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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 174 156 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.03% 8.78% 7.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.31% 60.00% 63.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 100 128
10th Percentile £205 £187 £138
25th Percentile £213 £350 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +10.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £595
90th Percentile - £700 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £388 £390
% change year-on-year +22.58% -0.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £56.50 £37.25 £25.50
25th Percentile £57.00 £47.73 £39.38
Median hourly rate £60.05 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% -7.69% +326.23%
75th Percentile £61.60 £79.78 £77.50
90th Percentile - £84.44 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -1.41%

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 244 260 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.66% 14.64% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 166 194
10th Percentile £205 £288 £143
25th Percentile £280 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £600
90th Percentile - £691 £652
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 4
10th Percentile £56.40 £25.93 £30.13
25th Percentile £56.50 £47.50 £50.94
Median hourly rate £61.60 £58.75 £66.58
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -11.76% +138.39%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £73.06
90th Percentile £64.46 £82.60 £81.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +9 125 £575 -4.37% 27
Bracknell -10 15 £398 +13.57% 7
Wokingham -4 8 £330 +1.54% 2
Windsor - 6 - - 1
Newbury +2 2 £413 +157.81% 1
Maidenhead -5 2 £425 - 3
Slough +4 1 £190 -39.20% 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 22 (12.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.63%) Azure
2 36 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (12.64%) Entra ID
4 20 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (11.49%) Azure Storage
5 14 (8.05%) OCI
6 9 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.30%) AWS
7 4 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.72%) Azure Functions
8 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.72%) Serverless
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (28.74%) DNS
2 45 (25.86%) DHCP
3 41 (23.56%) Firewall
4 19 (10.92%) SAN
5 18 (10.34%) LAN
6 10 (5.75%) WAN
7 6 (3.45%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.45%) VoIP
7 6 (3.45%) VPN
8 5 (2.87%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.30%) NAS
9 4 (2.30%) Network Security
10 3 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.15%) Broadband
11 2 (1.15%) WebEx
11 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.57%) HTTP
12 1 (0.57%) Internet
12 1 (0.57%) SGSN
12 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.87%) MySQL
3 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) GIS
5 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) JIRA
2 4 (2.30%) MSI
2 4 (2.30%) Selenium
3 3 (1.72%) InstallShield
3 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.15%) Git
5 1 (0.57%) CMake
General
1 100 (57.47%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.09%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.75%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (0.57%) Electronics
8 1 (0.57%) Finance
8 1 (0.57%) Games
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (18.39%) Support Engineer
2 26 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (11.49%) Active Directory Support
4 19 (10.92%) Senior
5 18 (10.34%) Desktop Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Desktop Support
5 18 (10.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Build Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Support Specialist
6 17 (9.77%) Windows Build Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (8.05%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (8.05%) Hardware Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Administrator
8 13 (7.47%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 13 (7.47%) Systems Administrator
9 11 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (5.17%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.49%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.45%) Itk
3 3 (1.72%) XML
4 1 (0.57%) .NET
4 1 (0.57%) CNTK
4 1 (0.57%) CSS
4 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.57%) OpenVINO
4 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.94%) Driving Licence
2 24 (13.79%) PKI
3 21 (12.07%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (8.05%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.60%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.45%) Video Editing
7 5 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.30%) Fat Client
8 4 (2.30%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.72%) Smart Meter
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.57%) CCTV
11 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 90 (51.72%) Windows Server
2 77 (44.25%) Windows 10
3 69 (39.66%) Windows Server 2019
4 67 (38.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 64 (36.78%) Linux
6 34 (19.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 30 (17.24%) Windows 7
8 17 (9.77%) Windows NT
9 14 (8.05%) Windows XP
10 10 (5.75%) Apple iOS
10 10 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (4.60%) Android
12 6 (3.45%) Unix
13 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
14 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (47.13%) ITIL
2 56 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (28.74%) Customer Service
4 44 (25.29%) Release Management
5 38 (21.84%) Service Management
6 35 (20.11%) DevOps
7 29 (16.67%) Agile
7 29 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (13.22%) Analytics
9 20 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 20 (11.49%) Identity Management
9 20 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (11.49%) Log Analytics
9 20 (11.49%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (11.49%) Privileged Identity Management
9 20 (11.49%) RBAC
9 20 (11.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 19 (10.92%) Proactive Monitoring
11 18 (10.34%) Project Management
12 17 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.91%) PowerShell
2 28 (16.09%) VBScript
3 23 (13.22%) C#
4 20 (11.49%) Bicep
4 20 (11.49%) VB
5 12 (6.90%) Python
6 9 (5.17%) SQL
7 5 (2.87%) C++
8 4 (2.30%) C
9 3 (1.72%) F#
10 2 (1.15%) Java
10 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 115 (66.09%) Security Cleared
2 100 (57.47%) DV Cleared
3 61 (35.06%) Degree
4 46 (26.44%) SC Cleared
5 20 (11.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (8.05%) CCNA
6 14 (8.05%) CCNP
6 14 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.22%) QA
2 6 (3.45%) SLA
3 5 (2.87%) ISO 9000
4 3 (1.72%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (43.10%) Active Directory
2 33 (18.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (17.24%) Firmware
4 21 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (11.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (9.20%) Hyper-V
8 7 (4.02%) XenApp
9 5 (2.87%) XenDesktop
10 4 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 91 (52.30%) SCCM
2 57 (32.76%) WSUS
3 38 (21.84%) SCOM
4 25 (14.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (11.49%) Kubernetes
7 19 (10.92%) vCenter Server
8 17 (9.77%) Sysprep
9 15 (8.62%) NetBackup
10 14 (8.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 6 (3.45%) Nessus
12 5 (2.87%) Ansible
13 4 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (2.30%) ZABBIX
14 2 (1.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (1.15%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 2 (1.15%) RSA Archer
14 2 (1.15%) Terraform
15 1 (0.57%) Grafana
15 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 114 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 44 (25.29%) HP
3 35 (20.11%) VMware
4 22 (12.64%) Cisco
5 19 (10.92%) Oracle
6 18 (10.34%) Veeam
7 15 (8.62%) 3PAR
8 14 (8.05%) Dell
8 14 (8.05%) EMC
8 14 (8.05%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (8.05%) Juniper
8 14 (8.05%) Palo Alto
8 14 (8.05%) Symantec
9 9 (5.17%) Citrix
9 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
9 9 (5.17%) Splunk
10 8 (4.60%) Apple
11 5 (2.87%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.30%) FireEye
12 4 (2.30%) Tanium