37.81 £31.31 £27.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £60.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +21.75% +73.91%
75th Percentile £61.60 £71.25 £73.95
90th Percentile £63.80 £80.25 £82.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Berkshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Reading +5 198 £529 -5.54% 58
Bracknell 0 66 £114 -74.76% 7
Wokingham +9 16 £500 +17.65% 5
Slough +15 11 £500 +6.95% 11
Maidenhead 0 9 £425 -34.62% 4
Newbury -2 4 £550 +29.41% 4
Windsor -8 1 - - 3
Crowthorne - 1 - -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 19 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Jadu
Applications
1 103 (30.84%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (11.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (5.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 8 (2.40%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (3.29%) Primavera
2 6 (1.80%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.30%) Maximo
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (25.15%) Azure
2 41 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.49%) Azure Storage
7 14 (4.19%) OCI
7 14 (4.19%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.29%) PaaS
9 9 (2.69%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.69%) SaaS
10 8 (2.40%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.80%) AWS
12 6 (1.80%) Azure API Management
12 6 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.50%) IaaS
14 4 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 39 (11.68%) DNS
1 39 (11.68%) Firewall
2 34 (10.18%) DHCP
3 28 (8.38%) LAN
4 17 (5.09%) SAN
5 10 (2.99%) Network Security
5 10 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.99%) WAN
6 8 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (1.80%) Broadband
7 6 (1.80%) VPN
8 4 (1.20%) NAS
9 2 (0.60%) Intranet
10 1 (0.30%) 4G
10 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.30%) SSL
10 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.30%) Wireless
10 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.99%) Power BI
3 7 (2.10%) MySQL
4 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.50%) Big Data
5 5 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) DTS
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.30%) Power Query
8 1 (0.30%) Redis
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Git
1 6 (1.80%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.20%) JIRA
3 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) Maven
4 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (44.01%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.68%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (9.28%) Telecoms
4 29 (8.68%) Finance
5 23 (6.89%) Marketing
6 21 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.19%) Legal
9 10 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.10%) Banking
10 7 (2.10%) Wholesale Banking
11 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.90%) Automotive
12 3 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.60%) Local Government
14 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (8.38%) Senior
2 26 (7.78%) Support Engineer
3 24 (7.19%) 1st Line Support
4 23 (6.89%) Analyst
5 21 (6.29%) Build Engineer
5 21 (6.29%) Windows Build Engineer
5 21 (6.29%) Windows Engineer
6 20 (5.99%) Support Specialist
7 19 (5.69%) Desktop Engineer
7 19 (5.69%) Desktop Support
7 19 (5.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 19 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.39%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 18 (5.39%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (4.79%) Administrator
9 16 (4.79%) Developer
10 15 (4.49%) Active Directory Support
10 15 (4.49%) Operations Technician
11 14 (4.19%) Active Directory Specialist
11 14 (4.19%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.99%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.29%) Itk
3 7 (2.10%) .NET
4 5 (1.50%) JSON
5 4 (1.20%) SOAP
5 4 (1.20%) XML
5 4 (1.20%) YAML
6 3 (0.90%) OAuth
6 3 (0.90%) OpenID
6 3 (0.90%) REST
7 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.60%) Flash
7 2 (0.60%) HTML
7 2 (0.60%) OLE
7 2 (0.60%) Smart Contracts
7 2 (0.60%) Web Services
8 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.30%) ADO
8 1 (0.30%) CSS
8 1 (0.30%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.78%) Driving Licence
2 20 (5.99%) PKI
3 18 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.20%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.20%) Life Science
7 4 (1.20%) PMI
7 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.20%) Social Media
7 4 (1.20%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.90%) CCTV
8 3 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 131 (39.22%) Windows
2 76 (22.75%) Windows 10
3 67 (20.06%) Windows Server
4 59 (17.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 55 (16.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 47 (14.07%) Linux
7 36 (10.78%) Windows 7
8 34 (10.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (6.29%) Windows NT
10 13 (3.89%) Windows XP
11 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.90%) Unix
13 2 (0.60%) Android
14 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (26.65%) ITIL
3 70 (20.96%) Customer Service
4 56 (16.77%) Service Delivery
5 51 (15.27%) DevOps
6 45 (13.47%) Agile
7 38 (11.38%) Release Management
7 38 (11.38%) Service Management
8 35 (10.48%) Project Management
9 33 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (8.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 24 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (6.89%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (6.59%) Analytics
13 22 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (6.29%) CI/CD
15 20 (5.99%) Customer Requirements
16 19 (5.69%) Change Management
17 18 (5.39%) Software Deployment
17 18 (5.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.87%) PowerShell
2 26 (7.78%) C#
3 19 (5.69%) SQL
4 16 (4.79%) Bicep
5 15 (4.49%) VB
5 15 (4.49%) VBScript
6 9 (2.69%) C
7 5 (1.50%) C++
7 5 (1.50%) Python
8 3 (0.90%) Java
8 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.90%) PHP
8 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.30%) R
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 149 (44.61%) Security Cleared
2 119 (35.63%) DV Cleared
3 85 (25.45%) Degree
4 44 (13.17%) SC Cleared
5 15 (4.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (3.89%) CCNA
6 13 (3.89%) CCNP
6 13 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.80%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.50%) ACCA
8 5 (1.50%) CIMA
9 4 (1.20%) PMP
10 3 (0.90%) APMP
10 3 (0.90%) CIPD
10 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.60%) CISSP
11 2 (0.60%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.87%) SLA
2 25 (7.49%) QA
3 8 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.50%) PMO
5 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 75 (22.46%) Active Directory
2 39 (11.68%) Firmware
3 26 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.69%) Hyper-V
5 17 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.09%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.50%) Docker
8 2 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 97 (29.04%) SCCM
2 54 (16.17%) WSUS
3 30 (8.98%) SCOM
4 22 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (6.29%) Kubernetes
5 21 (6.29%) Sysprep
6 20 (5.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (5.09%) vCenter Server
8 14 (4.19%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (3.89%) NetBackup
10 7 (2.10%) Ansible
10 7 (2.10%) Terraform
11 6 (1.80%) Nessus
12 4 (1.20%) Grafana
12 4 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.20%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.60%) Istio
14 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (18.56%) HP
2 30 (8.98%) VMware
3 27 (8.08%) Oracle
4 20 (5.99%) Cisco
5 17 (5.09%) Veeam
6 14 (4.19%) EMC
6 14 (4.19%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.19%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.89%) 3PAR
7 13 (3.89%) Dell
7 13 (3.89%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (3.89%) Juniper
7 13 (3.89%) Symantec
8 12 (3.59%) Splunk
9 10 (2.99%) Citrix
10 8 (2.40%) Adobe
11 7 (2.10%) MicroStrategy
11 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.20%) SAP
12 4 (1.20%) Workday