Windows Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 204 136 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.36% 7.49% 9.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.73% 56.90% 70.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 92 169
10th Percentile £205 £185 £140
25th Percentile £213 £325 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £523 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +6.09% +16.16%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £608 £700 £656
South East median daily rate £425 £400 £403
% change year-on-year +6.25% -0.62% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £56.50 £24.90 £25.50
25th Percentile £57.78 £42.38 £39.38
Median hourly rate £61.60 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -19.23% +317.87%
75th Percentile - £76.59 £77.50
90th Percentile £63.30 £83.21 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £22.55 £29.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -22.24% +48.72% +22.95%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 273 239 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.86% 13.16% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 162 229
10th Percentile £205 £271 £145
25th Percentile £220 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £514 £493
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +4.31% +15.88%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £616
90th Percentile £608 £699 £656
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £56.40 £21.65 £34.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £37.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%
75th Percentile £63.30 £72.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £79.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.38% +165.00% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Berkshire

Windows
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 Windows within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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 +14 138 £550 -7.17% 28
Bracknell -6 19 £386 +10.36% 7
Wokingham +2 15 £350 -6.67%
Windsor - 6 - -
Newbury +1 3 £525 +144.19% 3
Maidenhead -1 3 £425 - 1
Slough +3 1 £190 -30.91% 2
Crowthorne - 1 - - 1
Windows
South East

Windows
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 23 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 44 (21.57%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (30.39%) Azure
2 40 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (9.80%) Entra ID
4 16 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (7.84%) Azure Storage
5 13 (6.37%) OCI
6 8 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.47%) AWS
7 3 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.47%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.47%) IaaS
7 3 (1.47%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.47%) Serverless
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.98%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 50 (24.51%) DNS
2 44 (21.57%) DHCP
3 40 (19.61%) Firewall
4 27 (13.24%) LAN
5 20 (9.80%) SAN
6 14 (6.86%) WAN
7 10 (4.90%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (3.43%) VPN
10 6 (2.94%) VoIP
11 5 (2.45%) Network Security
11 5 (2.45%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.96%) NAS
12 4 (1.96%) Skype
13 2 (0.98%) Broadband
13 2 (0.98%) WebEx
13 2 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
14 1 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
14 1 (0.49%) HTTP
14 1 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) MySQL
3 5 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.47%) Power BI
6 2 (0.98%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) GIS
7 1 (0.49%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (1.96%) Selenium
3 3 (1.47%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.98%) Git
5 1 (0.49%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.49%) CMake
5 1 (0.49%) MSI
General
1 119 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.63%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.39%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.47%) Automotive
8 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Electronics
9 1 (0.49%) Finance
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 32 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (11.27%) Desktop Engineer
3 23 (11.27%) Desktop Support
3 23 (11.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 23 (11.27%) Senior
3 23 (11.27%) Windows Engineer
4 21 (10.29%) Build Engineer
4 21 (10.29%) Windows Build Engineer
5 20 (9.80%) Support Specialist
6 19 (9.31%) Hardware Engineer
7 18 (8.82%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 15 (7.35%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (7.35%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (6.86%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (6.86%) Administrator
9 14 (6.86%) Systems Administrator
10 10 (4.90%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.41%) Analyst
11 9 (4.41%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.35%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.94%) Itk
3 3 (1.47%) XML
4 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.98%) OLE
5 1 (0.49%) .NET
5 1 (0.49%) CNTK
5 1 (0.49%) CSS
5 1 (0.49%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.49%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.49%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.65%) Driving Licence
2 20 (9.80%) PKI
3 16 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (7.35%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.43%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.94%) Video Editing
7 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.96%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.96%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.47%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.49%) CCTV
11 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.08%) Windows Server
2 93 (45.59%) Windows 10
3 71 (34.80%) Windows Server 2019
4 69 (33.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 67 (32.84%) Linux
6 42 (20.59%) Windows 7
7 41 (20.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (10.29%) Windows NT
9 13 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (6.37%) Windows XP
10 11 (5.39%) Apple iOS
11 8 (3.92%) Android
12 7 (3.43%) Unix
13 4 (1.96%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (45.59%) ITIL
2 71 (34.80%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (34.31%) Customer Service
4 45 (22.06%) Release Management
5 38 (18.63%) Service Management
6 37 (18.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (14.22%) DevOps
8 25 (12.25%) Agile
9 24 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 21 (10.29%) Analytics
10 21 (10.29%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (10.29%) Project Management
11 19 (9.31%) Software Deployment
11 19 (9.31%) Software Testing
12 18 (8.82%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (8.82%) Hardware Maintenance
12 18 (8.82%) Proactive Monitoring
12 18 (8.82%) Service Delivery
13 17 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (7.84%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.02%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.27%) VBScript
3 19 (9.31%) C#
4 16 (7.84%) VB
5 15 (7.35%) Bicep
6 11 (5.39%) Python
7 10 (4.90%) SQL
8 5 (2.45%) C++
9 4 (1.96%) C
9 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.47%) F#
11 2 (0.98%) Java
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 131 (64.22%) Security Cleared
2 112 (54.90%) DV Cleared
3 67 (32.84%) Degree
4 45 (22.06%) SC Cleared
5 16 (7.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (6.37%) CCNA
6 13 (6.37%) CCNP
6 13 (6.37%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.98%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.98%) MCITP
9 1 (0.49%) ACMT
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CEH
9 1 (0.49%) CISSP
9 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.24%) QA
2 9 (4.41%) SLA
3 5 (2.45%) ISO 9000
4 3 (1.47%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 88 (43.14%) Active Directory
2 39 (19.12%) Firmware
3 34 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (9.31%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (6.86%) Hyper-V
8 10 (4.90%) XenApp
9 8 (3.92%) XenDesktop
10 4 (1.96%) Docker
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 111 (54.41%) SCCM
2 58 (28.43%) WSUS
3 37 (18.14%) SCOM
4 24 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (10.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (10.29%) Sysprep
6 20 (9.80%) vCenter Server
7 17 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
8 16 (7.84%) Kubernetes
8 16 (7.84%) NetBackup
9 6 (2.94%) Ansible
9 6 (2.94%) Nessus
10 4 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.96%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.47%) Terraform
12 2 (0.98%) Grafana
12 2 (0.98%) Graylog
12 2 (0.98%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.98%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 131 (64.22%) Microsoft
2 60 (29.41%) HP
3 40 (19.61%) VMware
4 22 (10.78%) Cisco
5 18 (8.82%) 3PAR
5 18 (8.82%) Oracle
6 17 (8.33%) EMC
6 17 (8.33%) Veeam
7 16 (7.84%) Citrix
7 16 (7.84%) ServiceNow
8 15 (7.35%) Dell
9 13 (6.37%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (6.37%) Juniper
9 13 (6.37%) Palo Alto
9 13 (6.37%) Symantec
10 11 (5.39%) Splunk
11 9 (4.41%) Apple
11 9 (4.41%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.45%) NetApp
12 5 (2.45%) Nimble Storage